Deepseek Paper

This is about the paper DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning:

General reasoning represents a long-standing and formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Recent breakthroughs, exemplified by large language models (LLMs) and chain-of-thought prompting, have achieved considerable success on foundational reasoning tasks. However, this success is heavily contingent upon extensive human-annotated demonstrations, and models' capabilities are still insufficient for more complex problems. Here we show that the reasoning abilities of LLMs can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning (RL), obviating the need for human-labeled reasoning trajectories. The proposed RL framework facilitates the emergent development of advanced reasoning patterns, such as self-reflection, verification, and dynamic strategy adaptation. Consequently, the trained model achieves superior performance on verifiable tasks such as mathematics, coding competitions, and STEM fields, surpassing its counterparts trained via conventional supervised learning on human demonstrations. Moreover, the emergent reasoning patterns exhibited by these large-scale models can be systematically harnessed to guide and enhance the reasoning capabilities of smaller models.

My comment:

4:18 So are you saying this "aha moment" was the AI figuring out the training scheme at 3:13 all by itself? Sounds implausible to me, but I don't know how else to interpret what you're saying here. [I guess I need to read the paper now,...] 

This was published in Nature Volume 645 Issue 8081, 18 September 2025.

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