Posts by Mohammad Mahdi Kamani
Beyond Text: Accelerating Multimodal AI Inference with Speculative Decoding on AMD Instinct™ MI300X GPUs
- 28 April 2025
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, multimodal models have emerged as powerful tools capable of processing and generating content across different modalities—text, images, audio, and more. Meta’s recent release of the multimodal Llama 4 models, including Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, exemplifies this advancement. Despite their impressive functionalities, such models face significant computational challenges, particularly in generation speed and resource efficiency due to a much larger context length compared to text-only models. Enter speculative decoding: a promising technique that has revolutionized text generation in large language models and is now finding exciting applications in multimodal contexts. Speculative decoding allows AI models to generate outputs faster by speculating several steps ahead and confirming predictions in fewer passes. In this blog you will learn, step-by-step, how speculative decoding can help you unlock significant inference speedups for multimodal systems while maintaining output quality using ROCm on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs.