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Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference by 2-3× without quality loss. A small draft model generates multiple candidate tokens, which a larger target model verifies in parallel during a single forward pass. The technique addresses memory bandwidth bottlenecks in autoregressive generation by reducing sequential operations. Implementation uses Hugging Face Transformers with paired models (like Gemma 2B/7B). Works best for input-grounded tasks like translation and summarization with greedy/low-temperature sampling. Effectiveness depends on draft model quality and acceptance rate—requires same tokenizer, 10× fewer parameters, and similar training data.

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