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A visual breakdown of speculative decoding, one of the cleverest inference optimization techniques in modern AI. Covers autoregressive decoding bottlenecks, draft-verify cycles, parallel verification, and the three key parameters that determine speedup: speed ratio, acceptance rate, and verification time.
First published cut.