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9 papers in the last four weeks, up 80% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

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  1. HAWK: Rethinking Multimodal Drafting for Speculative Decoding

    Sep 30, 2026Wenhan Yang, Anirudh Rao, Ashwin ChandraDraftsSpeculative Decoding

    University of California, Los Angeles · Samsung Research America

  2. AS2^2D: Accelerating On-Demand Audio Understanding on Mobile Devices

    Sep 29, 2026Yunzhe Li, Kyoungjun Park, Hongzi Zhu +1Audio UnderstandingSpeculative Decoding

    The University of Texas at Austin · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  3. Asking for What Was Never Requested: Horizontal and Vertical Proactivity in Agents

    Sep 29, 2026Ido Levy, Asaf Yehudai, Segev Shlomov +2ProactiveDrafter

    IBM · Weizmann Institute of Science

  4. LongSpark: Efficient speculative decoding with a fixed-cost parallel drafter

    Sep 29, 2026Hao-Yuan He, Peng-Fei Liu, Si Shen +1Speculative DecodingBlock-Diffusion Drafter

  5. Draft in Parallel, Condition Through Depth: Adjacent Causal Injection for Speculative Decoding

    Sep 28, 2026Haohui Zhang, Keyu Chen, Haocheng Sun +4Speculative DecodingDrafter

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tencent YouTu Lab · Xiamen University

  6. Reciprocal Guidance: Orchestrating Draft and Verify Budgets for Advancing the Diffusion-AR Self-Speculation Frontier

    Sep 28, 2026Linye Wei, Shutian Zheng, Haoyu Zeng +1Block-Diffusion DrafterSpeculative Decoding

    Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University · School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University · College of Engineering, Peking University +2

  7. When Parallel Drafter Meets Parallel Speculative Decoding

    Sep 23, 2026Fuliang Liu, Xue Li, Kun Qian +4Speculative DecodingDrafter

    State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University · Alibaba Group

  8. GANDR: Claim Auditing for Verifiable Legal Answer Generation

    Sep 9, 2026Chen Qian, Yimeng Wang, Yu Chen +2Legal Reasoning TasksCategory-Aware Atomic Claims

    William & Mary · Anytime AI

  9. Osprey: Target-agnostic Pre-training Makes Stronger Drafters in Speculative Decoding

    Sep 8, 2026Fengxiang Bie, Yuqing Jian, Yifan Yu +7Speculative DecodingDrafts

    Together AI · The University of Sydney, Australia · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA +1

  10. Vision Is Not Overhead: One-Pass Block Drafting for Lossless Speculative Decoding in Vision-Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Jungseob Lee, Seongtae Hong, Dongyub Jude Lee +4Recent Vision-Language ModelsSpeculative Decoding

    Korea University · Zoom Communications · Soongsil University +2

  11. Ceiling-Clipped Acceptance Histograms Indicate Stranded Speed-up in Block-Diffusion Speculative Decoding

    Aug 31, 2026Ephrem WuBlock-Diffusion DrafterDrafter

    Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., USA

  12. Beyond Parallel Blindness: Information Floors and Model Gaps in Block Drafting

    Aug 27, 2026Xinwei Qiang, Xiang Fang, Chang Chen +2DrafterDrafts

    University of California San Diego

  13. LiLiCorr: Lightweight Likelihood Correlation of Parallel Drafts for Speculative Decoding

    Aug 20, 2026Matan Rusanovsky, Yoav Miron, Roy Uziel +5Speculative DecodingDrafter

    NVIDIA

  14. Decoupled Contrastive Decoding via Expert-Aligned Drafting

    Aug 13, 2026Zhixuan Liu, Zhichen Dong, Yuanfu Wang +1Contrastive DecodingDrafter

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  15. DBLAST: Dependent Block Drafting for Stochastic Speculative Decoding

    Aug 5, 2026Amirmohammad Karimi, Chao Gao, Negar HassanpourSpeculative DecodingBlock-Diffusion Drafter

    Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.

  16. Oilbird: Training-Free Speculative Decoding with Keys the Verifier Already Computes

    Aug 4, 2026Tao Jin, Phuong Minh Nguyen, Zhenzhu Yan +2Speculative DecodingDrafter

    1Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) · 2Tohoku University

  17. FeatFix: Reuse What You Verify through Local Exact-Feature Correction for Faster Cached Diffusion Inference

    Jul 30, 2026Hanshuai Cui, Zhiqing Tang, Zhi Yao +3DrafterCorrection

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China · Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Future Networks, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China

  18. D-cut: Adaptive Verification Depth Pruning for Batched Speculative Decoding

    Jul 16, 2026Tianyu Liu, Yuhao Shen, Rui Cen +7Speculative DecodingDrafter

    1Tencent · 2Independent Researcher

  19. TIGER: Text-Conditioned Visual Gated Routing with Acceptance Alignment for Multimodal Speculative Decoding

    Jul 13, 2026Quynh Vo, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Ponhvoan Srey +2Speculative DecodingUnimodal Encoders

    National University of Singapore · Nanyang Technological University · Center of AI Research, VinUniversity

  20. DeLS-Spec: Decoupled Long-Short Contexts for Parallel Speculative Drafting

    Jul 8, 2026Hong-Kai Zheng, Piji LiSpeculative DecodingDrafter

    College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China · MIIT Key Laboratory of Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Nanjing, China · The Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence Technology, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China

  21. Trees from Marginals: Autoregressive drafting with factorized priors

    Jul 7, 2026Yuma Oda, Ryan Mathieu, Roman Knyazhitskiy +1Autoregressive DecodingDrafts

    Artur Chakhvadze1

  22. Quantize the Target, Quantize the Drafter: Efficient Inference with Qwen3.5-4B

    Jul 5, 2026Jaeyeon Kim, Jewon Lee, Bo-Kyeong KimLLM Inference OptimizationQwen3

    Nota Inc.

  23. Spec-AUF: Accept-Until-Fail Training under Train-Inference Misalignment for Masked Block Drafters

    Jul 2, 2026Tianjian Yang, Meng LiDrafterSpeculative Decoding

    School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Integrated Circuits, Peking University, Beijing, China

  24. An Interpretable Latency Model for Speculative Decoding in LLM Serving

    May 14, 2026Linghao Kong, Megan Flynn, Michael Peng +3Large Language Model ServingSpeculative Decoding

    MIT · Red Hat AI

  25. Mistletoe: Stealthy Acceleration-Collapse Attacks on Speculative Decoding

    May 13, 2026Shuoyang Sun, Chang Dai, Hao Fang +6Speculative DecodingDecoding

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · South China University of Technology · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University +1

  26. D-PACE: Dynamic Position-Aware Cross-Entropy for Parallel Speculative Drafting

    May 12, 2026Tianyu Wu, Yu Yao, Zhenting Qi +7Block-Diffusion DrafterDrafter

    1Harvard · 2MIT

  27. Attention Drift: What Autoregressive Speculative Decoding Models Learn

    May 11, 2026Doğaç Eldenk, Payal Mohapatra, Yigitcan Comlek +3Speculative DecodingDrafter

    Northwestern University · GE Aerospace · fal +1

  28. SpecBlock: Block-Iterative Speculative Decoding with Dynamic Tree Drafting

    May 8, 2026Weijie Shi, Qiang Xu, Fan Deng +9Speculative DecodingDrafter

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · MetaX · Zhejiang Normal University +1

  29. Making Every Verified Token Count: Adaptive Verification for MoE Speculative Decoding

    May 1, 2026Lehan Pan, Ziyang Tao, Ruoyu Pang +3Speculative DecodingAutoregressive Decoding

    University of Science and Technology of China · Tianyijiaotong Technology Ltd., Suzhou, China