Maybe b_y = b_label.view(-1, 28*28) is more appropriate?

[Xiangs18]

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

        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

Maybe b_y = b_label.view(-1, 28*28) is more appropriate?