Liquid AI has released DSpark draft model checkpoints for three models in its LFM2.5 family: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, LFM2.5-2.6B, and LFM2.5-8B-A1B. Each drafter adds a speculative decoding path to an existing target model. A roughly 300M-parameter draft proposes a block of nine candidate tokens, and the target model verifies the whole block in a single forward pass. The trade is a small memory increase for a large decoding speedup: up to 3.18x on…
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AI company Liquid AI has announced the application of its "DSpark" acceleration technology to its compact LFM2.5 series. The DSpark-enabled models achieve more than double the speed while maintaining performance. Read more...