Deep Dive Into The Mind Of Autoencoders & Visualize Their Internals

Learn how Autoencoders work by writing one from scratch and plotting its internal state

What Is An Autoencoder?

An Autoencoder is a neural network that consists of:

• Encoder — a neural network trained to encode a given high-dimensional item (such as image/ text/ audio) into a lower-dimensional space. 

• Decoder — a neural network trained to decode the lower-dimensional space to produce a high-dimensional item.