Deep Autoencoders
(Hinton & Salakhutdinov, Science 2006)
Autoencoders always looked like a really nice
way to do non-linear dimensionality reduction:
They provide mappings both ways
The learning time and memory both scale
linearly with the number of training cases.
The final model is compact and fast.
But it turned out to be very very difficult to
optimize deep autoencoders using backprop.
We now have a much better way to optimize
them.