A new paradigm for AI: How ‘thinking as optimization’ leads to better general-purpose models
July 15, 2025
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Virginia have developed a new model architecture that could lead to more robust AI systems with more powerful reasoning capabilities.
Called an energy-based transformer (EBT), the architecture shows a natural ability to use inference-time scaling to solve complex problems. For the enterprise, this could translate into…
