By Fabrice Popineau December 6, 2026
Drive vs. Decay: On the Training Dynamics of Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures, by José Lucas De Melo Costa, Seong Woo Ahn, Fabrice Popineau, Arpad Rimmel and Bich-Liên Doan, has been accepted at NeurIPS 2026 (Main Track). The paper explains how competing driving and decay effects shape the early training of JEPAs and introduces ResidualPred, a predictor designed to reduce representation collapse.
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