ConceptSpeculative Decoding

Speculative Decoding

An inference acceleration technique for large language models in which a smaller draft model predicts a sequence of tokens that are then verified in batch by the target large model. This approach increases generation throughput without degrading the capability of the target model.

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Techniques such as speculative decoding and Mixture of Experts architectures represent vendors' engineering efforts to compress inference costs while maintaining equivalent capability.

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Techniques such as speculative decoding and Mixture of Experts architectures represent vendors' engineering efforts to compress inference costs while maintaining equivalent capability.

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