EASD (Speculative decoding): cited as a baseline — critiqued by newer work, not yet beaten on a benchmark here. 1 paper(s) critique it, 0 beat it on benchmarks — #104 of 151 most-superseded. Sub-problem: cluster led by RSD. Newer alternatives in the same sub-problem include FVO-Spec, From Tokens to Steps, Entropy-Aware Speculative Decoding (EASD), Global Resolution.

Speculative decoding

EASD

Superseded baseline#104 of 151 most-superseded

Cited as a baseline — critiqued by newer work, not yet beaten on a benchmark here

1 papers critique it · 0 beat it on benchmarks

What papers say

Verbatim critique sentences, each from a paper that cites EASD as a baseline.

These methods trade distributional exactness for throughput by relaxing acceptance at high-uncertainty positions.

— Future Validity is the Missing Statistic: From Impossibility to $Φ$-Estimation for Grammar-Faithful Speculative Decoding

What to use instead

Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base — arXiv benchmark leaders, not vetted production recommendations.

FVO-SpecFuture Validity is the Missing Statistic: From Impossibility to $Φ$-Estimation for Grammar-Faithful Speculative Decoding
May 8, 2026
From Tokens to StepsFrom Tokens to Steps: Verification-Aware Speculative Decoding for Efficient Multi-Step Reasoning
Apr 16, 2026
Entropy-Aware Speculative Decoding (EASD)Entropy-Aware Speculative Decoding Toward Improved LLM Reasoning
Dec 29, 2025
Global ResolutionGlobal Resolution: Optimal Multi-Draft Speculative Sampling via Convex Minimization
Nov 19, 2025