arXiv AI
Jun 16
Nightjar: Dynamic Adaptive Speculative Decoding for Large Language Models Serving
arXiv:2512. 22420v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates LLM inference by verifying draft tokens in parallel.
FlexEE: Self-Speculative and KV-Compatible Early Exiting for Offloading-Aware LLM Inference
FlexEE is an early‑exiting framework designed for large language model inference that is constrained by computation and memory, particularly in offloading‑based deployments. It uses layer‑wise exit supervision, self‑speculative decoding over a Top‑K local vocabulary, and dynamic hidden‑state management to enable reliable intermediate‑layer predictions and memory‑aware execution. Experiments on Llama2‑7B and Llama3‑8B show that FlexEE achieves significant speedups—up to 1.27×/3.16× and 1.25×/2.83× respectively—while maintaining minimal accuracy loss.
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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
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SEED: Self-Speculative Decoding via Implicit Encoder-Decoder
arXiv:2609.36590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-speculative decoding accelerates large language model (LLM) inference by drafting tokens from the target model itself, but faces a sharp tradeof...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 13
Accelerating Large Language Model Inference with Self-Supervised Early Exits
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arXiv AI
Jul 28
DraftExpert: Expansion-Aware Self-Speculative Decoding for End-Device MoE Inference
arXiv:2607. 24434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: 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.
arXiv AI
Jun 11
VIA-SD: Verification via Intra-Model Routing for Speculative Decoding
arXiv:2606. 12243v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding (SD) addresses the high inference costs of LLMs by having lightweight drafters generate candidates for large verifiers to validate in parallel.
arXiv AI
Aug 14
SPADE: Speculative Decoding for Precise and Low Cost Distributed Edge Cloud Inference
arXiv:2608. 13076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural language understanding and generation, but their deployment is constrained by high computational demands.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22
H-Spec: Parallel Speculative Decoding Without a Drafter-Side KV Cache
arXiv:2609.24197v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding losslessly accelerates large language model inference by having a lightweight draft model predict future tokens for verification b...
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 21
TierKV: Long-Context On-Device LLMs via Predictive Multi-Tier KV Caching
arXiv:2609.21172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are moving onto mobile devices for increasingly diverse workloads over text, images, video, and audio. These applications...
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23
Flash-dLLM: IO-Aware KV Caching and Parallel Decoding for Fast, Memory-Efficient Diffusion LLMs
Flash-dLLM is a training‑free inference acceleration framework that improves the speed and memory efficiency of Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs). It tackles GPU memory I/O bottlenecks by introducing an I/O‑aware fused KV‑cache kernel and then employs a draft‑and‑verify decoding strategy that uses the dLLM itself as both drafter and verifier. Experiments on mathematical reasoning and code‑generation tasks show Flash‑dLLM outperforms existing acceleration methods, achieving up to 11.0× speedups over the Elastic‑Cache baseline.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7
AdaptiveSD A Stability-Aware, Runtime-Adaptive Speculative Decoding Framework with Multi-Policy Orchestration for CPU-Constrained LLM Inference
arXiv:2607. 03876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the rise of small quantized GGUF-based language models and their increasing use for on-device inference tasks, we have seen the growing need for an approach capable of reliably delivering these models at scale even under severe memory bandwidth constraints such as those imposed by pure CPU implementations.
arXiv AI
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TIDE: Temporal Incremental Draft Engine for Self-Improving LLM Inference
TIDE (Temporal Incremental Draft Engine) is a serving‑engine‑native framework that integrates online draft adaptation into high‑performance LLM inference. By reusing intermediate hidden states from the target model as training signals, TIDE avoids extra target model computation and serving‑time overhead, activating speculation and draft training only when beneficial. On heterogeneous GPU clusters, TIDE achieves up to 1.66× higher throughput than no‑speculation baselines, reduces training time by up to 3.02×, cuts storage needs by 24×, and improves system throughput by up to 1.22×.