Speculative decoding won't change your model's distribution. It might still change your output.
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There's a thread on the DeepSeek-R1 model page that's been sitting unresolved since March last year, and it bothered me enough to go read the papers. Someone had tried speculative decoding and reported that the output got worse — "very low quality words for the given context, words it would never g…
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- 2026-09-06 05:35 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Speculative decoding won't change your model's distribution. It might still change your output.