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You Could Have Come Up with Speculative Decoding

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Speculative decoding is a non-obvious optimization. Reasoning about when it actually pays off is trickier still. I wrote a post building it up from first principles, connecting the sampling algorithm to the systems intuition behind its performance.

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  1. 2026-09-07 06:31 · r/deeplearning
    You Could Have Come Up with Speculative Decoding
  2. 2026-09-07 05:40 · r/learnmachinelearning
    You Could Have Come Up with Speculative Decoding

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