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specdec_bench already measures everything needed to describe how good a draft
checkpoint is -- per-position conditional and joint acceptance, an acceptance
length histogram, per-category means. It just never leaves the benchmark output
directory in a form a deployment can consume, so downstream tools guess instead.
Dynamo's simulator, for example, models every draft model in existence with one
hardcoded vector.
Emit a versioned speculation_profile.json so those numbers can travel with an
exported checkpoint.
Both acceptance conventions are published, explicitly named, because the two
known consumers disagree: dynamo's mocker wants conditional rates
(P(draft i+1 accepted | first i accepted)) while vLLM's synthetic rejection
sampler wants marginals (P(first i+1 all accepted)). Emitting one and letting a
consumer assume the other is a silent, plausible-looking failure.
Two conversion traps get a single implementation and explicit tests:
- acceptance length counts the target's bonus token, so draft position i maps
to length i+2, not i+1;
- the histogram is sparse while consumers need a dense vector of length K.
Each profile carries a self-check that mean accept length equals 1 + sum of the
marginals, which is the identity a bad offset would break. A failure is recorded
in the artifact and warned about rather than raised, so the discrepancy stays
inspectable.
accept_length_model records whether K may be extrapolated: chain-drafted methods
(EAGLE*) truncate cleanly, block-parallel ones (DFlash, DSpark) re-plan the whole
block when K changes and must be measured per K. max_supported_k publishes the
hard ceiling, since serving a block-parallel draft above its trained block size
is invalid rather than merely degraded.
Emission hangs off _process_lengths(), the single point where the acceptance
distribution is final and which AcceptanceRate, MTBench and SpecBench all route
through, so no variant can silently stop producing a profile. Runs without
--save_dir are unaffected.
Validated against nvidia/MiniMax-M2.7-DFlash: a histogram reproducing the AL of
3.05 published on that model card yields marginals [0.88, 0.70, 0.47] and
1 + sum = 3.05 exactly.
Design notes: docs/design/modelopt-specdec-for-dynamo.md in nmm-sandbox.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
The first version of _speculation_profile_metadata() read K off --draft_length unconditionally and derived max_supported_k as block_size - 1. Both are wrong for DFlash, which is the method this profile is most needed for. Reading the engine wrappers: DFLASH is configured by --block_size, which both models/vllm.py and models/sglang.py forward as num_speculative_tokens / speculative_num_draft_tokens while ignoring --draft_length -- sglang.py emits an explicit warning saying so. Every other method uses --draft_length as speculative_num_steps. Labelling the vectors with K from the wrong flag would be silent and plausible, so derive it per method. max_supported_k now defaults to the measured K rather than block_size - 1. --block_size here is the number handed to the engine as num_speculative_tokens, which despite the shared name is not the trained dflash_block_size in the checkpoint config. specdec_bench cannot observe the real architectural ceiling, and publishing an unverifiable one is worse than publishing none. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
Three points from CodeRabbit on NVIDIA#2247. Publish identifiers, not paths. The profile is intended to ship alongside a checkpoint, so serialising args.model_dir / args.draft_model_dir verbatim would bake internal cluster layout (/lustre/fsw/portfolios/...) into a public artifact, and an absolute path is not portable for a reader in any case. checkpoint_id() reduces a path to its trailing org/model, which is both the useful part and the HuggingFace-style id. configuration.json still records full paths for local debugging. Clear profile metadata when a run has no --save_dir. The metadata is class-level state (following the existing Metric.update_directory pattern), so an in-process second run -- the AR-vs-K sweep this schema is built for is exactly that shape -- could otherwise inherit the previous run's destination. Declare __all__. Not re-exported from specdec_bench/__init__.py as suggested: that module deliberately exposes only __version__ and must stay importable without modelopt (the vLLM container has no modelopt), so widening it would break its own convention. Noted inline so the omission reads as deliberate. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
The first real measurement (nvidia/MiniMax-M2.7-DFlash on MT-Bench, 30653 decode steps) failed the profile's own consistency check: 1 + sum(marginals) = 2.4733 against a reported 2.5467. The vectors were right; the mean was the wrong one. Average_AL averages per-request accept length over requests, weighting a short request the same as a long one. The acceptance vectors describe a per-*step* distribution -- both dynamo's mocker and vLLM's synthetic sampler draw a length per decode step -- so the identity was comparing incompatible quantities and would have flagged every real run. mean_accept_length is now computed from the acceptance-length histogram, which is what the vectors describe. The per-request figure is kept as mean_accept_length_per_request, since published model cards do not always state which mean they quote and the comparison is worth preserving. This also sharpens what the check guards. Both sides now derive from the same histogram, so the identity holds exactly whenever the published vector spans every observed acceptance length -- meaning what it actually detects is truncation: a num_speculative_tokens that understates the K the run used cuts the vector short and would otherwise silently describe a weaker draft than was measured. Given K is derived from CLI flags whose meaning varies by method, that is the failure mode worth catching. Test updated accordingly, plus one pinning both means on the real MiniMax histogram. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
A measured acceptance profile is only useful if it reaches the deployment. Today it stops at the benchmark output directory, so consumers guess instead -- dynamo's simulator models every draft model in existence with one hardcoded acceptance vector. This carries the measurement into the export, next to the weights. export_speculative_decoding() gains an optional speculation_profile path, plumbed through scripts/export_hf_checkpoint.py as --speculation_profile. The exporter deliberately only *transports* a profile; it does not build one. Acceptance is measured by a benchmark harness that commonly runs in an engine container without modelopt installed -- the MiniMax-M2.7 DFlash measurement ran under vllm/vllm-openai:nightly, where configuration.json recorded modelopt_version: null. The producer therefore cannot import from this side, so this side stays a carrier: it validates the file is JSON carrying a schema_version, and copies it in. For the same reason the version is recorded rather than checked against a constant. Producers own the schema; pinning an expected version here would create a second source of truth that drifts. With no profile supplied an unmeasured stub is written, so consumers can tell "not measured" from "predates the schema" -- absent then means a genuinely old checkpoint rather than an ambiguous one. Hooked in export_speculative_decoding() rather than inside each exporter's export(): one call site covers Eagle, EagleMedusa, DFlash, Domino and DSpark, so a newly added method cannot silently ship without a profile. Verified by round-tripping the real measured profile for nvidia/MiniMax-M2.7-DFlash (conditional [0.816, 0.777, 0.750], AL 2.925) through the exporter byte-identically. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
ar_validate.py already measures acceptance position-by-position -- validate_online breaks on first rejection, so it walks exactly the longest-prefix distribution -- then collapses it into a scalar and prints it. Nothing downstream can consume that: not CI regression gating, not the export step, not a deployment. validate_online now also returns the per-step acceptance-length histogram, and --output_json writes the same speculation_profile.json schema specdec_bench produces. Two producers, one schema, for different moments: this one runs inside the training loop with no serving engine, so acceptance can be tracked as a checkpoint trains; specdec_bench measures the deployed engine. A consumer should not have to care which produced a profile. Verified on the real MiniMax-M2.7 DFlash histogram -- both emit byte-identical conditional [0.816082, 0.776577, 0.749591], marginal [0.816082, 0.633751, 0.475054] and mean_accept_length 2.924887. The conversion is reimplemented rather than imported, deliberately. specdec_bench's copy must stay importable without modelopt because it runs in engine containers where modelopt is absent -- the MiniMax measurement recorded modelopt_version: null -- and importing into modelopt from examples/ is not possible either. The shared piece is small and now pinned by tests on both sides; a third producer would be the point to extract it properly. validate_online's return arity changes from 2 to 3. It is not re-exported from any __init__, so it is not public API, and all three in-repo call sites are updated. --output_json is written before the --ar_lower_bound check: an out-of-bounds AR is still worth having on disk, and raising first would discard the measurement that explains the failure. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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Completes the speculation-profile work: the artifact, the two producers, the export step, and the traps that make a wrong profile look right. The framing throughout is why it exists rather than what the fields are called: a draft checkpoint's weights say nothing about how good it is, so deployment tooling guesses -- dynamo's simulator models every draft model in existence with one hardcoded acceptance vector, and a strong draft and a weak one produce the same capacity estimate. Three things are documented specifically because getting them wrong is silent: - Both acceptance conventions are published and labelled. dynamo's mocker wants conditional rates; vLLM's synthetic rejection sampler wants marginal ones. Emitting one and letting a consumer assume the other is plausible-looking and wrong. - mean_accept_length is per *step*, not per request, and satisfies AL = 1 + sum(marginals). The per-request mean is reported separately; the two differ on real data. - accept_length_model says whether K may be extrapolated -- chain-drafted methods truncate cleanly, block-parallel ones (DFlash, DSpark) must be measured per K. Also records the generation-length lesson from validating against a published card, since it cost a full GPU run: measuring nvidia/MiniMax-M2.7-DFlash at 512 tokens gives AL 2.47 against that card's 3.05, while the card's stated 4096 gives 2.92, within 4.1%. Truncation removes the long predictable stretches where drafts do best. Match the published setup before economising anywhere. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a portable speculation-profile schema, generates profiles from benchmark and online validation measurements, validates profile consistency, and attaches measured or unmeasured profiles to exported speculative decoding checkpoints. ChangesSpeculation Profiles
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR adds speculation-profile generation and export behavior alongside documentation, but unresolved issues can produce unusable benchmark runs or profiles with incorrect schema, K interpretation, or dataset context, while interrupted exports may leave stale or partial metadata. The PR is not merge-ready until these bounded correctness and publication risks are fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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ValidationCLI->>SpeculationProfile: Generate measured profile
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UnifiedExport->>SpeculativeDecodingExporter: Write profile
SpeculativeDecodingExporter->>SpeculativeDecodingExporter: Copy profile or create stub
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In `@examples/specdec_bench/run.py`:
- Line 269: Adjust the branching around dump_env() so it remains exclusively in
the save-directory branch, preventing os.makedirs(None) when --save_dir is
absent and preserving configuration.json output when it is provided. Keep
metadata clearing in a separate no-save branch.
In `@examples/specdec_bench/specdec_bench/speculation_profile.py`:
- Line 108: Update the profile vector construction around length_keyed so sparse
histogram lengths use the survival probability for each draft position rather
than defaulting missing exact lengths to 0.0; preserve correct conditional and
marginal values across gaps, and add a regression test covering a histogram such
as lengths 1 and 3.
- Around line 42-44: Update the package initializer to re-export the documented
public symbols from speculation_profile, using its __all__ definition, while
preserving the existing __version__ export and importability when modelopt is
unavailable.
- Line 78: Update the path-derived identifier logic near the return expression
to avoid publishing multiple local path segments that may contain sensitive
information. Require an explicit public model identifier when available;
otherwise derive local-path identifiers from only the safe basename, preserving
the existing behavior for non-local identifiers.
In `@examples/speculative_decoding/scripts/ar_validate.py`:
- Line 212: Update validate_ar’s output handling so requesting output_json
raises an error when results is empty, including when all samples fail, instead
of silently skipping file creation and exiting successfully. Preserve normal
JSON output generation when at least one measurement succeeds.
In `@modelopt/torch/export/plugins/hf_spec_export.py`:
- Line 157: Update the profile validation around the schema_version check to
require a non-empty string, not merely key presence, and ensure the default
unmeasured profile emitted by the export path uses the conforming "1.0" schema
version. Move the shared schema-version definition to a dependency-free location
reused by both the standard producer and the exporter so they remain consistent.
Apply the same fix in `@examples/speculative_decoding/scripts/ar_validate.py`
around lines 128 - 144: This site produces the incomplete profile metadata
covered by the consolidated contract comment.
In `@tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash.py`:
- Line 924: Move the AcceptanceRateValidation import from inside the test to
module scope in test_hf_dflash.py, alongside the other top-level imports, so
import failures occur during test collection.
- Line 690: Update
tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash.py:690-690 to retain the
histogram from validate_online and assert it equals {3: 1}, with its weighted
mean equal to ar; update
tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash.py:725-725 similarly for {1:
2} and ar. At tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash.py:926-933,
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| metric.update_directory(args.save_dir) | ||
| metrics.AcceptanceRate.set_profile_metadata(_speculation_profile_metadata(args)) | ||
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Keep dump_env() out of the no-save branch.
The new else at Line 269 captures dump_env() on Lines 273-276. A run without --save_dir now reaches os.makedirs(None) and fails before benchmarking. A run with --save_dir no longer writes configuration.json.
Keep dump_env() in the save-directory branch. Keep metadata clearing in a separate no-save branch.
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In `@examples/specdec_bench/run.py` at line 269, Adjust the branching around
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Re-export the documented public API.
Lines 42-44 intentionally omit the required package re-export. Re-export this module through specdec_bench/__init__.py with from .speculation_profile import *.
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Do not derive a public identifier from local path segments.
A local checkpoint path can retain sensitive trailing components, such as usernames or private project names, in the published profile metadata. Require an explicit public model identifier, or use only a safe basename for local paths.
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In `@examples/specdec_bench/specdec_bench/speculation_profile.py` at line 78,
Update the path-derived identifier logic near the return expression to avoid
publishing multiple local path segments that may contain sensitive information.
Require an explicit public model identifier when available; otherwise derive
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| print(f" {'ALL':>12}: {avg_ar:.4f}") | ||
| print(f" Samples: {len(results)}") | ||
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Fail when profile output has no successful measurements.
If every sample raises, validate_ar catches each exception and returns an empty results. The outer if results then skips this block, so --output_json exits successfully without creating the requested file. Raise an error when output is requested and no samples succeed.
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| raise FileNotFoundError(f"--speculation_profile not found: {source}") | ||
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| profile = json.load(f) | ||
| if not isinstance(profile, dict) or "schema_version" not in profile: |
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Validate the complete speculation-profile contract before export.
The exporter currently accepts {"schema_version": null} and can write it into generated checkpoints. Separately, ar_validate produces profiles without the documented method and accept_length_model fields, allowing an exported profile to be syntactically accepted but unusable for consumers. Require a non-empty schema version and validate or populate all required profile metadata consistently across producers and exporters, preferably from one shared schema definition.
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profile validation around the schema_version check to require a non-empty
string, not merely key presence, and ensure the default unmeasured profile
emitted by the export path uses the conforming "1.0" schema version. Move the
shared schema-version definition to a dependency-free location reused by both
the standard producer and the exporter so they remain consistent.
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| input_ids = torch.tensor([[1, 2, 3]]) | ||
| # osl=3: need 3 new tokens. Step 1: base(1) + draft(2) = 3 tokens → done in 1 step | ||
| result_ids, ar = validator.validate_online(osl=3, input_ids=input_ids, steps=2) | ||
| result_ids, ar, _hist = validator.validate_online(osl=3, input_ids=input_ids, steps=2) |
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Assert the histogram returned by validate_online.
The all-accepted and all-rejected tests discard _hist. The new test validates only a literal dictionary. A regression in actual histogram collection still passes.
tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash.py#L690-L690: assert the returned histogram is{3: 1}and its weighted mean equalsar.tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash.py#L725-L725: assert the returned histogram is{1: 2}and its weighted mean equalsar.tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash.py#L926-L933: replace the literal-only identity check with assertions derived from a realvalidate_onlineresult.
As per coding guidelines, “Exercise the behavior a test claims to validate.”
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tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash.py:690-690 to retain the
histogram from validate_online and assert it equals {3: 1}, with its weighted
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tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash.py:725-725 similarly for {1:
2} and ar. At tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash.py:926-933,
derive the histogram assertions from an actual validate_online result instead of
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| ever disagree, one of the two is counting something the other is not -- exactly the | ||
| mismatch that made an earlier profile fail its own consistency check. | ||
| """ | ||
| from modelopt.torch.speculative.utils import AcceptanceRateValidation |
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Move this import to module scope.
This in-test import has no circular-import or optional-dependency justification. Import errors should occur during test collection.
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Two real bugs from review on NVIDIA#2313/NVIDIA#2315/NVIDIA#2316. dump_env() had been pulled out of the --save_dir branch by the earlier profile-metadata change, so configuration.json stopped being written for runs that requested it, and a run without --save_dir would have called dump_env(args, None, ...) -> os.makedirs(None). Restored to the branch it belongs in; the metadata reset stays in the else. Densification defaulted an absent acceptance length to 0.0. That is only correct past the maximum observed length. For a gap -- lengths 1 and 3 observed but not 2 -- P(len >= 2) still equals P(len >= 3), because no step ended at exactly 2. Filling the gap with zero understated acceptance and broke the AL identity while looking entirely plausible: exactly the silent-wrongness this schema exists to prevent. Marginals are now built as a proper survival function, walking lengths downward so a missing entry inherits the value above it, and conditionals are derived as ratios of consecutive marginals rather than read from the sparse per-length map. That also keeps the two vectors mutually consistent when a length was never observed. Verified the real MiniMax-M2.7 DFlash profile is bit-for-bit unchanged by the fix (its histogram is dense, so the old path happened to be right there), with new regression tests covering the gapped and empty cases. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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…thod Three review points from NVIDIA#2313/NVIDIA#2315/NVIDIA#2316, all guarding against a profile that looks valid to a consumer but is not. Rates are validated at the public boundary. Both known consumers treat them as probabilities -- dynamo feeds them to rng.random_bool(), vLLM's synthetic sampler expects a survival function -- and neither validates, so a NaN or an out-of-range entry does not fail there, it produces nonsense acceptance. Rejected before serialization instead. An empty measurement no longer reports measured=true. Zero observed steps would otherwise advertise a draft that accepts nothing, which reads identically to a genuinely terrible draft. Block verification now withholds the vectors rather than publishing them. These rates describe longest-prefix verification, where acceptance stops at the first rejection. vLLM also offers block verification, which accepts or rejects a drafted block jointly and produces a different length distribution entirely; publishing the vectors under that method would invite a consumer to read them as longest-prefix data. They are set to null with an explicit vectors_unavailable_reason, while the histogram and mean -- which still describe something real -- are kept. Verified the real MiniMax-M2.7 DFlash profile is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
Adds the case the existing rejection tests miss. Those cover valid JSON of the wrong shape; this one never parses -- a half-written profile from an interrupted run is the realistic way to produce it, and it must fail on the parser rather than slip through. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
If every sample failed, or osl was too small to produce a single decode step, the histogram is empty. Writing measured=true then advertises a draft that accepts nothing, which reads identically to a genuinely terrible draft. Warn and skip instead. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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Remove vector-based validation for block verification.
When vectors_apply is false, Lines 308-309 omit the rate vectors. The validation object at Lines 320-322 still serializes checks over internal longest-prefix rates. These results can report a passing profile for data that this profile declares undefined. Omit these checks, or set them to None, when vectors are unavailable.
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+ "mean_consistency": _consistency_check(mean_accept_length, marginal),
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| "conditional_accept_rates": [round(x, 6) for x in conditional] if vectors_apply else None, | |
| "marginal_accept_rates": [round(x, 6) for x in marginal] if vectors_apply else None, | |
| "vectors_unavailable_reason": unavailable_reason, | |
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| "mean_consistency": _consistency_check(mean_accept_length, marginal), | |
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Type of change: documentation
Top of a stack: #2247 (schema + specdec_bench producer) → #2313 (attach at export) → #2315 (ar_validate producer) → this. Documents the finished feature.
The framing is why the artifact exists rather than a field list: a draft checkpoint's weights say nothing about how good it is, so deployment tooling guesses. dynamo's simulator models every draft model in existence with one hardcoded acceptance vector, meaning a strong draft and a weak one produce the same capacity estimate.
Adds a Speculation Profiles section to
examples/speculative_decoding/README.md(producers, attaching at export, schema, comparing against published numbers) and a shorter pointer section toexamples/specdec_bench/README.md.Three things are documented specifically because getting them wrong is silent:
mean_accept_lengthis per step, not per request, and satisfiesAL = 1 + sum(marginals). The per-request mean is reported separately; the two differ on real data.accept_length_modelsays whether K may be extrapolated — chain-drafted methods (EAGLE*) truncate cleanly, block-parallel ones (DFlash, DSpark) must be measured per K.It also records a lesson that cost a full GPU run: measuring
nvidia/MiniMax-M2.7-DFlashat 512-token generations gives AL 2.47 against that card's published 3.05, while the card's stated 4096 gives 2.92 — within 4.1%. Truncation removes the long, predictable stretches where drafts do best. When comparing against a published figure, match the published setup first.Usage
Documentation only — no code changes in this PR.
Testing
pre-commitpasses, includingmarkdownlint-cli2. Cross-references between the two READMEs and toscripts/ar_validate.py/examples/specdec_benchverified by hand.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
CONTRIBUTING.md: ✅ N/AAdditional Information
The design plan also called for publishing profiles alongside the checkpoints in the NVIDIA speculative-decoding HF collection. That is a model-card/upload task rather than a repo change, so it is not in this PR — but it is where the documented contract actually becomes useful to external users, and worth someone picking up.
CI
code-qualityis currently red across every open PR in the repo (2314, 2312, 2309, …) on thegenerate-arguments-mdhook — unrelated to this change.Summary by CodeRabbit
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