Autoencoder Types

This repository contains implementations and examples of different types of autoencoders for various applications.

Types of Autoencoders

Purpose: Vanilla autoencoders learn efficient representations of data by compressing it into a latent-space representation and then reconstructing the original input from this representation.
Architecture: Typically consists of an encoder network that compresses the input data and a decoder network that reconstructs the input from the latent space representation.
Usage: Include instructions on how to train the vanilla autoencoder, example datasets used, and how to evaluate its performance.

Purpose: Denoising autoencoders are trained to remove noise from corrupted input data, thereby learning more robust feature representations.
Architecture: Similar to vanilla autoencoders but trained with noisy input and optimized to reconstruct clean data.
Usage: Describe how to prepare and use noisy datasets for training, and provide examples of denoising results.

Purpose: Convolutional autoencoders use convolutional layers for both the encoder and decoder, making them suitable for image data where spatial relationships are important.
Architecture: Encoder and decoder networks consist of convolutional and pooling layers, allowing them to learn hierarchical features.
Usage: Specify image preprocessing steps, training details, and demonstrate reconstruction quality with image examples.

Purpose: Variational autoencoders learn a latent-space representation that follows a probabilistic distribution, enabling generation of new data points.
Architecture: Includes an encoder that learns the parameters of the latent distribution and a decoder that generates data points from sampled latent variables.
Usage: Discuss the use of latent variables for generating new data, training VAEs with variational lower bounds, and provide examples of generated outputs.

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