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Zach Zhang

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#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

APEX: Speculate smarter, not deeper

Speculative decoding reduces large language model inference latency by drafting multiple tokens before target-model verification, but its effectiveness depends on both the proposal mechanism and draft depth. Fixed configurations cannot respond to changes in predictability, repetition, and acceptance during generation,...

Manvi Jha, Zach Zhang, Zhi-Chao Xu et al. · 0 citations

#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

From Self-Distillation to Self-Practice: Privileged Information for Multi-Turn Agents

Privileged Self-Practice (PSP), which keeps the PI and moves it from the loss to the sampler and is the only method that consistently outperforms plain GRPO, improving task-goal completion on AppWorld and the resolved rate by up to 61% on SWE-bench Verified.

Xing-Yu Su, Abhishek Kumar, Qing Ping et al. · 0 citations