Quail Speeds Up LLM Classification 1.8x with Trie-Constrained Decoding
Quail, an AI-SQL execution engine, stores known classification labels in a trie and constrains decoding to trie paths, stopping early when a single label remains — about 1.8x faster than a vLLM baseline.
2026-10-13 ~ 2026-10-13 · 4 related posts
- To classify, try a trie: Quail runs LLM classification ~1.8x faster than free-text generation — sh_reya · 2026-10-13
- Why classification is optimizable: labels are known before the query runs — sh_reya · 2026-10-13
- How Quail classifies with a trie: constrained decoding that beats a vLLM baseline by ~1.8x — sh_reya · 2026-10-13
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