Explainer: Speculative Decoding Speeds Up LLM Inference by ~100%
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-09-09
A shared explainer introduces Speculative Decoding, claiming it speeds up LLM inference by roughly 100%, with reference links from OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Gemini, plus an AI Engineering website. The technique uses a small draft model with a large verifier model to accelerate generation.
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