SpecQuant: Speculative Decoding with Multi-Parent Quantization for Adaptive LLM Inference

arXiv:2609.21704 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-18 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-18

Updated: 2026-09-18

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure. Published in the 2026 Fifth International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T)

Journal ref: 2026 Fifth International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T), Raipur, India, 11-13 March 2026, pp. 371-375, IEEE, 2026

DOI: 10.1109/ICPC2T68221.2026.11646348

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Speculative Decoding — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 3× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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