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title: JEPA-Anything
type: vocabulary
url: "https://www.envisioning.com/vocab/jepa-anything"
summary: A domain-agnostic extension of JEPA that factors predicted latent states into separate subspaces to model vision, biology, robotics, weather, and molecular systems with one shared predictive principle.
year: 2026
generality: 0.35
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# JEPA-Anything

A domain-agnostic extension of JEPA that factors predicted latent states into separate subspaces to model vision, biology, robotics, weather, and molecular systems with one shared predictive principle.
JEPA-Anything is a domain-agnostic extension of JEPA (Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture), a 2022 self-supervised method that predicts representations rather than pixels. It comes from the paper "JEPA-Anything: Learning Predictive Models across Different Worlds" (arXiv:2609.20800, submitted 17 September 2026, Taoyong Cui, Ling Yang, and 11 co-authors), which tests one predictive principle on vision, single-cell biology, robotics, weather, and molecular systems.

The core mechanism is orthogonal predictive factorization (OPF). Each domain has an adapter that turns raw data into content tokens plus structural descriptors: position, time, entity identity, graph connectivity, action, intervention, or external forcing. A context encoder summarizes what has been observed. An exponential-moving-average target encoder defines the state to predict. Prediction happens in representation space, split into complementary latent subspaces handled by separate branches, then recombined.

Against matched JEPA baselines, the paper reports gains on all 10 dynamics tasks tested and a 34.8% cut in single-intervention error on a task called Interventional Pong. It reports the lowest one-step and 100-step rollout error among compared methods across four molecular systems, plus forecasting of over 1,000 clinical events. A factor the model flagged as a biological intervention held up in cell co-cultures, organoids, tumor fragments, and mice. Code and checkpoints are on Hugging Face under Gen-Verse/jepa-anything.

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Source: Envisioning — Technology Research Institute (https://www.envisioning.com/vocab/jepa-anything)