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A long-standing challenge in AI is to develop agents capable of solving a wide range of physical tasks and generalizing to new, unseen tasks and environments. A popular recent approach involves training a world model from state-action…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Basile Terver , Tsung-Yen Yang , Jean Ponce , Adrien Bardes , Yann LeCun

We evaluate JEPA-style predictive representation learning versus reconstruction-based autoencoders on a controlled "TV-series" linear dynamical system with known latent state and a single noise parameter. While an initial comparison…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Alexey Potapov , Oleg Shcherbakov , Ivan Kravchenko

Single-cell foundation models learn by reconstructing masked gene expression, implicitly treating technical noise as signal. With dropout rates exceeding 90%, reconstruction objectives encourage models to encode measurement artifacts rather…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ali ElSheikh , Rui-Xi Wang , Weimin Wu , Yibo Wen , Payam Dibaeinia , Jennifer Yuntong Zhang , Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu , Mei Knudson , Sudarshan Babu , Shao-Hua Sun , Aly A. Khan , Han Liu

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

Epistemic Planning (EP) is an important research area dedicated to reasoning about the knowledge and beliefs of agents in multi-agent cooperative or adversarial settings. The Justified Perspective (JP) model is the state-of-the-art approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Guang Hu , Weijia Li , Yangmengfei Xu

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have experienced recent success as data-generating models by using simple architectures that do not require significant fine-tuning of hyperparameters. However, VAEs are known to suffer from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-22 Wei Cheng , Gregory Darnell , Sohini Ramachandran , Lorin Crawford

In this work, we introduce Mask-JEPA, a self-supervised learning framework tailored for mask classification architectures (MCA), to overcome the traditional constraints associated with training segmentation models. Mask-JEPA combines a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Dong-Hee Kim , Sungduk Cho , Hyeonwoo Cho , Chanmin Park , Jinyoung Kim , Won Hwa Kim

A fundamental open question in self-supervised learning (SSL) is the explicit characterization of the optimal geometry of the learned representations. Recently, LeJEPA identified isotropic Gaussian embeddings as optimal for minimizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Léo Nicollier , Max Dunitz , Marc Pic , Pablo Musé , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Gabriele Facciolo

Self-supervised representation learning often relies on deterministic predictive architectures to align context and target views in latent space. While effective in many settings, such methods are limited in genuinely multi-modal inverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yongchao Huang

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

We introduce a self-supervised framework for learning predictive and structured representations of wireless channels by modeling the temporal evolution of channel state information (CSI) in a compact latent space. Our method casts the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-23 Salmane Naoumi , Mehdi Bennis , Marwa Chafii

Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) aim to learn representations by predicting target embeddings from context embeddings, inducing a scalar compatibility energy in a latent space. In contrast, Quasimetric Reinforcement Learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Anthony Kobanda , Waris Radji

We introduce VL-JEPA, a vision-language model built on a Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA). Instead of autoregressively generating tokens as in classical VLMs, VL-JEPA predicts continuous embeddings of the target texts. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Delong Chen , Mustafa Shukor , Theo Moutakanni , Willy Chung , Jade Yu , Tejaswi Kasarla , Yejin Bang , Allen Bolourchi , Yann LeCun , Pascale Fung

Geospatial foundation models compress multispectral observations into dense embeddings increasingly used in natural-language environmental reasoning systems. A single planetary-scale model, e.g. Google AlphaEarth, handles broad…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mashrekur Rahman

Recent breakthroughs in self-supervised Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) have established that regularizing Euclidean representations toward isotropic Gaussian priors yields provable gains in training stability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Eric Zimmermann , Harley Wiltzer , Justin Szeto , David Alvarez-Melis , Lester Mackey

Self-supervised learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning visual representations without manual annotations, yet most methods still operate on a single modality and therefore miss the complementary structure available from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ciem Cornelissen , Sam Leroux , Pieter Simoens

Representation alignment (REPA) guides generative training by distilling representations from a strong, pretrained vision encoder to intermediate diffusion features. We investigate a fundamental question: what aspect of the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jaskirat Singh , Xingjian Leng , Zongze Wu , Liang Zheng , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Saining Xie

Invariance-based and generative methods have shown a conspicuous performance for 3D self-supervised representation learning (SSRL). However, the former relies on hand-crafted data augmentations that introduce bias not universally applicable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Naiwen Hu , Haozhe Cheng , Yifan Xie , Shiqi Li , Jihua Zhu

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

We introduce a two-stage self-supervised framework that combines the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) with a Density Adaptive Attention Mechanism (DAAM) for learning robust speech representations. Stage~1 uses JEPA with DAAM…