CS-JEPA: Decentralized Predictive Architecture for Swarm Robotics
ITMO · hf · 2026-08-03
CS-JEPA (Collective-State JEPA) is a recurrent joint-embedding predictive architecture that solves shared-state prediction in decentralized robot swarms, allowing every robot to predict a common future state from local observations and bandwidth-limited messages.
Technical Features & Results:
- Low Bandwidth: At deployment, each robot uses a 16-frame local history and one 64-float recurrent message per directed edge, requiring no global pooling or recorded future actions.
- High Label Efficiency: Pretrained without downstream collective labels, frozen representations are evaluated with ridge probes fitted on just 6 to 24 labeled episodes.
- Significant Performance Gains: Compared to raw-future reconstruction, CS-JEPA improves prediction-error and inter-robot-agreement across various topologies (up to 108 robots).
- Enhanced Planning: Reduces branch-value MSE by 45.5% and improves candidate-score Pearson correlation during planning tasks.
The architecture demonstrates that common-future JEPA targets serve as a label-efficient primitive for decentralized swarm prediction.
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