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JEPA originality dispute

March 31, 2026Jürgen Schmidhuber

Jürgen Schmidhuber claims Yann LeCun's JEPA is essentially identical to his 1992 Predictability Maximization system, disputing novelty as LeCun launches a company around it.

Dr. LeCun's heavily promoted Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA, 2022) is the heart of his new company.
the core ideas are not original to LeCun.
JEPA is essentially identical to our 1992 Predictability Maximization system (PMAX)
Jürgen Schmidhuber
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