Draft acceptance determines the benefit

The benefit depends partly on how often the target accepts the draft and how expensive the draft is to generate. If the draft frequently disagrees, coordination can reduce the expected speed benefit.

Compare the same target and sampling settings

An original serving test should compare the same target model and sampling settings with and without speculation. Check throughput, latency, and whether the implementation preserves the intended behavior.

THE TAKEAWAY

What to remember

Keep target sampling settings comparable.

Sources & further reading

  1. Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding ↗
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