Generative AI Models: Getting Started with Autoencoders
Dive into unsupervised learning with autoencoders. Train models to reconstruct high-dimensional images and denoise corrupted images using PyTorch in colab.
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About this course
Autoencoders are a class of artificial neural networks employed in unsupervised learning tasks, primarily focused on data compression and feature learning. Begin this course off by exploring autoencoders, learning about the functions of the encoder and the decoder in the model. Next, you will learn how to create and train an autoencoder, using the Google Colab environment. Then you will use PyTorch to create the neural networks for the autoencoder, and you will train the model to reconstruct high-dimensional, grayscale images. You will also use convolutional autoencoders to work with multichannel color images. Finally, you will make use of the denoising autoencoder, a type of model that takes in a corrupted image with Gaussian noise, and attempts to reconstruct the original clean image, thus learning better representations of the input data. In conclusion, this course will provide you with a solid understanding of basic autoencoders and their use cases.
Learning objectives
- Discover the key concepts covered in this course
- Recall how autoencoders work
- Provide an overview of the autoencoder architecture

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