What is an Autoencoder? - Unite.AI
https://www.unite.ai/what-is-an-autoencoder20.09.2020 · Autoencoders can be used for a wide variety of applications, but they are typically used for tasks like dimensionality reduction, data denoising, feature extraction, image generation, sequence to sequence prediction, and recommendation systems. Data denoising is the use of autoencoders to strip grain/noise from images.
machine learning - What are the purposes of autoencoders ...
ai.stackexchange.com › questions › 11405Mar 23, 2019 · Show activity on this post. Autoencoders are neural networks that learn a compressed representation of the input in order to later reconstruct it, so they can be used for dimensionality reduction. They are composed of an encoder and a decoder (which can be separate neural networks). Dimensionality reduction can be useful in order to deal with or attenuate the issues related to the curse of dimensionality, where data becomes sparse and it is more difficult to obtain "statistical significance".
Autoencoder - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoencoderAn autoencoder has two main parts: an encoder that maps the input into the code, and a decoder that maps the code to a reconstruction of the input. The simplest way to perform the copying task perfectly would be to duplicate the signal. Instead, autoencoders are typically forced to reconstruct the input approximately, preserving only the most relevant aspects of the data in the co…