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Only Accepted Tokens Count: An Energy Accounting of Speculative Decoding Under Latency Targets

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Key Insights

Large language model serving is limited by facility power.
Energy per token determines how many tokens a datacenter can serve, while a latency target bounds how quickly each user receives them.
During.

Cite this synthesis DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2610.40287 ↗

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  title = { Only Accepted Tokens Count: An Energy Accounting of Speculative Decoding Under Latency Targets },
  author = { Leszek },
  year = { 2026 },
  doi = { 10.48550/arXiv.2610.40287 },
  url = { http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40287v1 },
  note = {Summarized and classified by AcaciaFund}
}

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Large language model serving is limited by facility power. Energy per token determines how many tokens a datacenter can serve, while a latency target bounds how quickly each user receives them. During

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