Week 14: Autoencoders and VAEs

DATA 442/642 · Week 14

Module 6 — Autoencoders and VAEs

Notes

• 14.1 Autoencoders(slides)
• 14.2 Autoencoders, Part II(slides)
• 14.3 Variational Autoencoders(slides)

Additional

• Autoencoders(PDF)
• U-Net(PDF)
• U-Net notes(PDF)

Discussion

• A linear autoencoder with squared loss is close to which classical method?
• What problem does the reparameterization trick solve?