HSL (Speculative decoding): present, but with little supersession signal in the knowledge base. 0 paper(s) critique it, 1 beat it on benchmarks — not ranked as a superseded baseline. Sub-problem: cluster led by EdgeLLM. Newer alternatives in the same sub-problem include PipeSD, DiP-SD, PicoSpec.

Speculative decoding

HSL

Tracked

Present, but with little supersession signal in the knowledge base

0 papers critique it · 1 beat it on benchmarks

Beaten on benchmarks

Head-to-head results where a newer method reports beating HSL. Values are copied from the source paper's tables — verify against the cited paper.

PipeSD beats HSL
152 vs 244
TPT · [Scenario 3, HumanEval]
PipeSD: An Efficient Cloud-Edge Collaborative Pipeline Inference Framework with 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Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base — arXiv benchmark leaders, not vetted production recommendations.

PipeSDPipeSD: An Efficient Cloud-Edge Collaborative Pipeline Inference Framework with Speculative Decoding
May 13, 2026
DiP-SDDiP-SD: Distributed Pipelined Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Inference at the Edge
Apr 22, 2026
PicoSpecA Pipelined Collaborative Speculative Decoding Framework for Efficient Edge-Cloud LLM Inference
Mar 19, 2026