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TIGER framework accelerates multimodal speculative decoding for VLMs

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Researchers have developed TIGER, a novel framework for multimodal speculative decoding designed to accelerate the generation process in vision-language models (VLMs). Unlike previous methods, TIGER dynamically selects relevant visual tokens based on the text's current state, rather than using a fixed compressed interface. This approach optimizes the drafter model using acceptance-aligned policy training, encouraging it to produce continuations that are more likely to be accepted by the larger target model. Experiments demonstrate that TIGER improves accepted prefix length and speculative speedup while maintaining comparable downstream accuracy. AI

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TIGER framework accelerates multimodal speculative decoding for VLMs

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Quynh Vo, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Ponhvoan Srey, Luu Anh Tuan, Thong Nguyen ·

    TIGER: Text-Conditioned Visual Gated Routing with Acceptance Alignment for Multimodal Speculative Decoding

    arXiv:2607.11131v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive generation by letting a lightweight drafter propose multiple tokens that are verified by a larger target model. Although effective for text-only LLMs, speculative decoding yields limit…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Thong Nguyen ·

    TIGER: Text-Conditioned Visual Gated Routing with Acceptance Alignment for Multimodal Speculative Decoding

    Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive generation by letting a lightweight drafter propose multiple tokens that are verified by a larger target model. Although effective for text-only LLMs, speculative decoding yields limited gains in VLMs because drafters often diverge …

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