The Economics of Speculative Decoding

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Author: kkm

Date: 6/8/2026

Article Summary:
The article discusses the economics of speculative decoding in inference optimization, specifically how two architectural shifts in mixture-of-experts routing and compressed attention affect the performance of speculative decoding.