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Slow Local LLM? Speculative Decoding Explained for llama.cpp and vLLM
A small model guesses the next few words and the big one checks them all at once. Same answers, fewer slow steps. What the original paper measured, what llama.cpp and vLLM actually let you switch on, and when it won't help.
Aliteq Team · 14h ago · 9 min