Your Guide to Autoencoders

<p>Our minds extract and compress knowledge from the world, which we reuse to face other similar situations. One of the critical aspects of that process is that we don&rsquo;t store all the details of the actual event: just the essential information that allows us to recreate it.</p> <p>What if you could use Machine Learning to do the same thing? Could boil down knowledge into a reduced data space to be used later? That is what Autoencoders do.</p> <p>An autoencoder is an&nbsp;Artificial Neural Network&nbsp;algorithm capable of discovering structure within data to develop a compressed representation of some input. It does this, in simple terms, by learning to copy its input to its output.</p> <p>Autoencoders were designed to encode a data input into a compressed and meaningful representation and then decode it back such that the reconstructed output is as similar as possible to the original input. An autoencoder aims to learn a lower-dimensional representation of higher-dimensional data while maintaining the most crucial information from the initial input.</p> <p><a href="https://lopezyse.medium.com/your-guide-to-autoencoders-522536799616">Website</a></p>