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We propose WirelessJEPA, a novel wireless foundation model (WFM) that uses the Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA). WirelessJEPA learns general-purpose representations directly from real-world multi-antenna IQ data by predicting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Viet Chu , Omar Mashaal , Hatem Abou-Zeid

Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) have emerged as a powerful framework for learning general-purpose representations. However, these models often lack interpretability and suffer from inefficiencies due to dense embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Max Hartman , Lav Varshney

Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) have recently become popular as promising architectures for self-supervised learning. Vision transformers have been trained using JEPA to produce embeddings from images and videos, which have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tristan Kenneweg , Philip Kenneweg , Barbara Hammer

Image-based Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (I-JEPA) offers a promising approach to visual self-supervised learning through masked feature prediction. However with the inherent visual uncertainty at masked positions, feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Chen Huang , Xianhang Li , Vimal Thilak , Etai Littwin , Josh Susskind

World models learned from high-dimensional visual observations allow agents to make decisions and plan directly in latent space, avoiding pixel-level reconstruction. However, recent latent predictive architectures (JEPAs), including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Leonardo F. Toso , Davit Shadunts , Yunyang Lu , Nihal Sharma , Donglin Zhan , Nam H. Nguyen , James Anderson

This paper addresses the problem of self-supervised general-purpose audio representation learning. We explore the use of Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) for this task, which consists of splitting an input mel-spectrogram…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Alain Riou , Stefan Lattner , Gaëtan Hadjeres , Geoffroy Peeters

Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) learn representations able to solve numerous downstream tasks out-of-the-box. JEPAs combine two objectives: (i) a latent-space prediction term, i.e., the representation of a slightly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Randall Balestriero , Nicolas Ballas , Mike Rabbat , Yann LeCun

The Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) is often seen as a non-generative alternative to likelihood-based self-supervised learning, emphasizing prediction in representation space rather than reconstruction in observation space.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Moritz Gögl , Christopher Yau

This paper presents that the masked-modeling principle driving the success of large foundational vision models can be effectively applied to audio by making predictions in a latent space. We introduce Audio-based Joint-Embedding Predictive…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Zhengcong Fei , Mingyuan Fan , Junshi Huang

Learning manipulable representations of the world and its dynamics is central to AI. Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) offer a promising blueprint, but lack of practical guidance and theory has led to ad-hoc R&D. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Randall Balestriero , Yann LeCun

Image-to-point cross-modal learning has emerged to address the scarcity of large-scale 3D datasets in 3D representation learning. However, current methods that leverage 2D data often result in large, slow-to-train models, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Avishka Perera , Kumal Hewagamage , Saeedha Nazar , Kavishka Abeywardana , Hasitha Gallella , Ranga Rodrigo , Mohamed Afham

Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) have shown substantial promise in self-supervised representation learning, yet their application in generative modeling remains underexplored. Conversely, diffusion models have demonstrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Dengsheng Chen , Jie Hu , Xiaoming Wei , Enhua Wu

Large Language Model (LLM) pretraining, finetuning, and evaluation rely on input-space reconstruction and generative capabilities. Yet, it has been observed in vision that embedding-space training objectives, e.g., with Joint Embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Hai Huang , Yann LeCun , Randall Balestriero

Many common methods for learning a world model for pixel-based environments use generative architectures trained with pixel-level reconstruction objectives. Recently proposed Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) offer a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Vlad Sobal , Jyothir S , Siddhartha Jalagam , Nicolas Carion , Kyunghyun Cho , Yann LeCun

Building on the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) paradigm, a recent self-supervised learning framework that predicts latent representations of masked regions in high-level feature spaces, we propose Audio-JEPA (Audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ludovic Tuncay , Etienne Labbé , Emmanouil Benetos , Thomas Pellegrini

Two competing paradigms exist for self-supervised learning of data representations. Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) is a class of architectures in which semantically similar inputs are encoded into representations that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Etai Littwin , Omid Saremi , Madhu Advani , Vimal Thilak , Preetum Nakkiran , Chen Huang , Joshua Susskind

Much of model-based reinforcement learning involves learning a model of an agent's world, and training an agent to leverage this model to perform a task more efficiently. While these models are demonstrably useful for agents, every…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-01 C. Daniel Freeman , Luke Metz , David Ha

Legged locomotion over various terrains is challenging and requires precise perception of the robot and its surroundings from both proprioception and vision. However, learning directly from high-dimensional visual input is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Hang Lai , Jiahang Cao , Jiafeng Xu , Hongtao Wu , Yunfeng Lin , Tao Kong , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Recent progress in latent world models (e.g., V-JEPA2) has shown promising capability in forecasting future world states from video observations. Nevertheless, dense prediction from a short observation window limits temporal context and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Haichao Zhang , Yijiang Li , Shwai He , Tushar Nagarajan , Mingfei Chen , Jianglin Lu , Ang Li , Yun Fu

Recent vision-language-action (VLA) models built upon pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved significant improvements in robotic manipulation. However, current VLAs still suffer from low sample efficiency and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Shangchen Miao , Ningya Feng , Jialong Wu , Ye Lin , Xu He , Dong Li , Mingsheng Long