It explains how a drafter proposes multiple tokens for a target model to verify in one pass, and how acceptance rules preserve the target distribution during sampling. The article also surveys attached drafters including EAGLE-3, multi-token prediction, DFlash, and DSpark. It presents a conceptual and architectural account, not a new benchmark or a claim that every deployment will see a particular speedup.
Raw SignalOct 12, 20261 min read1 source
What is Speculative Decoding? (70 minute read)
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AstraBlog published a long technical explainer by Aleksandr Samarin on speculative decoding, framing it as a response to memory-bound autoregressive generation.