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Sampling from an energy-based model requires complex Markov chain Monte Carlo optimization to draw states according to the unnormalized energy without a normalization constant.

Alexander Mattick · Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick · 21 Sept 2026

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“Its energies are unnormalized, we need to perform complex Markov chain Monte Carlo optimization to sample states proportionally to the energy without having access to a normalization constant.”

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