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Speculative Decoding in 2026: Medusa & Eagle Multi-Head Speculation for 3x Faster LLM Inference

A comprehensive systems engineering guide to speculative decoding. We evaluate draft-model speculation, Medusa multi-head tree attention, Eagle contextual recurrent drafting, and achieving 3.2x tokens/sec throughput with mathematically identical outputs.

Sachin Sharma
Sachin SharmaCreator
Sep 2, 2026
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Speculative Decoding in 2026: Medusa & Eagle Multi-Head Speculation for 3x Faster LLM Inference
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A comprehensive systems engineering guide to speculative decoding. We evaluate draft-model speculation, Medusa multi-head tree attention, Eagle contextual recurrent drafting, and achieving 3.2x tokens/sec throughput with mathematically identical outputs.

Sachin Sharma

Sachin Sharma

Software Developer & Mobile Engineer

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