Width vs. Depth: Speculating on the Margin

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speculative decodinglarge language modelswidth vs depthconfidence gatingthroughput optimization

Author: somnial

Date: 7/2/2026

Article Summary:
The article discusses the benefits of speculative decoding in large language models, specifically the trade-off between width (batching multiple sequences) and depth (speculating on a single sequence), and proposes a confidence-gated speculation approach to optimize throughput.