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5 papers

cs.CL2026

ToolSpec: Accelerating Tool Calling via Schema-Aware and Retrieval-Augmented Speculative Decoding

Heming Xia, Yongqi Li, Cunxiao Du +2

Tool calling has greatly expanded the practical utility of large language models (LLMs) by enabling them to interact with external applications. As LLM capabilities advance, effect…

cs.CL2026

Merlin's Whisper: Enabling Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models via Black-box Persuasive Prompting

Heming Xia, Cunxiao Du, Rui Li +3

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in tackling complex tasks through step-by-step thinking. However, this lengthy reasoning process incurs subst…

cs.CL2025

SWIFT: On-the-Fly Self-Speculative Decoding for LLM Inference Acceleration

Heming Xia, Yongqi Li, Jun Zhang +2

Speculative decoding (SD) has emerged as a widely used paradigm to accelerate LLM inference without compromising quality. It works by first employing a compact model to draft multi…

cs.CL2025

Tutorial Proposal: Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Inference

Heming Xia, Cunxiao Du, Yongqi Li +2

This tutorial presents a comprehensive introduction to Speculative Decoding (SD), an advanced technique for LLM inference acceleration that has garnered significant research intere…

cs.IR2025

Efficient Inference for Large Language Model-based Generative Recommendation

Xinyu Lin, Chaoqun Yang, Wenjie Wang +5

Large Language Model (LLM)-based generative recommendation has achieved notable success, yet its practical deployment is costly particularly due to excessive inference latency caus…