@inproceedings{ma-etal-2026-echo, title = "{ECHO}: Early-layer Collaborative Hierarchical Orchestration with Bonus Logits in Speculative Decoding", author = "Ma, Ziyang and Zhang, Zihong and Li, Zuchao and Zhang, Lefei and Qi, Baoyuan and Li, Siqi and Yu, Simin", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.177/", pages = "4047--4067", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }