Retrieval-Warmed Energy-Based Reasoning: A Five-Arm Ablation Methodology for Diffusion-as-Inference on Structured Reasoning Tasks

Libo Sun, Po-Wei Harn, Zewei Zhang +2

Warm-started diffusion samplers accelerate iterative inference, but it is rarely clear which part of the pipeline carries the gain. We study \textbf{retrieval-warmed energy-based r…