@inproceedings{mainardi-etal-2026-empirical, title = "An Empirical Study of Speculative Decoding for Small Language Models", author = "Mainardi, Luca and Sandikci, Selcuk and Vanschoren, Joaquin", editor = "Demberg, Vera and Inui, Kentaro and Marquez, Llu{\'i}s", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = mar, year = "2026", address = "Rabat, Morocco", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-eacl/2026.eacl-long.255/", pages = "5483--5497", ISBN = "979-8-89176-380-7" }