Parallel Speculative Sampling
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Amazon researchers propose a parallel variant of speculative sampling that achieves significant LLM inference speedups with minimal extra parameters.
Parallel decoding: Combines speculative sampling with parallel decoding so multiple tokens can be generated and verified in a single pass.
Tiny overhead: Requires learning only O(d_emb) additional parameters, far fewer than typical speculative-decoding draft models.
Up to 30% speedup: Achieves up to 30% end-to-end inference speedup without compromising output quality.
Minimal integration cost: Unlike separate-draft-model speculative decoding, this fits inside the main model with essentially no deployment overhead.
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