arxivcs.LG2026-06-25
A Generalization Theory for JEPA-Based World Models
Jingyi Cui, Qi Zhang, Hongwei Wen, Yisen Wang
Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for world modeling by learning predictive dynamics in a latent space rather than generating future observations at the input level. Despite their empirical success, the theoretical unde…