How to use auto encoder for unsupervised learning models?

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from torch.autograd import Variable
import torch.utils.data as Data
import torchvision
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
from matplotlib import cm
import numpy as np
%matplotlib inline

torch.manual_seed(1)    # reproducible

# Hyper Parameters
EPOCH = 10
BATCH_SIZE = 64
LR = 0.005         # learning rate
DOWNLOAD_MNIST = False
N_TEST_IMG = 5

# Mnist digits dataset
train_data = torchvision.datasets.MNIST(
    root='./mnist/',
    train=True,
    # this is training data
    transform=torchvision.transforms.ToTensor(),
    # Converts a PIL.Image or numpy.ndarray to

    # torch.FloatTensor of shape (C x H x W) and normalize in the range [0.0, 1.0]
    download=DOWNLOAD_MNIST,
    # download it if you don't have it
)

# plot one example
print(train_data.train_data.size())     # (60000, 28, 28)
print(train_data.train_labels.size())   # (60000)
plt.imshow(train_data.train_data[2].numpy(), cmap='gray')
plt.title('%i' % train_data.train_labels[2])
plt.show()

# Data Loader for easy mini-batch return in training, the image batch shape will be (50, 1, 28, 28)
train_loader = Data.DataLoader(dataset=train_data, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, shuffle=True)

class AutoEncoder(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super(AutoEncoder, self).__init__()

        self.encoder = nn.Sequential(
            nn.Linear(28*28, 128),
            nn.Tanh(),
            nn.Linear(128, 64),
            nn.Tanh(),
            nn.Linear(64, 12),
            nn.Tanh(),
            nn.Linear(12, 3),   # compress to 3 features which can be visualized in plt
        )
        self.decoder = nn.Sequential(
            nn.Linear(3, 12),
            nn.Tanh(),
            nn.Linear(12, 64),
            nn.Tanh(),
            nn.Linear(64, 128),
            nn.Tanh(),
            nn.Linear(128, 28*28),
            nn.Sigmoid(),       # compress to a range (0, 1)
        )

    def forward(self, x):
        encoded = self.encoder(x)
        decoded = self.decoder(encoded)
        return encoded, decoded

autoencoder = AutoEncoder()
print(autoencoder)

optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(autoencoder.parameters(), lr=LR)
loss_func = nn.MSELoss()

# original data (first row) for viewing
view_data = Variable(train_data.train_data[:N_TEST_IMG].view(-1, 28*28).type(torch.FloatTensor)/255.)

for epoch in range(EPOCH):
    for step, (x, y) in enumerate(train_loader):
        b_x = Variable(x.view(-1, 28*28))   # batch x, shape (batch, 28*28)
        b_y = Variable(x.view(-1, 28*28))   # batch y, shape (batch, 28*28)
        b_label = Variable(y)               # batch label

        encoded, decoded = autoencoder(b_x)

        loss = loss_func(decoded, b_y)      # mean square error
        optimizer.zero_grad()               # clear gradients for this training step
        loss.backward()                     # backpropagation, compute gradients
        optimizer.step()                    # apply gradients

        if step % 500 == 0 and epoch in [0, 5, EPOCH-1]:
            print('Epoch: ', epoch, '| train loss: %.4f' % loss.data[0])

            # plotting decoded image (second row)
            _, decoded_data = autoencoder(view_data)

            # initialize figure
            f, a = plt.subplots(2, N_TEST_IMG, figsize=(5, 2))

            for i in range(N_TEST_IMG):
                a[0][i].imshow(np.reshape(view_data.data.numpy()[i],
                                          (28, 28)), cmap='gray');
                a[0][i].set_xticks(()); a[0][i].set_yticks(())

            for i in range(N_TEST_IMG):
                a[1][i].clear()
                a[1][i].imshow(np.reshape(decoded_data.data.numpy()[i],
                                          (28, 28)), cmap='gray')
                a[1][i].set_xticks(()); a[1][i].set_yticks(())
            plt.show(); #plt.pause(0.05)