Depth-wise predecessor conditioning makes parallel speculative drafts more consistent

DSpine passes predicted features between adjacent draft positions throughout the network, increasing accepted draft length and serving throughput.

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Haohui Zhang · Keyu Chen · Haocheng Sun · Weibo Gu · Ruizhi Qiao · Xing Sun · +1 more

Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tencent YouTu Lab · Xiamen University

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The authors first analyzed DFlash, a parallel drafter that predicts a block of tokens in one backbone pass.

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From Tencent YouTu Lab and 2 others

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DSpine injects causal conditioning at every layer, increasing acceptance length by 27.8% and throughput by 23.3% over DFlash.

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