arXiv Machine Learning

Speculative Pre-Positioning: Decoding Stateful Sessions to the Next Decision Point Off the Critical Path

arXiv:2606. 29565v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A stateless inference server (vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM) idles between requests while the accelerator waits; a stateful session reclaims that idle time.

arXiv AI
Aug 24

TreeWY: Speculative Verification for Gated DeltaNet Hybrids

TreeWY introduces a speculative verification method for Gated DeltaNet (GDN) hybrid models that eliminates the need for per-draft-state snapshots. By applying a tree‑structured WY transform to the gated delta rule, each draft node’s output is computed with a single triangular solve, and only the accepted state is reconstructed on commit. Benchmarks on Qwen3.5 35B and 397B show reduced memory pressure, higher throughput, and lower time‑to‑first‑token in memory‑bound scenarios, while enabling wider, higher‑acceptance draft trees.

By Sneha Murthy Ghantasala
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

DraftExpert: Expansion-Aware Self-Speculative Decoding for End-Device MoE Inference

Large Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models are attractive for end-device deployment because only a small subset of experts is active per token, but their routed expert weights often exceed accelerator memory. We target latency-critical single-user settings where routed experts are staged on demand from CPU memory to a GPU or from Flash to a mobile NPU.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

ASPIRE: Asynchronous Batched Self-Speculative Decoding for Long-Context LLM Inference

ASPIRE introduces a non‑synchronized batched self‑speculative decoding framework for long‑context LLM inference, addressing the memory bottleneck of attention by drafting tokens with sparse attention and verifying them with full attention. It combines a unified mixed forward pass, a lightweight online speculation scheduler that lets each request independently decide when to verify, and an intra‑draft refresh layer that updates the sparse context at every draft step. Experiments on three models and five benchmarks show 1.70–4.58× speedup over autoregressive baselines and a 27% average improvement over the strongest prior self‑speculative methods.

By Amir Ziashahabi, Hossein Entezari Zarch, Lei Gao, Murali Annavaram, Salman Avestimehr
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

WaveFront Decoding: Parallelized Self-Speculative Decoding for Looped Language Models

WaveFront Decoding (WFD) is a training‑free, self‑speculative decoding framework for looped language models that reduces decoding latency by batching draft and verification steps within the same recurrent‑block calls. By exploiting intermediate recurrence outputs as draft predictions and weight sharing to process token states at different depths together, WFD arranges mixed‑depth states into a diagonal wavefront, allowing shallow‑depth drafting while deeper‑depth verification proceeds concurrently. Experiments on six Spec‑Bench task categories show WFD achieving up to 4.81× speedup on Huginn‑3.5B compared to autoregressive decoding, outperforming traditional draft‑then‑verify approaches.

By Hyeongju Ha, Jae-Joon Kim