Zane Cao
3 papers · 2026–2026 · 2 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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Conference Polyglot · Bronze
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speculative decoding
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inference efficiency
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inference acceleration
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autoregressive decoding
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distributed file system
(1)
speculative reasoning
(1)
verification heterogeneity
(1)
entropy-based estimation
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confidence-gated verification
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memory-mapped io
(1)
cache protocol
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matrix access
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chain-of-thought reasoning
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lazy expansion
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Papers
ConfSpec: Efficient Step-Level Speculative Reasoning via Confidence-Gated Verification
ACL 2026
HeteroSpec: Leveraging Contextual Heterogeneity for Efficient Speculative Decoding
ACL 2026
Umap: Revisiting Memory-Mapped I/O on Distributed File Systems for Efficient Matrix Access (Operational Systems)
OSDI 2026