A Practical guide to Autoencoders

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Usually in a conventional neural network, one tries to predict a target vector $y$ from input vectors $x$. In an auto-encoder network, one tries to predict $x$ from $x$. It is trivial to learn a mapping from $x$ to $x$ if the network has no constraints, but if the network is constrained the learning process becomes more interesting. In this article, we are going to take a detailed look at the mathematics of different types of autoencoders (with different constraints) along with a sample implementation of it using Keras, with a tensorflow back-end.

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Descriptive Statistics

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One of the first tasks involved in any data science project is to get to understand the data. This can be extremely beneficial for several reasons: Catch mistakes in data See patterns in data Find violations of statistical assumptions Generate hypotheses etc. We can think of this task as an exercise in summarization of the data. To summarize the main characteristics of the data, often two methods are used: numerical and graphical.

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Exploring Multiple Variables

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In this section, we will continue re-using the data from the previous post based on Pseudo Facebook data from udacity.

The data from the project corresponds to a typical data set at Facebook. You can load the data through the following command. Notice that this is a TAB delimited tsv file. This data set consists of 99000 rows of data. We will see the details of different columns using the command below.

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Pseudo Facebook Data - Exploring Two Variables

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In this section, we will be re-using the data from the previous post based on Pseudo Facebook data from udacity.

The data from the project corresponds to a typical data set at Facebook. You can load the data through the following command. Notice that this is a TAB delimited csv file. This data set consists of 99000 rows of data. We will see the details of different columns using the command below.

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