⏳ Autoencoder & Latent Space Visualizer

Squeeze an image down to a single glowing point — then drag that point and watch it morph.

📋 How To Use This Lab
  1. Pick a digit and press ▶ Encode & Decode — watch it squeeze through the hourglass into a glowing dot, then expand back out.
  2. Drag Latent Dimension down to 2D → the reconstruction turns blurry. Drag it up to 128D → it sharpens.
  3. In the 2D map below, drag the glowing dot away from its digit — watch the reconstruction morph live toward a different digit.
  4. Flip Show Error Heatmap → bright red spots show exactly where reconstruction went wrong.
Latent Dim = 32D
Latent pos = (−3.0, 2.0)
Reconstruction Error = 0.000
Encoder → Latent Bottleneck → Decoder Original Reconstructed 2D Latent Map — drag the glowing dot
Heatmap Off
Show Error Heatmap
⏳ HOURGLASSPick a digit and press Encode — I'll squeeze it down to one glowing point, then rebuild it from scratch.
🧑‍🏫 PROF. TORCHThe latent vector isn't a copy of the image — it's a learned SUMMARY. Everything outside it is genuinely gone.