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Partially Linear Autoencoders for Manifold Learning and Dimensionality Reduction

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 30, 2026 · UTC

Autoencoders are widely used for nonlinear dimensionality reduction and manifold learning. While most common implementations rely on both nonlinear encoders and decoders, we investigate the specific role of the encoder and the extent to which it can be constrained to be linear without reducing accuracy. We conduct a comparative study on four autoencoder architectures: standard fully nonlinear autoencoders (AE), linear-encoder autoencoders (Lenc-AE), linear-decoder autoencoders (Ldec-AE), and fully linear autoencoders (LAE), evaluated on synthetic manifolds, computational mechanics data sets, a

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