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Abstract:Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference by drafting several tokens and verifying them in parallel. Block-diffusion drafters such as DFlash produce
a draft block in one pass but model only per-position marginals; best-first tree methods such as DDTree expand candidate trees from those marginals. The
released Domino drafter adds a GRU-based causal correction that makes each draft token's distribution path-dependent, a structure DDTree's factorized
formulation cannot represent. We introduce DominoTree, a training-free best-first draft tree scored by Domino's conditional, non-factorized correction
along each root-to-node path, made practical by restricting the per-node correction to a candidate top-M. On Qwen3-4B across eight benchmarks, DominoTree
reaches up to 6.6x speedup over autoregressive decoding and the highest mean accept length of any evaluated method, up to 10.7 tokens per round, at every
temperature we test. DominoTree constructs its tree with a GPU-native, CUDA-graph builder that is bit-identical to a reference Python implementation, so
acceptance is unchanged, while keeping per-round tree construction cheap. With this builder as default, DominoTree wins throughput over the released
Domino decoder at every temperature, 9-10% overall on Qwen3-4B and up to +22% on Alpaca, and over DDTree/CaDDTree at every temperature we test. On Qwen3-
8B, DominoTree keeps the highest accepted length at every temperature and adds a decisive throughput win at T=0, +24% over DDTree; at higher temperature
that edge over DDTree/CaDDTree narrows to a tie and a small loss, while its Overall aggregate wins over DFlash and Domino persist.
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