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most citedTowards a Framework for Openness in Foundation Models: Proceedings from the Columbia Convening on Openness in Artificial Intelligence

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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.LG2026

Preserving Unstable Modes Through Inverse Dynamics in JEPA World Models

Leonardo F. Toso, Yann LeCun, James Anderson +1

Robotic systems often exhibit unstable modes, along which small perturbations and disturbances can cause unbounded growth unless corrected through feedback. Controlling such system…

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.RO2026

AD-E2E-JEPA: A Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture For End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Haoran Zhu, Wancong Zhang, Yann LeCun +1

Autonomous driving requires \textit{world models} that can understand the physical world, reason and plan, and operate safely. In this paper, we first systematically evaluate exist…

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.CV2026

Self-supervised DXA representations encode multi-system disease risk, biological aging and heritability

Gil Sasson, Zachary Levine, Smadar Shilo +9

Whole-body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans are routinely acquired to measure bone density and regional body composition, leaving their spatial structure largely unused…

cs.SD2026

Music-JEPA: Learning a World Model of Sound from Action

Ziyu Wang, Kun Fang, Yann LeCun

Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) have recently emerged as a paradigm for learning world models by predicting latent representations, offering a promising direction f…

cs.RO2026

Patch Policy: Efficient Embodied Control via Dense Visual Representations

Gaoyue Zhou, Zichen Jeff Cui, Ada Langford +3

Pretrained dense visual features from Vision Transformers (ViTs) are powerful yet have been underutilized in robot learning. Modern robot policies either compress each observation…

cs.LG2026

AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model

Ying Wang, Oumayma Bounou, Yann LeCun +1

Latent world models enable planning from high-dimensional observations by predicting future states in a compact latent space. However, these models are typically kept frozen at tes…

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.SD2026

S-JEPA : Soft Clustering Anchors for Self-Supervised Speech Representation Learning

Georgios Ioannides, Adrian Kieback, Judah Goldfeder +5

Self-supervised speech encoders are predominantly trained by predicting discrete hard cluster IDs at masked positions, a recipe that collapses acoustic ambiguity at category bounda…

cs.CV2026

You Don't Need Strong Assumptions: Visual Representation Learning via Temporal Differences

Ninad Daithankar, Alexi Gladstone, Yann LeCun +1

Progress in AI has largely been driven by methods that assume less. As compute and data increase, approaches with weaker inductive biases generally outperform those with stronger a…

cs.RO2026

Unifying Object-Centric World Models and Diffusion Policy: A Hierarchical Framework for Multi-Stage Robotic Tasks

Raktim Gautam Goswami, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Yann LeCun +1

Visual world models have shown great potential in learning complex system dynamics. Recent advancements leverage these models as transition functions within Model Predictive Contro…

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

On Training in Imagination

Nadav Timor, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv, Micah Goldblum +2

State-of-the-art model-based reinforcement learning methods train policies on imagined rollouts. These rollouts are trajectories generated by a learned dynamics model and are score…

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.AI2026★ 1 cited

Why AI systems don't learn and what to do about it: Lessons on autonomous learning from cognitive science

Emmanuel Dupoux, Yann LeCun, Jitendra Malik

We critically examine the limitations of current AI models in achieving autonomous learning and propose a learning architecture inspired by human and animal cognition. The proposed…

cs.LG2026

Representation Learning for Spatiotemporal Physical Systems

Helen Qu, Rudy Morel, Michael McCabe +4

Machine learning approaches to spatiotemporal physical systems have primarily focused on next-frame prediction, with the goal of learning an accurate emulator for the system's evol…

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.CV2026

V-JEPA 2.1: Unlocking Dense Features in Video Self-Supervised Learning

Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Matthew Muckley, Amir Bar +6

We present V-JEPA 2.1, a family of self-supervised models that learn dense, high-quality visual representations for both images and videos while retaining strong global scene under…

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

stable-worldmodel-v1: Reproducible World Modeling Research and Evaluation

Lucas Maes, Quentin Le Lidec, Dan Haramati +4

World Models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning compact, predictive representations of environment dynamics, enabling agents to reason, plan, and generalize beyond di…