How to pronounce I-JEPA

I-JEPA is most commonly pronounced "eye jep uh" (/ˌaɪ ˈdʒɛpə/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Meta's image self-supervised model (Image JEPA); the 'I' is the letter 'eye' /aɪ/ and JEPA is one word /ˈdʒɛpə/ rhyming with 'pepper', so 'eye-JEP-uh' — the way LeCun voices the suffix. Predicts in latent space, not pixels.

Source: Assran et al., 'Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture' (arXiv 2301.08243, CVPR 2023)

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