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

DeepSeek-R1 is based on DeepSeek-V3, a mix of specialists (MoE) model 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 group likewise performed understanding distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and Llama models and released numerous versions of each; these designs surpass larger models, consisting of GPT-4, on mathematics and coding benchmarks.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the initial step toward enhancing language design thinking capabilities using pure reinforcement learning (RL). Our goal is to explore the capacity of LLMs to develop reasoning capabilities with no supervised data, concentrating on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... excels in a wide range of tasks, consisting of innovative writing, basic concern answering, editing, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 shows exceptional performance on jobs requiring long-context understanding, considerably outshining DeepSeek-V3 on long-context benchmarks.

To establish the model, DeepSeek began with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They initially 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 displays strong thinking efficiency, however" powerful thinking behaviors, it deals with a number of issues. For circumstances, DeepSeek-R1-Zero battles with difficulties like poor readability and language mixing."

To resolve this, the group utilized a brief 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 procedure converged, they then gathered more SFT data using rejection sampling, leading to a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was used for further fine-tuning and to produce the distilled designs from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek assessed their model on a variety of thinking, math, and coding standards and compared it to other designs, including Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 outperformed 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, surgiteams.com the LMArena revealed that DeepSeek-R1 was ranked # 3 overall in the arena and # 1 in coding and mathematics. It was likewise connected for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" classification.

Django framework co-creator Simon Willison wrote about his try outs among the DeepSeek distilled Llama models on his blog site:

Each reaction begins with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of idea utilized to assist 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 terrible. But the procedure of getting there was such an interesting insight into how these brand-new designs work.

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

DeepSeek is rapidly emerging as a strong home builder of open designs. Not just are these designs excellent entertainers, but their license allows usage of their outputs for distillation, potentially pressing forward the cutting-edge for language models (and multimodal designs) of all sizes.

The DeepSeek-R1 models are available on HuggingFace.

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