most citedCausal-JEPA: Learning World Models through Object-Level Latent Masking

5 citations · 6 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.LG2026

World Modeling through Spectral Alignment

Holger Molin, William Peng, Marco Bagatella +1

How do we tell a world model what information to preserve? We study this question through the lens of spectral representation learning. We introduce SpecWM, a JEPA framework that e…

math.AG2026

The a-number of the Serre-type maximal curves of Abdón-Bezerra-Quoos

Mahyar Shafighi

For every prime power , we determine the -number of the Serre-type maximal curves : over , odd, introduced…

cs.RO2026

LeWAM: End-to-End World and Action Modeling with JEPAs

Minghao Fu, Tavis Siebert, Eryk Halicki +1

Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn compact latent world models without pixel reconstruction. Existing JEPA pipelines typically train visual representations and…

cs.LG2026

GeoPrior-Mamba: Structured Process Priors with Mamba for Fine-Resolution XCO2 Reconstruction

Zhao Meng, Yinan Cai, Siru Zhong +2

Reconstructing fine-resolution column-averaged dry-air CO2 (XCO2) fields from sparse satellite observations requires models to infer spatial structure that is only weakly constrain…

cs.LG2026

H-JEPA: End-to-End Learning of Hierarchical World Models for Visual Planning

Wancong Zhang, Basile Terver, Michael Rabbat +2

Long-horizon planning with latent world models requires reasoning across timescales and levels of abstraction. Existing task-agnostic JEPA world models predict and plan at a single…

cs.CV2026

MotionJEPA: Preventing Temporal Feature Collapse by Capturing Visual Changes in Latent Space

Markus Karmann, Shile Li, Christian Internò +10

Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) are a promising paradigm for learning task-agnostic latent world models without visual reconstruction. However, standard JEPA train…

cs.LG2026

Semigroup-JEPA: Latent Dynamics Consistency for Zero-Shot Physics Generalization

Andy Zeyi Liu, Haoran Sun, Lucas Baker +2

Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) world models learn a compact latent representation of the world that supports prediction and planning, but their capability to learn…

cs.CV2026

LeVJEPA: Efficient & Scalable Video Pretraining without the Heuristics

Lukas Kuhn, Lucas Maes, Giuseppe Serra +4

Video carries the temporal structure of the physical world, yet learning representations from it has remained computationally expensive: prevailing self-supervised methods either p…

cs.LG2026

LpWM: A Case for Sparse Representations in World Models

Yilun Kuang, Yash Dagade, Quentin Le Lidec +3

Joint-embedding predictive architectures (JEPAs) learn latent dynamics for planning and avoid representation collapse by matching features to maximum-entropy distributions such as…

cs.RO2026

VIScore: Diagnosing Planning-Relevant Quality in Latent World Models

Haiyu Wu, Randall Balestriero, Morgan Levine

Regulating the latent space to an isotropic Gaussian distribution provides a stable and information-maximized landscape for world model planning. However, the latent space property…

cs.AI2026

Latent Actions from Factorized Transition Effects under Agent Ambiguity

Heejeong Nam, Chandradithya S Jonnalagadda, Harshit Aggarwal +2

Latent Action Models (LAMs) learn action-like proxies from observation. However, in multi-object or distractor-rich scenes, observations contain not only agent motion but also dist…

cs.CV2026

OctoSense: Self-Supervised Learning for Multimodal Robot Perception

Anthony Bisulco, Jeremy Wang, Kostas Daniilidis +2

We present OctoSense, an open-source sensor platform with stereo RGB and event cameras, LiDAR, a thermal camera, an inertial measurement unit, RTK-corrected global positioning syst…

cs.RO2026

SkyJEPA: Learning Long-Horizon World Models for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Control of Quadrotors

Pratyaksh Rao, Wancong Zhang, Randall Balestriero +2

Accurate dynamics models are critical for informed decision-making in robotic systems, particularly for agile aerial vehicles operating under uncertainty. Neural network dynamics m…

cs.LG2026

Sensorimotor World Models: Perception for Action via Inverse Dynamics

Petr Ivashkov, Randall Balestriero, Bernhard Schölkopf

Perception for action suggests that representations of the world should be shaped not by visual fidelity alone, but by their relevance for actions. At the same time, latent JEPA-st…

cs.CV2026

Dyna-DINO: Efficient ViT Distillation Via Adaptive Representation Anchoring

Jiaqi Zhang, Ashton Lee, Anthony Wong +3

Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) with Vision Transformer (ViT) backbones, such as DINOv2, have become essential for downstream tasks like object recognition and semantic segmentatio…

stat.ML2026

When Does LeJEPA Learn a World Model?

David Klindt, Yann LeCun, Randall Balestriero

A representation that scrambles the true degrees of freedom of the world cannot support reliable planning or compositional generalization. We prove that LeJEPA (alignment plus Gaus…

cs.LG2026

stable-worldmodel: A Platform for Reproducible World Modeling Research and Evaluation

Lucas Maes, Quentin Le Lidec, Luiz Facury +9

World models are central to building agents that can reason, plan, and generalize beyond their training data. However, research on world models is currently fragmented, with dispar…

cs.LG2026

Post-Hoc Guidance for Consistency Models by Joint Flow Distribution Learning

Chia-Hong Hsu, Randall Balestriero

Classifier-free Guidance (CFG) lets practitioners trade-off fidelity against diversity in Diffusion Models (DMs). The practicality of CFG is however hindered by DMs sampling cost.…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Hierarchical Planning with Latent World Models

Wancong Zhang, Basile Terver, Artem Zholus +8

World models are a promising path to zero-shot embodied control through planning. However, existing world model planners struggle on long-horizon, multi-stage tasks: prediction err…

cs.LG2026

LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels

Lucas Maes, Quentin Le Lidec, Damien Scieur +2

Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) offer a compelling framework for learning world models in compact latent spaces, yet existing methods remain fragile, relying on co…

cs.LG2026

Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning

Ying Wang, Oumayma Bounou, Gaoyue Zhou +4

Learning good representations is essential for latent planning with world models. While pretrained visual encoders produce strong semantic visual features, they are not tailored to…

cs.AI2026★ 5 cited

Causal-JEPA: Learning World Models through Object-Level Latent Masking

Heejeong Nam, Quentin Le Lidec, Lucas Maes +2

World models require robust relational understanding to support prediction, reasoning, and control. While object-centric representations provide a useful abstraction, they are not…

cs.LG2025

Why and How Auxiliary Tasks Improve JEPA Representations

Jiacan Yu, Siyi Chen, Mingrui Liu +5

Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) is increasingly used for visual representation learning and as a component in model-based RL, but its behavior remains poorly underst…