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"Make it clear that these points are here to help, and not necessarily part of your decision assessment." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"For the negative phase, the authors use two separate variational approximations, one of which involves the modeling of the latent variable prior under the approximating distribution, The approach is novel , as far as I know, though not particularly so, and I view this as one of the weak point of the paper" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"That said, it does seems like a fairly creative combination of existing approaches" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"The result is fairly obvious , but the conditions for validity have interesting consequences for the training algorithm, as it relates the approximation error to the norm of the gradient of the ELBO loss" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Specifically, it states that the generator is minimizing a Jenson-Shannon divergence which has a fixed point at the true data density." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"In the current development, Theorem 1 only states that the optimization process will converge to the stationary points of the approximate ELBO objective (L1 in the paper's notation)." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"Clarity: I found the paper to be very well written with a clear exposition of the material and sound development of the technical details" "['non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"In most modeling situations, one would simply impose the directed graphical model directly and skip the formalization in terms of an MRF." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"I would appreciate a more forceful motivation of the relevance of MRFs rather than just stating it as a important model with applications" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"I note that I am aware of the theoretical representation differences between directed and undirected models, I am wondering how these differences actually matter in practical applications at scale" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Experiments: The authors show the empirical advantages offered by the proposed method over the existing literature" "['non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"I was surprised not to see how this model performs on the binarized MNIST dataset, and would like to see that result as well as CIFAR likelihood" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"MNIST, in particular, is a well studied dataset that many readers will be able to easily interpret." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"Its absence seems like a serious omission" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"What is meant by ""RBM loss"" in Fig. 2(d), I do not see this defined" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"I am somewhat alarmed at the use of 100 updates of the joint model q(v,h) (K1 = 100) for every update of the other parameters" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"For larger scale domains, I fear this could become an important obstacle to effective model training" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"I would like to see this curve extended until we start to see signs of overfitting" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Perhaps PCD-1 results in performance that is far better than AdVIL" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"While I understand the stance taken by the authors that these methods leverage the tractability of the conditional distributions, these strategies are sufficiently general to be considered widely applicable and a true competitor for AdVIL" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"With respect to Deep Boltzmann Machine (DBM), I would prefer to see quantitative comparisons against published results" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Here again, MNIST would be a useful dataset" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"It seems as though, in the application of AdVIL to the DBM, the authors are exploiting the structure of the model in how they define their sampling procedure" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"More detail for this application of AdVIL would be nice" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Also, I would like to see the test estimated NLL (via AIS) learning curves for VCD and AdVIL" "['non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Given the comparison to PCD in the RBM setting, I am somewhat surprised that AdVIL is so competitive with VCD in the case of the DBM ." "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'non']" "paper quality"
"To solve this problem, the authors first applied distant supervision technique to harvest hard-negative training examples and then transform the original task to a multi-task learning problem by splitting the original labels to positive, hard-negative, and easy-negative examples." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"The authors consider using 3 different objective functions: L1, the original cross entropy loss; L2, capturing the shared features in positive and hard-negative examples as regularizer of L1 by introducing a new label z; L3, a three-class classification objective using softmax." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"This authors evaluted their approach on two tasks: Text Classification and Sequence Labeling." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"This implementation showed improvement of performance on both tasks." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"The paper lacks insight about a principled way to label such examples, the costs associated with such labeling, and impacts of the labeling quality on accuracy" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"The experiments are not making a convincing case that similar improvements could be obtained on a larger class of problems" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"The objective function L3 is not well justified" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Table 3 (text classification result) does not list baselines" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"I am quite confused about what exactly the author are claiming is the core contribution of their work" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"While it is possible that I am missing something, I have tried going through the paper a few times and the contribution is not immediately obvious" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"The two improvements in section 3.2 seem quite low level and are only applicable to this particular approach to hierarchical RL" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Additionally, it is very much not clear why someone, for example, would select the approach of this paper in comparison to popular paradigms like Option-Critic and Feudal Networks" "['non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"The authors mention that Feudal approaches ""employ different rewards for different levels of the hierarchy rather than optimizing a single objective for the entire model as we do.""" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"For Option-Critic models the authors claim that ""Rather than the additional inductive bias of temporal abstraction, we focus on the investigation of composition as type of hierarchy in the context of single and multitask learning while demonstrating the strength of hierarchical composition to lie in domains with strong variation in the objectives such as in multitask domains.""" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"First of all, I should point out that [1] looked at applying Option-Critic in a many task setting and found both that there was an advantage to hierarchy and an advantage to added depth of hierarchy." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"Additionally, it is well known that Option-Critic approaches (when unregularized) tend to learn options that terminate every step [2]." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"So, if you generically apply Option-Critic, it would in fact be possible to disentangle the inductive bias of hierarchy from the inductive bias of temporal abstraction by using options that always terminate." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"In comparison to past frameworks, the approach of this paper seems less theoretically motivated" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"It certainly does not seem justified to me to just assume this framework and disregard past successful approaches even as a comparison" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"The feeling I get is that the authors are trying to make their experiments less about what they are proposing in this paper and more about empirical insights about the nature of hierarchy overall" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"2] ""When Waiting is not an Option: Learning Options with a Deliberation Cost"" Jean Harb, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Martin Klissarov, and Doina Precup." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"The authors propose a method for learning models for discrete events happening in continuous time by modelling the process as a temporal point process." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"Instead of learning the conditional intensity for the point process, as is usually the case, the authors instead propose an elegant method based on Normalizing Flows to directly learn the probability distribution of the next time step" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"The writers have put their contributions in context well and the presentation of the paper itself is very clear" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"