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20232026
most citedCausal-JEPA: Learning World Models through Object-Level Latent Masking

5 citations · 6 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

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.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

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.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…

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.SE2025

stable-pretraining-v1: Foundation Model Research Made Simple

Randall Balestriero, Hugues Van Assel, Sami BuGhanem +1

Foundation models and self-supervised learning (SSL) have become central to modern AI, yet research in this area remains hindered by complex codebases, redundant re-implementations…

cs.LG2025

On the Importance of Embedding Norms in Self-Supervised Learning

Andrew Draganov, Sharvaree Vadgama, Sebastian Damrich +4

Self-supervised learning (SSL) allows training data representations without a supervised signal and has become an important paradigm in machine learning. Most SSL methods employ th…

cs.LG2024

Understanding Adam Requires Better Rotation Dependent Assumptions

Tianyue H. Zhang, Lucas Maes, Alan Milligan +5

Despite its widespread adoption, Adam's advantage over Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) lacks a comprehensive theoretical explanation. This paper investigates Adam's sensitivity t…

cs.SE2023★ 1 cited

Unity is Strength: Cross-Task Knowledge Distillation to Improve Code Review Generation

Oussama Ben Sghaier, Lucas Maes, Houari Sahraoui

Code review is a fundamental process in software development that plays a critical role in ensuring code quality and reducing the likelihood of errors and bugs. However, code revie…