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Sequential Monte Carlo speculative decoding from Makora keeps multiple draft tokens alive in parallel instead of rewinding failed matches.

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Speculative decoding speeds up generation from LLMs significantly by computing several potential tokens in parallel. Learn about this technique and how it has been utilized to achieve 2–3x speed-ups at inference:
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The example below is using prompt-based speculative decoding. Specifically, ngram hashing is utilized to suggest drafts of up to 64 tokens. The hasher keeps track of ngrams in the observed contexts, so mostly effective for coding tasks. Here is another demo:
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