NVIDIA lays out five practical guidelines for speculative decoding to speed up LLM inference
NVIDIAAI · x · 2026-09-05
NVIDIA explains how speculative decoding speeds up LLM inference without sacrificing accuracy.
- A draft model proposes tokens and the target model verifies them, boosting throughput while preserving the output distribution.
- The key lever is choosing draft length and drafting method based on your model, workload and hardware.
- The post breaks down five practical guidelines for balancing throughput vs latency.
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