Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark: Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models With Up to 3.13x Faster Decoding

Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark, a 279.5M-parameter draft model that brings speculative decoding to its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model. It delivers up to 3.13x faster decoding on Apple M5 Max and 2.66x on H100, with identical output under greedy decoding. Support ships in llama.cpp, MLX-VLM, and SGLang.

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