Speculative Decoding: The Easiest Way to Speed Up LLMs

FriendliAI · Beginner ·🧠 Large Language Models ·1mo ago
N-gram speculative decoding is how you can instantly speed up your AI inference. In this video, we break down N-Gram Speculative Decoding — one of the simplest and most effective tricks to speed up large language model inference without adding extra parameters or needing a bigger GPU. If you're building with LLMs, inference speed is everything. Slow generation means bad user experience, higher costs, and wasted compute. N-Gram Speculative Decoding uses simple pattern matching to predict multiple tokens at once, letting your model skip ahead instead of generating one token at a time. If y…
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