I'm curious where my understanding is wrong, but I didn't think you necessarily got the exact same output with how I understand speculative decoding to be used. I thought that if the small model produces tokens that are "good enough", meaning within the top few tokens the larger model produces, they're accepted.
I thought it doesn't necessarily have to produce the exact same token the larger model would have produced to be accepted (and that requiring this would reduce the hit rate by a lot.) Just one the top model could have produced with whatever top-k and temperature settings.
I'm curious where my understanding is wrong, but I didn't think you necessarily got the exact same output with how I understand speculative decoding to be used. I thought that if the small model produces tokens that are "good enough", meaning within the top few tokens the larger model produces, they're accepted.
I thought it doesn't necessarily have to produce the exact same token the larger model would have produced to be accepted (and that requiring this would reduce the hit rate by a lot.) Just one the top model could have produced with whatever top-k and temperature settings.