{"slug": "how-lossless-is-lossless-speculative-decoding-the-role-of-numerical-precision-in", "title": "How Lossless Is Lossless Speculative Decoding? The Role of Numerical Precision in Orthrus", "summary": "Orthrus, a hybrid autoregressive-diffusion architecture for accelerating autoregressive language-model inference, claims its intra-model consensus mechanism enables lossless speculative decoding, according to the source. The source examines how numerical precision affects whether that losslessness claim holds in practice.", "body_md": "Orthrus is a hybrid autoregressive-diffusion architecture that accelerates autoregressive language-model inference by generating multiple tokens in parallel while using a frozen autoregressive backbone. Its central claim is that an intra-model consensus mechanism enables lossless speculative decodin", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-lossless-is-lossless-speculative-decoding-the-role-of-numerical-precision-in", "canonical_source": "https://aiflash.com/news/119973/", "published_at": "2026-09-15 11:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-15 11:41:38.841263+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-research", "machine-learning", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Orthrus"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-lossless-is-lossless-speculative-decoding-the-role-of-numerical-precision-in", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-lossless-is-lossless-speculative-decoding-the-role-of-numerical-precision-in.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-lossless-is-lossless-speculative-decoding-the-role-of-numerical-precision-in.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-lossless-is-lossless-speculative-decoding-the-role-of-numerical-precision-in.jsonld"}}