Qwen Open-Sources SpecOPD, Speeding Speculative Decoding Up to 3.56x

Alibaba's Qwen team open-sourced SpecOPD, a branch-parallel online distillation framework that improves drafter quality for speculative decoding, delivering up to 3.56x faster inference.

2026-11-05 ~ 2026-11-06 · 2 related posts

• Alibaba Qwen team's SpecOPD parallelizes on-policy distillation for faster speculative decoding — Qwen · 2026-11-05
• Qwen's SpecOPD: branch-parallel on-policy distillation speeds inference up to 3.56x — pmttyji · 2026-11-06