ZeroPoint: Lightweight Energy-Based Decision Model

arXiv:2611.12992v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Energy-based models (EBMs) assign a scalar energy to every joint value of the observed and predicted variables. In decision models, the prediction is chosen from a finite list of options provided with each input. Inference then reduces to comparing the energies of the options, and training lowers the energy of the correct option relative to the others. A complete decision must also account for the possibility that no option is acceptable. However, the energies learned by a standard EBM define only relative compatibility: adding the same input-dependent quantity to all energies leaves the predictions, the Gibbs distribution, and the usual training losses unchanged.