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DeepSeek open-sources DSpark speculative decoding module, achieving 50%+ throughput gains in production

Researchers from Peking University and DeepSeek introduced DSpark, a speculative decoding module that dynamically adjusts verification depth based on server load, achieving 57–85% faster per-user token generation and 51–52% higher total throughput compared to DeepSeek's previous production drafter. The team released checkpoints DeepSeek-V4-Pro-DSpark and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-DSpark on Hugging Face under an MIT license, with the draft module attaching to frozen target model weights. Key innovations include a parallel drafting backbone (adapted from DFlash), a Markov head for sequential token coherence correction, a calibrated confidence head, and a load-aware scheduler that trades draft length against server capacity. Results generalize across model families including Qwen3 and Gemma4.