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# Draft Models
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The following code configures vLLM in an offline mode to use speculative decoding with a draft model, speculating 5 tokens at a time.
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```python
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from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
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prompts = ["The future of AI is"]
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sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)
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llm = LLM(
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model="Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
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tensor_parallel_size=1,
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speculative_config={
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"model": "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B",
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"num_speculative_tokens": 5,
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"method": "draft_model",
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},
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)
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outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
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for output in outputs:
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prompt = output.prompt
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generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
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print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
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```
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To perform the equivalent launch in online mode, use the following server-side code:
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```bash
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vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 \
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--host 0.0.0.0 \
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--port 8000 \
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--seed 42 \
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-tp 1 \
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--max-model-len 2048 \
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--gpu-memory-utilization 0.8 \
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--speculative-config '{"model": "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B", "num_speculative_tokens": 5, "method": "draft_model"}'
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```
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The code used to request as completions as a client remains unchanged:
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??? code
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```python
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from openai import OpenAI
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# Modify OpenAI's API key and API base to use vLLM's API server.
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openai_api_key = "EMPTY"
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openai_api_base = "http://localhost:8000/v1"
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client = OpenAI(
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# defaults to os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY")
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api_key=openai_api_key,
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base_url=openai_api_base,
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)
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models = client.models.list()
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model = models.data[0].id
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# Completion API
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stream = False
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completion = client.completions.create(
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model=model,
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prompt="The future of AI is",
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echo=False,
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n=1,
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stream=stream,
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)
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print("Completion results:")
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if stream:
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for c in completion:
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print(c)
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else:
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print(completion)
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```
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## Draft Model Method with heterogeneous vocabs
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By default, vLLM requires the draft and target models to share the same vocabulary. Setting `use_heterogeneous_vocab: true` enables the **Token-Level Intersection (TLI)** algorithm, which allows draft models from a different model family with a different tokenizer.
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Currently,`use_heterogeneous_vocab` currently requires `draft_sample_method='greedy'` (the default). Probabilistic draft sampling is not yet supported and will be added in a
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future release.
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```python
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from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
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llm = LLM(
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model="Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
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speculative_config={
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"method": "draft_model",
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"model": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct",
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"num_speculative_tokens": 3,
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"use_heterogeneous_vocab": True,
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},
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gpu_memory_utilization=0.5,
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)
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outputs = llm.generate(prompts,sampling_params)
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for output in outputs:
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prompt = output.prompt
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generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
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print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
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```
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!!! warning
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Note: Please use `--speculative-config` to set all configurations related
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to speculative decoding. The previous method of specifying the model
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through `--speculative-model` and adding related parameters such as
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`--num-speculative-tokens` separately has been deprecated. For supported
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keys and examples, see the [`--speculative-config` schema](README.md#--speculative-config-schema).
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