EAGLE-3 Draft Model for Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B-FP8
EAGLE-3 draft model for accelerating Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B-FP8 inference with speculative decoding.
EAGLE-3 is lossless: the draft proposes several tokens and the base model verifies them in a single forward pass, so the output is identical to standard decoding. The quality metric is mean acceptance length (tokens accepted per base-model forward); a value > 2.0 gives a useful speedup. Wall-clock tok/s depends on hardware, batch size and context length — measure it on your own setup.
What is EAGLE-3?
EAGLE-3 is a speculative decoding method in which a small (~1B) draft model predicts several tokens ahead, while the larger base model verifies them in a single forward pass. Unlike EAGLE/EAGLE-2, EAGLE-3 predicts tokens directly (without feature prediction) and fuses features from multiple layers of the target model (low-, mid-, and high-level).
Usage — SGLang (>= 0.5.12)
Repo layout (same as the PRISM-EAGLE3 serving repos):
compressed/ # drafter weights + config (LlamaForCausalLMEagle3)
patch_sglang_eagle3.py # one-shot patch: adds the EAGLE-3 aux-hidden capture
# hook to SGLang's qwen3_5.py (needed for ANY drafter
# on a qwen3_5-family target)
serve_sglang.sh # launch helper
huggingface-cli download VirVen/Qwen3.5-27B-EAGLE3-v2 --local-dir .
pip install "sglang>=0.5.12"
python3 patch_sglang_eagle3.py
MODEL=Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B-FP8 DRAFTER=./compressed ./serve_sglang.sh
Or launch manually:
SGLANG_ENABLE_SPEC_V2=1 python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B-FP8 \
--speculative-algorithm EAGLE3 \
--speculative-draft-model-path ./compressed \
--speculative-num-steps 3 \
--speculative-eagle-topk 1 \
--speculative-num-draft-tokens 4 \
--mamba-scheduler-strategy extra_buffer \
--mm-attention-backend sdpa \
--dtype bfloat16 --trust-remote-code
Training Details
- Base model:
Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B-FP8(Qwen3-32B architecture, FP8) - Draft model: ~1B parameters, one transformer layer, attention input size of 2×hidden_size (concatenated token embedding and fused features)
- Feature fusion: layers 8 (low-level), 32 (mid-level), and 62 (high-level) of the target model
- Data: ~50k examples from the Saiga dataset (Russian-language conversations)
- Training: DeepSpeed ZeRO-2