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Speed Up LLM Inference with DSpark Speculative Decoding

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DeepSeek's DSpark enhances speculative decoding for large language models by combining parallel drafting with a lightweight sequential component, improving generation speed without extra GPUs. Testing with Qwen3-8B and llama.cpp shows DSpark can boost inference speed significantly by better estimating token confidence and reducing verification compute.

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