Yantao Li

Is Multimodal Speculative Decoding Ready for Diffusion-Based Parallel Drafting? A Survey and Empirical Diagnosis

A unified taxonomy that isolates drafter-side parallelism from orthogonal design choices such as tree construction and verification strategies is introduced, and a comprehensive empirical comparison of existing methods under varying degrees of parallelism across standardized multimodal benchmarks, including OCR, VQA, visual reasoning, and image captioning is provided.