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A 280M-parameter sidecar makes a vision-language model up to 3.13x faster on a laptop, with no change to output

Liquid AI's new 280M-parameter DSpark drafter guesses ahead so the LFM2.5-VL-3B vision model verifies instead of computing every token. All speedups are self-reported; here is how the technique works and where its gains stop.

• Liquid AI
• LFM2.5-VL-DSpark
• speculative decoding
• vision-language models
• on-device AI
• edge AI
• inference optimization
• open-weight models
• llama.cpp
• MLX
• SGLang
• Apple silicon