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DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with support learning (RL) to improve reasoning ability. DeepSeek-R1 attains results on par with OpenAI's o1 model on numerous benchmarks, consisting of MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

DeepSeek-R1 is based on DeepSeek-V3, a mixture of specialists (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 team also performed understanding distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama models and launched a number of versions of each; these models exceed larger models, including GPT-4, on math and coding criteria.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the initial step toward improving language design thinking capabilities using pure reinforcement knowing (RL). Our goal is to explore the capacity of LLMs to establish reasoning capabilities with no monitored information, focusing on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... excels in a large range of tasks, including imaginative writing, basic question answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates outstanding performance on tasks requiring long-context understanding, considerably outperforming DeepSeek-V3 on long-context criteria.

To develop the model, setiathome.berkeley.edu DeepSeek started with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They initially attempted fine-tuning it just with RL, and with no supervised fine-tuning (SFT), producing a design called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have also released. This design exhibits strong reasoning efficiency, but" powerful reasoning habits, it deals with a number of concerns. For instance, DeepSeek-R1-Zero battles with obstacles like poor readability and language mixing."

To resolve this, the group used a brief stage of SFT to prevent the "cold start" issue of RL. They collected several thousand examples of chain-of-thought thinking to utilize in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL procedure converged, they then collected more SFT data utilizing rejection sampling, leading to a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was used for additional fine-tuning and demo.qkseo.in to produce the distilled designs from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek evaluated their design on a variety of reasoning, mathematics, and coding standards and compared it to other designs, including Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 surpassed all of them on several of the benchmarks, consisting of AIME 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 overall in the arena and # 1 in coding and math. It was also tied for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" category.

Django structure co-creator Simon Willison discussed his experiments with among the DeepSeek distilled Llama models on his blog site:

Each action starts with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of thought utilized to help produce the action. [Given the prompt] "a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea space together" ... It then thought for 20 paragraphs before outputting the joke! ... [T] he joke is dreadful. But the process of arriving was such an interesting insight into how these new designs work.

Andrew Ng's newsletter The Batch discussed DeepSeek-R1:

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

The DeepSeek-R1 models are available on HuggingFace.

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