Denoising Autoencoder Training Objective
The training objective of a denoising autoencoder is to identify the optimal parameters for the encoder () and decoder () to minimize reconstruction error. During training, a corrupted input is generated by adding noise to the original input . The model processes this noisy input, and the loss function—frequently chosen as cross-entropy loss—measures how effectively the decoder recovers the original . The objective to find the optimal parameters, and , is mathematically defined as:

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