arXiv · 2510.00974
JEPA-T: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture with Text Fusion for Image Generation
Abstract
Modern Text-to-Image (T2I) generation increasingly relies on token-centric architectures that are trained with self-supervision, yet effectively fusing text with visual tokens remains a challenge. We propose \textbf{JEPA-T}, a unified multimodal framework that encodes images and captions into discrete visual and textual tokens, processed by a joint-embedding predictive Transformer. To enhance fusion, we incorporate cross-attention after the feature predictor for conditional denoising while maintaining a task-agnostic backbone. Additionally, raw texts embeddings are injected prior to the flow matching loss to improve alignment during training. During inference, the same network performs both class-conditional and free-text image generation by iteratively denoising visual tokens conditioned on text. Evaluations on ImageNet-1K demonstrate that JEPA-T achieves strong data efficiency, open-vocabulary generalization, and consistently outperforms non-fusion and late-fusion baselines. Our approach shows that late architectural fusion combined with objective-level alignment offers an effective balance between conditioning strength and backbone generality in token-based T2I.The code is now available: https://github.com/justin-herry/JEPA-T.git
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Siheng Wan, Zhengtao Yao, Zhengdao Li, Junhao Dong, Yanshu Li, Yikai Li, Linshan Li, Haoyan Xu, Yijiang Li, Zhikang Dong, Huacan Wang, Jifeng Shen. 2025-10-01. JEPA-T: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture with Text Fusion for Image Generation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00974
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