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HybridSpec: Throughput-Aware Speculative Decoding for Hybrid GDN-MoE Models — arXiv:2611.04055

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In speculative decoding, parallel drafters such as DFlash make drafting cheap, so target verification dominates each round. A central choice is the verification length, the number of tokens that the target processes in each round. Verifying more draft tokens can accept more of them, but work after the first rejection is wasted. For hybrid target models that combine Gated DeltaNet (GDN) and mixture-of-experts (MoE) layers, verification time grows much faster with this length than for dense models. In a single-request profile of Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with DFlash, it grew by 71% from length 4 to 16, almost entirely in GDN and MoE layers, compared with 4%-6% for a dense Qwen3-4B target. Each GDN layer must update a recurrent state at every token and recover it at the end of the accepted prefix. The MoE cost depends on the experts that the tokens activate, which are known only once verification runs. We present HybridSpec, which selects the verification length on the GPU from draft-side acceptance estimates and measured target latency. Verification then runs this length plus one extra token up to the first MoE router, before any expert runs. There, a lightweight routing correction uses the observed expert assignments to decide whether to keep that token. The rest of verification runs only on the selected tokens. Block-parallel GDN kernels avoid storing a state after every token and reconstruct the accepted state of every GDN layer in one launch. In isolated benchmarks at verification lengths 4 to 16 with every draft token accepted, these kernels, including accepted-state reconstruction, are $1.54\times$-$4.04\times$ faster than the default kernels. With three GDN-MoE target models in single-request greedy decoding, HybridSpec is $1.75\times$-$1.88\times$ faster than autoregressive decoding and $1.30\times$-$1.33\times$ faster than DFlash.

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Categorie arXiv: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) ; Machine Learning (cs.LG).
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