Autoencoder neural networks: what and how?

Clear, elementary instructions as to how to build an autoencoder network in Keras for beginners

Preface

I’ll be walking through the creation of an autoencoder using Keras and Python. First, I’ll address what an autoencoder is and how would we possibly implement one. Then I’ll go through steps of actually creating one. Probably going to use MNIST because it’s generic and simple.