year: 2025
paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02092
website: https://alexiglad.github.io/blog/2025/ebt/
code: https://github.com/alexiglad/ebt
connections: energy-based models, transformer, test-time compute, system-2 thinking, diffusion models, generation-verification
Read the paper in detail + take notes
Refocus on this once it gets some traction / validation on a larger scale… or if I just happen have time for it / the other building blocks of soup are better fleshed out.
