DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance thinking capability. DeepSeek-R1 attains outcomes 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) design just recently open-sourced by DeepSeek. This base model is fine-tuned using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented version of RL. The research group likewise performed knowledge distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama models and released a number of variations of each; these designs outshine larger models, including GPT-4, on math and coding standards.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the initial step towards improving language design thinking capabilities utilizing pure support learning (RL). Our goal is to explore the potential of LLMs to establish reasoning capabilities without any monitored information, focusing on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... master a large variety of jobs, including imaginative writing, basic concern answering, modifying, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 demonstrates outstanding efficiency on jobs needing long-context understanding, substantially outshining DeepSeek-V3 on long-context benchmarks.

To develop the model, DeepSeek started with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They first attempted fine-tuning it only with RL, and without any monitored fine-tuning (SFT), producing a model called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have actually likewise released. This model exhibits strong thinking performance, but" powerful thinking behaviors, it faces a number of problems. For example, DeepSeek-R1-Zero has a hard time with difficulties like bad readability and language blending."

To resolve this, the team used a short stage of SFT to avoid the "cold start" issue of RL. They collected numerous 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 using rejection sampling, leading to a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was utilized for additional fine-tuning and 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 exceeded all of them on several of the standards, consisting of AIME 2024 and MATH-500.

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

Within a couple of days of its release, the announced 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 try outs among the DeepSeek distilled Llama designs on his blog:

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

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

DeepSeek is rapidly becoming a strong contractor of open models. Not just are these models terrific entertainers, however their license allows use of their outputs for distillation, potentially pushing 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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