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V-JEPA 2.1: Unlocking Dense Features in Video Self-Supervised Learning research paper by Meta, 2026

Meta · Multimodal and robotics · Mar 15, 2026 · 161 citations · 39 upvotes · unverified

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V-JEPA 2.1 is a self-supervised model that learns dense visual representations for images and videos through a combination of dense predictive loss, deep self-supervision, multi-modal tokenizers, and effective scaling.

By Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Matthew Muckley, Amir Bar and 6 more · arXiv 2603.14482 · PDF

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European Conference on Computer Vision
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161, 53 influential · Semantic Scholar
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39 · Hugging Face
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