Summary of Boosting Lossless Speculative Decoding Via Feature Sampling and Partial Alignment Distillation, by Lujun Gui et al.
Boosting Lossless Speculative Decoding via Feature Sampling and Partial Alignment Distillation
by Lujun Gui, Bin Xiao, Lei Su, Weipeng Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a novel approach to accelerate large language model (LLM) inference called lossless speculative decoding. It uses a lightweight draft model to generate tree-structured candidates, which are then verified in parallel by the target LLM. The authors reassess existing approaches that leverage feature-level autoregression and propose FSPAD, a framework that introduces token embeddings for feature sampling and partial alignment distillation to boost lossless speculative decoding. FSPAD outperforms state-of-the-art methods on various tasks, including multi-turn conversation, translation, summarization, question answering, mathematical reasoning, and retrieval-augmented generation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to make language models work faster. It uses a smaller model to generate ideas, which are then checked by the bigger language model. The authors looked at what other people have tried and came up with a new idea called FSPAD. This helps the small model do its job better and makes the whole process more efficient. They tested it on lots of different tasks and showed that it works really well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Distillation » Inference » Language model » Large language model » Question answering » Retrieval augmented generation » Summarization » Token » Translation
