ResearchNov 5, 2026, 17:03 UTC

Qwen researchers publish SpecOPD, a branch-parallel distillation method for speculative decoding

SpecOPD parallelizes on-policy distillation of draft models and reports up to 41.45% higher mean acceptance length and up to 3.56x generation speedup over autoregressive decoding. Code and paper are linked on GitHub and the project site.

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[Paper] SpecOPD: Branch-Parallel On-Policy Distillation for Speculative Decoding - By Qwen
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