speculative-decoding
Speculative Decoding: Accelerating LLM Inference
When to Use This Skill
Use Speculative Decoding when you need to:
- Speed up inference by 1.5-3.6× without quality loss
- Reduce latency for real-time applications (chatbots, code generation)
- Optimize throughput for high-volume serving
- Deploy efficiently on limited hardware
- Generate faster without changing model architecture
Key Techniques: Draft model speculative decoding, Medusa (multiple heads), Lookahead Decoding (Jacobi iteration)
Papers: Medusa (arXiv 2401.10774), Lookahead Decoding (ICML 2024), Speculative Decoding Survey (ACL 2024)
Installation
# Standard speculative decoding (transformers)
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