Latent JEPA: Abstract Future Prediction for Latent Reasoning in Chemistry
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Latent JEPA is a new framework that trains continuous latent thoughts to anticipate informative aspects of future solutions in chemical reasoning, without verbalizing every intermediate step. It combines autoregressive learning with joint-embedding prediction of one or more future views, using textual and molecular prediction objectives that link latent thoughts to subsequent reasoning and molecular outcomes. Experiments on ChemCoTBench demonstrate improvements in molecular optimization, editing, and reaction metrics, and representation analyses show that future prediction makes latent thoughts more informative about molecular outcomes and better aligned with chemical structure.
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