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Luxi Lin, Shuang Peng, Rui Ma, Junhao Hua, Shuwei Fan, Zhengda Qin, Qiang Wang, Hongjian Sun and 2 more
HyperDFlash adapts DFlash block drafting to DeepSeek-V4-Flash’s multi-path residual architecture. It conditions the drafter on final pre-collapse residual states and uses a gated reducer initialized from the target’s hc_head. Across seven tasks at temperature 0, six-step HyperDFlash achieves average accepted length τ = 3.69 and throughput speedup 2.80×, versus 3.08 and 1.76× for MTP (6); results cover only DeepSeek-V4-Flash.
Key insights
- Effective speculative decoding for LLMs with complex architectures like DeepSeek-V4's Hyper-Connections necessitates deeply architecture-aware adaptations rather than generic method applications.
- Directly inheriting and aligning the drafter's internal mechanisms with the target model's native processing (e.g., path aggregation) significantly improves performance and parameter efficiency.
- Targeted auxiliary supervision, such as KL distillation for early draft tokens, can stabilize training and enhance prediction quality in critical early draft positions.
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