DeepSeek-R1

DeepSeek-R1 — reasoning ability emerges from pure RL

Why it matters

Proved that reasoning ability is not a secret recipe of closed labs; self-checking, re-examination and strategy switching emerged. The same report also published the RLVR recipe and a recipe for transferring the capability to small models

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948

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