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[Submitted on 8 Sep 2026] Title:Osprey: Target-agnostic Pre-training Makes Stronger Drafters in Speculative Decoding View a PDF of the paper titled Osprey: Target-agnostic Pre-training Makes Stronger Drafters in Speculative Decoding, by Fengxiang Bie and 9 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Speculative decoding is critical for accelerating LLM inference. However, the speedup is fragile: drafters are typically trained against a narrow distribution for a single target model, and their acceptance rate collapses under workload shifts. This is a striking inversion of modern LLM development, where target models are valued precisely for the broad generalization they acquire through large-scale pretraining. We argue that the natural remedy, pretraining, has been hard to apply to drafters because existing recipes are target-specific: the drafter consumes the target's hidden states and is distilled on the target's logits, so pretraining must be repeated for each target. We introduce Osprey, which instead bootstraps drafters from off-the-shelf pretrained small language models, treating broad pretraining as a reusable, target-agnostic asset and reducing per-target work to a lightweight adaptation step. Realizing this requires overcoming two challenges: small LMs are far deeper than a latency-bound drafter can afford, and their pretrained computation must remain intact while the drafter learns to ingest target hidden states and emit tokens in the target's vocabulary. Osprey addresses both by pruning to a shallow backbone, restoring its language-modeling capability with target-agnostic next-token pretraining, and adapting it to each target through vocabulary alignment, zero-initialized QKV expansion, and distillation from the target model's output distribution. Empirically, a single pretrained Osprey backbone transfers across targets and improves mean acceptance length by 16.1% for Qwen3-8B, 21.2% for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct, and 22.7% for the 229B MiniMax-M2.5 (with 17.5% higher tokens per second), with the largest gains on out-of-domain and multilingual data. Our code is available at this https URL. Comments: Accepted at EMNLP 2026. 21 pages, 4 figures Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL) ACM classes: I.2.7 Cite as: arXiv:2609.09338 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2609.09338v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.09338 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Fengxiang Bie [view email] [v1] Tue, 8 Sep 2026 18:23:08 UTC (354 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Osprey: Target-agnostic Pre-training Makes Stronger Drafters in Speculative Decoding, by Fengxiang Bie and 9 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)