--- title: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Speculative Decoding | daily.dev description: This post introduces speculative decoding as an optimization technique for inference, specifically for large language models. It discusses the benefits of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-speculative-decoding-borspte7v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Speculative Decoding | daily.dev og:description: This post introduces speculative decoding as an optimization technique for inference, specifically for large language models. It discusses the benefits of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-speculative-decoding-borspte7v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/BoRsPTE7V.png og:image:alt: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Speculative Decoding og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Speculative Decoding **[PyTorch](https://daily.dev/sources/pytorch)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This post introduces speculative decoding as an optimization technique for inference, specifically for large language models. It discusses the benefits of speculative decoding and how it can coexist with other optimization techniques. The post also provides code and resources for training speculators and showcases the speedup achieved in an internal production environment. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/a-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-speculative-decoding-borspte7v) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Speculative Decoding","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-speculative-decoding-borspte7v","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-speculative-decoding-borspte7v"},"datePublished":"2024-05-02T16:22:08.224Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:28:47.883Z","description":"This post introduces speculative decoding as an optimization technique for inference, specifically for large language models. It discusses the benefits of...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1e9fe983d3406b3c9ac1a13d24004a42?_a=AQAEuiZ","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1e9fe983d3406b3c9ac1a13d24004a42?_a=AQAEuiZ","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"PyTorch","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"PyTorch","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/5fdab3d75a834a97a52d433d9c7e5ff9","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/pytorch"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/a-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-speculative-decoding-borspte7v","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":2},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"llm","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"PyTorch","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/pytorch"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Speculative Decoding"}]} ```