Gemma 4 MTP Deep Dive: Speculative Decoding & KV‑Cache Sharing for 3× Faster Inference
The article explains why large‑language‑model inference is bottlenecked by memory‑bandwidth, then details Google’s Gemma 4 MTP technique—using a small draft model with speculative decoding and shared KV‑Cache—to parallelize token prediction, achieving up to three‑fold speed gains without any loss in output quality, and provides step‑by‑step local deployment instructions.
