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by littlestymaar 321 days ago
> Inference is massively bottlenecked by memory bandwidth to the tune of one or two orders of magnitude compared to compute, so this helps a lot.

Nitpick: it's only bottlenecked by memory bandwidth if the batch size is too low (that is: if you don't have many users calling the same model in parallel).

Speculative decoding is just a way of running a single query as if it was parallel queries.