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Carryover Drafting: Recycling Rejected States for Speculative Decoding
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Training Parallel Speculative Draft Models by Directly Minimizing Expected Decoding Rounds
The paper introduces the Expected Decoding Rounds (EDR) objective, a theoretical framework that models speculative decoding as a Markov reward process and directly optimizes the number of decoding rounds. EDR weights local rejection costs by state occupancies, eliminating auxiliary hyperparameters and enabling unbiased stochastic optimization via temporal‑difference gradients. Applying EDR to fine‑tune state‑of‑the‑art draft models (DSpark and DFly) improves mean accepted length and outperforms prior training objectives across nine benchmarks in math reasoning, code generation, and chat.
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 21
DStill: Trajectory Consistency Distillation for Accelerated One-Step Drafting in Block Diffusion Speculative Decoding
arXiv:2610.27379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Block-diffusion speculative decoding accelerates large language model inference by drafting multiple tokens in parallel. However, one-step drafting i...
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 1
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...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 18
EfficientRollout: System-Aware Self-Speculative Decoding for RL Rollouts
arXiv:2606. 18967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a representative post-training paradigm for LLMs, enabling strong reasoning and agentic capabilities.
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 21
Draft-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for Speculative Draft Models
Draft-OPD introduces an on‑policy distillation method for speculative draft models, addressing the mismatch between supervised fine‑tuning and inference by letting the target model supervise the drafter on draft‑induced states. The approach uses target‑assisted rollouts for stable continuations and replays drafting from error positions exposed during verification, enabling the drafter to learn from both accepted and rejected proposals. Experiments demonstrate that Draft‑OPD achieves more than five‑fold lossless acceleration across diverse tasks, outperforming prior draft models such as EAGLE‑3 and DFlash by 23 % and 13 % respectively.
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 7
DLoop: Looped Speculative Decoding
The paper introduces DLoop, a looped speculative decoding technique that adaptively performs multiple drafting stages before verification, allowing a draft model to continue generating tokens while confident. By verifying all accumulated draft tokens together and training the draft model to handle its own hidden states for unverified tokens, DLoop reduces the number of target‑model forward passes needed. Experiments across several speculative decoding methods show wall‑clock speedups of 5–41 % without sacrificing lossless decoding.