[amarcheschi]

I've recently passed my deep and generative learning exam and in fact before you said vae something was resonating with me, although in our course it wasn't made explicit we were approximating an svd.

Staying in the field of autoencoder, it blows my mind how you can pass from denoising autoencoder (computer science) to scores and eventually matching flows (physics) quite seamlessly

[jmalicki]

To me, it's less that an autoencoder approximates an SVD, and more than an SVD is the OG autoencoder.