DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek-R1, an LLM fine-tuned with reinforcement learning (RL) to improve thinking capability. DeepSeek-R1 attains results on par with OpenAI's o1 model on numerous criteria, including 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 design is fine-tuned utilizing Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a reasoning-oriented variant of RL. The research study team likewise carried out knowledge distillation from DeepSeek-R1 to open-source Qwen and setiathome.berkeley.edu Llama designs and launched several versions of each; these designs exceed bigger models, consisting of GPT-4, on math and coding standards.

[DeepSeek-R1 is] the first action towards improving language model thinking capabilities utilizing pure support learning (RL). Our goal is to explore the potential of LLMs to establish thinking abilities with no monitored information, focusing on their self-evolution through a pure RL process...DeepSeek-R1 ... master a large range of tasks, consisting of innovative writing, basic concern answering, modifying, summarization, and more. Additionally, DeepSeek-R1 shows impressive efficiency on jobs needing long-context understanding, significantly outshining DeepSeek-V3 on long-context standards.

To develop the model, DeepSeek began with DeepSeek-V3 as a base. They initially tried fine-tuning it only with RL, and without any monitored fine-tuning (SFT), producing a design called DeepSeek-R1-Zero, which they have actually also launched. This model exhibits strong thinking efficiency, however" effective thinking behaviors, it faces several issues. For example, DeepSeek-R1-Zero struggles with obstacles like poor readability and language blending."

To resolve this, the group used a short phase of SFT to avoid the "cold start" issue of RL. They thousand examples of chain-of-thought reasoning to utilize in SFT of DeepSeek-V3 before running RL. After the RL procedure assembled, they then gathered more SFT information utilizing rejection tasting, resulting in a dataset of 800k samples. This dataset was utilized for more fine-tuning and to produce the distilled models from Llama and Qwen.

DeepSeek examined their design on a range of thinking, mathematics, and coding criteria and compared it to other models, including Claude-3.5- Sonnet, GPT-4o, and o1. DeepSeek-R1 surpassed 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 overall in the arena and # 1 in coding and math. It was likewise connected for # 1 with o1 in "Hard Prompt with Style Control" category.

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

Each action begins with a ... pseudo-XML tag containing the chain of thought used to assist create the action. [Given the prompt] "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 horrible. But the process of getting there was such an intriguing insight into how these brand-new models work.

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

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

The DeepSeek-R1 designs are available on HuggingFace.

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