DLoop: Looped Speculative Decoding

arXiv:2610.07659 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-06 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-21

Comments: 22 pages

Code: https://github.com/naver-ai/DLoop

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Speculative Decoding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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