Research · 29 October 2026
ResearchPolymathic AI, Princeton and USC ISI Release FlashMap, 6.14× Faster LLM Decoding
FlashMap, a speculative decoding drafter from Polymathic AI, Princeton and USC ISI, drafts 16 tokens in one pass and achieves up to 6.14× lossless speedup on Qwen3-8B.
Benchmarks are the company's own; not independently verified.
Why it matters
FlashMap’s 6.14× speedup on Qwen3-8B suggests evaluating draft‑based decoding for latency‑critical features.
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