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Speculative Decoding

Deployment & Inference · Level 4 of 5

Speculative Decoding

Accelerating generation by proposing tokens with a draft model and verifying them with a target model.

Correct algorithms can preserve the target sampling distribution while reducing costly target steps.

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A small model drafts several tokens that a larger model checks together.

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Speculative Decoding. Accelerating generation by proposing tokens with a draft model and verifying them with a target model. Correct algorithms can preserve the target sampling distribution while reducing costly target steps. For example: A small model drafts several tokens that a larger model checks together.

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