2026
Var-JEPA: Variational Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture – Bridging Predictive and Generative Self-Supervised Learning
ICML 2026poster
The Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) is often seen as a non-generative alternative to likelihood-based self-supervised learning, emphasizing prediction in representation space rather than reconstruction in observation space. We argue that the resulting separation from probabilistic gen…