Liquid AI releases DSpark draft models, boosting inference speed by up to 3.18x
JosephJacks_ · x · 2026-08-21
Liquid AI released DSpark draft models for the LFM2.5 family, utilizing speculative decoding to trade minimal memory increases for significant speedups without compromising output quality.
- Mechanism: A lightweight draft model proposes candidate token blocks, verified by the target model in a single forward pass.
- Benchmarks: LFM2.5-8B-A1B achieved a 3.18x throughput increase on H100 (428 → 1362 tok/s) on MATH500. On M4 Max, the 1.2B model saw a 2.87x boost on HumanEval.
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