VL-JEPA: Why Predicting Embeddings Beats Generating Tokens for Vision-Language AI2025-12-30T12:00:00Z•15 min read#vision language#jepa#deep learning#multimodal ai#self-supervised learningVL-JEPA achieves 50% parameter reduction and 2.85x faster decoding by predicting embeddings instead of generating tokens, offering a compelling alternative to autoregressive vision-language models.