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Medusa: multihead drafts with tree attention

Added future-token prediction heads to a language-model backbone, with tree-attention verification, frozen-backbone or joint training and a typical-acceptance option.

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Added future-token prediction heads to a language-model backbone, with tree-attention verification, frozen-backbone or joint training and a typical-acceptance option.

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Inherits Stern-style multihead prediction and speculative verification. A frozen backbone alone does not ensure exact output-distribution preservation: the proposed typical-acceptance rule deliberately relaxes distribution matching; Medusa2 also updates the backbone. Empirical generation quality is not equality of distributions or universal acceleration.

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Tianle Cai; Yuhong Li; Zhengyang Geng; Hongwu Peng; Jason D. Lee; Deming Chen; Tri Dao

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Medusa: multihead drafts with tree attention

Added future-token prediction heads to a language-model backbone, with tree-attention verification, frozen-backbone or joint training and a typical-acceptance option.

Scientific scope

Inherits Stern-style multihead prediction and speculative verification. A frozen backbone alone does not ensure exact output-distribution preservation: the proposed typical-acceptance rule deliberately relaxes distribution matching; Medusa2 also updates the backbone. Empirical generation quality is not equality of distributions or universal acceleration.

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People and systems

Tianle Cai; Yuhong Li; Zhengyang Geng; Hongwu Peng; Jason D. Lee; Deming Chen; Tri Dao

Source-listed authors or explicitly credited technical contributors for the cited versions. Family entries retain source-specific attribution; a combined list is not one original-paper byline or equal individual work. Names alone do not establish resolved identities.

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