vLLM Benchmarks 5 Speculative Decoding Methods: MTP, EAGLE-3 and More — No Universal Winner

gordic_aleksa · x · 2026-08-30

The vLLM team published a new blog comparing MTP, EAGLE-3, DFlash, and DSpark among five speculative decoding methods. The key takeaway: there is no universal winner — the best choice varies with the model, workload, and speculation depth.

The post breaks down how the 5 methods work, how to enable and tune them in vLLM, and benchmarks them across Gemma, Qwen, Kimi and MiniMax on AMD Instinct MI300X and MI355X.

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