Comment by ozgune

Agreed. Here are three things that I find surreal about the s1 paper.

(1) The abstract changed how I thought about this domain (advanced reasoning models). The only other paper that did that for me was the "Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server". And that paper got published 23 years ago.

(2) The model, data, and code are open source at https://github.com/simplescaling/s1. With this, you can start training your own advanced reasoning models. All you need is a thousand well-curated questions with reasoning steps.

(3) More than half the references in the paper are from 2024 and Jan 2025. Just look at the paper's first page. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.19393 In which other field do you see this?