Speculative Decoding: Verify the Draft

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Unit 12 · LLMs & Tokenization0/2 to milestone

Speculative decoding speeds up LLM inference: a small draft model guesses the next kk tokens cheaply, then the big target model checks all of them in a single forward pass.

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How LLMs Work· 18 of 19
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