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Jürgen Schmidhuber and Gary Marcus argue Yann LeCun's JEPA is functionally identical to Schmidhuber's 1992 Predictability Maximization

— The 1992 framework uses paired networks to prevent representational collapse.

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OPGary Marcus, MIT PhD and NYU Professor EmeritusGM#153Gary Marcus, MIT PhD and NYU Professor Emeritus|@GARYMARCUS

What I don’t get is why so few people care that LeCun is basically a thief. I really don’t get it.

10:58 AM · May 25, 2026 View on X
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Many users accused LeCun of repeatedly failing to credit Schmidhuber's 1992 predictability maximization ideas in his JEPA system, viewing the pattern as normalized theft of foundational work.

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