EP5: Speculative Decoding with Nadav Timor

16/09/2025 1h 2min Temporada 1 Episodio 5

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We discussed the inference optimization technique known as Speculative Decoding with a world class researcher, expert, and ex-coworker of the podcast hosts: Nadav Timor.Papers and links:Accelerating LLM Inference with Lossless Speculative Decoding Algorithms for Heterogeneous Vocabularies, Timor et al, ICML 2025, https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05202Distributed Speculative Inference (DSI): Speculation Parallelism for Provably Faster Lossless Language Model Inference, Timor et al, ICLR, 2025, https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14105Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding, Leviathan et al, 2022, https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05202FindPDFs - https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/finepdfs