Denoising autoencoders
Autoencoders can be used to determine under-complete representations of a dataset. However, Bengio et al. (in Vincent P., Larochelle H., Lajoie I., Bengio Y., Manzagol P., Stacked Denoising Autoencoders: Learning Useful Representations in a Deep Network with a Local Denoising Criterion, from the Journal of Machine Learning Research, 11/2010) proposed using autoencoders to denoise the input samples rather than learning the exact representation of a sample in order to rebuild it from low-dimensional code.
This is not a brand-new idea, because, for example, Hopfield networks (proposed a few decades ago) had the same purpose, but their limitations in terms of capacity led researchers to look for different methods. Nowadays, deep autoencoders can easily manage high-dimensional data (such as images) with a consequent space requirement. That's why many people are now reconsidering the idea of teaching a network how to rebuild a sample image starting from...