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Learners will discover how AWS invented Parallel-EAGLE (P-EAGLE), a breakthrough method that parallelizes speculative decoding for large language models on Amazon SageMaker AI. The course explains how traditional approaches like EAGLE generate draft tokens sequentially -- creating latency that grows with speculation depth -- and how P-EAGLE eliminates this bottleneck by predicting all draft tokens simultaneously in a single forward pass using learnable placeholders. Participants will understand the architectural limitations of sequential drafting and how P-EAGLE transforms speculative decoding into a fully parallelized operation for improved inference throughput and reduced latency in production deployments.