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

DeepSeek-R1 is based upon DeepSeek-V3, a mixture of professionals (MoE) model recently open-sourced by DeepSeek. This base model is fine-tuned utilizing Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented variation of RL. The research group likewise carried out knowledge distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama models and released a number of of each; these models outshine 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 learning (RL). Our goal is to explore the potential of LLMs to develop reasoning capabilities with no monitored data, concentrating on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... master a wide variety of tasks, including imaginative writing, basic question answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 shows exceptional efficiency on tasks needing long-context understanding, substantially surpassing DeepSeek-V3 on long-context criteria.

To establish the model, DeepSeek started with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They initially tried fine-tuning it just with RL, and without any supervised fine-tuning (SFT), producing a model called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have actually also released. This design displays strong thinking performance, however" powerful reasoning behaviors, it faces numerous problems. For circumstances, DeepSeek-R1-Zero deals with difficulties 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 collected several thousand examples of chain-of-thought reasoning to use in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL process assembled, they then gathered more SFT data using rejection tasting, leading to a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was utilized for additional fine-tuning and to produce the distilled models from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek assessed their design on a range of reasoning, math, and coding criteria and compared it to other designs, including Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 exceeded all of them on several of the criteria, including AIME 2024 and MATH-500.

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

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

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

Each response starts with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of thought utilized to assist 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 an intriguing insight into how these new designs work.

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

DeepSeek is rapidly emerging as a strong builder of open designs. Not just are these models fantastic entertainers, however their license permits use of their outputs for distillation, possibly pushing forward the cutting-edge for language designs (and multimodal designs) of all sizes.

The DeepSeek-R1 designs are available on HuggingFace.

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