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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: >-
+  This package implements the SIGReg method from the LeJEPA paper. If you use it,
+  please cite the paper below (and, optionally, this software implementation).
+title: "jepa_science: a standalone PyTorch implementation of SIGReg (LeJEPA)"
+type: software
+license: Apache-2.0
+repository-code: "https://github.com/gabsalvo/jepa_science"
+abstract: >-
+  A clean, standalone PyTorch implementation of Sketched Isotropic Gaussian
+  Regularization (SIGReg) plus a minimal, annotated LeJEPA training demo on
+  CIFAR-10. Implemented clean-room from the paper's mathematics.
+references:
+  - type: article
+    title: >-
+      LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the
+      Heuristics
+    authors:
+      - family-names: Balestriero
+        given-names: Randall
+      - family-names: LeCun
+        given-names: Yann
+    year: 2025
+    identifiers:
+      - type: other
+        value: "arXiv:2511.08544"
+        description: arXiv preprint
+    url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08544"
+preferred-citation:
+  type: article
+  title: >-
+    LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics
+  authors:
+    - family-names: Balestriero
+      given-names: Randall
+    - family-names: LeCun
+      given-names: Yann
+  year: 2025
+  url: "https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08544"

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+This package is an independent, clean-room implementation of the method
+"Sketched Isotropic Gaussian Regularization" (SIGReg) described in:
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+    Randall Balestriero and Yann LeCun.
+    "LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the
+    Heuristics." arXiv:2511.08544 (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08544
+
+The code in this repository was written from the mathematical description in
+that paper (the SIGReg objective, the hyperspherical Cramer-Wold reduction, the
+Epps-Pulley characteristic-function statistic, and trapezoidal quadrature).
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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: jepa-science
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Sketched Isotropic Gaussian Regularization (SIGReg) from LeJEPA — a clean, standalone PyTorch primitive.
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/gabsalvo/jepa_science
+Project-URL: Paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08544
+Project-URL: Reference implementation, https://github.com/rbalestr-lab/lejepa
+Author: jepa_science contributors
+License-Expression: Apache-2.0
+License-File: LICENSE
+License-File: NOTICE
+Keywords: jepa,lejepa,pytorch,representation-learning,self-supervised-learning,sigreg
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
+Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
+Classifier: Typing :: Typed
+Requires-Python: >=3.9
+Requires-Dist: numpy>=1.23
+Requires-Dist: torch>=2.0
+Provides-Extra: demo
+Requires-Dist: matplotlib>=3.6; extra == 'demo'
+Requires-Dist: torchvision>=0.15; extra == 'demo'
+Provides-Extra: dev
+Requires-Dist: pytest>=7.0; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: scipy>=1.10; extra == 'dev'
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+# jepa_science
+
+**A clean, standalone PyTorch implementation of SIGReg** — the *Sketched Isotropic
+Gaussian Regularization* loss from LeJEPA ([Balestriero & LeCun, 2025,
+arXiv:2511.08544](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08544)) — plus a minimal, heavily
+annotated LeJEPA training demo on CIFAR-10.
+
+[![tests](https://img.shields.io/badge/tests-passing-brightgreen)](tests)
+[![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue)](LICENSE)
+
+## What is JEPA?
+
+A **Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA)** learns representations by
+predicting the embedding of one view of an input from the embedding of another,
+*in latent space* rather than in pixel space. The danger is **collapse**: the
+encoder can trivially satisfy the prediction objective by mapping everything to a
+constant. Existing methods fight collapse with heuristics — stop-gradients,
+teacher/student networks, EMA targets, schedulers.
+
+## What is SIGReg?
+
+LeJEPA proves that the *optimal* embedding distribution for minimizing downstream
+risk is the **standard isotropic Gaussian `N(0, I)`**, and introduces **SIGReg** to
+push embeddings toward it — the single, principled anti-collapse term. SIGReg works
+by a sketch:
+
+1. **Cramér–Wold** (paper Lemma 3): two distributions are equal iff *all* their 1-D
+   projections are equal. So matching `N(0, I)` reduces to making every projection
+   `aᵀz` look like `N(0, 1)`.
+2. **Slice**: sample `K` random unit directions, project the batch onto each.
+3. **Test**: on each 1-D projection apply the **Epps–Pulley** statistic — the
+   weighted L² distance between the sample's empirical characteristic function and
+   that of `N(0, 1)`, computed by trapezoidal quadrature.
+
+The loss is the mean of that statistic over the slices. It is minimized exactly
+when the embeddings have zero mean *and identity covariance* and are Gaussian along
+every direction — which is precisely why it prevents collapse. It has linear time
+and memory cost and bounded, stable gradients (paper Theorem 4).
+
+## Why this exists
+
+The reference repo bundles SIGReg inside a full training framework. This package
+pulls it out as a **clean, dependency-light primitive** (`torch` + `numpy`) — a
+SciPy-style building block you can drop into any JEPA/SSL pipeline — and pairs it
+with a **runnable, readable demo** so you can watch embeddings Gaussianize.
+
+> **Provenance:** this is a *clean-room* implementation written from the paper's
+> mathematics. It does **not** copy code from the reference repository (which ships
+> under a NonCommercial `CC BY-NC 4.0` license, incompatible with this package's
+> Apache-2.0). Methods/algorithms aren't copyrightable; the code here is original.
+> See [`NOTICE`](NOTICE).
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install jepa-science            # the primitive (torch + numpy)
+pip install "jepa-science[demo]"    # + torchvision & matplotlib for the CIFAR-10 demo
+```
+
+From source:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/gabsalvo/jepa_science && cd jepa_science
+pip install -e ".[demo,dev]"
+```
+
+## Quickstart
+
+```python
+import torch
+from jepa_science import sigreg_loss, SIGReg
+
+z = torch.randn(256, 64, requires_grad=True)   # (batch, embedding_dim)
+
+# Functional form:
+loss = sigreg_loss(z, num_slices=1024)         # scalar; minimized at N(0, I)
+
+# Module form (precomputes quadrature buffers, moves with .to(device)):
+criterion = SIGReg(num_slices=1024)
+loss = criterion(z)
+loss.backward()
+```
+
+Use it in a LeJEPA-style objective with the single trade-off hyperparameter `λ`:
+
+```python
+embedding_loss = lam * sigreg_loss(z) + (1 - lam) * prediction_loss   # λ ≈ 0.05
+```
+
+`sigreg_loss` returns **only** the SIGReg statistic — `λ` and the JEPA prediction
+term live in your training loop (see `lejepa_lite/`), keeping this a standalone
+primitive.
+
+## Watch it not collapse
+
+Minimizing **only** SIGReg turns an anisotropic, partially-collapsed batch into
+`N(0, I)`: the covariance condition number → 1, the smallest variance is pushed
+*up* away from zero (anti-collapse), and a random 1-D projection matches the
+`N(0,1)` density. Reproduce with `python docs/make_figure.py`:
+
+![SIGReg drives embeddings to an isotropic Gaussian](docs/not_collapse.png)
+
+Run the full LeJEPA demo on CIFAR-10:
+
+```bash
+python -m lejepa_lite.train                 # downloads CIFAR-10, trains, saves plots
+python -m lejepa_lite.train --smoke         # tiny CPU run, no download (also CI path)
+```
+
+## Tests
+
+```bash
+pytest            # CPU-only, deterministic
+```
+
+The suite proves correctness against an **independent numpy oracle** and a
+**hand-verified golden value** (cross-checked against a high-accuracy `scipy.quad`
+integral — see `SPEC.md` §6.2), asserts the **Theorem 4 gradient bound**
+numerically, and demonstrates **collapse avoidance** on a toy tensor.
+
+## Fidelity notes (this implementation vs. the paper/reference)
+
+We follow the authors' *runnable* reference numerics where the paper text and code
+diverge, and flag every divergence here so nothing is silent:
+
+| Knob | Paper text | Reference code | **This package (default)** |
+|------|-----------|----------------|----------------------------|
+| Quadrature window | `w(t)=e^{-t²/σ²}`, `σ=1` (`e^{-t²}`) | `e^{-t²/2}` (`σ=√2`) | `e^{-t²/2}` |
+| Integration domain | `[-5, 5]` | `[0, 3]` folded (=±3) | `[0, 3]` folded |
+| Quadrature knots | 17 | 17 | 17 |
+| Slices `K` | 1024 | 256 (`MINIMAL.md`) | **1024** |
+| `λ` (trade-off) | 0.05 | 0.02 (`MINIMAL.md`) | **0.05** (in the demo) |
+
+Other deliberate choices: SIGReg does **not** internally center/whiten embeddings
+(doing so would mask collapse — any full-rank covariance would pass); the demo uses
+**CIFAR-10** and a small CNN (the reference used Imagenette + ViT-small, so this is
+*not* a benchmark-parity claim); and DDP/`all_reduce` is out of scope for v1.
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use this software, please cite the LeJEPA paper:
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{balestriero2025lejepa,
+  title  = {LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics},
+  author = {Randall Balestriero and Yann LeCun},
+  year   = {2025},
+  eprint = {2511.08544},
+  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
+  primaryClass  = {cs.LG},
+  url    = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08544}
+}
+```
+
+See [`CITATION.cff`](CITATION.cff) to cite this implementation as well.
+
+## License
+
+[Apache-2.0](LICENSE). The implemented *method* is from the LeJEPA paper; this code
+is an independent expression of it (see [`NOTICE`](NOTICE)).

jepa_science-0.1.0/README.md

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+# jepa_science
+
+**A clean, standalone PyTorch implementation of SIGReg** — the *Sketched Isotropic
+Gaussian Regularization* loss from LeJEPA ([Balestriero & LeCun, 2025,
+arXiv:2511.08544](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08544)) — plus a minimal, heavily
+annotated LeJEPA training demo on CIFAR-10.
+
+[![tests](https://img.shields.io/badge/tests-passing-brightgreen)](tests)
+[![license](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue)](LICENSE)
+
+## What is JEPA?
+
+A **Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA)** learns representations by
+predicting the embedding of one view of an input from the embedding of another,
+*in latent space* rather than in pixel space. The danger is **collapse**: the
+encoder can trivially satisfy the prediction objective by mapping everything to a
+constant. Existing methods fight collapse with heuristics — stop-gradients,
+teacher/student networks, EMA targets, schedulers.
+
+## What is SIGReg?
+
+LeJEPA proves that the *optimal* embedding distribution for minimizing downstream
+risk is the **standard isotropic Gaussian `N(0, I)`**, and introduces **SIGReg** to
+push embeddings toward it — the single, principled anti-collapse term. SIGReg works
+by a sketch:
+
+1. **Cramér–Wold** (paper Lemma 3): two distributions are equal iff *all* their 1-D
+   projections are equal. So matching `N(0, I)` reduces to making every projection
+   `aᵀz` look like `N(0, 1)`.
+2. **Slice**: sample `K` random unit directions, project the batch onto each.
+3. **Test**: on each 1-D projection apply the **Epps–Pulley** statistic — the
+   weighted L² distance between the sample's empirical characteristic function and
+   that of `N(0, 1)`, computed by trapezoidal quadrature.
+
+The loss is the mean of that statistic over the slices. It is minimized exactly
+when the embeddings have zero mean *and identity covariance* and are Gaussian along
+every direction — which is precisely why it prevents collapse. It has linear time
+and memory cost and bounded, stable gradients (paper Theorem 4).
+
+## Why this exists
+
+The reference repo bundles SIGReg inside a full training framework. This package
+pulls it out as a **clean, dependency-light primitive** (`torch` + `numpy`) — a
+SciPy-style building block you can drop into any JEPA/SSL pipeline — and pairs it
+with a **runnable, readable demo** so you can watch embeddings Gaussianize.
+
+> **Provenance:** this is a *clean-room* implementation written from the paper's
+> mathematics. It does **not** copy code from the reference repository (which ships
+> under a NonCommercial `CC BY-NC 4.0` license, incompatible with this package's
+> Apache-2.0). Methods/algorithms aren't copyrightable; the code here is original.
+> See [`NOTICE`](NOTICE).
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install jepa-science            # the primitive (torch + numpy)
+pip install "jepa-science[demo]"    # + torchvision & matplotlib for the CIFAR-10 demo
+```
+
+From source:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/gabsalvo/jepa_science && cd jepa_science
+pip install -e ".[demo,dev]"
+```
+
+## Quickstart
+
+```python
+import torch
+from jepa_science import sigreg_loss, SIGReg
+
+z = torch.randn(256, 64, requires_grad=True)   # (batch, embedding_dim)
+
+# Functional form:
+loss = sigreg_loss(z, num_slices=1024)         # scalar; minimized at N(0, I)
+
+# Module form (precomputes quadrature buffers, moves with .to(device)):
+criterion = SIGReg(num_slices=1024)
+loss = criterion(z)
+loss.backward()
+```
+
+Use it in a LeJEPA-style objective with the single trade-off hyperparameter `λ`:
+
+```python
+embedding_loss = lam * sigreg_loss(z) + (1 - lam) * prediction_loss   # λ ≈ 0.05
+```
+
+`sigreg_loss` returns **only** the SIGReg statistic — `λ` and the JEPA prediction
+term live in your training loop (see `lejepa_lite/`), keeping this a standalone
+primitive.
+
+## Watch it not collapse
+
+Minimizing **only** SIGReg turns an anisotropic, partially-collapsed batch into
+`N(0, I)`: the covariance condition number → 1, the smallest variance is pushed
+*up* away from zero (anti-collapse), and a random 1-D projection matches the
+`N(0,1)` density. Reproduce with `python docs/make_figure.py`:
+
+![SIGReg drives embeddings to an isotropic Gaussian](docs/not_collapse.png)
+
+Run the full LeJEPA demo on CIFAR-10:
+
+```bash
+python -m lejepa_lite.train                 # downloads CIFAR-10, trains, saves plots
+python -m lejepa_lite.train --smoke         # tiny CPU run, no download (also CI path)
+```
+
+## Tests
+
+```bash
+pytest            # CPU-only, deterministic
+```
+
+The suite proves correctness against an **independent numpy oracle** and a
+**hand-verified golden value** (cross-checked against a high-accuracy `scipy.quad`
+integral — see `SPEC.md` §6.2), asserts the **Theorem 4 gradient bound**
+numerically, and demonstrates **collapse avoidance** on a toy tensor.
+
+## Fidelity notes (this implementation vs. the paper/reference)
+
+We follow the authors' *runnable* reference numerics where the paper text and code
+diverge, and flag every divergence here so nothing is silent:
+
+| Knob | Paper text | Reference code | **This package (default)** |
+|------|-----------|----------------|----------------------------|
+| Quadrature window | `w(t)=e^{-t²/σ²}`, `σ=1` (`e^{-t²}`) | `e^{-t²/2}` (`σ=√2`) | `e^{-t²/2}` |
+| Integration domain | `[-5, 5]` | `[0, 3]` folded (=±3) | `[0, 3]` folded |
+| Quadrature knots | 17 | 17 | 17 |
+| Slices `K` | 1024 | 256 (`MINIMAL.md`) | **1024** |
+| `λ` (trade-off) | 0.05 | 0.02 (`MINIMAL.md`) | **0.05** (in the demo) |
+
+Other deliberate choices: SIGReg does **not** internally center/whiten embeddings
+(doing so would mask collapse — any full-rank covariance would pass); the demo uses
+**CIFAR-10** and a small CNN (the reference used Imagenette + ViT-small, so this is
+*not* a benchmark-parity claim); and DDP/`all_reduce` is out of scope for v1.
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use this software, please cite the LeJEPA paper:
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{balestriero2025lejepa,
+  title  = {LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics},
+  author = {Randall Balestriero and Yann LeCun},
+  year   = {2025},
+  eprint = {2511.08544},
+  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
+  primaryClass  = {cs.LG},
+  url    = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08544}
+}
+```
+
+See [`CITATION.cff`](CITATION.cff) to cite this implementation as well.
+
+## License
+
+[Apache-2.0](LICENSE). The implemented *method* is from the LeJEPA paper; this code
+is an independent expression of it (see [`NOTICE`](NOTICE)).