DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with support learning (RL) to enhance reasoning capability. DeepSeek-R1 attains results on par with OpenAI's o1 model on several standards, including MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

DeepSeek-R1 is based on DeepSeek-V3, a mix of professionals (MoE) model just recently open-sourced by DeepSeek. This base design is fine-tuned utilizing Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented version of RL. The research study group likewise carried out understanding distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama designs and launched several variations of each; these designs outperform bigger designs, including GPT-4, on math and coding benchmarks.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the primary step toward enhancing language design thinking abilities using pure support learning (RL). Our goal is to check out the capacity of LLMs to establish thinking capabilities without any supervised data, focusing on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... master a large range of tasks, including creative writing, basic concern answering, modifying, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates impressive efficiency on tasks requiring long-context understanding, substantially exceeding DeepSeek-V3 on long-context standards.

To establish the design, DeepSeek began with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They first tried fine-tuning it only with RL, and with no monitored fine-tuning (SFT), producing a design called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have actually likewise launched. This design exhibits strong thinking efficiency, but" powerful reasoning behaviors, it deals with numerous concerns. For circumstances, DeepSeek-R1-Zero battles with obstacles like poor readability and language mixing."

To resolve this, the group used a short stage of SFT to prevent the "cold start" issue of RL. They gathered numerous thousand examples of chain-of-thought thinking to use in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL process assembled, they then gathered more SFT information using rejection sampling, resulting in a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was utilized for further fine-tuning and wiki.lafabriquedelalogistique.fr to produce the distilled models from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek evaluated their model on a variety of reasoning, mathematics, and coding criteria and compared it to other models, including Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 outshined all of them on numerous of the criteria, 2024 and MATH-500.

DeepSeek-R1 Performance. Image Source: DeepSeek-R1 Technical Report

Within a few days of its release, the LMArena revealed that DeepSeek-R1 was ranked # 3 total in the arena and # 1 in coding and mathematics. It was also tied for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" classification.

Django framework co-creator Simon Willison composed about his try outs one of the DeepSeek distilled Llama designs on his blog:

Each reaction starts with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of thought utilized to help produce the reaction. [Given the timely] "a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea room together" ... It then believed for 20 paragraphs before outputting the joke! ... [T] he joke is awful. But the procedure of arriving was such a fascinating insight into how these brand-new designs work.

Andrew Ng's newsletter The Batch blogged about DeepSeek-R1:

DeepSeek is rapidly becoming a strong contractor of open models. Not only are these models terrific entertainers, but their license permits usage of their outputs for distillation, possibly pressing forward the state of the art for language models (and multimodal models) of all sizes.

The DeepSeek-R1 designs are available on HuggingFace.

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