TreeGraft: Adaptive Multi-Drafter Grafting for Tree-Based Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2608.26112 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-05-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-28

Updated: 2026-08-28

Terminology

• Verification — 33× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Speculative Decoding — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 9× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cascade Speculative Drafting — 3× in this paper
• Generalization — 3× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Institutional Review Board — 2× in this paper
• Adaptive Draft Tree Structure — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Energy Efficiency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Sparsity — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• GPT-4 Technical Report
• DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
• LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models
• Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
• TriForce: Lossless Acceleration of Long Sequence Generation with Hierarchical Speculative Decoding
• Medusa: Simple LLM Inference Acceleration Framework with Multiple Decoding Heads
• Hydra: Sequentially-Dependent Draft Heads for Medusa Decoding
• EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty
• EAGLE-3: Scaling up Inference Acceleration of Large Language Models via Training-Time Test
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
• Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
• Conditional Memory via Scalable Lookup: A New Axis of Sparsity for Large Language Models

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