Self-supervised learning from large-scale video data has emerged as a dominant paradigm for visual representation learning. Since audio and visual streams naturally co-occur in video data, extending this success to jointly learn from both modalities is a natural next step, yet it remains challenging.
arXiv:2607. 15295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present AV-JEPA, an elegant multimodal extension of LeJEPA to audio-visual self-supervised learning.
By Benjamin Robson, Santeri Mentu, Wenshuai Zhao, Arno Solin
arXiv:2606. 05173v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Masked language modelling (MLM) has been the dominant pre-training objective for text encoders since BERT, yet it encourages representations that are strongly anchored to surface-form token identity rather than deeper semantic structure.
By Aimen Boukhari
arXiv:2606. 14958v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the Massive Video Embedding Benchmark (MVEB), a 23-task benchmark for video embeddings spanning classification, zero-shot classification, clustering, pair classification, retrieval, and video-centric question answering.
By Adnan El Assadi, Roman Solomatin, Isaac Chung, Chenghao Xiao, Deep Shah, Manan Dey, Shriya Sudhakar, Zacharie Bugaud, Wissam Siblini, Ayush Sunil Munot, Yashwanth Devavarapu, Rakshitha Ireddi, Michelle Yang, M\'arton Kardos, Niklas Muennighoff, Kenneth Enevoldsen
arXiv:2608. 19863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has driven substantial progress in audio representation learning, though existing methods have increasingly relied on elaborate pre-training recipes to reach competitive performance.
By Umberto Cappellazzo, Xubo Liu, Stavros Petridis, Maja Pantic
arXiv:2607. 10299v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large-scale multimodal models have drivenremarkable progress in vision-language tasks; however, comprehensiveomni-modal understanding remains under-explored, largely due to thescarcity of datasets with rich, explicitly aligned auditory cues.
By Kaiying Yan, Luoyi Sun, Xiao Zhou, Weidi Xie
arXiv:2608. 01336v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern autonomous-driving fleets record far more video than human reviewers can inspect.
By Advait Pavuluri, Shamik Karkhanis, Uzma Mushtaque
The paper introduces a generalized multimodal foundation model that can handle arbitrary combinations of modalities and prediction tasks. It trains on large-scale synthetic multimodal datasets with diverse causal structures to learn transferable multimodal correlations. Experiments on 18 real-world datasets across 12 modalities and 11 tasks show competitive performance compared to specialized models without task-specific adaptation.
By Huizi Cui, Zongbo Han, Chenggong Ding, Naichuan Xiao, Jialong Yang, Jingdong Chen, Guangyu Wang, Qinghua Hu, Changqing Zhang
arXiv:2608.31106v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent video generators often omit audio or synthesize it in a separate stage, limiting reciprocal modeling of visual dynamics and acoustic events. We...
By Jiashu Zhu, Yanhao Zheng, Ruitian Tian, Rujing Dang, Shen Zhang, Bingze Song, Jiachen Lei, Ruimin Lin, Jiahong Wu, Xiangxiang Chu
arXiv:2608.30974v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) has shown strong performance in learning rich representations through self-supervised prediction in la...
By Gabriel Meseguer-Brocal, Yuexuan Kong, Romain Hennequin
arXiv:2602. 03570v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Audio-visual joint representation learning under Cross-Modal Generalization (CMG) aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source modality to an unlabeled target modality through a unified discrete representation space.
By Bixing Wu, Yuhong Zhao, Zongli Ye, Jiachen Lian, Xiangyu Yue, Gopala Anumanchipalli
arXiv:2607. 07907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing adoption of VLMs, DMs, LLMs, and AFMs, these multimodal foundation models can inadvertently encode sensitive, copyrighted, biased, or unsafe cross-modal associations that originate from their training data.
By Nobin Sarwar, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Zheyuan Liu, Vaidehi Patil