P-EAGLE is a parallel-drafting speculative decoding model that generates K draft tokens in a single forward pass. It transforms EAGLE—the state-of-the-art speculative decoding method—from autoregressive to parallel draft generation.
The model architecture is illustrated in the following figure. Specifically, we trained a 4-layer P-EAGLE for Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-FP8 as the target model, with number of parallel-token prediction as 18.
P-EAGLE follows the vanila EAGLE 3 using three layers of hidden states from the target model.
Similar to nvidia/gpt-oss-120b-Eagle3-long-context: only prompts from the datasets were used for data synthesis (the original responses from GPT were not used for data synthesis) which is then used to train the P-Eagle.
From vllm-bench, the acceptance length (AL) on HumanEval dataset with different speculation length K is shown as below.
We use instruction-formatted prompts following standard practice for instruct models (similar to DeepSeek-Coder evaluation and Llama 3.1 8B instruction evaluation). The instruction we add in front of each prompt is Complete the following Python function. Only output the code, no explanations.
@article{hui2026p,
title={P-EAGLE: Parallel-Drafting EAGLE with Scalable Training},
author={Hui, Mude and Huang, Xin and Salas, Jaime Campos and Sun, Yue and Pemberton, Nathan and Song, Xiang and Khetan, Ashish and Karypis, George},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.01469},
year={2026}
}
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