
Research Scientist @AIatMeta. PhD from @mcgillu, @Mila_Quebec. My research agenda is focused on self-supervised learning for reasoning and planning
Montréal, Québec
Joined June 2020
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How much can a model learn about the world just by passively watching video? We’re releasing the results of some of this research today, along with the code and models!
Today we’re releasing V-JEPA, a method for teaching machines to understand and model the physical world by watching videos. This work is another important step towards @ylecun’s outlined vision of AI models that use a learned understanding of the world to plan, reason and accomplish complex tasks.
Details ➡️ bit.ly/49fCeaM
We're releasing a collection of V-JEPA vision models trained with a feature prediction objective using self-supervised learning. The models are able to understand and predict what is going on in a video, even with limited information.
It learns by predicting missing or obscured parts of a video in its internal feature space. Unlike generative approaches that fill in missing pixels, this flexible approach enables up to 6x improvements in training and sample efficiency.
The models were pre-trained on entirely unlabeled data, and a small amount of labeled data can be used to train a task-specific prediction head on top after pre-training.
Our results show that, using a frozen backbone, our top V-JEPA models achieve 82.0% on Kinetics-400, 72.2% on Something-Something-v2 and 77.9% on ImageNet1K — competitive with or exceeding previous leading video models.
We believe that this work is an important milestone on the path to advancing machine intelligence.
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🚨Announcing the World Modeling Workshop 2026 🚨
📅 When: Feb 4–6, 2026
📍Where: Mila (Montréal) + Online (free)
💡 What: Keynotes, Methods Deep Dive, and Tutorials
🌐 world-model-mila.github.io/
✉️ [email protected]
🧵 Details below:
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Introducing V-JEPA 2, a new world model with state-of-the-art performance in visual understanding and prediction.
V-JEPA 2 can enable zero-shot planning in robots—allowing them to plan and execute tasks in unfamiliar environments.
Download V-JEPA 2 and read our research paper ➡️ ai.meta.com/vjepa/
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Our vision is for AI that uses world models to adapt in new and dynamic environments and efficiently learn new skills.
We’re sharing V-JEPA 2, a new world model with state-of-the-art performance in visual understanding and prediction.
V-JEPA 2 is a 1.2 billion-parameter model, trained on video, that can enable zero-shot planning in robots—allowing them to plan and execute tasks in unfamiliar environments.
Learn more about V-JEPA 2 ➡️ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-2-wo…
As we continue working toward our goal of achieving advanced machine intelligence (AMI), we’re also releasing three new benchmarks for evaluating how well existing models can reason about the physical world from video.
Learn more and download the new benchmarks ➡️ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-2-wo…
Mido Assran retweeted
Today we’re releasing V-JEPA, a method for teaching machines to understand and model the physical world by watching videos. This work is another important step towards @ylecun’s outlined vision of AI models that use a learned understanding of the world to plan, reason and accomplish complex tasks.
Details ➡️ bit.ly/49fCeaM
We're releasing a collection of V-JEPA vision models trained with a feature prediction objective using self-supervised learning. The models are able to understand and predict what is going on in a video, even with limited information.
It learns by predicting missing or obscured parts of a video in its internal feature space. Unlike generative approaches that fill in missing pixels, this flexible approach enables up to 6x improvements in training and sample efficiency.
The models were pre-trained on entirely unlabeled data, and a small amount of labeled data can be used to train a task-specific prediction head on top after pre-training.
Our results show that, using a frozen backbone, our top V-JEPA models achieve 82.0% on Kinetics-400, 72.2% on Something-Something-v2 and 77.9% on ImageNet1K — competitive with or exceeding previous leading video models.
We believe that this work is an important milestone on the path to advancing machine intelligence.
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Excited and honored that our paper on beating power law scaling via data pruning earned an outstanding paper award at #NeurIPS2022! Congratulations to my amazing co-authors, Ben Sorscher, Robert Geirhos, @sshkhr16, and @SuryaGanguli!
Paper: openreview.net/forum?id=UmvS…
Happy to announce the award winners of #NeurIPS2022
blog.neurips.cc/2022/11/21/a…
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Self-Supervised Learning methods have strong a priori on the type of data distribution you train on. With @mido_assran et al. we highlight what are those a priori and how to tune them at our advantage e.g. to improve SSL on uncurated and/or imbalanced data
arxiv.org/abs/2210.07277
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Tired of manually annotating vast quantities of data to achieve good performance? Our Masked Siamese Networks (MSN) is a self-supervised framework for learning image representations. So what does that mean?
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Congratulations to Dr. Mathilde Caron @mcaron31, who successfully defended her PhD **in person** after a brilliant presentation. The committee was prestigious with @CordeliaSchmid, Andrew Zisserman, Alyosha Efros, @dlarlus, and Alexey Dosovitskiy.
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Newest semi/self-supervised learning work from FAIR.
#ICCV2021
Hello world! Super excited to announce that our recent paper on semi-supervised visual representation learning has been accepted as an oral presentation at ICCV!
arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13963.pdf
github.com/facebookresearch/…
#ICCV2021
Hello world! Super excited to announce that our recent paper on semi-supervised visual representation learning has been accepted as an oral presentation at ICCV!
arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13963.pdf
github.com/facebookresearch/…
The code for our new method, PAWS, is on GitHub, and I'm incredibly excited about all the ways people have already been using PAWS in their own research.
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Thank you to all the amazing collaborators involved in this project! @mcaron31, @armandjoulin, @p_bojanowski, @imisra_, Michael Rabbat, and Nicolas Ballas
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We dive deep into self-supervised learning with Dr. Ishan Misra @imisra_ from FAIR @facebookai and cover their recent cluster of vision papers; with @ykilcher @RisingSayak CC: @ylecun @skornblith @mcaron31 @HugoTouvron youtu.be/EXJmodhu4_4
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More progress on self-supervision for computer vision - better segmentation and more efficiency ai.facebook.com/blog/dino-pa…
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Working with @Inria researchers, we’ve developed DINO, a method to train Vision Transformers (ViT) with no supervision. This model can discover and segment objects in an image or video with no supervision. #computervision Get the code: ai.facebook.com/blog?utm_sou… 🦖
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In addition to sharing DINO, a self-supervised model that can discover and segment objects in an image or video with no supervision, we're also sharing PAWS, a new method for 10x more efficient training. Get the code: ow.ly/CfXr50EBTpz #computervision


















