Nikhil Bhendawade

Researcher, Apple

Joined

February 2024

Names

Nikhil Bhendawade (Preferred)

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****@apple.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Apple (apple.com)

2018 – Present

MS student

Texas A&M University - College Station (tamu.edu)

2016 – 2018

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Publications

Mirror Speculative Decoding: Breaking the Serial Barrier in LLM Inference
Nikhil Bhendawade, Kumari Nishu, Arnav Kundu, Chris Bartels, Minsik Cho, Irina Belousova
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
FS-DFM: Fast and Accurate Long Text Generation with Few-Step Diffusion Language Models
Amin Karimi Monsefi, Nikhil Bhendawade, Manuel Rafael Ciosici, Dominic Culver, Yizhe Zhang, Irina Belousova
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
M2R2: EFFICIENT TRANSFORMERS WITH MIXTURE OF MULTI-RATE RESIDUALS
Nikhil Bhendawade, Mahyar Najibi, Devang Naik, Irina Belousova
- SCOPE - ICLR 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
M2R2: Mixture of Multi-Rate Residuals for Efficient Transformer Inference
Nikhil Bhendawade, Mahyar Najibi, Devang Naik, Irina Belousova
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Speculative Streaming: Fast LLM Inference without Auxiliary Models
Nikhil Bhendawade, Irina Belousova, Qichen Fu, Henry Mason, Mohammad Rastegari, Mahyar Najibi
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Speculative Streaming: Fast LLM Inference without Auxiliary Models
Nikhil Bhendawade, Irina Belousova, Qichen Fu, Henry Mason, Mohammad Rastegari, Mahyar Najibi
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
FastSeq: Make Sequence Generation Faster
Yu Yan, Fei Hu, Jiusheng Chen, Nikhil Bhendawade, Ting Ye, Yeyun Gong, Nan Duan, Desheng Cui, Bingyu Chi, Ruofei Zhang
- ACL (demo) 2021
- Readers: Everyone
EL-Attention: Memory Efficient Lossless Attention for Generation
Yu Yan, Jiusheng Chen, Weizhen Qi, Nikhil Bhendawade, Yeyun Gong, Nan Duan, Ruofei Zhang
- 2021 (modified: 29 Oct 2021)
- ICML 2021
- Readers: Everyone
EL-Attention: Memory Efficient Lossless Attention for Generation
Yu Yan, Jiusheng Chen, Weizhen Qi, Nikhil Bhendawade, Yeyun Gong, Nan Duan, Ruofei Zhang
- 2021 (modified: 29 Oct 2021)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
FastSeq: Make Sequence Generation Faster
Yu Yan, Fei Hu, Jiusheng Chen, Nikhil Bhendawade, Ting Ye, Yeyun Gong, Nan Duan, Desheng Cui, Bingyu Chi, Ruifei Zhang
- 2021 (modified: 29 Oct 2021)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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