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Breaking down The DeepSeek-R1 Training Process-no PhD Required
DeepSeek simply made a breakthrough: you can train a model to match OpenAI o1-level reasoning using pure support knowing (RL) without using (DeepSeek-R1-Zero). But RL alone isn’t best – it can lead to obstacles like bad readability. A mix of methods in a multi-stage training fixes these (DeepSeek-R1).
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The launch of GPT-4 forever changed the AI industry. But today, it feels like an iPhone 4 compared to the next wave of thinking models (e.g. OpenAI o1).
These „thinking models“ introduce a chain-of-thought (CoT) thinking stage before generating an answer at reasoning time, which in turn improves their thinking efficiency.
While OpenAI kept their approaches under wraps, DeepSeek is taking the opposite technique – sharing their progress openly and earning praise for staying real to the open-source objective. Or as Marc stated it finest:
Deepseek R1 is one of the most amazing and excellent breakthroughs I’ve ever seen – and as open source, a profound present to the world. This open-source reasoning model is as great as OpenAI’s o1 in tasks like math, coding, and logical thinking, which is a huge win for the open-source neighborhood … and the world (Marc, your words not ours!)
As someone who spends a lot of time working with LLMs and guiding others on how to use them, I chose to take a better look at the DeepSeek-R1 training process. Using their paper as my guide, I pieced it all together and broke it down into something anyone can follow-no AI PhD needed. Hopefully you’ll find it beneficial!
Now, let’s start with the principles.
A quick primer
To much better understand the backbone of DeepSeek-R1, let’s cover the basics:
Reinforcement Learning (RL): A model finds out by getting rewards or penalties based upon its actions, enhancing through experimentation. In the context of LLMs, this can involve standard RL techniques like policy optimization (e.g., Proximal Policy Optimization, PPO), value-based approaches (e.g., Q-learning), or hybrid techniques (e.g., actor-critic methods). Example: When training on a timely like „2 + 2 =“, the model gets a reward of +1 for outputting „4“ and a charge of -1 for any other answer. In modern-day LLMs, rewards are typically figured out by human-labeled feedback (RLHF) or as we’ll soon learn, with automated scoring techniques like GRPO.
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT): A base model is re-trained using identified information to perform much better on a particular job. Example: Fine-tune an LLM utilizing an identified dataset of customer assistance concerns and answers to make it more precise in managing common queries. Great to use if you have an abundance of labeled information.
Cold begin information: A minimally labeled dataset used to assist the model get a basic understanding of the job. * Example: Fine-tune a chatbot with a simple dataset of FAQ sets scraped from a website to establish a foundational understanding. Useful when you do not have a great deal of labeled information.
Multi-stage training: A model is trained in phases, each focusing on a particular improvement, such as accuracy or alignment. Example: Train a design on general text information, then refine it with support learning on user feedback to improve its conversational abilities.
Rejection sampling: A technique where a model creates several prospective outputs, however only the ones that satisfy specific requirements, such as quality or significance, are selected for further usage. Example: After a RL process, a model generates several actions, however only keeps those that are useful for retraining the model.
First model: DeepSeek-R1-Zero
The group at DeepSeek wanted to show whether it’s possible to train an effective reasoning model using pure-reinforcement knowing (RL). This kind of „pure“ support finding out works without identified information.
Skipping labeled data? Seems like a vibrant move for RL in the world of LLMs.
I have actually learned that pure-RL is slower upfront (experimentation takes time) – however iteliminates the pricey, time-intensive labeling traffic jam. In the long run, it’ll be much faster, scalable, and method more effective for building thinking models. Mostly, because they discover on their own.
DeepSeek did an effective run of a pure-RL training – matching OpenAI o1’s efficiency.
Calling this a ‘substantial achievement“ feels like an understatement-it’s the very first time anybody’s made this work. However, possibly OpenAI did it first with o1, however we’ll never ever understand, will we?
The greatest question on my mind was: ‘How did they make it work?’
Let’s cover what I discovered.
Using the GRPO RL framework
Traditionally, RL for training LLMs has been most successful when combined with identified data (e.g the PPO RL Framework). This RL method uses a critic design that’s like an „LLM coach“, offering feedback on each relocation to help the design enhance. It examines the LLM’s actions versus identified information, examining how most likely the design is to succeed (value function) and assisting the model’s general strategy.
The obstacle?
This method is limited by the labeled information it uses to assess decisions. If the identified information is incomplete, biased, or doesn’t cover the complete series of tasks, the critic can just offer feedback within those constraints – and it will not generalize well.
Enter, GRPO!
The authors utilized the Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) RL framework (invented by the exact same group, wild!) which gets rid of the critic design.
With GRPO, you avoid the ‘coach’- and the LLM moves are scored over several rounds by utilizing predefined rules like coherence and/or fluency. These models find out by comparing these ratings to the group’s average.
But wait, how did they understand if these guidelines are the right guidelines?
In this technique, the rules aren’t perfect-they’re just a best guess at what „good“ appears like. These rules are designed to capture patterns that usually make good sense, like:
– Does the response make good sense? (Coherence).
– Is it in the best format? (Completeness).
– Does it match the basic style we expect? (Fluency).
For example, for the DeepSeek-R1-Zero model, for mathematical tasks, the design might be rewarded for producing outputs that abided by mathematical concepts or sensible consistency, even without knowing the precise answer.
It makes sense. and it works!
The DeepSeek-R1-Zero design had piece de resistance on reasoning criteria. Plus it had a 86.7% of pass@1 score on AIME 2024 (a prestigious mathematics competition for high school students), matching the performance of OpenAI-o1-0912.
While this appears like the most significant breakthrough from this paper, the R1-Zero design didn’t come with a few difficulties: poor readability, and language mixing.
Second design: DeepSeek-R1
Poor readability and language blending is something you ‘d expect from utilizing pure-RL, without the structure or formatting provided by labeled information.
Now, with this paper, we can see that multi-stage training can alleviate these challenges. In the case of training the DeepSeek-R1 model, a great deal of training approaches were used:
Here’s a quick description of each training stage and what it was done:
Step 1: They fine-tuned a base design (DeepSeek-V3-Base) with thousands of cold-start information points to lay a strong foundation. FYI, thousands of cold-start information points is a small portion compared to the millions or perhaps billions of identified information points typically required for monitored knowing at scale.
Step 2: Applied pure RL (comparable to R1-Zero) to enhance reasoning skills.
Step 3: Near RL convergence, they utilized rejection sampling where the design developed it’s own labeled data (artificial information) by choosing the very best examples from the last successful RL run. Those reports you’ve heard about OpenAI utilizing smaller sized model to generate synthetic information for the O1 model? This is essentially it.
Step 4: The brand-new synthetic data was merged with supervised data from DeepSeek-V3-Base in domains like writing, accurate QA, and self-cognition. This action guaranteed the design could gain from both high-quality outputs and varied domain-specific knowledge.
Step 5: After fine-tuning with the new information, the design goes through a final RL process throughout varied prompts and scenarios.
This feels like hacking – so why does DeepSeek-R1 utilize a multi-stage process?
Because each step develops on the last.
For instance (i) the cold start information lays a structured structure repairing problems like bad readability, (ii) pure-RL establishes reasoning practically on auto-pilot (iii) rejection tasting + SFT works with top-tier training information that enhances accuracy, and (iv) another final RL stage makes sure additional level of generalization.
With all these additional actions in the training process, the DeepSeek-R1 design accomplishes high scores throughout all standards noticeable listed below:
CoT at inference time relies on RL
To efficiently use chain-of-thought at inference time, these thinking designs need to be trained with techniques like support learning that motivate step-by-step reasoning throughout training. It’s a two-way street: for the model to attain top-tier reasoning, it requires to utilize CoT at reasoning time. And to make it possible for CoT at inference, the design must be trained with RL techniques.
If we have this in mind, I wonder why OpenAI didn’t expose their training methods-especially because the multi-stage procedure behind the o1 design seems simple to reverse engineer.
It’s clear they utilized RL, created artificial data from the RL checkpoint, and used some monitored training to enhance readability. So, what did they truly attain by slowing down the competition (R1) by just 2-3 months?
I think time will inform.
How to use DeepSeek-R1
To utilize DeepSeek-R1 you can test it out on their totally free platform, or get an API secret and use it in your code or by means of AI advancement platforms like Vellum. Fireworks AI likewise offers a reasoning endpoint for this model.
The DeepSeek hosted design, costs just $0.55 per million input tokens and $2.19 per million output tokens – making it about 27 times cheaper for inputs and nearly 27.4 times more affordable for outputs than OpenAI’s o1 model.
This API version supports a maximum context length of 64K, but doesn’t support function calling and JSON outputs. However, contrary to OpenAI’s o1 outputs, you can obtain both the „reasoning“ and the real answer. It’s likewise extremely sluggish, but nobody cares about that with these reasoning designs, due to the fact that they unlock new possibilities where immediate answers aren’t the top priority.
Also, this variation doesn’t support many other criteria like: temperature level 、 top_p 、 presence_penalty 、 frequency_penalty 、 logprobs 、 top_logprobs, making them a bit harder to be used in production.
API example with DeepSeek-R1
The following Python code shows how to utilize the R1 design and gain access to both the CoT procedure and the final answer:
I ‘d recommend you have fun with it a bit, it’s rather intriguing to enjoy it ‘believe’
Small designs can be powerful too
The authors also show the thinking patterns of larger designs can be distilled into smaller sized designs, leading to much better efficiency.
Using Qwen2.5-32B (Qwen, 2024b) as the base model, direct distillation from DeepSeek-R1 outshines applying just RL on it. This demonstrates that the reasoning patterns discovered by bigger base models are crucial for improving thinking abilities for smaller models. Model distillation is something that is becoming rather a fascinating approach, shadowing fine-tuning at a large scale.
The results are rather powerful too– A distilled 14B model exceeds advanced open-source QwQ-32B-Preview by a large margin, and the distilled 32B and 70B models set a new record on the reasoning benchmarks amongst dense models:
Here’s my take: DeepSeek simply showed that you can significantly enhance LLM reasoning with pure RL, no labeled information needed. Even much better, they integrated post-training techniques to fix problems and take performance to the next level.
Expect a flood of models like R1 and O1 in the coming weeks-not months.
We believed model scaling hit a wall, but this approach is unlocking new possibilities, indicating faster development. To put it in perspective, OpenAI took 6 months from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4.