This document discusses vanilla autoencoders and their application to noise removal. It begins by introducing autoencoders and their unsupervised learning approach. A vanilla autoencoder uses an encoder to compress the input into a latent space representation and a decoder to reconstruct the output from this representation. It is trained to minimize the reconstruction error between the input and output. The document then provides details on the architecture, training, and use of autoencoders for applications like noise removal in images. Code examples are given to load data, add noise, build and train an autoencoder model, and evaluate its ability to denoise corrupted images.