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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgmentsThis article is dedicated to Ron Pindak, a distinguished physicist, one of the pioneers and long-time leaders for synchrotron-based soft matter research, and an esteemed colleague and mentor to many of us in the community. The authors gratefully acknowledge Mikhail Zhernenkov and the efforts of current and former fellow staff and collaborators at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the National Institute of ­Standards and Technology, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.Additional informationFundingThis article highlights research that used the CHX, CMS, IXS, LiX, SMI, and SST-1 beamlines of the National Synchrotron Light Source II and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, which are U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facilities operated for the DOE Office of Science by Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) under Contract No. DE-SC0012704. The LiX beamline is part of the Center for BioMolecular Structure, primarily supported by the National Institutes of Health through a P30 Grant (P30GM133893), and by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research (KP1605010). The SST-1 beamline was built and is supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Part of this work was supported by the “Recherches Technologiques de Base” program of the French National Research Agency (ANR). Part of the denoising autoencoder work was supported by a BNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project 20-038 “Machine Learning for Real-Time Data Fidelity, Healing, and Analysis for Coherent X-ray Synchrotron Data.”n