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Do you want to see scaling curves wrt data and param size? I agree that 1.2B and 10B tokens is not representative, but what scale of parameters and dataset sizes would be convincing?

You're not wrong about that. Speculative decoding does not affect the quality of tokens generated, as each token has to be verified by the parent model before it is output.

Each of the tokens generated by the draft model has to be verified by the parent/original model, but if this acceptance rate falls, then the speedup from speculative decoding would be eliminated. This acceptance rate, and more directly the speedup from draft models, is what "performance" refer s to in the article.