Denoising Autoencoders

Closed weights University of Montreal / Université de Montréal July 2008

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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 the country recorded as Canada, during July 2008. The publishing organisation is categorised as academia.

It works in the domain of Other, and is recorded as performing the task of 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

Training consumed a corpus of around 7,840,000 tokens of text.

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

Answers

Denoising Autoencoders — common questions

01

Denoising Autoencoders— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This 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

Denoising Autoencoders— is it open source?

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

03

Denoising Autoencoders— how many parameters does it have?

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

04

Denoising Autoencoders— who created it?

It was published by University of Montreal / Université de Montréal, based in Canada, an organisation categorised as academia.

05

Denoising Autoencoders— when was it released?

It 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

Denoising Autoencoders— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Other, and is recorded as handling the task of 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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