quantization — Shrinking a model by storing its numbers less precisely — like rounding — so it runs faster and fits on smaller hardware, at a small quality cost.
speculative decoding — A speed trick where a small model drafts several tokens ahead and the big model verifies them in one pass, often doubling generation speed.
Why it matters
A single self-consistent NVFP4 checkpoint (target and draft head both quantizationShrinking a model by storing its numbers less precisely — like rounding — so it runs faster and fits on smaller hardware, at a small quality cost.Full definition →) simplifies deploying DeepSeek-V4-Pro with speculative decodingA speed trick where a small model drafts several tokens ahead and the big model verifies them in one pass, often doubling generation speed.Full definition → on NVFP4-capable hardware via vLLM or SGLang, cutting the mixed-precision handling teams previously had to manage.
