DeepSeek-R1 is a groundbreaking advancement in AI, featuring open weights and distilled versions that reflect OpenAI O1’s training method. The key highlights are the creation of long chains of reasoning, high-quality reasoning LLM, and large-scale reinforcement learning. DeepSeek-R1 excels in math and reasoning problem-solving by generating thinking tokens to explain its thought process. The model’s creation process involves using an unnamed sibling model inspired by R1-Zero, which focuses on reasoning tasks efficiently without a labeled training set. While DeepSeek-R1 faces challenges like poor readability, it aims to be more user-friendly through supervised fine-tuning and training on reasoning and non-reasoning tasks.
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