DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with support knowing (RL) to improve thinking ability. DeepSeek-R1 attains outcomes on par with OpenAI's o1 model on numerous criteria, including MATH-500 and SWE-bench.

DeepSeek-R1 is based upon DeepSeek-V3, a mix of experts (MoE) model recently open-sourced by DeepSeek. This base design is fine-tuned using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented variant of RL. The research group likewise performed knowledge distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama designs and released several variations of each; these models exceed bigger designs, including GPT-4, on math and coding standards.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the primary step towards improving language model thinking capabilities utilizing pure support learning (RL). Our objective is to explore the potential of LLMs to establish reasoning capabilities with no supervised information, focusing on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... master a large range of jobs, including imaginative writing, general concern answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 shows exceptional performance on tasks needing long-context understanding, significantly exceeding DeepSeek-V3 on long-context benchmarks.

To develop the model, started 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 also released. This design exhibits strong reasoning efficiency, however" powerful reasoning behaviors, it faces several issues. For example, DeepSeek-R1-Zero has problem with obstacles like poor readability and language blending."

To address this, the team utilized a brief phase of SFT to prevent the "cold start" problem of RL. They gathered a number of 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 information utilizing rejection tasting, resulting in a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was utilized for additional fine-tuning and to produce the distilled models from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek evaluated their model on a variety of thinking, math, and coding criteria and compared it to other designs, including Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 outperformed all of them on numerous 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 revealed that DeepSeek-R1 was ranked # 3 general in the arena and gratisafhalen.be # 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 blogged about his try outs one of the DeepSeek distilled Llama models on his blog site:

Each reaction begins with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of idea used to assist generate the reaction. [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 awful. But the process of arriving was such an interesting insight into how these brand-new models work.

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

DeepSeek is rapidly emerging as a strong builder of open models. Not only are these designs excellent entertainers, but their license allows use 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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