AI RESEARCH
Var-JEPA: A Variational Formulation of the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture -- Bridging Predictive and Generative Self-Supervised Learning
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.20111v1 Announce Type: cross 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.