Medusa: Simple LLM Inference Acceleration Framework with Multiple Decoding Heads
Extra decoding heads draft ahead; tree attention verifies — speedup with no draft model.
Cai et al. · ICML 2024 · Serving. Read the paper ↗
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- What is Medusa: Simple LLM Inference Acceleration Framework with Multiple Decoding Heads?
- Extra decoding heads draft ahead; tree attention verifies — speedup with no draft model.
- Who published Medusa: Simple LLM Inference Acceleration Framework with Multiple Decoding Heads, and where?
- Cai et al. — ICML 2024 (arXiv:2401.10774).
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