Unit 4 - Autoencoders

Question 1

What is the autoencoder?

Answer 1

A type of ANN that reduces the input to produce a latent space representation using an encoder and reconstruct it to the original form using a decoder

Question 2

What are the components of auto encoder?

Answer 2

Encoder
Code
Decoder

Question 3

Training an autoencoder:

Answer 3

Code size
Number of layers
Number of notes per layer
Loss function

Question 4

Types of autoencoder:

Answer 4

Undercomplete autoencoders
Regularised autoencoders
Sparse autoencoder
Denoising autoencoder
Stochastic encoder and decoder