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@misc{leviathan2023fastinferencetransformersspeculative,
      title={Fast Inference from Transformers via Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Yaniv Leviathan and Matan Kalman and Yossi Matias},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2211.17192},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.17192}, 
}

@misc{chen2023acceleratinglargelanguagemodel,
      title={Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling}, 
      author={Charlie Chen and Sebastian Borgeaud and Geoffrey Irving and Jean-Baptiste Lespiau and Laurent Sifre and John Jumper},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2302.01318},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01318}, 
}

@misc{miao2024specinferacceleratinggenerativelarge,
      title={SpecInfer: Accelerating Generative Large Language Model Serving with Tree-based Speculative Inference and Verification}, 
      author={Xupeng Miao and Gabriele Oliaro and Zhihao Zhang and Xinhao Cheng and Zeyu Wang and Zhengxin Zhang and Rae Ying Yee Wong and Alan Zhu and Lijie Yang and Xiaoxiang Shi and Chunan Shi and Zhuoming Chen and Daiyaan Arfeen and Reyna Abhyankar and Zhihao Jia},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2305.09781},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      doi={https://doi.org/10.1145/3620666.3651335},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09781}, 
}

@misc{cai2024medusasimplellminference,
      title={Medusa: Simple LLM Inference Acceleration Framework with Multiple Decoding Heads}, 
      author={Tianle Cai and Yuhong Li and Zhengyang Geng and Hongwu Peng and Jason D. Lee and Deming Chen and Tri Dao},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2401.10774},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10774}, 
}

@misc{li2025eaglespeculativesamplingrequires,
      title={EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty}, 
      author={Yuhui Li and Fangyun Wei and Chao Zhang and Hongyang Zhang},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2401.15077},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15077}, 
}

@misc{li2024eagle2fasterinferencelanguage,
      title={EAGLE-2: Faster Inference of Language Models with Dynamic Draft Trees}, 
      author={Yuhui Li and Fangyun Wei and Chao Zhang and Hongyang Zhang},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2406.16858},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16858}, 
}

@misc{elhoushi2024layerskipenablingearlyexit,
      title={LayerSkip: Enabling Early Exit Inference and Self-Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Mostafa Elhoushi and Akshat Shrivastava and Diana Liskovich and Basil Hosmer and Bram Wasti and Liangzhen Lai and Anas Mahmoud and Bilge Acun and Saurabh Agarwal and Ahmed Roman and Ahmed A Aly and Beidi Chen and Carole-Jean Wu},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2404.16710},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      doi={https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.681},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16710}, 
}

@misc{svirschevski2024specexecmassivelyparallelspeculative,
      title={SpecExec: Massively Parallel Speculative Decoding for Interactive LLM Inference on Consumer Devices}, 
      author={Ruslan Svirschevski and Avner May and Zhuoming Chen and Beidi Chen and Zhihao Jia and Max Ryabinin},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2406.02532},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02532}, 
}

@misc{xia2024unlockingefficiencylargelanguage,
      title={Unlocking Efficiency in Large Language Model Inference: A Comprehensive Survey of Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Heming Xia and Zhe Yang and Qingxiu Dong and Peiyi Wang and Yongqi Li and Tao Ge and Tianyu Liu and Wenjie Li and Zhifang Sui},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2401.07851},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07851}, 
}

@misc{cheng2024recurrentdrafterfastspeculative,
      title={Recurrent Drafter for Fast Speculative Decoding in Large Language Models}, 
      author={Yunfei Cheng and Aonan Zhang and Xuanyu Zhang and Chong Wang and Yi Wang},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2403.09919},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09919}, 
}

@misc{xiao2024parallelspecparalleldrafterefficient,
      title={ParallelSpec: Parallel Drafter for Efficient Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Zilin Xiao and Hongming Zhang and Tao Ge and Siru Ouyang and Vicente Ordonez and Dong Yu},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2410.05589},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05589}, 
}

@misc{xiao2024clover2accurateinferenceregressive,
      title={Clover-2: Accurate Inference for Regressive Lightweight Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Bin Xiao and Lujun Gui and Lei Su and Weipeng Chen},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2408.00264},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00264}, 
}

@misc{oliaro2025suffixdecodingextremespeculativedecoding,
      title={SuffixDecoding: Extreme Speculative Decoding for Emerging AI Applications}, 
      author={Gabriele Oliaro and Zhihao Jia and Daniel Campos and Aurick Qiao},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2411.04975},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04975}, 
}

@misc{li2025eagle3scalinginferenceacceleration,
      title={EAGLE-3: Scaling up Inference Acceleration of Large Language Models via Training-Time Test}, 
      author={Yuhui Li and Fangyun Wei and Chao Zhang and Hongyang Zhang},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2503.01840},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01840}, 
}

@misc{timor2025acceleratingllminferencelossless,
      title={Accelerating LLM Inference with Lossless Speculative Decoding Algorithms for Heterogeneous Vocabularies}, 
      author={Nadav Timor and Jonathan Mamou and Daniel Korat and Moshe Berchansky and Gaurav Jain and Oren Pereg and Moshe Wasserblat and David Harel},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2502.05202},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05202}, 
}

@misc{zhong2026crossattentionspeculativedecoding,
      title={Cross-Attention Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Wei Zhong and Manasa Bharadwaj and Yixiao Wang and Yipeng Ji and Chul Lee},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2505.24544},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24544}, 
}

@misc{ramakrishnan2025omnidraftcrossvocabularyonlineadaptive,
      title={OmniDraft: A Cross-vocabulary, Online Adaptive Drafter for On-device Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Ramchalam Kinattinkara Ramakrishnan and Zhaocong Yuan and Shaojie Zhuo and Chen Feng and Yicheng Lin and Chenzheng Su and Xiaopeng Zhang},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2507.02659},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02659}, 
}

@misc{zhao2025qspecspeculativedecodingcomplementary,
      title={QSpec: Speculative Decoding with Complementary Quantization Schemes}, 
      author={Juntao Zhao and Wenhao Lu and Sheng Wang and Lingpeng Kong and Chuan Wu},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2410.11305},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11305}, 
}

@misc{zhang2025speculativedecodingmeetsquantization,
      title={Speculative Decoding Meets Quantization: Compatibility Evaluation and Hierarchical Framework Design}, 
      author={Yudi Zhang and Weilin Zhao and Xu Han and Tiejun Zhao and Wang Xu and Hailong Cao and Conghui Zhu},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2505.22179},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22179}, 
}

@misc{georganas2025mlspecqdmultilevelspeculativedecoding,
      title={ML-SpecQD: Multi-Level Speculative Decoding with Quantized Drafts}, 
      author={Evangelos Georganas and Dhiraj Kalamkar and Alexander Kozlov and Alexander Heinecke},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2503.13565},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13565}, 
}

@misc{chen2026dflashblockdiffusionflash,
      title={DFlash: Block Diffusion for Flash Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Jian Chen and Yesheng Liang and Zhijian Liu},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2602.06036},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06036}, 
}

@misc{cheng2026dsparkconfidencescheduledspeculativedecoding,
      title={DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generation}, 
      author={Xin Cheng and Xingkai Yu and Chenze Shao and Jiashi Li and Yunfan Xiong and Yi Qian and Jiaqi Zhu and Shirong Ma and Xiaokang Zhang and Jiasheng Ye and Qinyu Chen and Chengqi Deng and Jiping Yu and Damai Dai and Zhengyan Zhang and Yixuan Wei and Yixuan Tan and Wenkai Yang and Runxin Xu and Yu Wu and Zhean Xu and Xuanyu Wang and Muyang Chen and Rui Tian and Xiao Bi and Zhewen Hao and Shaoyuan Chen and Huanqi Cao and Wentao Zhang and Anyi Xu and Huishuai Zhang and Dongyan Zhao and Wenfeng Liang},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2607.05147},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.AI},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05147}, 
}

@misc{ringel2026acceleratingspeculativedecodingblock,
      title={Accelerating Speculative Decoding with Block Diffusion Draft Trees}, 
      author={Liran Ringel and Yaniv Romano},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2604.12989},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12989}, 
}

@misc{zhang2026d2sdacceleratingspeculativedecoding,
      title={D$^2$SD: Accelerating Speculative Decoding with Dual Diffusion Draft Models}, 
      author={Liyuan Zhang and Jiarui Zhang and Jinwei Yao and Ran Yan and Yuchen Yang and Jiahao Zhang and Tongkai Yang and Yi Wu and Binhang Yuan},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2606.04446},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.DC},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04446}, 
}

@misc{li2026specforgeflexibleefficientopensource,
      title={SpecForge: A Flexible and Efficient Open-Source Training Framework for Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Shenggui Li and Chao Wang and Yikai Zhu and Yubo Wang and Fan Yin and Shuai Shi and Yefei Chen and Xiaomin Dong and Qiaoling Chen and Jin Pan and Ji Li and Laixin Xie and Yineng Zhang and Lei Yu and Yonggang Wen and Ivor Tsang and Tianwei Zhang},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2603.18567},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18567}, 
}

@misc{kumar2026speculativespeculativedecoding,
      title={Speculative Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Tanishq Kumar and Tri Dao and Avner May},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2603.03251},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03251}, 
}

@misc{li2025diffuspecunlockingdiffusionlanguage,
      title={DiffuSpec: Unlocking Diffusion Language Models for Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Guanghao Li and Zhihui Fu and Min Fang and Qibin Zhao and Ming Tang and Chun Yuan and Jun Wang},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2510.02358},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02358}, 
}

@misc{mahmoud2026acceptancedynamicscognitivedomains,
      title={Acceptance Dynamics Across Cognitive Domains in Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Saif Mahmoud},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2604.14682},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.AI},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.14682}, 
}

@misc{li2026empiricalstudyspeculativedecoding,
      title={An Empirical Study of Speculative Decoding on Software Engineering Tasks}, 
      author={Yijia Li and Junkai Chen and Xing Hu and Xin Xia},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2604.26469},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.SE},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26469}, 
}

@misc{fonal2026crossfamilyspeculativedecodingpolish,
      title={Cross-Family Speculative Decoding for Polish Language Models on Apple~Silicon: An Empirical Evaluation of Bielik~11B with UAG-Extended MLX-LM}, 
      author={Krzysztof Fonal},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2604.16368},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16368}, 
}

@misc{deepseekai2026deepseekv4highlyefficientmilliontoken,
      title={DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence}, 
      author={DeepSeek-AI and Anyi Xu and Bangcai Lin and Bing Xue and Bingxuan Wang and Bingzheng Xu and Bochao Wu and Bowei Zhang and Chaofan Lin and Chen Dong and Chenchen Ling and Chengda Lu and Chenggang Zhao and Chengqi Deng and Chengyu Hou and Chenhao Xu and Chenze Shao and Chong Ruan and Conner Sun and Damai Dai and Daya Guo and Dejian Yang and Deli Chen and Donghao Li and Dongjie Ji and Erhang Li and Fang Wei and Fangyun Lin and Fangzhou Yuan and Feiyu Xia and Fucong Dai and Guangbo Hao and Guanting Chen and Guoai Cao and Guolai Meng and Guowei Li and Han Yu and Han Zhang and Hanwei Xu and Hao Li and Haofen Liang and Haoling Zhang and Haoming Luo and Haoran Wei and Haotian Yuan and Haowei Zhang and Haowen Luo and Haoyu Chen and Haozhe Ji and Hengqing Zhang and Honghui Ding and Hongxuan Tang and Huanqi Cao and Huazuo Gao and Hui Qu and Hui Zeng and J Yang and JQ Zhu and Jia Luo and Jia Song and Jia Yu and Jialiang Huang and Jialu Cai and Jian Liang and Jiangting Zhou and Jiasheng Ye and Jiashi Li and Jiaxin Xu and Jiewen Hu and Jieyu Yang and Jin Chen and Jin Yan and Jingchang Chen and Jingli Zhou and Jingting Xiang and Jingyang Yuan and Jingyuan Cheng and Jingzi Zhou and Jinhua Zhu and Jiping Yu and Joseph Sun and Jun Ran and Junguang Jiang and Junjie Qiu and Junlong Li and Junmin Zheng and Junxiao Song and Kai Dong and Kaige Gao and Kang Guan and Kexing Zhou and Kezhao Huang and Kuai Yu and Lean Wang and Lecong Zhang and Lei Wang and Leyi Xia and Li Zhang and Liang Zhao and Lihua Guo and Lingxiao Luo and Linwang Ma and Linyan Zhu and Litong Wang and Liyu Cai and Liyue Zhang and Longhao Chen and MS Di and MY Xu and Max Mei and Miaojun Wang and Mingchuan Zhang and Minghua Zhang and Minghui Tang and Mingming Li and Mingxu Zhou and Minmin Han and Ning Wang and Panpan Huang and Panpan Wang and Peixin Cong and Peiyi Wang and Peng Zhang and Qiancheng Wang and Qihao Zhu and Qingyang Li and Qinyu Chen and Qiushi Du and Qiwei Jiang and Rui Tian and Ruifan Xu and Ruijie Lu and Ruiling Xu and Ruiqi Ge and Ruisong Zhang and Ruizhe Pan and Runji Wang and Runqian Chen and Runqiu Yin and Runxin Xu and Ruomeng Shen and Ruoyu Zhang and Ruyi Chen and SH Liu and Shanghao Lu and Shangmian Sun and Shangyan Zhou and Shanhuang Chen and Shaofei Cai and Shaoheng Nie and Shaoqing Wu and Shaoyuan Chen and Shengding Hu and Shengyu Liu and Shiqiang Hu and Shirong Ma and Shiyu Wang and Shuiping Yu and Shunfeng Zhou and Shuting Pan and Shuying Yu and Songyang Zhou and Tao Ni and Tao Yun and Tian Jin and Tian Pei and Tian Ye and Tianle Lin and Tianran Ji and Tianyi Cui and Tianyuan Yue and Tingting Yu and Tun Wang and W Zhang and WL Xiao and Wangding Zeng and Wei An and Weilin Zhao and Wen Liu and Wenfeng Liang and Wenjie Pang and Wenjing Luo and Wenjing Yao and Wenjun Gao and Wenkai Yang and Wenlve Huang and Wenqing Hou and Wentao Zhang and Wenting Ma and Xi Gao and Xiang He and Xiangwen Wang and Xianzu Wang and Xiao Bi and Xiaodong Liu and Xiaohan Wang and Xiaokang Chen and Xiaokang Zhang and Xiaotao Nie and Xiaowen Sun and Xiaoxiang Wang and Xin Cheng and Xin Liu and Xin Xie and Xingchao Liu and Xingchen Liu and Xingkai Yu and Xingyou Li and Xinyu Yang and Xinyu Zhang and Xu Chen and Xuanyu Wang and Xuecheng Su and Xueyin Chen and Xuheng Lin and Xuwei Fu and YC Yan and YQ Wang and YW Ma and Yanfeng Luo and Yang Zhang and Yanhong Xu and Yanru Ma and Yanwen Huang and Yao Li and Yao Li and Yao Xu and Yao Zhao and Yaofeng Sun and Yaohui Wang and Yi Qian and Yi Shao and Yi Yu and Yichao Zhang and Yifan Ding and Yifan Shi and Yijia Wu and Yiliang Xiong and Yiling Ma and Ying He and Ying Tang and Ying Zhou and Yingjia Luo and Yinmin Zhong and Yishi Piao and Yisong Wang and Yixiang Zhang and Yixiao Chen and Yixuan Tan and Yixuan Wei and Yiyang Ma and Yiyuan Liu and Yonglun Yang and Yongqiang Guo and Yongtong Wu and Yu Wu and YuKun Li and Yuan Cheng and Yuan Ou and Yuanfan Xu and Yuanhao Li and Yuduan Wang and Yuehan Yang and Yuer Xu and Yuhan Wu and Yuhao Meng and Yuheng Zou and Yukun Zha and Yunfan Xiong and Yupeng Chen and Yuping Lin and Yuqian Cao and Yuqian Wang and Yushun Zhang and Yuting Yan and Yutong Lin and Yuxian Gu and Yuxiang Luo and Yuxiang You and Yuxuan Liu and Yuxuan Zhou and Yuyang Zhou and Yuzhen Huang and ZF Wu and Zehao Wang and Zehua Zhao and Zehui Ren and Zekai Zhang and Zhangli Sha and Zhe Fu and Zhe Ju and Zhean Xu and Zhenda Xie and Zhengyan Zhang and Zheren Gao and Zhewen Hao and Zhibin Gou and Zhicheng Ma and Zhigang Yan and Zhihong Shao and Zhixian Huang and Zhixuan Chen and Zhiyu Wu and Zhizhou Ren and Zhongyu Wu and Zhuoshu Li and Zhuping Zhang and Zian Xu and Zihao Wang and Zihua Qu and Zihui Gu and Zijia Zhu and Zilin Li and Zipeng Zhang and Ziwei Xie and Ziyi Gao and Ziyi Wan and Zizheng Pan and Zongqing Yao},
      year={2026},
      eprint={2606.19348},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19348}, 
}

@misc{lookahead2024,
      title={Break the Sequential Dependency of LLM Inference Using Lookahead Decoding}, 
      author={Yichao Fu and Peter Bailis and Ion Stoica and Hao Zhang},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2402.02057},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.LG},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02057}, 
}

@misc{draftverify2024,
      title={Draft \& Verify: Lossless Large Language Model Acceleration via Self-Speculative Decoding}, 
      author={Jun Zhang and Jue Wang and Huan Li and Lidan Shou and Ke Chen and Gang Chen and Sharad Mehrotra},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2309.08168},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      doi={https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.acl-long.607},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08168}, 
}

@inproceedings{decoding-sd2025-naacl,
  title = {Decoding Speculative Decoding},
  author = {Leviathan, Yaniv and Deletang, Matthieu and Ruiz, Francisco J. R. and Vlaski, Stefan and Aydin, Gamze and Kramar, J{'o}zef and Osin, Tomer and Jaffe, Itamar and Afek, Matan and Sela, Tomer and Berman, Roi and Pekilis, Ran and Veselovsky, Ilia and Choshen, Leshem and Matias, Yossi and Glorioso, Paolo},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.328.pdf}
}

@inproceedings{empirical-sd-small-lm2026-eacl,
  title = {An Empirical Study of Speculative Decoding for Small Language Models},
  author = {Mainardi, Luca and Sandikci, Selcuk and Vanschoren, Joaquin},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)},
  year = {2026},
  pages = {5483--5497},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  doi = {10.18653/v1/2026.eacl-long.255},
  url = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.255/}
}

@inproceedings{steering-drafters2026-aaai,
  title = {Steering Pretrained Drafters During Speculative Decoding},
  author = {Berdoz, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Rheinboldt, Peer and Wattenhofer, Roger},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {40},
  number = {36},
  pages = {30067--30075},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1609/aaai.v40i36.40255},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/40255}
}