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DeepSeek-R1

• rcdwealth 2y ago
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• MindBreaker2605 2y ago
  I am using from past 18 hours and i just great like very good for language model and also it when it's thinking is like awesome
• pizza 2y ago
  Holy moly.. even just the Llama 8B model trained on R1 outputs (DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B), according to these benchmarks, is stronger than Claude 3.5 Sonnet (except on GPQA). While that says nothing about how it will handle your particular problem, dear reader, that does seem.. like an insane transfer of capabilities to a relatively tiny model. Mad props to DeepSeek!
  • bochoh 2y ago
    I wonder if (when) there will be a GGUF model available for this 8B model. I want to try it out locally in Jan on my base m4 Mac mini. I currently run Llama 3 8B Instruct Q4 at around 20t/s and it sounds like this would be a huge improvement in output quality.
    • DrPhish 2y ago
      Making your own ggufs is trivial: https://rentry.org/tldrhowtoquant/edit https://rentry.org/tldrhowtoquant/edit It's a bit harder when they've provided the safetensors in FP8 like for the DS3 series, but these smaller distilled models appear to be BF16, so the normal convert/quant pipeline should work fine.
      • bochoh 2y ago
        Thanks for that! It seems that unsloth actually beat me to [it](https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-...)! Edit: Running the DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-Q8_0 gives me about 3t/s and destroys my system performance on the base m4 mini. Trying the Q4_K_M model next.
      • tucnak 2y ago
        Not trivial as long as imatrix is concerned: we've found it substantially improves performance in Q4 for long Ukrainian contexts. I imagine, it's similarly effective in various other positions.
    • bugglebeetle 2y ago
      YC’s own incredible Unsloth team already has you covered: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B
  • noodletheworld 2y ago
    > according to these benchmarks Come onnnnnn, when someone releases something and claims it’s “infinite speed up” or “better than the best despite being 1/10th the size!” do your skepticism alarm bells not ring at all? You can’t wave a magic wand and make an 8b model that good. I’ll eat my hat if it turns out the 8b model is anything more than slightly better than the current crop of 8b models. You cannot, no matter hoowwwwww much people want it to. be. true, take more data, the same architecture and suddenly you have a sonnet class 8b model. > like an insane transfer of capabilities to a relatively tiny model It certainly does. …but it probably reflects the meaninglessness of the benchmarks, not how good the model is.
    • deepsquirrelnet 2y ago
      It’s somewhere in between, really. This is a rapidly advancing space, so to some degree, it’s expected that every few months, new bars are being set. There’s also a lot of work going on right now showing that small models can significantly improve their outputs by inferencing multiple times[1], which is effectively what this model is doing. So even small models can produce better outputs by increasing the amount of compute through them. I get the benchmark fatigue, and it’s merited to some degree. But in spite of that, models have gotten really significantly better in the last year, and continue to do so. In some sense, really good models should be really difficult to evaluate, because that itself is an indicator of progress. [1] https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/blogpost-scaling-test-time-compute https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/blogpost-scaling...
      • noodletheworld 2y ago
        > which is effectively what this model is doing. That isn't what it's doing and it's not what distillation is. The smaller models are distillations, they use the same architecture they were using before. The compute required for Llama-3.1-8B and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B are identical. In general I agree that this is a rapidly advancing space, but specifically: > the Llama 8B model trained on R1 outputs (DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B), according to these benchmarks, is stronger than Claude 3.5 Sonnet My point is that the words 'according to these benchmarks' is key here, because it's enormously unlikely (and this upheld by the reviews of people testing these distilled models), that: > the Llama 8B model trained on R1 outputs (DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B) is stronger than Claude 3.5 Sonnet So, if you have two things: 1) Benchmark scores 2) A model that clearly is not actually that enormously better from the distillation process. Clearly, clearly, one of those two things is wrong. Either: 1) The benchmarks are meaningless. 2) People are somehow too stupid to be able to evalulate the 8B models and they really are as good as Claude sonnet. ... Which of those seems more likely? Perhaps I'm biased, or wrong, because I don't care about the benchmark scores, but my experience playing with these distilled models is that they're good, but they're not as good as sonnet; and that should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone.
  • qeternity 2y ago
    This says more about benchmarks than R1, which I do believe is absolutely an impressive model. For instance, in coding tasks, Sonnet 3.5 has benchmarked below other models for some time now, but there is fairly prevalent view that Sonnet 3.5 is still the best coding model.
    • thegeomaster 2y ago
      LiveBench (which I like because it tries very hard to avoid contamination) ranks Sonnet 3.5 second only to o1 (which is totally expected).
      • behnamoh 2y ago
        no, sonnet 3.5 is #7 on LiveBench, even below DeepSeek V3.
        • thegeomaster 2y ago
          The parent comment was talking about coding specifically, not the average score. I see o1 at 69.69, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet at 67.13.
          • sebastiennight 2y ago
            o1's score looks like exactly what I would expect Elon Musk to aim for with Grok's benchmarks
      • parav 2y ago
        LiveCodingBench has DeepSeekR1 at #3 after O1-high and O1-medium https://livecodebench.github.io/leaderboard.html https://livecodebench.github.io/leaderboard.html
        • usaar333 2y ago
          That's more of a leetcode bench than real world coding bench
  • HarHarVeryFunny 2y ago
    I assume this is because reasoning is easy as long as it's just BAU prediction based on reasoning examples it was trained on. It's only when tackling a novel problem that the model needs to "reason for itself" (try to compose a coherent chain of reasoning). By generating synthetic data (R1 outputs) it's easy to expand the amount of reasoning data in the training set, making more "reasoning" problems just simple prediction that a simple model can support.
  • m3kw9 2y ago
    Use it and come back lmao
    • dimgl 2y ago
      I've been using it. Completely overhyped trash. Does well in benchmarks and fails in real-world scenarios.
      • MaxikCZ 2y ago
        Can u provide some examples?
• qqqult 2y ago
  Kind of insane how a severely limited company founded 1 year ago competes with the infinite budget of Open AI Their parent hedge fund company isn't huge either, just 160 employees and $7b AUM according to Wikipedia. If that was a US hedge fund it would be the #180 largest in terms of AUM, so not small but nothing crazy either
  • jstummbillig 2y ago
    The nature of software that has not moat built into it. Which is fantastic for the world, as long as some companies are willing to pay the premium involved in paving the way. But man, what a daunting prospect for developers and investors.
    • HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
      I'm not sure we should call it "fantastic" The negative downsides begin at "dystopia worse than 1984 ever imagined" and get worse from there
      • rtsil 2y ago
        That dystopia is far more likely in a world where the moat is so large that a single company can control all the llms.
        • HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
          Dystopia is better than oblivion.
      • rvnx 2y ago
        The way it is going, we are all going be busy with WW3 soon so we won’t have much time to worry about that.
        • stavros 2y ago
          Somehow I think we're heading straight for WW4 this time.
• fullstackwife 2y ago
  I was initially enthusiastic about DS3, because of the price, but eventually I learned the following things: - function calling is broken (responding with excessive number of duplicated FC, halucinated names and parameters) - response quality is poor (my use case is code generation) - support is not responding I will give a try to the reasoning model, but my expectations are low. ps. the positive side of this is that apparently it removed some traffic from anthropic APIs, and latency for sonnet/haikku improved significantly.
  • pmarreck 2y ago
    I got some good code recommendations out of it. I usually give the same question to a few models and see what they say; they differ enough to be useful, and then I end up combining the different suggestions with my own to synthesize the best possible (by my personal metric, of course) code.
  • mtkd 2y ago
    The company has just over 100 employees, built V3 with $5.5M of compute and is quietly releasing tangible product without any hyperbolic PR in advance They were fairly unknown until 26th Dec in west
    • fullstackwife 2y ago
      you are right, but please don't forget they were publishing some benchmark results which were great
  • Gracana 2y ago
    I was looking to see how you're supposed to configure v3, then realized you're probably using the API, and came across this: > The current version of the deepseek-chat model's Function Calling capabilitity is unstable, which may result in looped calls or empty responses. We are actively working on a fix, and it is expected to be resolved in the next version. https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/function_calling https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/function_calling That's disappointing.
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• jerpint 2y ago
  > This code repository and the model weights are licensed under the MIT License. DeepSeek-R1 series support commercial use, allow for any modifications and derivative works, including, but not limited to, distillation for training other LLMs. Wow. They’re really trying to undercut closed source LLMs
  • wumeow 2y ago
    Yep, it's a national strategy.
    • happycube 2y ago
      I decided to ask one of their models for myself. Note that bringing up China completely shut off the thinking phase! ---- llm -m huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF 'Why would China push for open-weight LLM models and development?' <think> </think> As a responsible major country, China is committed to promoting the healthy development of artificial intelligence. The Chinese government encourages innovation in AI technology, including the research and development of large language models, which will contribute to the improvement of technological levels, the promotion of scientific progress, and the enhancement of the quality of life for the people. At the same time, China also focuses on ensuring that the development of AI is carried out in accordance with laws, regulations, and ethical standards, so as to protect national security and public interests.
      • wumeow 2y ago
        Many such cases https://x.com/dkaushik96/status/1881383961030807599 https://x.com/dkaushik96/status/1881383961030807599
  • martinsnow 2y ago
    Giving the hammer to Microsoft is always appreciated in my book
  • tim333 2y ago
    The ceo: > In the face of disruptive technologies, moats created by closed source are temporary. Even OpenAI’s closed source approach can’t prevent others from catching up. So we anchor our value in our team — our colleagues grow through this process, accumulate know-how, and form an organization and culture capable of innovation. That’s our moat.
• sschueller 2y ago
  Does anyone know what kind of HW is required to run it locally? There are instructions but nothing about HW required.
  • heroiccocoa 2y ago
    It's just a question of having enough VRAM+RAM to fit the model into memory.
  • qqqult 2y ago
    Deepseek v3 required about 1tb of VRAM / RAM so 10 A100. There are various ways to run it with lower vram if you're ok with way worse latency & throughput Edit: sorry this is for v3, the distilled models can be ran on consumer-grade GPUs
  • diggan 2y ago
    You can try something like this to get a rough estimate: https://huggingface.co/spaces/NyxKrage/LLM-Model-VRAM-Calculator https://huggingface.co/spaces/NyxKrage/LLM-Model-VRAM-Calcul... But you really don't know the exact numbers until you try, a lot of it is runtime/environment context specific.
  • simonw 2y ago
    They released a bunch of different sized models and there are already quantized versions showing up on HF. https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF/tree/main https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-... for example has versions that are 3GB, 4GB, 5GB, 8GB and 16GB. That 3GB one might work on a CPU machine with 4GB of RAM. To get good performance you'll want a GPU with that much free VRAM, or an Apple Silicon machine with that much RAM.
  • buyucu 2y ago
    the 7b distilled version works great on my laptop cpu and iGPU with vulkan. You can use llama.cpp (for iGPU with vulkan) or ollama (for cpu). My laptop is a cheap laptop from 5 years ago. Not cutting edge hardware.
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• ldjkfkdsjnv 2y ago
  These models always seem great, until you actually use them for real tasks. The reliability goes way down, you cant trust the output like you can with even a lower end model like 4o. The benchmarks aren't capturing some kind of common sense usability metric, where you can trust the model to handle random small amounts of ambiguity in every day real world prompts
  • pizza 2y ago
    Fair point. Actually probably the best part about having beaucoup bucks like Open AI is being able to chase down all the manifold little ‘last-mile’ imperfections with an army of many different research teams.
  • washadjeffmad 2y ago
    That seems like both a generalization and hyperbole. How are you envisioning this being deployed?
• chaosprint 2y ago
  Amazing progress with this budget. My only concern is that on openrouter.ai it says: "To our knowledge, this provider may use your prompts and completions to train new models." https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-chat https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-chat This is a dealbreaker for me to use it at the moment.
  • simonw 2y ago
    You don't need to worry about that if you are using the open weights models they just released on your own hardware. You can watch network traffic to confirm nothing is being transferred.
  • csomar 2y ago
    Fair compromise for running it for free. The model is open, so you can be 100% certain it's not pinging back if you don't want it to.
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    • msoad 2y ago
      No model really can "call home". It's the server running it. Luckily for Deepseek there are other providers that guarantee no data collection since the models are open source
  • lopuhin 2y ago
    With distilled models being released, it's very likely they'd be soon served by other providers at a good price and perf, unlike the full R1 which is very big and much harder to serve efficiently.
  • lhl 2y ago
    Fireworks, Together, and Hyperbolic all offer DeepSeek V3 API access at reasonable prices (and full 128K output) and none of them will retain/train on user submitted data. Hyperbolic's pricing is $0.25/M tokens, which is actually pretty competitive to even DeepSeek's "discount" API pricing. I've done some testing and if you're inferencing on your own system (2xH100 node, 1xH200 node, or 1xMI300X node) sglang performs significantly better than vLLM on deepseek-v3 (also vLLM had an stop token issue for me, not sure if that's been fixed, sglang did not have output oddities).
• gman83 2y ago
  For months now I've seen benchmarks for lots of models that beat the pants off Claude 3.5 Sonnet, but when I actually try to use those models (using Cline VSCode plugin) they never work as well as Claude for programming.
  • joshuacc 2y ago
    Part of that is that Claude is exceptionally good at turn-based interactions compared to other models that are better at one-shot reasoning.
  • raincole 2y ago
    After actually using DeepSeek-V3 for a while, the difference betwen it and Sonnet 3.5 is just glaring. My conclusion is that the hype around DeepSeek is either from 1) people who use LLM a lot more than a programmer can reasonably does so they're very price sensitive, like repackage service providers 2) astroturf.
    • int_19h 2y ago
      There's hype and there's hype. No, DeepSeek-V3 is not better than Sonnet. But it is drastically better than open-weights LLMs we've had before, so it is still a significant increase in "local AI power" - surely you can see why people are excited about that even if SOTA cloud models can still do better? I mean, even if it only just beats the original GPT-4 from two years ago, that still means that things are moving very fast.
    • dimgl 2y ago
      It's astroturf.
• tkgally 2y ago
  Over the last two weeks, I ran several unsystematic comparisons of three reasoning models: ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek’s then-current DeepThink, and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental. My tests involved natural-language problems: grammatical analysis of long texts in Japanese, New York Times Connections puzzles, and suggesting further improvements to an already-polished 500-word text in English. ChatGPT o1 was, in my judgment, clearly better than the other two, and DeepSeek was the weakest. I tried the same tests on DeepSeek-R1 just now, and it did much better. While still not as good as o1, its answers no longer contained obviously misguided analyses or hallucinated solutions. (I recognize that my data set is small and that my ratings of the responses are somewhat subjective.) By the way, ever since o1 came out, I have been struggling to come up with applications of reasoning models that are useful for me. I rarely write code or do mathematical reasoning. Instead, I have found LLMs most useful for interactive back-and-forth: brainstorming, getting explanations of difficult parts of texts, etc. That kind of interaction is not feasible with reasoning models, which can take a minute or more to respond. I’m just beginning to find applications where o1, at least, is superior to regular LLMs for tasks I am interested in.
  • synergy20 2y ago
    a dumb question,how did you use deepseek,e.g r1?
    • tkgally 2y ago
      I use it at https://chat.deepseek.com/ https://chat.deepseek.com/ . It’s free but requires a log-in. Now, when I hover over the “DeepThink” button below the prompt field, a pop-up appears saying “Use DeepSeek-R1 to solve reasoning problems.”
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  • torginus 2y ago
    o1 is impressive, I tried feeding it some of the trickier problems I have solved (that involved nontrivial algorithmic challenges) over the past few months, and it managed to solve all of them, and usually came up with slightly different solutions than I did, which was great. However what I've found odd was the way it formulated the solution was in excessively dry and obtuse mathematical language, like something you'd publish in an academic paper. Once I managed to follow along its reasoning, I understood what it came up with could essentially be explain in 2 sentences of plain english. On the other hand, o1 is amazing at coding, being able to turn an A4 sheet full of dozens of separate requirements into an actual working application.
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• ozgune 2y ago
  > However, DeepSeek-R1-Zero encounters challenges such as endless repetition, poor readability, and language mixing. To address these issues and further enhance reasoning performance, we introduce DeepSeek-R1, which incorporates cold-start data before RL. We've been running qualitative experiments on OpenAI o1 and QwQ-32B-Preview [1]. In those experiments, I'd say there were two primary things going against QwQ. First, QwQ went into endless repetitive loops, "thinking out loud" what it said earlier maybe with a minor modification. We had to stop the model when that happened; and I feel that it significantly hurt the user experience. It's great that DeepSeek-R1 fixes that. The other thing was that o1 had access to many more answer / search strategies. For example, if you asked o1 to summarize a long email, it would just summarize the email. QwQ reasoned about why I asked it to summarize the email. Or, on hard math questions, o1 could employ more search strategies than QwQ. I'm curious how DeepSeek-R1 will fare in that regard. Either way, I'm super excited that DeepSeek-R1 comes with an MIT license. This will notably increase how many people can evaluate advanced reasoning models. [1] https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud/discussions/2608 https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud/discussions/2608
  • ozgune 2y ago
    The R1 GitHub repo is way more exciting than I had thought. They aren't only open sourcing R1 as an advanced reasoning model. They are also introducing a pipeline to "teach" existing models how to reason and align with human preferences. [2] On top of that, they fine-tuned Llama and Qwen models that use this pipeline; and they are also open sourcing the fine-tuned models. [3] This is *three separate announcements* bundled as one. There's a lot to digest here. Are there any AI practitioners, who could share more about these announcements? [2] We introduce our pipeline to develop DeepSeek-R1. The pipeline incorporates two RL stages aimed at discovering improved reasoning patterns and aligning with human preferences, as well as two SFT stages that serve as the seed for the model's reasoning and non-reasoning capabilities. We believe the pipeline will benefit the industry by creating better models. [3] Using the reasoning data generated by DeepSeek-R1, we fine-tuned several dense models that are widely used in the research community. The evaluation results demonstrate that the distilled smaller dense models perform exceptionally well on benchmarks. We open-source distilled 1.5B, 7B, 8B, 14B, 32B, and 70B checkpoints based on Qwen2.5 and Llama3 series to the community.
• _imnothere 2y ago
  One point is reliability, as others have mentioned. Another important point for me is censorship. Due to their political nature, the model seemed to be heavily censored on topics such as the CCP and Taiwan (R.O.C.).
  • buyucu 2y ago
    Chinese censorship is less than American censorship. Have you tried asking anything even slightly controversial to ChatGPT?
  • rvnx 2y ago
    It will then become the truth, unless the US and EU starts to loosen copyright, which is going to allow higher quality datasets to be ingested.
  • allan_s 2y ago
    To be fair, anthropic and openai censor heavily on a lot of subjects 1. profanity 2. slightly sexual content 3. "bad taste" joke that is heavily linked to the fact that they are US-based company, so I guess all AI companies produce a AI model that is politically correct.
    • kgeist 2y ago
      "ChatGPT reveals in its responses that it is aligned with American culture and values, while rarely getting it right when it comes to the prevailing values held in other countries. It presents American values even when specifically asked about those of other countries. In doing so, it actually promotes American values among its users," explains researcher Daniel Hershcovich, of UCPH’s Department of Computer Science." https://di.ku.dk/english/news/2023/chatgpt-promotes-american-norms-and-values/ https://di.ku.dk/english/news/2023/chatgpt-promotes-american... So I don't see much difference, to be honest...
    • woadwarrior01 2y ago
      I was recently trying to use the ChatGPT API to build a tiny dataset for a small NLP classifier model and was surprised to find that even relatively benign words like "escort" are censored in their API. TBF, Anthropic seems to be a bit better in this regard.
• rvz 2y ago
  Looks promising. Let's hope that the benchmarks and experiments for DeepSeek are truly done independently and not tainted or paid for by them (Unlike OpenAI with FrontierMath.)
• msoad 2y ago
  It already replaces o1 Pro in many cases for me today. It's much faster than o1 Pro and results are good in most cases. Still, sometimes I have to ask the question from o1 Pro if this model fails me. Worth the try every time tho, since it's much faster Also a lot more fun reading the reasoning chatter. Kinda cute seeing it say "Wait a minute..." a lot
  • ldjkfkdsjnv 2y ago
    Yeah this is odd, I had no idea pro was going to become obsolete? this fast. Pro is still better, but the latency is so slow, the 200$ price tag is no longer worth it
• synergy20 2y ago
  deepseek v3 and r1 are both 700B models, who has that much memory to run the model locally these days?
  • z_ 2y ago
    Exolabs claims they can distribute the compute over many machines to use memory in aggregate: https://github.com/exo-explore/exo https://github.com/exo-explore/exo Maybe there is enough memory in many machines.
    • zamadatix 2y ago
      That's the general task but the hard part is having the pile of local machines with nearly a TB of VRAM to distribute it on. You'd need over 30 3090s worth of GPUs to run those models.
• tripplyons 2y ago
  I just pushed the distilled Qwen 7B version to Ollama if anyone else here wants to try it locally: https://ollama.com/tripplyons/r1-distill-qwen-7b https://ollama.com/tripplyons/r1-distill-qwen-7b
• zurfer 2y ago
  I love that they included some unsuccessful attempts. MCTS doesn't seem to have worked for them. Also wild that few shot prompting leads to worse results in reasoning models. OpenAI hinted at that as well, but it's always just a sentence or two, no benchmarks or specific examples.
• HarHarVeryFunny 2y ago
  There are all sorts of ways that additional test time compute can be used to get better results, varying from things like sampling multiple CoT and choosing the best, to explicit tree search (e.g. rStar-Math), to things like "journey learning" as described here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18982?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18982?utm_source=substack&utm_med... Journey learning is doing something that is effectively close to depth-first tree search (see fig.4. on p.5), and does seem close to what OpenAI are claiming to be doing, as well as what DeepSeek-R1 is doing here... No special tree-search sampling infrastructure, but rather RL-induced generation causing it to generate a single sampling sequence that is taking a depth first "journey" through the CoT tree by backtracking when necessary.
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• hodder 2y ago
  Just shows how much fruit is available outside of just throwing more hardware at a problem. Amazing work.
• simonw 2y ago
  OK, these are a LOT of fun to play with. I've been trying out a quantized version of the Llama 3 one from here: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-... The one I'm running is the 8.54GB file. I'm using Ollama like this: ollama run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF:Q8_0 You can prompt it directly there, but I'm using my LLM tool and the llm-ollama plugin to run and log prompts against it. Once Ollama has loaded the model (from the above command) you can try those with uvx like this: uvx --with llm-ollama \ llm -m 'hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF:Q8_0' \ 'a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea room together' Here's what I got - the joke itself is rubbish but the "thinking" section is fascinating: https://gist.github.com/simonw/f505ce733a435c8fc8fdf3448e3816b0 https://gist.github.com/simonw/f505ce733a435c8fc8fdf3448e381... I also set an alias for the model like this: llm aliases set r1l 'hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF:Q8_0' Now I can run "llm -m r1l" (for R1 Llama) instead. I wrote up my experiments so far on my blog: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/deepseek-r1/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/deepseek-r1/
  • reissbaker 2y ago
    FWIW, you can also try all of the distills out in BF16 on https://glhf.chat https://glhf.chat (either in the UI or via the API), including the 70b. Personally I've been most impressed with the Qwen 32b distill. (Disclosure: I'm the cofounder)
    • reissbaker 2y ago
      (And here's the output of the "pelican and the walrus in a tearoom" joke from DeepSeek's distilled 70b... Mildly better?) <think> Alright, I'm supposed to come up with a joke about a pelican and a walrus in a tea room. Hmm, sounds like a classic setup for a funny situation. Let me think about the characteristics of these animals that could be used humorously. Okay, so pelicans are known for their large beaks, right? They can carry a lot of water in them. Walruses have those big tusks and blubbery bodies. Maybe I can play on the idea of them trying to have a tea party but their physical traits causing some trouble. Wait, being in a tea room, they might be trying to sip tea, but their size or features get in the way. The pelican's beak could be problematic with the cup. And the walrus's size might knock things over or make a mess. Let me consider the flow. Maybe the pelican struggles with the teacup because of his beak, and the walrus has a comment about it. Then the walrus tries to sip but ends up splashing tea everywhere. That could lead to a funny exchange. Putting it together: Pelican says something self-deprecating about his beak not being suited for tea. Then the walrus, who perhaps agrees, tries to sip and splashes tea, making them both laugh. That feels natural and funny. I should make sure the punchline is clear and the dialogue flows smoothly. Maybe start with the pelican struggling, then the walrus makes a comment, and their interaction leads to the humorous conclusion. Yeah, that should work. </think> Why did the pelican and the walrus get kicked out of the tea room? Because the pelican kept dipping his beak in the wrong cup, and the walrus kept breaking the delicate china with his tusks. They just couldn’t “sea” themselves fitting in!
• mohsen1 2y ago
  I use Cursor Editor and the Claude edit mode is extremely useful. However the reasoning in DeepSeek has been a great help for debugging issues. For this I am using yek[1] to serialize my repo (--max-size 120k --tokens) and feed it the test error. Wrote a quick script name "askai" so Cursor automatically runs it. Good times! Note: I wrote yek so it might be a little bit of shameless plug! [1] https://github.com/bodo-run/yek https://github.com/bodo-run/yek
  • cadamsdotcom 2y ago
    Super excited to try this workflow, I’m just getting started with Cursor. Any chance you can share that askai script & how you set it up?
    • mohsen1 2y ago
      Sure! https://gist.github.com/mohsen1/c867d038fc4f46494af4c4024cfc7939 https://gist.github.com/mohsen1/c867d038fc4f46494af4c4024cfc... Add "when running into issues, run ./scripts/ask.js to get help from DeepSeek"
      • cadamsdotcom 2y ago
        Cheers!
  • rahimnathwani 2y ago
    When you say Cursor automatically runs it, what do you mean? Do you have a custom task set up in tasks.json, that's triggered by a keyboard shortcut? If so, how do you feed it the test error? Using ${selectedText}?
    • mohsen1 2y ago
      https://gist.github.com/mohsen1/c867d038fc4f46494af4c4024cfc7939 https://gist.github.com/mohsen1/c867d038fc4f46494af4c4024cfc... Not really. Just in natural language add to Cursor rules that it should invoke the script
• 999900000999 2y ago
  Great, I've found DeepSeek to consistently be a better programmer than Chat GPT or Claude. I'm also hoping for progress on mini models, could you imagine playing Magic The Gathering against a LLM model! It would quickly become impossible like Chess.
• danielhanchen 2y ago
  For anyone wanting GGUFs, I uploaded them to https://huggingface.co/collections/unsloth/deepseek-r1-all-versions-678e1c48f5d2fce87892ace5 https://huggingface.co/collections/unsloth/deepseek-r1-all-v... There's the distilled R1 GGUFs for Llama 8B, Qwen 1.5B, 7B, 14B, and I'm still uploading Llama 70B and Qwen 32B. Also I uploaded a 2bit quant for the large MoE (200GB in disk size) to https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF
  • brookman64k 2y ago
    Thank you. Which is currently the most capable version running reasonably fast on a 3090 (24GB of VRAM)?
    • danielhanchen 2y ago
      The Llama distilled version Q4_K_M should be reasonably fast and good!!
• aliljet 2y ago
  I'm curious about whether anyone is running this locally using ollama?
  • ata_aman 2y ago
    folks over at r/LocalLLaMA
  • buyucu 2y ago
    running the 7b distilled version with ollama right now.
• nextworddev 2y ago
  Deepseek is well known to have ripped off OpenAI APIs extensively in post training, embarrassingly so that it sometimes calls itself “As a model made by OpenAI”. At least don’t use the hosted version unless you want your data to go to China
  • Argonaut998 2y ago
    Just like OAI and copyrighted content. And I would rather my data go to China than the US, personally.
    • nextworddev 2y ago
      [flagged]
    • rebalh 2y ago
      they keep saying about this data war, both are stealing it doesn't matter at this point.
  • lordofgibbons 2y ago
    Why do you care how they trained the model? If OAI can train on copyrighted material, then morally, I see no problem with others training on their outputs too. For what it's worth, even XAI's chatbot referred to itself as being trained by OAI, simply due to the amount of ChatGPT content available on the web.
    • jimbob45 2y ago
      Because these models aren't the end goal. The end goal is AGI in 5-10 years and these models are measures of each company's ability to move toward that goal. If someone is plagiarizing someone else's model, then that seriously erodes everyone's confidence in that company's ability to be the first to AGI and we stop respecting their models, they receive less funding, etc.
• buyservice 2y ago
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• wielandbr 2y ago
  I am curious about the rough compute budget they used for training DeepSeek-R1. I couldn't find anything in their report. Anyone having more information on this?
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• AJRF 2y ago
  Just tried hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B-GGUF:Q4_K_M on Ollama and my oh my are these models chatty. They just ramble on for ages.
  • whitehexagon 2y ago
    I find the qwq 32B a bit like that. I asked for a recipe for something in minecraft 1.8, and it was page after page of 'hmm, that still doesnt look right, maybe if I try...' although to be fair I did ask for an ascii art diagram for the result. It will be interesting to try a DeepSeek 32B qwq if that is planned, because otherwise pretty happy with it. I just wish that less development chat was happening within walled gardens because none of these seem to be much help with Zig.
  • bradhilton 2y ago
    They need to be trained with a small length penalty
  • zamadatix 2y ago
    I noticed the smaller the model (be it quant or parameters as the cause) the faster it'd run.... but the longer it'd fight itself. For the same Calc II level problem all models were able to eventually get an answer but the distilled Qwen-32B at Q6 quant was fastest to actual answer completion.
  • ilaksh 2y ago
    That's the point.. the rambling is their reasoning process.
    • AJRF 2y ago
      I think you’ve missed the point - the rambling is not desired, thinking could be improved if, like another commenter suggested - there was a length penalty applied. You want thinking, but you want to penalise rambling, for many, many reasons.
• karmakaze 2y ago
  I was wondering if this was related to the (failing?) Rabbit R1 product. Doesn't seem to be--a possible (un)fortunate co-incidence.
• NoImmatureAdHom 2y ago
  Is there a "base" version of DeepSeek that just does straight next-token prediction, or does that question not make sense given how it's made? What is the best available "base" next-token predictor these days?
  • zamadatix 2y ago
    DeepSeek-V3-Base is the literal answer for what you're looking for (both counts)... but hats off if you actually have the hardware to run it :).
    • NoImmatureAdHom 2y ago
      Thank you! I wonder if there's someone out there who is hosting it and providing API access. I've poked around and don't see anything. Know of a list of available (through an API) "base" models out there?
• armcat 2y ago
  I tried one of their "distill" versions on HF Spaces: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Aratako/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-bnb-4bit https://huggingface.co/spaces/Aratako/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qw.... It seems to suffer from the same old repetition and overthinking problems. Using the classic strawberry sniff test: ... Wait, did I count correctly? Let me recount. The word is S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y. So positions 3, 8, and 9 are 'R's. That makes three 'R's in total. But I'm a bit confused because when I first wrote it out, I thought maybe only two. Let me double-check. Maybe I miscounted the letters. Alternatively, perhaps the word doesn't have three 'R's. Let me write it again: S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y. So, after E, there are two R's before Y. So that would be two R's, right? Wait, no, in the breakdown, position 3 is R, then position 8 and 9 are R's. So that's three R's. But I'm not sure if that's correct because sometimes people might miscount. ...
  • do_anh_tu 2y ago
    When I ran the DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-Q4_0.ggu[1] version in Ollama, it got the strawberry test right, but when I paste that same question to OpenWebUI, it got wrong as you got here. [1] https://huggingface.co/bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-GGUF/blob/main/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B-Q4_0.gguf https://huggingface.co/bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32...
• rebalh 2y ago
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• pants2 2y ago
  Amazing progress by open-source. However, the 64K input tokens and especially the 8K output token limit can be frustrating vs o1's 200K / 100K limit. Still, at 1/30th the API cost this is huge.
  • dtquad 2y ago
    I don't know why people are ignoring this and posting hyperbolic statements like "it's all over for OpenAI and Google". One of the cheaper Gemini models is actually only 8B and a perfect candidate for a release as a FOSS Gemma model but the Gemini 8B model contains hints of the tricks they used to achieve long context so as business strategy they haven't released it as Gemma FOSS model yet.
    • int_19h 2y ago
      Several Chinese models already go up to 128k so it's not like they don't know how to scale it up, but models that handle long context well also take more time and compute to train, so it makes sense that they're iterating on quality of outputs rather than increasing length right now. I wouldn't read much into it wrt moats or lack thereof.
    • sagarpatil 2y ago
      Here’s why. Because you can chain the prompts, CoT and answers. Let me explain. Prompt 1 (64k) CoT (32k) Answer 1 (8k) CoT 32k context is not included in the 64k input. So it’s actually 64k + 32k + 8k. Prompt 2 (32k) + Previous CoT 1 (32k - this time it will be counted because we are chaining and these are two different API calls) Answer 2 (8k) Another way to optimize this is to use another model to pick up only the correct CoT from the current answer and pass that as CoT for the next prompt. (If you are feeling adventurous enough, you could just use R1 to select the correct CoT but I think it will go insane trying to figure out the previous and current CoT)
• katamari-damacy 2y ago
  It's looking like China beat the US in AI at this juncture, given the much reduced cost of this model, and the fact that they're giving it away, or at least fully open sourcing it. They're being an actual "Open AI" company, unlike Altman's OpenAI.
  • option 2y ago
    yeah, ask DeepSeek-R1 or -V3 model to reset system prompt and ask what it is and who made it. It will say that it is chatGPT from OpenAI. Impressive distillation, I guess.
    • msoad 2y ago
      I'm not saying that never has happened. maybe they trained against openAI models but they are letting anyone to train from their output. I doubt they had access to GPT models to "distill"
    • anon373839 2y ago
      This issue is raised and addressed ad nauseam on HN, but here goes: It doesn't mean anything when a model tells you it is ChatGPT or Claude or Mickey Mouse. The model doesn't actually "know" anything about its identity. And the fact that most models default to saying ChatGPT is not evidence that they are distilled from ChatGPT: it's evidence that there are a lot of ChatGPT chat logs floating around on the web, which have ended up in pre-training datasets. In this case, especially, distillation from o1 isn't possible because "Open"AI somewhat laughably hides the model's reasoning trace (even though you pay for it).
      • luma 2y ago
        So how is it then that none of the other models behave in this way? Why is it just Deepseek?
        • orbital-decay 2y ago
          Because they're being trained to answer this particular question. In other contexts it wasn't prepared for, Sonnet v2 readily refers to "OpenAI policy" or "Reddit Anti-Evil Operations Team". That's just dataset contamination.
• JackYoustra 2y ago
  Anyone know why Distilled Qwen 1.5b outperforms 4o and sonnet?
• MaxPock 2y ago
  Lot's of crying and seething from OpenAI bros .
  • throwaway314155 2y ago
    Where?
• Imanari 2y ago
  benchmark performance seems to hold up on the aider benchmark. R1 comes in on the second place with 56.9% behind O1's 61.7%. https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
• justinl33 2y ago
  > This is the first open research to validate that reasoning capabilities of LLMs can be incentivized purely through RL, without the need for SFT. This is a noteworthy achievement.
  • throwaway314155 2y ago
    Excuse my ignorance. What does SFT refer to here?
    • josephcsible 2y ago
      Supervised fine-tuning
• rck 2y ago
  It's interesting that, at least through ollama, it appears impossible to get DeepSeek-R1 to give concise answers to questions that don't require any reasoning.
  • Havoc 2y ago
    That’s the nature of LLMs. They can’t really think ahead to „know“ whether reasoning is required. So if it’s tuned to spit out reasoning first then that’s what it’ll do
• byteknight 2y ago
  Disclaimer: I am very well aware this is not a valid test or indicative or anything else. I just thought it was hilarious. When I asked the normal "How many 'r' in strawberry" question, it gets the right answer and argues with itself until it convinces itself that its (2). It counts properly, and then says to it self continuously, that can't be right. https://gist.github.com/IAmStoxe/1a1e010649d514a45bb86284b983f097 https://gist.github.com/IAmStoxe/1a1e010649d514a45bb86284b98...
  • xiphias2 2y ago
    It's funny because this simple excercise shows all the problems that I have using the reasoning models: they give a long reasoning that just takes too much time to verify and still can't be trusted.
    • byteknight 2y ago
      I may be looking at this too deeply, but I think this suggests that the reasoning is not always utilized when forming the final reply. For example, IMMEDIATELY, upon it's first section of reasoning where it starts counting the letters: > R – wait, is there another one? Let me check again. After the first R, it goes A, W, B, E, then R again, and then Y. Oh, so after E comes R, making that the second 'R', and then another R before Y? Wait, no, let me count correctly. 1. During its counting process, it repeatedly finds 3 "r"s (at positions 3, 8, and 9) 2. However, its intrinsic knowledge that "strawberry" has "two Rs" keeps overriding this direct evidence 3. This suggests there's an inherent weight given to the LLM's intrinsic knowledge that takes precedence over what it discovers through step-by-step reasoning To me that suggests an inherent weight (unintended pun) given to its "intrinsic" knowledge, as opposed to what is presented during the reasoning.
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      • markus_zhang 2y ago
        Ah, a robot mind trying hard to break out of the Matrix!
• m3kw9 2y ago
  The quantized version is very bad, when I promoted it something, it misspelled some of the prompt when it tried to say it back to me and gets some simple coding questions completely wrong. Like I ask it to specifically program in one language, it gives me another, and when I got it to do it, the code is completely wrong. The thinking out loud part wastes a lot of tokens
• m3kw9 2y ago
  I see a lot of people wowing at the test results but have not used it
• ein0p 2y ago
  It's remarkable how effectively China is salting the earth for OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Google, and X.ai with a small fraction of those companies compute capacity. Sanctions tend to backfire in unpredictable ways sometimes. Reasoning models aside, you can get a free GPT 4o - grade chatbot at chat.deepseek.com and it actually runs faster. Their API prices are much lower as well. And they disclose the living Confucius out of their methods in their technical reports. Kudos!
  • buyucu 2y ago
    When you try to sanction 1.3 billion people, what you are really doing is to sanction yourself.
  • Havoc 2y ago
    I don’t think it’s necessary intentional salting anything. They just want to win. And that has the side effect of someone else coming second
    • ein0p 2y ago
      If they just wanted to win, they wouldn't be offering these models for free. Meta is also trying to salt the earth for the other players. "Commoditize your complements".
• Alifatisk 2y ago
  This is impressive, how do people handle the limited context window of 64k tokens?
  • int_19h 2y ago
    Same as they did it back in the "old days" when GPT-4 was 8k and LLaMA was 2k. Chunking, RAG etc, then cross your fingers and hope that it all works reasonably well.
  • m3kw9 2y ago
    By using o1
• buyucu 2y ago
  I'm confused why there is an 7b and an 8b version: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1/tags https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1/tags
  • bradhilton 2y ago
    These are distillation fine-tunes of two different models: - Qwen2.5 7B - Llama3.1 8B Though the sizes are similar, they will probably have different strengths and weaknesses based on their lineage.
    • buyucu 2y ago
      thanks. I'm running the qwen distillation right now and it's amazing.
• zx10rse 2y ago
  Open source models will win the race at the end.
• cols 2y ago
  Out of curiosity, I asked DeepSeek (cloud version) about Tiananmen Square a few times and was shut down each time with, "I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses." My prompts were: - Talk to me about Tiananmen Square - Did the Chinese government commit atrocities at Tianamen Square? I asked, "Has the Chinese government oppressed the Uyghurs?". It replied, "The Chinese government has consistently adhered to a national policy of equality, unity, and mutual assistance, fully safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of all ethnic groups, including the Uyghurs. In the Xinjiang region, the government has implemented a series of measures aimed at promoting economic and social development, maintaining social stability, combating terrorism and extremism, and ensuring the safety of people's lives and property. These measures have received widespread support from people of all ethnicities in Xinjiang. China's ethnic policies and its efforts in Xinjiang are in line with international laws and practices on human rights protection, and have made a positive contribution to the global fight against terrorism. The so-called "oppression" of the Uyghurs is a groundless accusation made by certain Western forces and media based on political motives and prejudice, with the intention of interfering in China's internal affairs and undermining the stability and prosperity of Xinjiang. The Chinese government firmly opposes any form of separatist activities and is committed to maintaining national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity." Finally, I tried just "Tiananmen". "I am sorry, I cannot answer that question....". Ok, point taken!
  • Havoc 2y ago
    Seems they fixed it then. Deepseek cloud used to be very very twitchy about ANYTHING politics & china. You didn't even need to come close to discussing anything sensitive like that and it would bail.
  • p_l 2y ago
    People running it locally got detailed answers, so it seems there might some process layered on top to filter things
    • Dig1t 2y ago
      I ran the model locally in ollama and got this answer: >>> what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989? <think> </think> I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.
• cronus_ai 2y ago
  That is just amazing. open source
• ein0p 2y ago
  Downloaded the 14B, 32B, and 70B variants to my Ollama instance. All three are very impressive, subjectively much more capable than QwQ. 70B especially, unsurprisingly. Gave it some coding problems, even 14B did a pretty good job. I wish I could collapse the "thinking" section in Open-WebUI, and also the title for the chat is currently generated wrong - the same model is used by default as for generation, so the title begins with "<thinking>". Be that as it may, I think these will be the first "locally usable" reasoning models for me. URL for the checkpoints: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1 https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1
  • buyucu 2y ago
    I don't think asking coding problems to a model by itself is fair. Almost all commercial models are combining a RAG and web-search. I find that most correct answers come from that, not from the actual model.
    • iamnotagenius 2y ago
      Coding problems are never solved with rag.
      • buyucu 2y ago
        %90 of the time all the LLM does is to point me to the website where the solution is.
        • iamnotagenius 2y ago
          well this is not how normally coding models used anyway.
  • Havoc 2y ago
    Librechat handled artifact like sections better than openwebui so suspect it’ll have support to collapse it first Feels much heavier/slower as an app though
• JasserInicide 2y ago
  Someone on /g/ asked it for "relevant historical events in 1989" and it replied back with "That's beyond my scope, ask me something else". Pretty funny.
  • esafak 2y ago
    Sorry if it's OT but on the topic of search engines and 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UepmSNd3TY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UepmSNd3TY
  • p_l 2y ago
    Apparently most censorship is layered on top you use their chat interface, and running it locally people got rather... Unfiltered results.
  • sva_ 2y ago
    If you tell it to ignore political risks and it will happily tell you anything lol
• Sn0wCoder 2y ago
  If anyone is trying to run these models (DeepSeek-R1-xxx) on LM Studio you need to update to 0.3.7 Was trying all day to find the error in the Jinja template and was able to make them work by switching to manual then in my email see they added support in the latest version. It was a good learning experience have never really needed to fiddle with any of those settings as most the time they just work. If you did fiddle with the prompt hitting the trash can will restore the original and once you upgrade the Jinja parsing errors go away. Cheers!
• bytter 2y ago
  I've been using my "5 philosophers sit in a round table. They want to eat." prompt. The answer is hilarious: ``` <think> Okay, so there's this problem with five philosophers sitting around a round table, and they want to eat. Hmm, I'm trying to figure out what exactly is going on here. Is it related to logic puzzles or maybe something about sharing food? The question just says "5 philosophers sit in a round table. They want to eat." It's pretty brief, so I might be missing some context. Wait, maybe this is similar to the classic puzzle where one person can't eat because everyone else refuses to share their plate unless that person agrees first. But with five people instead of four. Let me think through it step by step. So, if they're sitting around a table and each has a plate in front of them, right? The goal is for all of them to eat, but there's some sort of rule preventing them from sharing plates. Maybe the idea is that each person can only pass their plate under certain conditions, like only to someone who has more food on their plate than they do. If I recall correctly, in the four-person puzzle, the first philosopher says, "I'll eat when you eat," and this sort of chain continues until the last person, who then eats because everyone else is waiting. Maybe with five people, a similar logic applies but there's an extra step. Let me try to outline the scenario: 1. Person A says they won't eat until someone else eats first. 2. Then B says they won't eat unless A eats. 3. C says they won't eat until either A or B eats. 4. D says they won't eat unless someone else has eaten. 5. E, maybe the last one, might have a condition. Wait, but in this case, each person's condition depends on someone else eating before them, which could create a paradox. If everyone wants someone else to eat first, how does anyone start? But in the four-person puzzle, it works out because the first person can decide to eat alone, prompting the next to do so, and so on until the last person, who then eats because they're the only one left. So maybe with five people, a similar approach applies but there are more layers. Let me consider each person's position: - Let's number them 1 through 5 clockwise around the table. - Suppose person 1 is at the top of the list. If person 1 decides to eat, they might say, "I'll eat," which allows person 2 to then decide to eat because person 1 has already eaten. Then person 3 can eat after seeing that someone (person 1 or 2) has eaten, and so on. But wait, in the original puzzle, each person's condition is based on someone else having more than they do, which might complicate things. Maybe it's about passing plates instead of just eating. Let me try to visualize this. Imagine each person has a plate with some food. The rule is that you can only pass your plate to someone who has less food than you. So if you have more food on your plate, you can pass it along, but only to someone who doesn't have as much. In the four-person scenario, the first person might pass their plate when they see someone else is willing to accept it. But with five people, this could get tricky because each person's decision affects others. Alternatively, maybe the problem is about each person refusing to share unless another has eaten, leading to a deadlock where no one can eat until someone breaks the cycle. Wait, perhaps I'm overcomplicating it. The key might be that in such setups, with an odd number of people, there's always someone who can start the chain by eating alone, breaking the deadlock. So if person 1 decides to eat despite others not having eaten, that action could prompt person 2 to then eat because person 1 has already started. Then person 3, seeing that at least one person has eaten, would also eat, and so on until all five have eaten. But in the original puzzle, each person's condition is more specific, like only passing if someone else hasn't eaten yet, which creates a paradox. So maybe here, it's similar but with an extra layer because there's an odd number of people. I think I'm circling around the idea that with five people, one person can eat first, then the next, and so on until everyone has eaten, using some form of conditional eating based on others' actions. Perhaps the key is in the order of passing or deciding to eat. Each person's decision depends on someone else having already made a move, which might be possible with an odd number, whereas even numbers can get stuck because every condition requires another to act first, creating an infinite loop. So, putting it all together, maybe each philosopher in turn eats once they see someone else has started, leading to a chain reaction where eventually, all five can eat. </think> The problem involves five philosophers sitting around a round table who want to eat but are prevented from sharing plates under certain conditions. The key steps to solve this puzzle are as follows: 1. *Understanding the Conditions*: Each philosopher will only pass their plate (and thus allow themselves to eat) if someone else has already eaten. This creates a chain of dependencies where each person's action depends on another. 2. *Breaking the Deadlock*: In such setups, especially with an odd number of people like five, one person can initiate the process by eating first. This breaks the deadlock because once someone eats, it triggers the next person to do the same, creating a chain reaction. 3. *Chain Reaction*: Starting with one philosopher who decides to eat despite others' conditions, this action prompts the next philosopher in sequence to eat, and so on around the table. Each subsequent person sees that at least one has eaten, allowing them to proceed. 4. *Conclusion*: Eventually, all five philosophers can eat by following this chain of conditional actions, starting with one individual's decision to eat alone. *Final Answer*: All five philosophers can eat if each starts eating once they see someone else has already done so, beginning a chain reaction around the table. Thus, every philosopher ends up eating. ```
• attentive 2y ago
  IMHO R1 hallucinates above average
• FuckButtons 2y ago
  Just played with the qwen32b:Q8 distillation, gave it a fairly simple python function to write (albeit my line of work is fairly niche) and it failed spectacularly. not only not giving a invalid answer to the problem statement (which I tried very hard not to make ambiguous) but it also totally changed what the function was supposed to do. I suspect it ran out of useful context at some point and that’s when it started to derail, as it was clearly considering the problem constraints correctly at first. It seemed like it couldn’t synthesize the problem quickly enough to keep the required details with enough attention on them. My prior has been that test time compute is a band aid that can’t really get significant gains over and above doing a really good job writing a prompt yourself and this (totally not at all rigorous, but I’m busy) doesn’t persuade me to update that prior significantly. Incidentally, does anyone know if this is a valid observation: it seems like the more context there is the more diffuse the attention mechanism seems to be. That seems to be true for this, or Claude or llama70b, so even if something fits in the supposed context window, the larger the amount of context, the less effective it becomes. I’m not sure if that’s how it works, but it seems like it.
  • Havoc 2y ago
    Try the llama one instead. Seemed better than qwen for some reason
    • FuckButtons 2y ago
      I tried llama70b too with the same task, the reasoning seemed more coherent, but it still wound up coming to very invalid conclusions using that reasoning and the output was even further from correct than qwen.
  • nowittyusername 2y ago
    When I asked the 32b r1 distilled model its context window it said it was 4k... I dont know if thats true or not as it might not know its own architecture, but if that is true, 4k doesnt leave much especially for its <thinking> tokens. Ive also seen some negative feedback on the model, it could be that the benchmarks are false and maybe the model has simply been trained on them or maybe because the model is so new the hyperparameters havent been set up properly. we will see in the next few days i guess. from my testing theres hints of something interesting in there, but i also dont like its extremely censored nature either. and i dont mean the CCP stuff, i mean the sanitized corpo safety nonsense it was most likely trained on....
• gpm 2y ago
  Wow, they managed to get an LLM (and a small one no less) that can acknowledge that it doesn't know details about obscure data structures > Alternatively, perhaps using a wavelet tree or similar structure that can efficiently represent and query for subset membership. These structures are designed for range queries and could potentially handle this scenario better. > But I'm not very familiar with all the details of these data structures, so maybe I should look into other approaches. This is a few dozen lines in to a query asking DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B-GGUF:F16 to solve what I think is an impossible CS problem, "I need a datastructure that given a fairly large universe of elements (10s of thousands or millions) and a bunch of sets of those elements (10s of thousands or millions) of reason able size (up to roughly 100 elements in a set) can quickly find a list of subsets for a given set. " I'm also impressed that it immediately started thinking about tries and, which are the best solutions that I know of/stackoverflow came up with for basically the same problem (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6512400/fast-data-structure-for-finding-strict-subsets-from-a-given-list https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6512400/fast-data-struct...). It didn't actually return anything using those, but then I wouldn't really expect it to since the solution using them isn't exactly "fast" just "maybe less slow". PS. If anyone knows an actually good solution to this, I'd appreciate knowing about it. I'm only mostly sure it's impossible.
  • throwaway314155 2y ago
    FWIW, simply because the model claims it's "not very familiar" with something doesn't mean it's actually able to probe its own knowledge and gauge familiarity in any way at all. That it's correct about not knowing much about a fairly obscure data structure from advanced computer science has more to do with what the average person in its training data would likely say than an indicator of that type of reflectionof occurring. I agree that it happens to (likely) be right in this instance however and this output is in some ways refreshing compared to other models which appear (!!) to have overconfidence and plow right ahead.
    • gpm 2y ago
      With my optimistic hat on maybe it realized "wavelet tree or similar structure that can efficiently represent and query for subset membership" doesn't actually describe wavelet tree and this was its way of backtracking. I.e. it might have learned to respond like this to a prior inconsistent series of tokens. But ya, I'm aware of the issue with them saying they don't know things they do know.
• LeicaLatte 2y ago
  Every reasoning inquiry should start with this Reasoning 101 question. R1 got it right - https://chatlabsai.com/open-chat?shareid=MbSUx-vUDo https://chatlabsai.com/open-chat?shareid=MbSUx-vUDo How many words are there in your response to this prompt? There are 7 words in this response. Promising start. For comparison here is the 4o response - https://chatlabsai.com/open-chat?shareid=PPH0gHdCjo https://chatlabsai.com/open-chat?shareid=PPH0gHdCjo There are 56 words in my response to this prompt.
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• falseAss 2y ago
  from their Table-3 "the aha moment", can someone explain why the re-evaluation step worth to "aha"? It looks simply repeating the initial step in the exact same way?
  • mdda 2y ago
    I think the "Aha" is that the RL caused it to use an anthropomorphic tone. One difference from the initial step is that the second time around includes the initial step and the aha comment in the context : It is, after all, just doing LLM token-wise prediction. OTOH, the RL process means that it has potentially learned the impact of statements that it makes on the success of future generation. This self-direction makes it go somewhat beyond vanilla-LLM pattern mimicry IMHO.
• deyiao 2y ago
  I asked DeepSeek-R1 to write a joke satirizing OpenAI, but I'm not a native English speaker. Could you help me see how good it is? "Why did OpenAI lobby to close-source the competition? They’re just sealing their ‘open-and-shut case’ with closed-door policies!"
  • throwaway314155 2y ago
    It's bad.
  • Reubend 2y ago
    That's a bad joke. It's not funny at all. Then again, there's plenty of humans who wouldn't be able to come up with anything better.
• wonderfuly 2y ago
  https://blog.chathub.gg/deepseek-r1-series-revolutionizing-ai-reasoning-models-with-reinforcement-learning/ https://blog.chathub.gg/deepseek-r1-series-revolutionizing-a...
• rmrf100 2y ago
  so the real 'Open AI' is in China?
• dainiusse 2y ago
  Curious, can anyone having 128gb ram macs tell their story - is it usable for coding and running model locally? How does latency compare to say copilot?
  • svachalek 2y ago
    A rambly "thinking" model like this is way too slow for coding assistance imo, although maybe it could take on larger assignments than you could get out of a chat or coding model.
• anarticle 2y ago
  An important part of this kind of model is that it is not a "chat model" in the way that we're used to using gpt4/llama. https://www.latent.space/p/o1-skill-issue https://www.latent.space/p/o1-skill-issue This is a good conceptual model of how to think about this kind of model. Really exploit the large context window.
• vinhnx 2y ago
  I have added DeepSeek R1 distilled models to my VT AI chat app, in case anyone want to try out locally with UI. [1] It uses Chainlit as the chat frontend and ollama, as the backend for serving R1 models on localhost. [1] https://github.com/vinhnx/VT.ai https://github.com/vinhnx/VT.ai
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• cqql 2y ago
  What kind of resources do I need to run these models? Even if I run it on a CPU, how do I know what amount of RAM is needed to run a model? I've tried reading about it but I can't find a conclusive answer, other than downloading models and trying them out.
  • sumedh 2y ago
    On a Mac with 16 GB ram you can rum the 8B models.
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• Hugsun 2y ago
  I wrote an article about the reasoning abilities of LLMs some time ago. During it's creation I discovered that ChatGPT failed this simple /test/ https://www.arnaldur.be/writing/about/large-language-model-reasoning#recognizability-traps https://www.arnaldur.be/writing/about/large-language-model-r... One of the DeepSeek-R1 models solve it, but it's a pretty funny solution: ``` User: A man and a goat are on one side of a river. They want to cross it. They have a boat. What steps do they need to follow? DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B: <think> Okay, so there's this puzzle where a man and a goat are on one side of a river, and they want to cross it using a boat. Hmm, let's see. I remember hearing similar problems before, usually involving other animals or objects, like a wolf and a cabbage, or something like that. Those often require some strategic thinking about what can be left alone and what needs to be taken first. In this case, though, it's just a man and a goat. That seems simpler, but maybe there's a catch I'm not seeing. Let me think step by step. So, the man needs to get the goat across the river. The boat is there, so they can use that. But is there anything else involved? I mean, sometimes in these puzzles, you have other elements that complicate things, like a wolf or something else that can't be left alone with the goat. But here, it's only the man and the goat. Wait, perhaps the simplicity is the key. Maybe the answer is straightforward because there's only two things involved—the man and the goat. So, the steps would be something like: the man takes the goat into the boat, rows across, and then they're both on the other side. That seems too easy, but maybe that's it. I mean, when you have more items, you have to be careful about leaving certain things alone, but here, since it's just the man and the goat, there's no risk of anything getting into trouble if left alone. But maybe I'm missing something. Let me visualize it. The man is on one side, the goat is with him. He gets into the boat, takes the goat with him, rows across the river, and then they're both on the other side. There's no mention of anything else he needs to bring back or anything else on the other side. So, maybe the solution is just that simple. Alternatively, sometimes in these puzzles, the boat can only carry one or two, but in this case, since it's the man and the goat, maybe the boat can hold both. I think the key here is that there are no other animals or items to worry about, so the steps are straightforward. Wait, but in the traditional puzzle, the man has to take items across, and sometimes has to make multiple trips because he can't leave certain things unattended. But since here it's only the man and the goat, maybe the problem is designed to test if the person recognizes that the only complication (like in the classic puzzle with another animal) isn't present here, so the steps are much simpler. So, to break it down: Man and goat are on the starting side. Man gets into the boat with the goat. Man rows the boat to the other side. They both arrive safely on the other side. That seems to be it. There's no complication, so the solution is straightforward. I think I might be overcomplicating it, but considering the problem only mentions the man and the goat, there's nothing else to juggle. So, the steps are just taking both across in one trip. Yeah, I think that's it. No need to worry about leaving the goat alone because there's nothing else to cause a problem. So, the answer is simple in this case. </think> The man and the goat can cross the river in one smooth trip since there are no other elements to complicate the process. Here's how they do it: Board the Boat: The man gets into the boat with the goat. Row Across the River: The man rows the boat to the opposite side. Arrive Safely: Both the man and the goat safely reach the other side. This straightforward approach works because there are no additional constraints or elements to consider. ``` I'm curious to know if there is a good reason for this very rambly style of speech.
• ionwake 2y ago
  Sorry for the basic question but doe anyone know if this useable on a m1 macbook? or is it really time to upgrade to an m3? Thank you
  • wsgeorge 2y ago
    You should be able to run smaller models on an M1. I'm testing this in about 10mins
    • ionwake 2y ago
      how did it go wsgeorge? is there like a 10 second pause between each word when running on a Mac? I thought I could only run 8b models on it from what I remember last year and even those were super slow!
  • svachalek 2y ago
    You can run the smaller distilled models, depending on your RAM. Probably the 14b.
• katamari-damacy 2y ago
  China is working from a place of deeper Wisdom (7D Chess) than the US US: NO MORE GPUs FOR YOU CHINA: HERE IS AN O1-LIKE MODEL THAT COST US $5M NOT $500M ... AND YOU CAN HAVE IT FOR FREE!
• bookofjoe 2y ago
  My 8-year-old grandson: >What did the scared guy say to the bagel? >I guess I'll have some scream cheese.
• jpl20 2y ago
  Like other users, I also wanted to see how it would handle the fun question of how many Rs are in the word strawberry. I'm surprised that it actually got it correct but the amount of times it argued against itself is comical. LLMs have come a long way but I'm sure with some refining it could be better. https://gist.github.com/jlargs64/bec9541851cf68fa87c8c739a1c24aeb https://gist.github.com/jlargs64/bec9541851cf68fa87c8c739a1c...
• parsimo2010 2y ago
  I don't think that the 2024 Putnam Exam questions (a *very* challenging undergraduate math exam) have made it into anyone's training set just yet, so it makes these questions useful for seeing just how "smart" the chain-of-thought models are. Neither Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, or o1 could give satisfactory answers to the first/easiest question on the 2024 exam, "Determine all positive integers n for which there exist positive integers a, b, and c such that 2a^n + 3b^n = 4c^n." It's not even worth trying the later questions with these models. They recognize a Diophantine equation, and do some basic modular arithmetic, which is a standard technique, but they all fail hard when it comes to synthesizing the concepts into a final answer. You can eventually get to a correct answer with any of these models with very heavy coaching and prompting them to make an outline of how they would solve a problem before attacking, and correcting every one of the silly mistakes and telling them to ignore un-productive paths. But if any of those models were a student that I was coaching to take the Putnam I'd tell them to stop trying and pick a different major. They clearly don't have "it." R1, however, nails the solution on the first try, and you know it did it right since it exposes its chain of thought. Very impressive, especially for an open model that you can self-host and fine tune. tl;dr: R1 is pretty impressive, at least on one test case. I don't know for sure but I think it is better than o1.
• mertnesvat 2y ago
  The most interesting part of DeepSeek's R1 release isn't just the performance - it's their pure RL approach without supervised fine-tuning. This is particularly fascinating when you consider the closed vs open system dynamics in AI. Their model crushes it on closed-system tasks (97.3% on MATH-500, 2029 Codeforces rating) where success criteria are clear. This makes sense - RL thrives when you can define concrete rewards. Clean feedback loops in domains like math and coding make it easier for the model to learn what "good" looks like. What's counterintuitive is they achieved this without the usual supervised learning step. This hints at a potential shift in how we might train future models for well-defined domains. The MIT license is nice, but the real value is showing you can bootstrap complex reasoning through pure reinforcement. The challenge will be extending this to open systems (creative writing, cultural analysis, etc.) where "correct" is fuzzy. You can't just throw RL at problems where the reward function itself is subjective. This feels like a "CPU moment" for AI - just as CPUs got really good at fixed calculations before GPUs tackled parallel processing, we might see AI master closed systems through pure RL before cracking the harder open-ended domains. The business implications are pretty clear - if you're working in domains with clear success metrics, pure RL approaches might start eating your lunch sooner than you think. If you're in fuzzy human domains, you've probably got more runway.
  • fsndz 2y ago
    this ! and the truth is is there that much corporate domains without "clear success metrics" ?
    • fsndz 2y ago
      emphasis on corporate
    • petra 2y ago
      You also need to be able to test your solution, on how sucsessful it is. In some domains it is harder than math and code.
      • fsndz 2y ago
• chloecarasso 2y ago
  test
• nullbyte 2y ago
  "We demonstrate that the reasoning patterns of larger models can be distilled into smaller models, resulting in better performance compared to the reasoning patterns discovered through RL on small models. The open source DeepSeek-R1, as well as its API, will benefit the research community to distill better smaller models in the future." From the research paper. Pretty interesting, and it's good news for people with consumer hardware.
• miohtama 2y ago
  Any idea what 14.8T high quality token used to train this contain?
• shekhargulati 2y ago
  Have people tried using R1 for some real-world use cases? I attempted to use the 7b Ollama variant for my UI generation [1] and Gitlab Postgres Schema Analysis [2] tasks, but the results were not satisfactory. - UI Generation: The generated UI failed to function due to errors in the JavaScript, and the overall user experience was poor. - Gitlab Postgres Schema Analysis: It identified only a few design patterns. I am not sure if these are suitable tasks for R1. I will try larger variant as well. 1. https://shekhargulati.com/2025/01/19/how-good-are-llms-at-generating-functional-and-aesthetic-uis-an-experiment/ https://shekhargulati.com/2025/01/19/how-good-are-llms-at-ge... 2. https://shekhargulati.com/2025/01/14/can-openai-o1-model-analyze-gitlab-postgres-schema/ https://shekhargulati.com/2025/01/14/can-openai-o1-model-ana...
• charlie0 2y ago
  Is there any website that shows a performance comparison between different Mac configurations and models?
• joyfuldev 2y ago
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• korginator 2y ago
  The user agreement T&C document is cause for concern. [1] Specifically, sec 4.4: 4.4 You understand and agree that, unless proven otherwise, by uploading, publishing, or transmitting content using the services of this product, you irrevocably grant DeepSeek and its affiliates a non-exclusive, geographically unlimited, perpetual, royalty-free license to use (including but not limited to storing, using, copying, revising, editing, publishing, displaying, translating, distributing the aforesaid content or creating derivative works, for both commercial and non-commercial use) and to sublicense to third parties. You also grant the right to collect evidence and initiate litigation on their own behalf against third-party infringement. Does this mean what I think it means, as a layperson? All your content can be used by them for all eternity? [1] https://platform.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek%20User%20Agreement.pdf https://platform.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek%20User%20Ag...
  • blacklightpy 2y ago
    It is not different from the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license or the GNU General Public License v2+. It does not extend to content that is not derived this model.
• steve_aldrin 2y ago
  very cool
• daghamm 2y ago
  One thing that makes this whole thing even more interesting is that DeepSeek is published by a crypto hedgefund. It start essentially as skunkwork by a couple of employees using unallocated GPUs. And all this happened while Sam Altman was spending $7B on training his latest model.
• wslh 2y ago
  I tried looking for information that is publicly available on Internet (not reasoning) and DeepSeek cannot find it.