Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive language model inference by using a cheap drafter to propose multiple future tokens and a target model to verify them. A common design goal is therefore to improve draft quality while reducing auxiliary parameters and systems overhead.
arXiv:2608. 03447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive generation by verifying a draft block with a target model in parallel.
By Yuannuo Feng, Zegang Peng, Yuxin Xie, Yubing Ye, Yizhe Chen, Wenshuai Yao, Wenyong Zhou, Wang Kang
arXiv:2607. 22634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive (AR) LLMs, generating tokens in parallel.
By Zheng Wang, Zhifan Ye, Qi Cheng, Yonggan Fu, Ziyan Wang, Feng Zhu, Haozhe Zhao, Jan Kautz, Pavlo Molchanov, Humphrey Shi, Minjia Zhang
arXiv:2606. 00487v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Using a diffusion model for parallel drafting is a promising approach for speculative decoding.
By Zhuoyu Wang, Junnan Huang, Xinyu Chen
arXiv:2608. 08721v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates large language model inference by drafting multiple tokens for parallel verification, with efficiency critically determined by the speculative length selected at each decoding round.
By Zexun Lin, Yuan Feng, Junlin Lv, Kevin S. Zhou, Xike Xie
arXiv:2509. 18085v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion LLMs (dLLMs) have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to autoregressive LLMs (AR-LLMs) with the potential to operate at significantly higher token-generation rates.
By Sudhanshu Agrawal, Risheek Garrepalli, Raghavv Goel, Christopher Lott, Fatih Porikli, Mingu Lee