Yuhao Shen
2026
Double: Breaking the Acceleration Limit via Double Retrieval Speculative Parallelism
Yuhao Shen | Tianyu Liu | Junyi Shen | Jinyang Wu | Quan Kong | Huan Li | Cong Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yuhao Shen | Tianyu Liu | Junyi Shen | Jinyang Wu | Quan Kong | Huan Li | Cong Wang
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Parallel Speculative Decoding (PSD) accelerates traditional Speculative Decoding (SD) by overlapping draft generation with verification. However, it remains hampered by two fundamental challenges: (1) a theoretical speedup ceiling dictated by the speed ratio between the draft and target models, and (2) high computational waste and pipeline stall due to mid-sequence token rejections of early errors. To address these limitations, we introduce Double (Double Retrieval Speculative Parallelism). By bridging the gap between SD and PSD, our framework resolves the Retrieval Precision-Efficiency Dilemma through a novel synchronous mechanism. Specifically, we enable the draft model to execute iterative retrieval speculations to break the theoretical speedup limits; to alleviate rejections without rollback, the target model performs authoritative retrieval to generate multi-token guidance. Double is entirely training-free and lossless. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art speedup of 5.3× on LLaMA3.3-70B and 2.8× on Qwen3-32B, significantly outperforming the advanced method EAGLE-3 that requires extensive model training. Our code is available at https://github.com/Sylvan820/Double1.
SPARK: Strategic Policy-Aware Exploration via Dynamic Branching for Long-Horizon Agentic Learning
Jinyang Wu | Shuo Yang | Yuhao Shen | Shuai Zhang | Zhengqi Wen | Jianhua Tao
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Jinyang Wu | Shuo Yang | Yuhao Shen | Shuai Zhang | Zhengqi Wen | Jianhua Tao
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Reinforcement learning has empowered large language models to act as intelligent agents, yet training them for long-horizon tasks remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality trajectories, especially under limited resources. Existing methods typically scale up rollout sizes and indiscriminately allocate computational resources among intermediate steps. Such attempts inherently waste substantial computation budget on trivial steps while failing to guarantee sample quality. To address this, we propose **SPARK** (**S**trategic **P**olicy-**A**ware explo**R**ation via **K**ey-state dynamic branching), a novel framework that selectively branches at critical decision states for resource-efficient exploration. Our key insight is to activate adaptive branching exploration at critical decision points to probe promising trajectories, thereby achieving precise resource allocation that prioritizes sampling quality over blind coverage. This design leverages the agent’s intrinsic decision-making signals to reduce dependence on human priors, enabling the agent to autonomously expand exploration and achieve stronger generalization. Experiments across diverse tasks (e.g., embodied planning), demonstrate that **SPARK** achieves superior success rates with significantly fewer training samples, exhibiting robust generalization even in unseen scenarios. Our code and checkpoints are available at https://github.com/jinyangwu/SPARK.