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Speculative decoding speeds up a big model by drafting tokens with a smaller one. What happens to the output?

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  1. It gets slightly worse
  2. It becomes the small model's output
  3. It stays exactly the same

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References

  1. Leviathan, Kalman and Matias, Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding (arXiv 2211.17192) arxiv.org/abs/2211.17192 Checked 2026-10-10.

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