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Preprint Aug 2026

Support Operation Factorization: Compositional Readout of Frozen Vision Encoders under Controlled Interventions

Compositional analysis of frozen vision encoders should determine both what changed and where it changed. Standard factor probes score these axes separately, however, and can reward multiple operations that reuse the same predicted slot. We call this failure operation laundering. We introduce an injectively aligned leave-one-cell-out protocol over support x operation grids and SO-OPF, a readout that factors cell energy into support salience and a competitive operation posterior. This formulation separates two questions that aggregate scores conflate: whether the carrier composes held-out bindings when the grid is known, and whether that grid can be recovered from flat cell labels. With frozen DINOv3 features, known factorial assignment reaches 0.874 injective accuracy on Shapes3D-Extended and 0.799 on globally image-disjoint COCO; learning the assignment from flat labels reaches 0.769 and 0.762, respectively. Under matched-axis-aware supervision on Shapes3D, the factored carrier improves learned-assignment accuracy from 0.653 to 0.841 over a dense carrier and eliminates its laundering gap. SigLIP2 replicates the COCO separation. A rebuilt MuJoCo substrate exposes a boundary: learned-assignment accuracy is 0.569 with DINOv3 and 0.484 with SigLIP2, with substantial slot collapse. Thus factored readout and injective evaluation recover held-out bindings on two substrates while exposing, rather than hiding, a renderer-specific failure boundary; they do not establish universal recovery from flat labels.

Zhong-Yao Wang, Wanli Ouyang, Tao-Yong Cui et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

JEPA-Anything: Learning Predictive Models across Different Worlds

World modeling enables intelligence to anticipate consequences, guide interventions, and learn from interaction. Yet predictive models remain domain-specific: can a common learning principle support world modeling across radically different systems? We introduce JEPA-Anything, a domain-agnostic framework based on orthogonal predictive factorization (OPF). Extending joint-embedding predictive architectures, OPF decomposes latent targets into complementary factors, learns them through dedicated pathways, and recombines them within a shared predictive design. We evaluate JEPA-Anything across seven domains: vision, biology, clinical trajectories, control, molecular dynamics, physical fields, and weather. Experiments span representation learning, intervention prediction, out-of-distribution generalization, and long-horizon dynamics, including 10 matched dynamics tasks, forecasting of over 1,000 clinical events, and 100-step molecular rollouts across four systems. Against matched JEPA baselines, JEPA-Anything improves reported metrics on all 10 dynamics tasks and reduces single-intervention prediction error on Interventional Pong by 34.8%. It achieves the lowest one-step and 100-step molecular errors among compared methods in all four systems. Beyond prediction, a factor-nominated biological intervention receives experimental support in cell co-cultures, patient-derived organoids, tumor fragments, and mice; latent orbital modes recover the Keplerian scaling exponent with a fitted slope of -1.4991. These results support a common factorized predictive principle across heterogeneous worlds, connecting world modeling with intervention and experimentally grounded scientific discovery. Code: https://github.com/Gen-Verse/JEPA-Anything

Tao-Yong Cui, Zhong-Yao Wang, Xin-Yue Xu et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Orthogonal JEPA: Factorized Predictive States for Latent World Models

Method, a latent world-modeling framework based on orthogonal predictive factorization, is introduced, a latent world-modeling framework based on orthogonal predictive factorization that can be used by a readout, decoder, planner, or autoregressive rollout of an underlying system.

Tao-Yong Cui, Pheng-Ann Heng, Wanli Ouyang · 0 citations

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