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LeVJEPA: Efficient & Scalable Video Pretraining without the Heuristics

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TL;DR - LeVJEPA is a self-supervised video pretraining method that uses a single encoder, projector, and collapse-free regularization instead of asymmetric target encoders or pixel reconstruction. It matches or exceeds V-JEPA 2 with 5.6–20.8× less pretraining compute, making video more practical for general-purpose visual representation learning.

  • Uses global/local view invariance with SIGReg, which provides a provable guarantee against representation collapse.
  • Uniform random token dropping both reduces the encoder’s compute load and improves downstream accuracy.
  • At matched total FLOPs, LeVJEPA beats the strongest reported video baseline by 7.6 ImageNet-1K points while remaining competitive on motion-centric tasks.
  • Block-causal attention preserves accuracy and builds temporal ordering directly into the encoder.

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LeVJEPA: Efficient & Scalable Video Pretraining without the Heuristics

arXiv cs.CV Lukas Kuhn, Lucas Maes, Giuseppe Serra, Quentin Le Lidec, Yann LeCun, Randall Balestriero, Florian Buettner 2026-08-27 arXiv:2608.27395
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TL;DR - LeVJEPA is a self-supervised video pretraining method that uses a single encoder, projector, and collapse-free regularization instead of asymmetric target encoders or pixel reconstruction. It matches or exceeds V-JEPA 2 with 5.6–20.8× less pretraining compute, making video more practical for general-purpose visual representation learning.

  • Uses global/local view invariance with SIGReg, which provides a provable guarantee against representation collapse.
  • Uniform random token dropping both reduces the encoder’s compute load and improves downstream accuracy.
  • At matched total FLOPs, LeVJEPA beats the strongest reported video baseline by 7.6 ImageNet-1K points while remaining competitive on motion-centric tasks.
  • Block-causal attention preserves accuracy and builds temporal ordering directly into the encoder.
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