P-EAGLE (Parallel Eagle) speculative decoding drafter for
Qwen/Qwen3-8B using the
Qwen3 draft architecture (
--draft-arch qwen3).
The Qwen3 architecture uses additional
q_norm/
k_norm layers in attention, which stabilize training at higher learning rates compared to the default Llama draft architecture. See
speculators#563 for the RFC and experimental results.
Evaluated on
RedHatAI/speculator_benchmarks (9 subsets) via vLLM throughput mode.
Qwen3-arch outperforms Llama-arch on all 9 subsets at k=5 and 8/9 at k=7.
1vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-8B \
2 --speculative-config '{
3 "model": "inference-optimization/Qwen3-8B-speculators.peagle-qwen3arch-ckpt4",
4 "num_speculative_tokens": 7,
5 "method": "eagle3",
6 "parallel_drafting": true
7 }'