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LightSeek open-sources Kimi K3 draft trio: EAGLE-3, DFlash2, DSpark via TorchSpec + vLLM

LightSeek Foundation released a Kimi K3 draft-model collection (EAGLE-3, DFlash2, DSpark) trained with TorchSpec on 40 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs, with open data recipes. Their blog reports acceptance length across 10 benchmarks and SPEED-Bench end-to-end throughput; DFlash2 averages ~4.02 accepted tokens and leads EAGLE-3 at lower concurrency.

Key Takeaways

  • Three draft architectures for Kimi K3 speculative decoding: EAGLE-3, DFlash2, DSpark.
  • Trained on 40×GB200 with TorchSpec; data recipes plus Docker/CI shared.
  • On HumanEval, DFlash2 acceptance length ~5.08 vs EAGLE-3 ~3.29.
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vLLM 0.28.0 Released: Full-Stack Kimi-K3, DeepSeek-V4 Sparse MLA, and Tiered Disk KV Cache

vLLM 0.28.0 landed with 584 commits, bringing stack-wide Kimi-K3 support, end-to-end DeepSeek-V4 sparse MLA with DFlash2/DSpark speculative decoding, Model Runner V2 disaggregation, and tiered disk KV cache.

Key Takeaways

  • Adaptive speculative token budgets slash end-to-end TTFT by 55–65% with 1.5–3x faster sequence-parallel kernels;
  • End-to-end DeepSeek-V4 sparse MLA and Kimi-K3 shared-expert sharding save ~17 GiB VRAM per GPU;
  • Tiered KV cache introduces a disk tier, doubles max batched tokens to 16,384, and supports diverse hardware backends.
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