Speculative Decoding - Draft, Verify, Repeat
Autoregressive decoding is serial. Each token waits for the previous one. Speculative decoding breaks the chain: a cheap model drafts N tokens, the expensive model verifies all N in one forward pass. When the draft is right you paid one…
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