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.
By Guoxuan Xia, Luka Ribar, Paul Balanca
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. Standard speculative decoding is lossless: its rejection and resampling steps exactly preserve the LLM's sampling distribution.
arXiv:2512.23765v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates large language model (LLM) inference by using a lightweight draft model to propose tokens and a stronge...
By Tiancheng Su, Meicong Zhang, Guoxiu He
arXiv:2407. 21082v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper presents a modular approach to accelerate inference in large language models (LLMs) by adding early exit heads at intermediate transformer layers.
By Florian Valade
arXiv:2605. 30580v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Speculative decoding is a popular technique for large language model (LLM) inference, enabling faster generation by drafting multiple tokens with a smaller draft model.
By Nirajan Paudel, Michael Ginn, Luc De Nardi, Alexis Palmer
Large Language Models suffer from high inference latency, especially when generating long chains of thought. Existing speculative decoding methods draft and verify tokens in parallel but ignore semantic equivalence, causing inefficient rejections. The proposed SemanticSpec framework verifies entire semantic sequences by probing internal hidden states, achieving up to 2.7× speedup on DeepSeekR1-32B and 2.1× on QwQ-32B while outperforming token‑level and sequence‑level baselines in both efficiency and effectiveness.
By Ximing Dong, Shaowei Wang, Dayi Lin, Boyuan Chen, Ahmed E. Hassan