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    DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 8B

    deepseek/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8b

    Created Feb 7, 20250 context

    DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is a distilled large language model based on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, using outputs from DeepSeek R1. The model combines advanced distillation techniques to achieve high performance across multiple benchmarks, including:

    • AIME 2024 pass@1: 50.4
    • MATH-500 pass@1: 89.1
    • CodeForces Rating: 1205

    The model leverages fine-tuning from DeepSeek R1's outputs, enabling competitive performance comparable to larger frontier models.

    Hugging Face:

    • Llama-3.1-8B
    • DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B |

    Sample code and API for R1 Distill Llama 8B

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