Qwen3-Coder-Next-DFlash
DFlash is a speculative decoding method that uses a lightweight block diffusion model to draft multiple tokens in parallel. This is the drafter model, which must be paired with Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next.
Quick Start
Installation
vLLM:
uv pip install vllm
uv pip install -U vllm --torch-backend=auto --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/nightly
SGLang:
uv pip install "git+https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang.git@refs/pull/20547/head#subdirectory=python"
Launch Server
vLLM:
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next \
--speculative-config '{"method": "dflash", "model": "z-lab/Qwen3-Coder-Next-DFlash", "num_speculative_tokens": 15}' \
--attention-backend flash_attn \
--max-num-batched-tokens 32768
SGLang:
# Optional: enable schedule overlapping (experimental, may not be stable)
# export SGLANG_ENABLE_SPEC_V2=1
# export SGLANG_ENABLE_DFLASH_SPEC_V2=1
# export SGLANG_ENABLE_OVERLAP_PLAN_STREAM=1
python -m sglang.launch_server \
--model-path Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next \
--speculative-algorithm DFLASH \
--speculative-draft-model-path z-lab/Qwen3-Coder-Next-DFlash \
--speculative-num-draft-tokens 16 \
--tp-size 1 \
--attention-backend fa3 \
--mem-fraction-static 0.75 \
--mamba-scheduler-strategy extra_buffer \
--trust-remote-code
Tip: For long-context or agentic workloads, add
--speculative-dflash-draft-window-size WINDOW_SIZEto enable sliding-window attention for the drafter.
Usage
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:30000/v1", api_key="EMPTY")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Write a quicksort in Python."}],
max_tokens=4096,
temperature=0.0
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
Acceptance Length
- Max new tokens: 4096
- Block size: 16 | Dataset | Accept Length | |-----------|---------------| | HumanEval | 7.25 | | MBPP | 5.50 | | LiveCodeBench | 5.50 |
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to David Wang for his outstanding engineering support on this project. We are also grateful to Modal, InnoMatrix, and Yotta Labs for providing the compute resources used to train this draft model.
Citation
If you find DFlash useful, please cite our work. To share feedback on DFlash or request new model support, please fill out this form: DFlash Feedback.
@article{chen2026dflash,
title = {{DFlash: Block Diffusion for Flash Speculative Decoding}},
author = {Chen, Jian and Liang, Yesheng and Liu, Zhijian},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06036},
year = {2026}
}