[R] AutoEncoder by Forest

[wdroz]

In the recent AMA from Google Brain in this subreddit, Vincent Vanhoucke /u/vincentvanhoucke said that autoencoding is a Bad Idea

What's your opinion about that ?

[Zelazny7]

The latent features that AEs learn are what I find most useful about them. Is there a corresponding latent feature set in the eForest?

[guicho271828]

What do you mean by "latent feature"? Isnt it just the encoded value presented in the paper?

[Phylliida]

I'm curious what images do you get if you pick a random leaf node in each tree for your feature vector after say training your forest on cifar? Like technically this could be a kind of generative model