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DSpark

Confidence-Scheduled Speculative Decoding with Semi-Autoregressive Generation

DSpark is DeepSeek-AI's speculative decoding framework/drafter approach for accelerating LLM inference. It combines semi-autoregressive parallel draft generation with confidence-scheduled, load-aware verification, and DeepSeek released DSpark checkpoints and implementations through the DeepSpec repository.

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workflowPRIMARY2026-08-12

Speculative decoding tests report acceptance drop from 0.71 to 0.18 after ~32K context

A practitioner report found speculative-decoding acceptance fell from 0.71 to 0.18 beyond about 32K context. Separate DSpark and mlx-dspark tests reported speedups on RTX and Apple Silicon setups.

releaseSECONDARY2026-08-03

DeepSeek V4 Flash adds Baseten and Together AI serving with 1M-token context

Baseten and Together AI added DeepSeek V4 Flash with a 1M-token context window, reasoning-effort controls, and DSpark decoding. ValsAI ranked it the cheapest model above 60 on its index, and Nous promoted a short 90% discount.