Target Regeneration Shrinks the Gains of Draft-Training Objectives in Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2610.29013 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-21

Updated: 2026-10-21

Terminology

• Speculative Decoding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Training Objective — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Training Objectives — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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