Speculative decoding may reduce inference steps
An article dated September 20, 2026 describes a technique that pairs proposals from an efficient model with parallel verification by a larger model to speed generation without changing the output distribution.
Source: Speculative Decoding acelera a inferência autoregressiva (arxiv.org). Text prepared with AI from this source.
What happened and what to do
The article, dated September 20, 2026, presents speculative decoding: an efficient model proposes several tokens, and a larger model verifies them in parallel. The technique aims to reduce serial decoding steps and speed up sampling without changing the model’s output distribution.
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