capture dependencies between things so you you have no chance of making a square because you don't know where the things are in relation to each other but that's more of an engineering question their point is basically that if you have models that do an optimization at inference time they are much more powerful than models that just do a one-shot forward pass it's sort of like an auto regressive model in NLP versus a non auto regressive model that produces all words at once if you produce all words of a sentence at once no word can