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Why Speculative Decoding went mature in 2026?
Spec-dec has been a thing for a while, in fact, it's wasn't an idea that was born for LLM inference. E.g. Uber's https://github.com/uber/submitqueue applied it to a merge queue. Apple & GDM had been releasing papers on it since already 2022. Seeing it being mature enough for the big frameworks to adopt it, and watching