Implement and Benchmark Speculative Decoding
Company: Spacex
Role: Research Scientist
Category: Machine Learning
Difficulty: medium
Interview Round: Technical Screen
Overview: Design normal and speculative language-model decoding with correct proposal verification, rejection, sampling, EOS, positions, and key-value cache state. The answer also builds a fair speed benchmark around warmup, device synchronization, acceptance rate, latency statistics, and workloads where draft overhead can outweigh target-pass savings.
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