arXiv Machine Learning

HyperDFlash: Hyper-Connection-Aligned Block Speculative Decoding with Gated Residual Reduction

arXiv:2606. 26744v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present HyperDFlash, a block-parallel speculative decoding framework tailored to DeepSeek-V4's Hyper-Connections (HC).

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 4

Margins, Not Windows: Training-Free Per-Step Lossy Speculative Decoding

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.

By Oszk\'ar Urb\'an, Young D. Kwon, Stylianos I. Venieris, Cecilia Mascolo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 22

AdaFlash: Adaptive Speculative Decoding via On-Policy Distilled Diffusion Drafters

arXiv:2607. 19223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding, in which a lightweight draft model first generates a draft sequence that is then verified in parallel by the target model, has become a prevalent paradigm for accelerating large language model inference.

By Yu-Yang Qian, Hao-Cong Wu, Chen Chen, Jiacheng Sun, Zhenhua Dong, Peng Zhao, Zhi-Hua Zhou
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 21

AdaFlash: Adaptive Speculative Decoding via On-Policy Distilled Diffusion Drafters

Speculative decoding, in which a lightweight draft model first generates a draft sequence that is then verified in parallel by the target model, has become a prevalent paradigm for accelerating large language model inference. Recent work such as DFlash further boosts drafting efficiency by leveraging diffusion drafters, whose parallel denoising mechanism enables draft generation in a single forward pass.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generation

arXiv:2607. 05147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates Large Language Model (LLM) inference by decoupling draft generation from target verification.

By Xin Cheng, Xingkai Yu, Chenze Shao, Jiashi Li, Yunfan Xiong, Yi Qian, Jiaqi Zhu, Shirong Ma, Xiaokang Zhang, Jiasheng Ye, Qinyu Chen, Chengqi Deng, Jiping Yu, Damai Dai, Zhengyan Zhang, Yixuan Wei, Yixuan Tan, Wenkai Yang, Runxin Xu, Yu Wu, Zhean Xu, Xuanyu Wang, Muyang Chen, Rui Tian, Xiao Bi, Zhewen Hao, Shaoyuan Chen, Huanqi Cao, Wentao Zhang, Anyi Xu, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao, Wenfeng Liang
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
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

DEdit: Iterative Draft Editing for Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2609.38510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive LLMs by having a lightweight drafter propose tokens that the target model verifies in parallel. Diffusi...

By Longxuan Yu, Bingsen Chen, Peng Shi, Dongkyu Lee, Yi Xiang, Hideo Kobayashi, Sheng Zhang, Shuaichen Chang, Xing Niu, Zhuoyan Xu, Greg Ver Steeg, Jiarong Jiang