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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

Inspired by the success of generative pretraining in natural language, we ask whether the same principles can yield strong self-supervised visual learners. Instead of training models to output features for downstream use, we train them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Sihan Xu , Ziqiao Ma , Wenhao Chai , Xuweiyi Chen , Weiyang Jin , Joyce Chai , Saining Xie , Stella X. Yu

Current visual representation learning remains bifurcated: vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) excel at global semantic alignment but lack spatial precision, while self-supervised methods (e.g., MAE, DINO) capture intricate local structures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shangzhe Di , Zhonghua Zhai , Weidi Xie

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

This paper proposes to learn reliable dense correspondence from videos in a self-supervised manner. Our learning process integrates two highly related tasks: tracking large image regions \emph{and} establishing fine-grained pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Xueting Li , Sifei Liu , Shalini De Mello , Xiaolong Wang , Jan Kautz , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Vision-language pretraining has driven much of the recent progress in medical image representation learning, but this paradigm is constrained by the availability of paired image-text data and by the reporting bias of clinical narratives. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Anas Anwarul Haq Khan , Mariam Husain , Pratik Jalan , Kshitij Jadhav

Learning efficient representations for decision-making policies is a challenge in imitation learning (IL). Current IL methods require expert demonstrations, which are expensive to collect. Additionally, they are not explicitly trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Aleksandar Vujinovic , Aleksandar Kovacevic

We propose ViC-MAE, a model that combines both Masked AutoEncoders (MAE) and contrastive learning. ViC-MAE is trained using a global featured obtained by pooling the local representations learned under an MAE reconstruction loss and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jefferson Hernandez , Ruben Villegas , Vicente Ordonez

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

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become an important approach in pretraining large neural networks, enabling unprecedented scaling of model and dataset sizes. While recent advances like I-JEPA have shown promising results for Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 András Kalapos , Bálint Gyires-Tóth

A key challenge in self-supervised video representation learning is how to effectively capture motion information besides context bias. While most existing works implicitly achieve this with video-specific pretext tasks (e.g., predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Lianghua Huang , Yu Liu , Bin Wang , Pan Pan , Yinghui Xu , Rong Jin

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

Video representation learning is an increasingly important topic in machine learning research. We present Video JEPA with Variance-Covariance Regularization (VJ-VCR): a joint-embedding predictive architecture for self-supervised video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Katrina Drozdov , Ravid Shwartz-Ziv , Yann LeCun

Reward and representation learning are two long-standing challenges for learning an expanding set of robot manipulation skills from sensory observations. Given the inherent cost and scarcity of in-domain, task-specific robot data, learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Yecheng Jason Ma , Shagun Sodhani , Dinesh Jayaraman , Osbert Bastani , Vikash Kumar , Amy Zhang

Learning predictive world models from unlabelled video is a foundational challenge in artificial intelligence. While Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) have set new benchmarks in semantic classification, they often remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Santosh Kumar Paidi

Self-supervised learning is an effective way for label-free model pre-training, especially in the video domain where labeling is expensive. Existing self-supervised works in the video domain use varying experimental setups to demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Akash Kumar , Ashlesha Kumar , Vibhav Vineet , Yogesh Singh Rawat

To date, most existing self-supervised learning methods are designed and optimized for image classification. These pre-trained models can be sub-optimal for dense prediction tasks due to the discrepancy between image-level prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Xinlong Wang , Rufeng Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Tao Kong , Lei Li

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective transformer framework for self-supervised learning called DenseDINO to learn dense visual representations. To exploit the spatial information that the dense prediction tasks require but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yike Yuan , Xinghe Fu , Yunlong Yu , Xi Li

Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) has emerged as a promising self-supervised approach that learns by leveraging a world model. While previously limited to predicting missing parts of an input, we explore how to generalize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Quentin Garrido , Mahmoud Assran , Nicolas Ballas , Adrien Bardes , Laurent Najman , Yann LeCun

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for label-free model pretraining, particularly in the video domain, where manual annotation is costly and time-intensive. However, existing self-supervised approaches employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Akash Kumar , Ashlesha Kumar , Vibhav Vineet , Yogesh S Rawat