arXiv:2608. 01651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hybrid-attention large language models combine full attention with recurrent linear attention to reduce long-context inference costs, yet their autoregressive decoding remains memory-bound.
arXiv:2608.01651v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emerging LLMs increasingly interleave full attention with recurrent linear attention to reduce long-context serving costs. Tree speculative d...
The paper introduces AdaptiveSpec, a training‑free speculative decoding method that simultaneously adapts the per‑step verification rule and the draft‑tree shape using signals generated during decoding. It replaces the fixed token‑match rule with a margin‑based threshold and adjusts tree depth, width, and node count based on draft confidence and recent acceptance history, allowing the total draft count to vary. Experiments on SGLang show up to 56% throughput gains over EAGLE‑3 while maintaining 93% of lossless task accuracy on GSM8K, MATH‑500, and HumanEval across three models.
arXiv:2607. 05147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates Large Language Model (LLM) inference by decoupling draft generation from target verification.
The paper investigates why speculative decoding (SD) performs better than expected on sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) models. By evaluating 10 large MoE models, the authors find that recent fine‑grained models achieve higher speedups at low batch sizes, contrary to prior predictions of a concave speedup‑batch relationship. They attribute this to lower verification costs driven by temporal overlap of draft tokens and GPU execution dynamics, and develop a maximum‑entropy IPF framework that accurately predicts unique expert counts from routing overlap, closely matching real‑model behavior.
arXiv:2604. 09731v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tree-based speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive generation by verifying a branching tree of draft tokens in a single target-model forward pass.
The paper introduces TSS, a target-side sparsification framework that selectively skips layers in a target verifier during speculative decoding for domain-specific large language models. By exploring multi-layer skip configurations with an acceptance- and metric-aware breadth search, TSS reduces verification cost, increases draft acceptance, and can even improve downstream task performance without retraining. Experiments on Spec-Bench demonstrate consistent gains across domains and model scales, notably boosting translation throughput by 1.68× and improving BLEU scores significantly.
The paper introduces DCOCO (DFlash Contextual Corrector), a lightweight mechanism that restores intra-block dependencies in speculative decoding by evaluating multiple candidate tokens for contextual compatibility across adjacent draft positions. DCOCO maintains parallel drafting while enabling contextually informed token selection at low additional cost. Across multiple verifier backbones and benchmarks, DCOCO achieves the highest average throughput, delivering speedups of up to 6.6× over vanilla decoding and outperforming competing methods by 6–23% under concurrent serving loads.
arXiv:2512. 22420v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates LLM inference by verifying draft tokens in parallel.
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:2608.20375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tree-based speculative decoding raises the mean accepted tokens of standard speculative decoding by verifying multiple draft paths, and existing tree b...
arXiv:2608. 03447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive generation by verifying a draft block with a target model in parallel.