[vLLM Office Hours #40] Intro to Speculators – January 15, 2026

Welcome to vLLM office hours! These bi-weekly sessions are your chance to stay current with the vLLM ecosystem, ask questions, and hear directly from contributors and power users.

This week’s special topic: Intro to Speculators

We will start with our regular bi-weekly vLLM update from core committer Michael Goin, then welcome Fynn Schmitt-Ulms, Helen Zhao, and Rahul Tuli from Red Hat to introduce Speculators, a new unified library for building and storing speculative decoding algorithms for LLMs with vLLM.

Speculators GitHub: https://github.com/vllm-project/speculators

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