SJD-PAC: Accelerating Speculative Jacobi Decoding via Proactive Drafting and Adaptive Continuation

Abstract

Speculative Jacobi Decoding (SJD) offers a draft-model-free approach to accelerate autoregressive text-to-image synthesis. However, the high-entropy nature of visual generation yields low draft-token acceptance rates in complex regions, creating a bottleneck that severely limits overall throughput. To overcome this, we introduce SJD-PAC, an enhanced SJD framework. First, SJD-PAC employs a proactive drafting strategy to improve local acceptance rates in these challenging high-entropy regions. Second, we introduce an adaptive continuation mechanism that sustains sequence validation after an initial rejection, bypassing the need for full resampling. Working in tandem, these optimizations significantly increase the average acceptance length per step, boosting inference speed while strictly preserving the target distribution. Experiments on standard text-to-image benchmarks demonstrate that SJD-PAC achieves a $3.8\times$ speedup with lossless image quality.