Journal on Communications ›› 2021, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (9): 218-230.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2021160

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Review on autoencoder and its application

Jie LAI1, Xiaodan WANG1, Qian XIANG1, Yafei SONG1, Wen QUAN2   

  1. 1 School of Air and Missile Defense, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710051, China
    2 School of Air Traffic Control and Navigation, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710051, China
  • Revised:2021-07-29 Online:2021-09-25 Published:2021-09-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61876189);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61806219);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61703426);The Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province(2021JM—226)

Abstract:

As a typical deep unsupervised learning model, autoencoder can automatically learn effective abstract features from unlabeled samples.In recent years, autoencoder has been widely used in target recognition, intrusion detection, fault diagnosis and many other fields.Thus, the theoretical basis, improved methods, application fields and research directions of autoencoder were described and summarized comprehensively.At first, the network structure, theoretical derivation and algorithm flow of traditional autoencoder were introduced and analyzed, and the difference between autoencoder and other unsupervised learning algorithms was compared.Then, common improved autoencoders were discussed, and their innovation, improvement methods and relative merits were analyzed.Next, the practical application status of autoencoder in target recognition, intrusion detection and other fields were introduced.At last, the existing problems of autoencoder were summarized, and the possible research directions were prospected.

Key words: autoencoder, deep learning, unsupervised learning, feature extraction, regularization

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