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Continuous Batching and Speculative Decoding Explained
While both continuous batching and speculative decoding leverage idle GPU capacity during token generation, they cater to different usage scenarios. Continuous batching improves overall throughput by accommodating multiple simultaneous users, while speculative decoding accelerates individual request responses on less busy servers by generating multiple tokens ahead of time. The author contends that speculative decoding can decrease performance on busy servers once the GPU is at capacity, recommending that peak concurrency be assessed before activating its settings.
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