💻 computer science
Speculative Decoding Shortcuts Can Undermine Language Model Safety Guarantees
This paper demonstrates that speculative decoding shortcuts and their combination with model compression techniques can significantly undermine language model safety by introducing distributional shifts dominated by draft-model leakage, prompting the proposal of alignment-gated acceptance to restore safety guarantees.
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