DeepSeek-R1's vivid reasoning patterns primarily reflect engineered heuristics rather than acquired human-like intelligence or autonomous problem-solving.
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Here, we would like to emphasize that the observed vivid reasoning patterns primarily reflect DeepSeek-engineered heuristics, rather than indicating that the model has inherently acquired human-like intelligence or autonomous problem-solving capabilities.
Appendix B.3.2 on first-person, human-like CoT style introduced via cold-start data in DeepSeek-R1.
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