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Sharp Reconstruction Bounds for Autoencoders Using the Same Forward Map

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

We study reconstruction in autoencoders that apply the same forward map before and after setting the observed coordinates to zero. For equal odd input and hidden dimensions $d\geq 3$, among orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms whose Jacobian singular values lie in $[m,M]$, we show that the least uniform reconstruction-derivative error is $\max\{1-M(M-m)/2,0\}$, with affine maps attaining this sharp bound at every prescribed depth. A translated radial rotation can nevertheless reconstruct any prescribed ball exactly with singular values arbitrarily close to one, motivating additional conditio

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