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EAGLE drafts from the target model's hidden states. Why does that raise acceptance, and what did EAGLE-3 change?

A one-layer drafter that beats an 8B model on acceptance sounds wrong until you ask what it is reading. The answer prices the EAGLE head on Llama 3.3 70B, explains the feature trick, and names the three changes in EAGLE-3.

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A one-layer drafter that beats an 8B model on acceptance sounds wrong until you ask what it is reading. The answer prices the EAGLE head on Llama 3.3 70B, explains the feature trick, and names the three changes in EAGLE-3.

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