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What I Gave Up to Make Speculative Decoding Faster

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On a creative-writing prompt, my target LLM rejected most tokens proposed by the smaller draft model. Speculative decoding was slower than running the target alone. I wanted to recover that wasted work. How much faster could generation become if I let the draft have more influence over the output?…

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  1. 2026-10-28 00:29 · DEV Community — AI
    What I Gave Up to Make Speculative Decoding Faster

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