Speculative Decoding: Theory and Implementation

Expert guide to speculative decoding for accelerating LLM inference: draft model selection, acceptance rates, rejection sampling, tree-based speculation… From the article "Speculative Decoding: Theory and Implementation" by Synor, published on Misar.Blog. Visit the original article: https://www.misar.blog/@synor/articles/speculative-decoding-implementation 🎧 Read the full article: https://www.misar.blog/@synor/articles/speculative-decoding-implementation More from Synor: https://www.misar.blog/@synor More episodes: Tokenized Money Market Funds vs Stablecoins: On-Chain Cash Best PSU for a Used RTX 4090 (2026 Picks) Best Embedding Models 2026: OpenAI vs Voyage vs Open-Source Related reads: vLLM PagedAttention Explained Simply (with Visuals) Llama 4 vs Qwen 3.6 70B on RTX 4090: Speed Benchmarks 🔔 Subscribe to every episode