arXiv AI

A Practical Investigation of Training-free Relaxed Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2607. 08690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates sampling from an autoregressive LLM by using a faster auxiliary model to draft tokens which are then verified in parallel by the LLM.

arXiv AI
Aug 7

When Drafts Evolve: Speculative Decoding Meets Online Learning

arXiv:2603. 12617v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speculative decoding has emerged as a widely adopted paradigm for accelerating large language model inference, where a lightweight draft model rapidly generates candidate tokens that are then verified in parallel by a larger target model.

By Yu-Yang Qian, Hao-Cong Wu, Yichao Fu, Hao Zhang, Peng Zhao
arXiv AI
Jun 2

SimSD: Simple Speculative Decoding in Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2606. 02544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion large language models (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs, offering faster inference through parallel or blockwise decoding.

By Junxia Cui, Haotian Ye, Runchu Tian, Hongcan Guo, Jinya Jiang, Haoru Li, Chaojie Ren, Yiming Huang, Kaijie Zhu, Zhongkai Yu, Kun Zhou, Jingbo Shang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

LK Losses: Direct Acceptance Rate Optimization for Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2602. 23881v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive large language model (LLM) inference by using a lightweight draft model to propose candidate tokens that are then verified in parallel by the target model.

By Alexander Samarin, Sergei Krutikov, Anton Shevtsov, Sergei Skvortsov, Filipp Fisin, Alexander Golubev