@article{varjepaavariationalformulationofthejoint, title = {Var-JEPA: A Variational Formulation of the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture - Bridging Predictive and Generative Self-Supervised Learning}, author = {Moritz Gögl and Christopher Yau}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2603.20111}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20111}, }