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"Notably, these together with the ability to train the components separately will generally increase the efficiency of learning" "['non', 'non', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro']" "paper quality"
"WEAKNESSES - The algorithmic contribution is relatively minor, while the technical merits of the approach are questionable" "['non', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"While there are advantages to training the modules separately , there is a risk that they are reasoning over different portions of the goal space" "['non', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'c...
"A contrastive loss would seemingly be more appropriate for learning the instruction-goal distance function" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"The goal search process relies on a number of user-defined parameters - The nature of the instructions used for experimental evaluations is unclear" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', ...
"Are they free-form instructions" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"It would be better to evaluate on one of the few common benchmarks for robot language understanding, e.g., the SAIL corpus, which considers trajectory-oriented instructions" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'co...
"The paper provides insufficient details regarding the RL and IL baselines, making it impossible to judge their merits" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"The paper initially states that this distance function is computed from learned embeddings of human demonstrations, however these are presumably instructions rather than demonstrations" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'con'...
"I wouldn't consider the results reported in Section 4.5 to be ablative studies" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"Relevant to the discussion of learning from demonstration for language understanding is the following paper by Duvallet et al. Duvalet, Kollar, and Stentz, ""Imitation learning for natural language direction following through unknown environments,"" ICRA 2014 - The paper is overly verbose and redundant in places" "['n...
"There are several grammatical errors - The captions for Figures 3 and 4 are copied from Figure 1" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"Pro - MAAC is a simple combination of attention and a centralized value function approach" "['non', 'non', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro']" "paper quality"
"Con - MAAC still requires all observations and actions of all other agents as an input to the value function, which makes this approach not scalable to settings with many agents" "['non', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con'...
"The centralized nature is also semantically improbable , as the observations might be high-dimensional in nature, so exchanging these between agents becomes impractical with complex problems." "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non'...
"Authors do not visualize the attention (as is common in previous work involving attention in e.g., NLP)" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"The effect of each proposed technique is appropriately evaluated" "['pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro']" "paper quality"
"Cons - The contribution of the proposed method is not clear to me" "['non', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"It would be better to compare the proposed method to the existing multi-objective methods in terms of classification accuracy and other objectives" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" ...
"For example, what is the drawbacks of the number of parameters, what is the advantages of FLOPs for multi-objective optimization" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"Please elaborate on the procedure and settings of the Bayesian network used in this paper" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"It would be better to provide discussions of recent neural architecture search methods solving the single-objective problem ." "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'non']" "paper quality"
"Unfortunately, there are several things that left me unconvinced about this paper: 1) Presentation of the paper - Variables x, y, z are introduced and talked about without explanation" "['non', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con',...
"The graphical model or factorization assumptions are not even mentioned until after the loss has been defined" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"Text contradicting the equation : ""In order to balance the individual loss terms, we normalize according to dimensions and weight the KL divergence with a constant of 0.1""." "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', '...
"This is not true in a beta-VAE" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"This is not a sound mechanism to achieve an as-faithful-as-possible (limited by the expressiveness of the encoder-decoder architectures) approximation to the training data" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con...
"Similarly, the proposed rejection sampling scheme of OCDVAE is not consistent with the theory of VAEs and it's a post-hoc tweak that is not theoretically expected to provide a pdf of data with lower KL divergence to the true data pdf" "['non', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con'...
"3) Experiments Finally, the experimental results do not look very compelling , it seems to be overall worse than the baselines in the two image datasets and slightly better in the audio dataset, so it's unclear that this approach is superior" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con...
"Prior work: the paper seems to ignore a plethora of prior work around studying adversarial robustness and understanding its roots" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"While not in conflict with this work, it does closely relate and discuss many of the same issues discussed in this work, so relating them would be fruitful" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con',...
"While I think the datasets presented in this work are much more interesting and certainly more realistic , this work should be put in context" "['pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']...
"Discussion/interpretation of the results: - Sufficient vs necessary: While the experimental design and results are both of very high quality , I am slightly confused about the interpretation of the results" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro'...
"In particular, (b) indicates that it may be *necessary* to design regularization methods that steer NNs towards the correct decision boundaryit says nothing about whether these regularization methods will be *sufficient* , which the paper seems to suggest, e.g. in the abstract ""our results suggest that adversarial vu...
"In fact, if real-world datasets end up being like the asymmetric dataset, then the results of this paper would actually indicate the *opposite* of the above statement" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'c...
"It is unclear on what basis one can say that real-world datasets are more like the symmetric case or the asymmetric case" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con']" "paper quality"
"I believe a more measured conclusion (perhaps that we *need* more regularization methods, but even then we may not be able to get perfect robustness and accuracy) would better fit the strong results presented in the paper" "['con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'co...
"The paper justifies the adversarial vulnerability of the Linear SVM by arguing that the Bayes-optimal classifier is not in the Linear SVM hypothesis class, which makes sense" "['pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'p...
"Experimental setup: - One somewhat concerning (but perhaps unavoidable) thing about the experimental setup is that all the considered datasets are not perfectly linearly separable , i.e. the Bayes-optimal classifier has non-zero test error in expectation, and moreover the data variance is full-rank in the embedded spa...
"This is in stark contrast to real datasets, where there seem to be many different ways to perfectly separate say, dogs from cats, and the variance of the data seems to be very heavily concentrated in a small subset of directions" "['non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'co...
"I am concerned that these properties are what drive the Bayes-optimal classifier for the symmetric dataset to be robust (concretely, if 0.01 * Identity was not added to the covariance matrix of the symmetric model and the covariance was left to be low-rank, then any classifier which was Bayes-optimal along the positiv...
"This concern does not make the contribution of the symmetric dataset less valuable , but a discussion of such caveats would help further elucidate the similarities and differences of this setup from real datasets" "['pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'non', 'con'...
"It is a well-argued, thoughtful dataset contribution that sets up a reasonable video understanding dataset" "['pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro']" "paper quality"
"The authors recognize that since the dataset is synthetically generated it is not necessarily predictive of how methods would perform with real-world data, but still it can serve a useful and complementary role similar to the one CLEVR has served in image understanding" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non...
"I have a few minor comments / questions / editing notes that would be good to address: - The random baseline isn't described in the main text , it would be good to briefly mention it (this will also help to clarify why the value is particularly high for tasks 1 and 2) - The grid resolution ablation results presented i...
"Experimental results validate the theoretical analysis and demonstrate the effectiveness of A*MCTS over benchmark MCTS algorithms with value and policy networks" "['pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro']" "paper ...
"Pros: This paper presents the first study of tree search for optimal actions in the presence of pretrained value and policy networks" "['non', 'non', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro']" "paper quality"
"And it combines A* search with MCTS to improve the performance over the traditional MCTS approaches based on UCT or PUCT tree policies" "['non', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro']" "paper quali...
"Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperform the MCTS algorithms" "['pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro', 'pro']" "paper quality"
"Cons: However, there are several issues that should be addressed including the presentation of the paper : The algorithm seeks to combine A* search with MCTS (combined with policy and value networks), and is shown to outperform the baseline MCTS method." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con', 'con',...