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New DeLS-Spec method accelerates LLM inference with decoupled contexts

Researchers have introduced DeLS-Spec, a novel method for accelerating large language model inference through decoupled long-short context speculative decoding. This approach uses a fixed long-context expert, DFlash, and a lightweight, independently trainable short-context expert. DeLS-Spec offers significantly lower training costs and greater modularity compared to previous methods like Domino and DSpark, which require training from scratch. Experiments on Qwen3 models demonstrate that DeLS-Spec enhances speedup and average acceptance length across various benchmarks. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Hong-Kai Zheng, Piji Li ·

    DeLS-Spec: Decoupled Long-Short Contexts for Parallel Speculative Drafting

    arXiv:2607.07409v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference by drafting multiple tokens and verifying them in parallel. Block-parallel drafters such as DFlash further improve drafting efficiency by predicting an entire block in one pass, but the…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Piji Li ·

    DeLS-Spec: Decoupled Long-Short Contexts for Parallel Speculative Drafting

    Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference by drafting multiple tokens and verifying them in parallel. Block-parallel drafters such as DFlash further improve drafting efficiency by predicting an entire block in one pass, but their position-wise predictions lack explicit intra…