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Speculative decoding is an effective method for lossless acceleration of large language models during inference. It uses a fast model to draft a block of tokens which are then verified in parallel by the target model, and provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ziteng Sun , Uri Mendlovic , Yaniv Leviathan , Asaf Aharoni , Jae Hun Ro , Ahmad Beirami , Ananda Theertha Suresh

Arrays are commonly used in a variety of software to store and process data in loops. Automatically proving safety properties of such programs that manipulate arrays is challenging. We present a novel verification technique, called…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Supratik Chakraborty , Ashutosh Gupta , Divyesh Unadkat

Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive language model inference by verifying multiple draft tokens in parallel. However, the verification stage often becomes the dominant computational bottleneck, especially for long-context inputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Jikai Wang , Jianchao Tan , Yuxuan Hu , Jiayu Qin , Yerui Sun , Yuchen Xie , Xunliang Cai , Juntao Li , Min Zhang

Tight and efficient neural network bounding is crucial to the scaling of neural network verification systems. Many efficient bounding algorithms have been presented recently, but they are often too loose to verify more challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Alessandro De Palma , Harkirat Singh Behl , Rudy Bunel , Philip H. S. Torr , M. Pawan Kumar

Test-time scaling for complex reasoning tasks shows that leveraging inference-time compute, by methods such as independently sampling and aggregating multiple solutions, results in significantly better task outcomes. However, a critical…

Speculative Decoding (SD) accelerates autoregressive large language model (LLM) inference by decoupling generation and verification. While recent methods improve draft quality by tightly coupling the drafter with the target model, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jingwei Song , Xinyu Wang , Hanbin Wang , Xiaoxuan Lei , Bill Shi , Shixin Han , Eric Yang , Xiao-Wen Chang , Lynn Ai

Supercomputers are equipped with an increasingly large number of cores to use computational power as a way of solving problems that are otherwise intractable. Unfortunately, getting serial algorithms to run in parallel to take advantage of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-31 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Khuzaima Daudjee , Amer E. Mouawad , Naomi Nishimura

When developing a software system, a change in one part of the system may lead to unwanted changes in other parts of the system. These affected parts may interfere with system performance, so regression testing is used to deal with these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Mahdi Movahedian Moghaddam

Parallel diffusion decoding can accelerate diffusion language model inference by unmasking multiple tokens per step, but aggressive parallelism often harms quality. Revocable decoding mitigates this by rechecking earlier tokens, yet we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yanzheng Xiang , Lan Wei , Yizhen Yao , Qinglin Zhu , Hanqi Yan , Chen Jin , Philip Alexander Teare , Dandan Zhang , Lin Gui , Amrutha Saseendran , Yulan He

As the cloud computing paradigm has gained prominence, the need for verifiable computation has grown increasingly urgent. The concept of verifiable computation enables a weak client to outsource difficult computations to a powerful, but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-02-23 Justin Thaler , Mike Roberts , Michael Mitzenmacher , Hanspeter Pfister

Test-time scaling is an important mechanism for improving large language models, especially on tasks with deterministic verifiers. Code translation is a canonical example: the source program constrains valid outputs, while compilers, type…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tianyang Zhou , Somesh Jha , Mihai Christodorescu , Kirill Levchenko , Varun Chandrasekaran

Formal verification of neural networks is an active topic of research, and recent advances have significantly increased the size of the networks that verification tools can handle. However, most methods are designed for verification of an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Thomas A. Henzinger , Mathias Lechner , Đorđe Žikelić

As deep neural networks are increasingly being deployed in practice, their efficiency has become an important issue. While there are compression techniques for reducing the network's size, energy consumption and computational requirement,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Brandon Paulsen , Jingbo Wang , Chao Wang

An increasing number of scientific applications are making use of irregular data access patterns. An important class of such patterns involve subscripted-subscripts, wherein an array value appears in the index expression of another array.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Akshay Bhosale , Rudolf Eigenmann

We present a scalable and precise verifier for recurrent neural networks, called Prover based on two novel ideas: (i) a method to compute a set of polyhedral abstractions for the non-convex and nonlinear recurrent update functions by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Wonryong Ryou , Jiayu Chen , Mislav Balunovic , Gagandeep Singh , Andrei Dan , Martin Vechev

Detectability of failures of linear programming (LP) decoding and its potential for improvement by adding new constraints motivate the use of an adaptive approach in selecting the constraints for the LP problem. In this paper, we make a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Mohammad H. Taghavi N. , Paul H. Siegel

Large language models (LLMs) suffer from high inference latency due to the auto-regressive decoding process. Speculative decoding accelerates inference by generating multiple draft tokens using a lightweight model and verifying them in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yixuan Wang , Yijun Liu , Shiyu ji , Yuzhuang Xu , Yang Xu , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che

Test-time compute scaling allocates inference computation uniformly, uses fixed sampling strategies, and applies verification only for reranking. In contrast, we propose a verifier-guided adaptive framework treating reasoning as iterative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ahsan Bilal , Ahmed Mohsin , Muhammad Umer , Ali Subhan , Hassan Rizwan , Ayesha Mohsin , Dean Hougen

Despite the vast body of research literature proposing algorithms with formal guarantees, the amount of verifiable code in today's systems remains minimal. This discrepancy stems from the inherent difficulty of verifying code, particularly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Changjie Wang , Mariano Scazzariello , Marco Chiesa

Speculative Decoding (SD) is a recently proposed technique for faster inference using Large Language Models (LLMs). SD operates by using a smaller draft LLM for autoregressively generating a sequence of tokens and a larger target LLM for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Meiyu Zhong , Noel Teku , Ravi Tandon