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Serving Qwen3.8-27B in 4-bit with a masked speculative decoding head

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I serve Qwen3.8-27B in production on RTX Blackwell workstation cards, on an inference engine I wrote from scratch in Rust and CUDA ( memra , MIT). This post is the write up of the serving artifact that makes it fast: a 4-bit NVFP4 trunk plus a masked multi-token-prediction draft head. All the files…

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  1. 2026-08-22 20:29 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Serving Qwen3.8-27B in 4-bit with a masked speculative decoding head

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