Looped diffusion drafting improves decoding without extra model components

D-Loop revises parallel token proposals using a shared drafter, reducing repetition and extending the drafts accepted by larger language models.

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Kecheng Chen · Yuyang He · Cheng Gong · Hui Liu · Guoping Long · Jiajun Li · +5 more

City University of Hong Kong · The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Huawei Research

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The authors studied speculative decoding, in which a lightweight model drafts several tokens and a larger target model verifies them together.

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D-Loop adds intra-block causal conditioning to diffusion drafting, improving acceptance length and decoding speed without extra model components.

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