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Autoencoder

Models & Architectures

Unsupervised model for compression and reconstruction.


Autoencoders learn a latent representation by reconstructing their input data.

  • Applications: Dimensionality reduction, denoising, pretraining.
  • Variants: Convolutional, denoising, sparse, variational (VAE).
  • Considerations: Latent space quality, reconstruction loss, overfitting.