Why it matters

Lookahead avoids draft complexity. Understanding shapes alternative speedup.

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The architecture

Jacobi iteration: predict N future tokens in parallel.

Verify + refine.

Lookahead DecodingJacobi iterationparallel predictionsN-gram cachereuse patternsVerify + iteratecorrect predictionsNo draft model = simpler deployment vs speculative
Lookahead mechanics.
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How it works end to end

N-gram cache: cache seen n-grams for reuse.

Verification: single forward pass verifies multiple positions.

Speedup: comparable to speculative in some cases.