Accelerating Diffusion Sampling via Speculative Draft Trees
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arXiv:2609.17691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative sampling accelerates diffusion model generation by drafting inexpensive candidate states and correcting them under a coupling that preserves the target distribution exactly, reducing the number of expensive target evaluations. Existing diffusion samplers, notably those based on reflection maximal coupling, are topologically constrained: their lookahead drafts form a chain graph, a single linear sequence, which inherently limits the acceptance rate per target evaluation. We connect speculative sampling in diffusion models to relative
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- arXiv:2609.17691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative sampling accelerates diffusion model generation by drafting inexpensive candidate states and correcting them under a coupling that preserves the target distribution exactly, reducing the number of expensive target evaluations.
- Existing diffusion samplers, notably those based on reflection maximal coupling, are topologically constrained: their lookahead drafts form a chain graph, a single linear sequence, which inherently limits the acceptance rate per target evaluation.
- We connect speculative sampling in diffusion models to relative
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