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Accelerating Qwen3-8B Agent on Intel® Core™ Ultra with Depth-Pruned Draft Models

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TL;DR:

  • Qwen3-8B is one of the most exciting recent releases—a model with native agentic capabilities, making it a natural fit for the AIPC.

  • With OpenVINO.GenAI, we’ve been able to accelerate generation by ~1.3× using speculative decoding with a lightweight Qwen3-0.6B draft.

  • By using speculative decoding and applying a simple pruning process to the draft, we pushed the speedup even further to ~1.4×

  • We wrapped this up by showing how these improvements can be used to run a fast, local AI Agent with

     

     

     

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