SPEED-Bench:面向 Speculative Decoding 的统一多样化基准测试
阅读原文· arxiv.org研究团队发布 SPEED-Bench,旨在建立 Speculative Decoding(SD)算法的统一评估标准。该基准测试包含注重语义多样性的 Qualitative 数据分割和支持多并发场景的 Throughput 数据分割,并与 vLLM、TensorRT-LLM 等生产引擎集成。通过 SPEED-Bench 可发现合成输入会高估真实世界吞吐量,识别出与批次大小相关的最优草稿长度,揭示低多样性数据的评估偏差,并分析先进草稿模型中词汇剪枝的潜在问题。
Speculative Decoding (SD) has emerged as a critical technique for accelerating Large Language Model (LLM) inference. Unlike deterministic system optimizations, SD performance is inherently data-dependent, meaning that diverse and representative workloads are essential for accurately measuring its effectiveness. Existing benchmarks suffer from limited task diversity, inadequate support for throughput-oriented evaluation, and a reliance on high-level implementations that fail to reflect production environments. To address this, we introduce SPEED-Bench, a comprehensive suite designed to standardize SD evaluation across diverse semantic domains and realistic serving regimes. SPEED-Bench offers a carefully curated Qualitative data split, selected by prioritizing semantic diversity across the data samples. Additionally, it includes a Throughput data split, allowing speedup evaluation across a range of concurrencies, from latency-sensitive low-batch settings to throughput-oriented high-load scenarios. By integrating with production engines like vLLM and TensorRT-LLM, SPEED-Bench allows practitioners to analyze system behaviors often masked by other benchmarks. We highlight this by quantifying how synthetic inputs overestimate real-world throughput, identifying batch-size dependent optimal draft lengths and biases in low-diversity data, and analyzing the caveats of vocabulary pruning in state-of-the-art drafters. We release SPEED-Bench to establish a unified evaluation standard for practical comparisons of SD algorithms.