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Hugging Face releases VLM speculative decoding drafter
Hugging Face released an experimental DSpark draft model for its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model, adding 280M parameters (8.9%) for up to 3.13x faster decoding on device and 2.66x on an H100 without changing output quality, with day-one support for llama.cpp, MLX-VLM and SGLang.