Spectral alignment lets users specify what world models preserve

The SpecWM framework improves planning success rates on visual control tasks by up to 28 percentage points over prior JEPA methods.

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Holger Molin · William Peng · Marco Bagatella · Randall Balestriero

Stanford University · ETH Zürich · Brown University

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The authors introduce SpecWM, a Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture that trains an encoder to match a target similarity kernel between observations.

Molin et al.

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Spectral alignment of embedding geometry to a target similarity kernel improves world model planning performance.

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