Lossy verification in speculative decoding can rewrite the decoding distribution and affect stability, study finds
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2607.26627v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative Decoding (SD) accelerates large language model inference by allowing a lightweight draft model to propose tokens that are subsequently verified in parallel...
Original headline: "Revisiting Lossy Verification in Speculative Decoding: Mechanisms, Trade-offs, and Failure Modes"
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- Jul 30, 04:00 UTC arXiv cs.CL lead source Revisiting Lossy Verification in Speculative Decoding: Mechanisms, Trade-offs, and Failure Modes
- Jul 31, 04:00 UTC arXiv cs.CL A Sparse Glimpse of the Whole: Train-Free Self-Speculative Decoding
- Jul 31, 04:00 UTC arXiv cs.LG Beyond KV Reconstruction: Functional Reconstruction for MLA Draft Models in Speculative Decoding