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2026-06-28
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large-language-models
Lossless, But Not Free: The Lossless, But Not Free — When Speculative Decoding Actually Pays Off (and When It Doesn't)
An engineer analyzed speculative decoding for LLM inference acceleration, finding that while it offers lossless quality by mathematically matching autoregressive output, its speedup depends on accepta…