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Approach: They propose a triple-hybrid EBM which combines the benefits of classifier, conditional generative model and marginal generative models altogether.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms previous methods in terms of ID calibration and OOD detection by a large margin while maintaining competitive accuracy.

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