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Lucas Maes

3 accepted papers

2026

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

ICML 2026poster

World models require robust relational understanding to support prediction, reasoning, and control. While object-centric representations provide a useful abstraction, they are not sufficient to capture interaction-dependent dynamics. We therefore propose C-JEPA, a simple and flexible object-centric …

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2025

On the Importance of Embedding Norms in Self-Supervised Learning

ICML 2025poster

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 the cosine similarity between embedding vectors and hence effectively embed data on a hypersphere. While this seemingly im…

2025

Understanding Adam Requires Better Rotation Dependent Assumptions

NeurIPS 2025poster

Despite its widespread adoption, Adam's advantage over Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) lacks a comprehensive theoretical explanation. This paper investigates Adam's sensitivity to rotations of the parameter space. We observe that Adam's performance in training transformers degrades under random ro…

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