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Speculative decoding explained: Medusa, EAGLE-3 and limits

Speculative decoding makes a large language model produce text faster by letting a cheaper process guess several tokens ahead while the big model checks the guesses all at once. The original paper, from Google researchers, reports a 2X to 3X speedup on a T5-XXL model with identical outputs. Later m…

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  1. 2026-11-13 13:00 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Speculative decoding explained: Medusa, EAGLE-3 and limits

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