Questions tagged [autoencoders]
For questions about autoencoders, a type of unsupervised artificial network for learning efficient data codings.
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Can an Autoencoder be used to create a simple text-completion plugin (code-completion for programming)?
Can an Autoencoder neural network be used to create a simple code completion plugin for a developer using a certain programming language ?
The idea is that the training data will be generated from ...
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Why Autoencoder Weights Are Not Always Tied
To me, tying weights in an autoencoder makes sense if we think of the auto encoder as doing PCA. Why in any situation would it make sense to not tie the weights? If we don't tie the weights, would it ...
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Dealing with bias in multi-channel auto encoders
The problem
I have a multi-channel 1D signal I want to auto-encode.
I am unable to resonstruct the input when the number of channels increases.
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I am using a convolutional encoder, and a ...
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sequential autoencoder: RNN decoding comparing to RNN with attention decoding
I've implemented an RNN-ecnoder-decoder model and the same model with attention mechanism.
That is the RNN model:
and that is the attentioned model:
then I asked for a theoretical question:
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Underfitting a single batch: Can't cause autoencoder to overfit multi-sample batches of 1d data. How to debug?
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I am unable to overfit batches with multiple samples using autoencoder.
Fully connected decoder seems to handle more samples per batch than conv decoder, but then also fails when number of ...
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How does replacing states with latent representations help RL agents?
I have seen many papers using autoencoders to replace images (states) with latent representations. Some of those methods have shown higher rewards using such techniques. However, I do not understand ...
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variational auto encoder loss goes down but does not reconstruct input. out of debugging ideas
My variational autoencoder seems to work for MNIST, but fails on slightly "harder" data.
By "fails" I mean there are at least two apparent problems:
Very poor reconstruction, for ...
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VAE giving near zero output when latent space dimension is large
I'm training a VAE to reconstruct some input (channels picked up by some MIMO BS for context) and I ran an experiment on the training set to see how the performance improves with the latent space ...
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Is the char-CNN-RNN text encoder is an encoder part of an auto-encoder?
The char-CNN-RNN encoder is relatively a popular encoder. It was proposed in this paper.
Is it an encoder part of an autoencoder? Or an independent neural network?
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How to compare multiple one-class variational autoencoders?
I have trained multiple one-class vanilla variational autoencoders that each learn the distribution of one class and have the same architecture. The classes are mostly discrete, but there are several ...
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Literature on the advantages of using an auto-encoder for classification
Given a supervised problem with X, y input pairs, one can do two things for obtaining the function f that maps X with y with Neural Networks (and in general in machine learning):
Deploy directly a ...
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Autoencoder: predictions missing for nodes in the bottleneck layer
I'm using tf.Keras to build a deep-fully connected autoencoder. My input dataset is a dataframe with shape (19947,), and the purpose of the autoencoder is to predict normalized gene expression values. ...
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Compressing Parameters of an Response System
I have an input-output system, which is fully determined by 256 parameters, of which I know a significant amount are of less importance to the input-output pattern.
The data I have is some (64k in ...
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Which models can I use for supervised learning with images?
I have to do a project that detects fabric surface errors and I will use machine learning methods to deal with it. I have a dataset that includes around six thousand fabric surface images with the ...
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How can I improve the performance on unseen data for semantic segmentation using an auto-encoder?
I am using simple autoencoders for the task of semantic segmentation on the VOC2012 dataset. I am currently using a simple autoencoder based model. It is trained on adam optimizer with cross-entropy ...
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Why do we add additional axis in CNN autoencoder while denoising?
I am currently learning about autoencoders and I follow https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/generative/autoencoder
When denoising images, authors of tutorial add an additional axis to the data and I ...
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how to handle highly imbalanced multilabel classification?
I am working on a multilabel classification in which I am having 206 labels. When I saw the percentage of the number of 1's in each label they are way less than 0.1% for each label. The maximum ...
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Is it possible to have a variable-length latent vector in an autoencoder?
I'm trying to have a simple autoencoder but with variable latent length (the network can produce variable latent lengths with respect to the complexity of the input), but I've not seen any related ...
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How did they use their dataset with VAEs?
Old Photo Restoration via Deep Latent Space Translation (https://paperswithcode.com/paper/old-photo-restoration-via-deep-latent-space)
In the article, it says : "We propose to restore old photos ...
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Why does the training time of SVMs dramatically decrease after applying dimensionality reduction to the features?
Training an SVM with an RBF kernel model with c = 5.5 and gamma = 1.06, for a 5-class classification problem on the NSL-KDD ...
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Role of autoencoder in Hierarchical Extreme Learning Machine
I want to build HELM neural network that consists of autoencoder (AE) and one class classification (OC).
HELM with AE and OC have following shape:
That is, hidden layer output of AE is input of OC.
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Deep Continuous Clustering algorithm - just one output cluster
I use the DCC algorithm to cluster some data.
The whole algorithm is available here, but shortly it is:
construct mkNN graph of the data points (the connected components of it are the clusters).
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Are Autoencoders for noise-reduction only suited to deal with salt-and-pepper kind of noise?
I'm currently looking at NN to deal with noisy data. I like the Autoencoder approach https://medium.com/@aliaksei.mikhailiuk/unsupervised-learning-for-data-interpolation-e259cf5dc957 because it seems ...
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How to quantify the amount of information lost by the decoder NN in an AE?
Is there a way to quantify the amount of information lost in the lossy part of an autoencoder where the original input is compressed to a representation with less degrees of freedom?
I was thinking ...
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What is the time complexity for training a single-hidden layer auto-encoder?
What is the time complexity for training a single-hidden layer auto-encoder, for 1 epoch?
You can assume that there are $n$ training examples, $m$ features, and $k$ neurons in the hidden layer, and ...
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Enforcing sparsity constraints that make use of spatial contiguity
I have a deep learning network that outputs grayscale image reconstructions. In addition to good reconstruction performance (measured through mean squared error or some other measure like psnr), I ...
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Are there transformer-based architectures that can produce fixed-length vector encodings given arbitrary-length text documents?
BERT encodes a piece of text such that each token (usually words) in the input text map to a vector in the encoding of the text. However, this makes the length of the encoding vary as a function of ...
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Which type of feature extractor do you suggest to classify sensor data?
I have IMU (Inertial Measurment Unit- 6 axis) sensor data. The sensor attached on a car and 7 different drivers wipe on same path. I want to extract features and classify drivers. Which type of ...
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Why don't we use auto-encoders instead of GANs?
I have watched Stanford's lectures about artificial intelligence, I currently have one question: why don't we use autoencoders instead of GANs?
Basically, what GAN does is it receives a random vector ...
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What is the best activation function for the embedding layer in a deep auto-encoder?
I am designing a deep autoencoder for graph embedding (exactly node embedding) following this paper SDNE. In the original paper, they used the sigmoid activation for all hidden layers in the ...
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How to determine the number of hidden layers and units of a deep auto-encoder?
I am using a deep autoencoder for my problem. However, the way I choose the number of hidden layers and hidden units in a hidden layer is still based on my feeling.
The size of the model that ...
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Looking for the proper algorithm to compress many lowres images of nearby locations
I have an optimization problem that I'm looking for the right algorithm to solve.
What I have: A large set of low-res 360 images that were taken on a regular grid within a certain area. each of these ...
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How can a de-noising auto-encoder act as an anomaly detection model?
In some research papers, I have seen that, for training the autoencoders, instead of giving the non-anomalous input images, they add some anomalies to the normal input images, and train the auto-...
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What should the output of a neural network that needs to classify in an unsupervised fashion XOR data be?
XOR data, without labels:
[[0,0],[0,1],[1,0],[1,1]]
I'm using this network for auto-classifying XOR data:
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How much data do we need for making a successful de-noising auto-encoder?
Is there a guide how much data do you need for making successful denoising model using autoencoders?
Or the rule is, the more data, the better it is?
I tried with small dataset 350 samples, to see ...
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How can I have the same input and output shape in an auto-encoder?
I'm building a denoising autoencoder. I want to have the same input and output shape image.
This is my architecture:
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What are the main differences between sparse autoencoders and convolution autoencoders?
What are the main differences and similarities between sparse autoencoders and convolution autoencoders?
When should one be preferred over the other? What are their applications?
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Does the reduction of the dimensions over multiple layers allow more details to be stored within the final representation?
From : https://debuggercafe.com/implementing-deep-autoencoder-in-pytorch/
the following autoencoder is defined
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How estimate the minimum size of an autoencoder to overfit the training data?
Given e.g. $1$M vectors of $1000$ floating points each, where every point in vectors is sampled from a uniform distribution between $-1$ to $1$, how to estimate the minimum network size required ...
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Is it possible to have the latent vector of an auto-encoder with size 1?
Given e.g. 1M vectors of $1000$ floating points each, where every point in vectors is sampled from a uniform distribution between $-1$ to $1$:
Is it possible to have the bottleneck of the AE network ...
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How to evaluate the performance of an autoencoder trained on image data?
I am training an autoencoder on (general) image data.
I use binary crossentropy loss function, but it is not very informative when I want to evaluate the performance of my autoencoder.
An obvious ...
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How to convert something to vectors
I wanted to create an encoder, which is the first part of an autoencoder. I do not want to build the whole autoencoder but rather wanted to test whether my mobile device can support running an encoder ...
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How fast are autoencoders?
I was exploring image/video compression using Machine Learning. In there I discovered that autoencoders are used very frequently for this sort of thing. So I wanted to enquire:-
How fast are ...
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Can I use an autoencoder with high latent representational space?
I am trying to use a neural network to predict the next state output given the current state and action pairs. Both input and outputs are continuous variables. Due to the high dimensionality of each ...
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Can a variational auto-encoder learn images composed of random noise at each pixel (each drawn from the same distribution)?
Can a variational auto-encoder (VAE) learn images whose pixels have been generated from a Gaussian distribution (e.g. $N(0, 1)$), i.e. each pixel is a sample from $N(0, 1)$?
My gut feeling says no, ...
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Adding a dense layer after a conv2d layer in a convolutional autoencoder
I am trying to implement a convolutional autoencoder with a dense layer at the bottleneck do to some dimensional reduction. I have seen two approaches for this which arent particularly scalable. The ...
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Can denoising auto-encoders be convolutional and fully connected?
I have been reading lately on autoencoders a lot. I just wanted to summarize my understanding of denoising autoencoders. As far as I understand they can be
Fully connected (in which case, they will ...
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How can I use autoencoders to analyze patterns and classify them?
I generated a bunch of simulation data from a complex physical simulation that spits out patterns. I am trying to apply unsupervised learning to analyze the patterns and ideally classify them into ...
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How to get top 5 movies recommendations from Auto-Encoder
I have trained a model using Auto-encoder on movielens dataset. Below is how i trained the model.
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Why is exp used in encoder of VAE instead of using the value of standard deviation alone?
There's one VAE example here:
https://towardsdatascience.com/teaching-a-variational-autoencoder-vae-to-draw-mnist-characters-978675c95776.
And the source code of encoder can be found at the ...
