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"DeepSeek-R1 combines rule-based rewards for verifiable reasoning tasks with model-based rewards for more general tasks."

The researchers distinguish accuracy and formatting rewards for mathematics, coding, and logical reasoning from model-based evaluation of more general responses. Their reward architecture demonstrates why objectively testable problems provide a different optimization signal from open-ended language-generation tasks.

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