speculative-decoding-inference-optimization

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Speculative decoding and PagedAttention are key inference optimization techniques for LLMs

Summary

These two techniques tackle the two biggest costs in running large language models: slow token-by-token generation and wasted memory. In practice, they translate to lower latency, higher throughput, and cheaper serving, which is what ultimately determines whether an LLM deployment is viable at scale.