DeepSeek-R1: Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

DeepSeek-AI introduces DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning model developed through reinforcement learning (RL) and distillation techniques. The research explores two models: DeepSeek-R1-Zero, trained purely via RL, and DeepSeek-R1, which incorporates multi-stage training and "cold-start" data before RL to improve reasoning capabilities and readability. The paper highlights DeepSeek-R1-Zero's emergent reasoning behaviors and DeepSeek-R1's performance comparable to OpenAI's o1-1217 on reasoning tasks. Distillation from DeepSeek-R1 is used to create smaller, more efficient models, demonstrating that…