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Apr 1, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

SSD Framework Doubles Inference Speed Over Top Engines, Breaking the Serial Bottleneck

The SSD framework and its SAGUARO optimization, developed by researchers from Stanford, Princeton, and Together AI, parallelize drafting and verification in speculative decoding, eliminating serial dependencies and achieving up to 2× faster inference than the world’s strongest engines and up to 5× speedup over standard autoregressive generation, while addressing challenges such as prediction accuracy, acceptance‑rate trade‑offs, and fallback strategies.