DEdit: Iterative Draft Editing for Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2609.38510 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Code: https://github.com/sahil280114/codealpaca

Terminology

• Verification — 32× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Speculative Decoding — 19× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Block Diffusion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Two-stage training — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 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
• Prediction Ground Truth — 1× in this paper
• Thinking mode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• PARD-2: Target-Aligned Parallel Draft Model for Dual-Mode Speculative Decoding
• Program Synthesis with Large Language Models
• LLaDA2.1: Speeding Up Text Diffusion via Token Editing
• Speculative Correction: Draft-then-Refine Decoding for Diffusion Language Models
• Accelerating Large Language Model Decoding with Speculative Sampling
• DFlash: Block Diffusion for Flash Speculative Decoding
• Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
• DMax: Aggressive Parallel Decoding for dLLMs
• DSpark: Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generation
• DEER: Draft with Diffusion, Verify with Autoregressive Models
• Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
• DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
• Verification-Aware Training for Speculative Decoding
• JetSpec: Breaking the Scaling Ceiling of Speculative Decoding with Parallel Tree Drafting
• Domino: Decoupling Causal Modeling from Autoregressive Drafting in Speculative Decoding
• LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code
• DiffuSpec: Unlocking Diffusion Language Models for Speculative Decoding
• DARTree: Speculative Diffusion Decoding with Autoregressive Draft Trees
• Let's Verify Step by Step
• LiLiCorr: Lightweight Likelihood Correlation of Parallel Drafts for Speculative Decoding

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