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Sep 2026
Beyond Textual Chain-of-Thought: JEPA-Conditioned Latent Reasoning for Large Audio Language Models
JELAR, a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA)-based latent reasoning framework that conditions latent reasoning supervision on acoustic representations learned from raw waveforms, demonstrates the effectiveness of JEPA-conditioned latent reasoning as an alternative to explicit textual CoT supervision.
Donghang Wu, Haoyang Zhang, Yizhou Peng et al.
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