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most citedA Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning

164 citations · 280 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.CV2026

Interpreting Physics in Video World Models

Sonia Joseph, Quentin Garrido, Randall Balestriero +5

A long-standing question in physical reasoning is whether video-based models need to rely on factorized representations of physical variables in order to make physically accurate p…

cs.CV2026

A Lightweight Library for Energy-Based Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

Basile Terver, Randall Balestriero, Megi Dervishi +8

We present EB-JEPA, an open-source library for learning representations and world models using Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs). JEPAs learn to predict in represent…

cs.AI2026

Learning Latent Action World Models In The Wild

Quentin Garrido, Tushar Nagarajan, Basile Terver +3

Agents capable of reasoning and planning in the real world require the ability of predicting the consequences of their actions. While world models possess this capability, they mos…

cs.CV2025

A Shortcut-aware Video-QA Benchmark for Physical Understanding via Minimal Video Pairs

Benno Krojer, Mojtaba Komeili, Candace Ross +4

Existing benchmarks for assessing the spatio-temporal understanding and reasoning abilities of video language models are susceptible to score inflation due to the presence of short…

cs.AI2025★ 5 cited

V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning

Mido Assran, Adrien Bardes, David Fan +27

A major challenge for modern AI is to learn to understand the world and learn to act largely by observation. This paper explores a self-supervised approach that combines internet-s…

cs.CV2025

IntPhys 2: Benchmarking Intuitive Physics Understanding In Complex Synthetic Environments

Florian Bordes, Quentin Garrido, Justine T Kao +3

We present IntPhys 2, a video benchmark designed to evaluate the intuitive physics understanding of deep learning models. Building on the original IntPhys benchmark, IntPhys 2 focu…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Intuitive physics understanding emerges from self-supervised pretraining on natural videos

Quentin Garrido, Nicolas Ballas, Mahmoud Assran +5

We investigate the emergence of intuitive physics understanding in general-purpose deep neural network models trained to predict masked regions in natural videos. Leveraging the vi…

cs.CV2024

UniBench: Visual Reasoning Requires Rethinking Vision-Language Beyond Scaling

Haider Al-Tahan, Quentin Garrido, Randall Balestriero +3

Significant research efforts have been made to scale and improve vision-language model (VLM) training approaches. Yet, with an ever-growing number of benchmarks, researchers are ta…

cs.LG2024★ 37 cited

An Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling

Florian Bordes, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Anurag Ajay +38

Following the recent popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), several attempts have been made to extend them to the visual domain. From having a visual assistant that could guid…

cs.CV2024★ 11 cited

Revisiting Feature Prediction for Learning Visual Representations from Video

Adrien Bardes, Quentin Garrido, Jean Ponce +5

This paper explores feature prediction as a stand-alone objective for unsupervised learning from video and introduces V-JEPA, a collection of vision models trained solely using a f…

cs.CV2024★ 7 cited

Learning and Leveraging World Models in Visual Representation Learning

Quentin Garrido, Mahmoud Assran, Nicolas Ballas +3

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 m…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Self-Supervised Learning with Lie Symmetries for Partial Differential Equations

Grégoire Mialon, Quentin Garrido, Hannah Lawrence +3

Machine learning for differential equations paves the way for computationally efficient alternatives to numerical solvers, with potentially broad impacts in science and engineering…

cs.LG2023★ 164 cited

A Cookbook of Self-Supervised Learning

Randall Balestriero, Mark Ibrahim, Vlad Sobal +16

Self-supervised learning, dubbed the dark matter of intelligence, is a promising path to advance machine learning. Yet, much like cooking, training SSL methods is a delicate art wi…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Self-supervised learning of Split Invariant Equivariant representations

Quentin Garrido, Laurent Najman, Yann Lecun

Recent progress has been made towards learning invariant or equivariant representations with self-supervised learning. While invariant methods are evaluated on large scale datasets…

cs.CV2022★ 9 cited

The Robustness Limits of SoTA Vision Models to Natural Variation

Mark Ibrahim, Quentin Garrido, Ari Morcos +1

Recent state-of-the-art vision models introduced new architectures, learning paradigms, and larger pretraining data, leading to impressive performance on tasks such as classificati…

cs.LG2022★ 6 cited

RankMe: Assessing the downstream performance of pretrained self-supervised representations by their rank

Quentin Garrido, Randall Balestriero, Laurent Najman +1

Joint-Embedding Self Supervised Learning (JE-SSL) has seen a rapid development, with the emergence of many method variations but only few principled guidelines that would help prac…

cs.LG2022★ 7 cited

Guillotine Regularization: Why removing layers is needed to improve generalization in Self-Supervised Learning

Florian Bordes, Randall Balestriero, Quentin Garrido +2

One unexpected technique that emerged in recent years consists in training a Deep Network (DN) with a Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) method, and using this network on downstream ta…

cs.LG2022★ 24 cited

On the duality between contrastive and non-contrastive self-supervised learning

Quentin Garrido, Yubei Chen, Adrien Bardes +2

Recent approaches in self-supervised learning of image representations can be categorized into different families of methods and, in particular, can be divided into contrastive and…

q-bio.QM2021★ 5 cited

Visualizing hierarchies in scRNA-seq data using a density tree-biased autoencoder

Quentin Garrido, Sebastian Damrich, Alexander Jäger +4

Motivation: Single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data makes studying the development of cells possible at unparalleled resolution. Given that many cellular differentiation proces…