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Speculative Decoding vs Distillation: Two Ways to Buy Latency, One of Them Charges Quality

A user typing into a chat box will tolerate roughly two hundred milliseconds between tokens before the interface feels broken. A 70B model on a single accelerator produces a token every forty milliseconds on a good day, and every hundred on a bad one. The gap between what the hardware does and what…

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  1. 2026-11-02 01:40 · DEV Community — AI
    Speculative Decoding vs Distillation: Two Ways to Buy Latency, One of Them Charges Quality

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