Alexander Mattick describes an energy-based model as a model that predicts an effectively unnormalized intensity map, or heat map.

“let's say variation inference or like energy-based models you have you have a lot of flexibility it's just kind of what you so energy-based models is just a name for what you end up predicting and what you end up predicting is kind of this effectively”

“unnormalized intensity map right effectively it's like a heat map and anything that that is this can be framed as an energy-based model which is also why like they”