Denoising Autoencoders

Closed weights University of Montreal / Université de Montréal July 2008

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No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

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Origin

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Organisation
University of Montreal / Université de Montréal
Organisation type
Academia
Country
Canada
Published
5 July 2008
Authors
Pascal Vincent, Hugo Larechelle, Yoshua Bengio, Pierre- Antoine Manzagol

What it does

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Domain
Other
Task
Image classification

Size

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Training data
7,840,000 tokens

How it is classified

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Why it is tracked
Highly cited
Record confidence
Unknown
Citations
7,894

Sources

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Reference
Extracting and Composing Robust Features with Denoising Autoencoders
Last updated
1 January 2026

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

Denoising Autoencoders was published by University of Montreal / Université de Montréal, in Canada, in July 2008. The organisation is categorised as academia.

It works in Other, and is recorded as doing image classification.

Because the weights are not available, none of the hardware figures elsewhere on this site apply to it.

What went into building it

Around 7,840,000 tokens went into training it.

It is tracked in the underlying dataset for one reason in particular: highly cited.

Answers

Denoising Autoencoders — common questions

01

What GPU do I need to run Denoising Autoencoders?

None. Denoising Autoencoders is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

02

Is Denoising Autoencoders open source?

The licensing for Denoising Autoencoders was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

03

How many parameters does Denoising Autoencoders have?

No parameter count has been published for Denoising Autoencoders, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

04

Who created Denoising Autoencoders?

Denoising Autoencoders was published by University of Montreal / Université de Montréal, based in Canada, categorised as academia.

05

When was Denoising Autoencoders released?

Denoising Autoencoders was published in July 2008. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

06

What is Denoising Autoencoders used for?

Denoising Autoencoders works in Other, and is recorded as handling image classification. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 1 January 2026

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