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hypfertoday at 6:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

I wonder if we could take a page out of the Solar power book and do MPPT but for draft count. Constantly sweep through possible values to find the best result for the current conditions.

Though it might turn out that that doesn't offer any benefits. Has it been tried yet?

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EDIT:

LLM pointed me towards this thing I'm not going to read

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11280

"AdaSD: Adaptive Speculative Decoding for Efficient Language Model Inference"

Some higher level nerd please go have a look at that. I have important meetings and golf classes to attend.


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petutoday at 6:54 PM

Deepseek's DSpark does dynamically adjust speculated token count per user/completion.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05147

But they do so to maximise total throughput, I don't think there's reason to do that for batch=1.

ndriscolltoday at 6:32 PM

Don't you just need to occasionally try n+1 for your current setting? Then record acceptance rates. The nature of the thing is that if you try n, you already have a good sampling of how well m works for all m<n, right?

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