109M text-JEPA beats zero-shot results of LLMs up to 8B: 64% vs 56% on ImageNet100

randall_balestr · x · 2026-10-30

Another key result from the PRH thread: on Phillip Isola's latest pair-free benchmark, the 109M text-JEPA beats every reported zero-shot result from LLMs up to 8B — 64% vs 56% accuracy on ImageNet100 — without ever using image-text pairs. The attached table shows the full comparison.

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