Autoencoders are one of my favourite Neural Networks!
They are simple yet so powerful!
Today, We'll understand:
- What Autoencoders are❓
- How they are trained
- The applications of Autoencoders
- And how to implement them from scratch using PyTorch Lightning!⚡️
Let's go! 🚀
Autoencoders have two main parts:
1️⃣ Encoder: Compresses the input into a dense representation (latent space)
2️⃣ Decoder: Reconstructs the input from this dense representation.
The idea is to make the reconstructed output as close to the original input as possible:👇
Applications of Autoencoders:
- Dimensionality Reduction: Like PCA but cooler. 😎
- Anomaly Detection: If reconstruction error is high, something's fishy!
- Data Denoising: Clean noisy data by training on noise.
A glimpse on how a denoising autoencoder is trained:👇