If you rephrase your question to "What happens when I add random noise to the inputs of a neural network and try to teach it to output a "denoised" version of t

If you rephrase your question to "What happens when I add random noise to the inputs of a neural network and try to teach it to output a "denoised" version of the input." and you've just invented denoising autoencoders. http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/publications2/index.php/publications/show/217 http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/publications2/index.php/pu...