DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]

	DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf](github.com)
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	HN Discussion: ↑Praise for DeepSeek's openness and innovation compared to American/Western labs ↑Positive user experience reports with DeepSeek models in practice ↑Speculation that this technique explains DeepSeek's dramatically lower pricing ~Questioning novelty given prior speculative decoding work from 2022 •Forward-looking prediction about proliferation of specialized small models for speculative decoding