of details feed-forward neural networks recurrent neural networks and all these type are solving for particular problems like computer vision machine translations and so forth Auto encoders are a part of the family of neural networks so yeah so as milady mentioned before right Auto encoders are a type of neural network whose goal is to determine an output based on a similar input so as you can see right the goal of the input data is to be compressed so that it's in a lower dimensional space such that when the decoder comes along it takes that