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"The authors should have identified a task where networks trained on MNIST perform poorly, and then propose a different strategy or architecture" "['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"
"Overall the writing is relatively clear , but it would have been beneficial to describe the hypotheses more explicitly, e.g. what neural activity would be expected for a place, grid, or concept representation with respect to MNIST" "['arg', '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', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"The question of how the brain and artificial network can perform relational reasoning is critical in both fields, since many believe that it may be one of the primary ingredients of intelligence." "['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"
"Its also critical to understanding the function of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex in humans." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"This intriguing study proposes to modify the classical Q-learning paradigm by splitting the reward into two streams with different parameters, one for positive rewards and one for negative rewards." "['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"
"Although innovative and promising , the work is quite preliminary and would benefit from comparison and validation with real human behavior" "['non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"The figures are hard to parse because of the very short captions" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"One needs to go see Appendix C to understand what the model used (SQL) consists in" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"It would be good to compare and fit the proposed models to real human/primate behavior in normal and pathological conditions and make testable predictions" "['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"
"Also, it would be very interesting to use these models to predict situations that might trigger maladaptive behaviors, by finding scenarios in which the pathological behavior becomes optimal." "['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"
"They make modifications to an existing generative model of natural images." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"They do not make direct comparisons to previous models or study quantitatively the results of the model with respect to its parameters" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"It is difficult to judge whether the new model is important because it has not been evaluated except by eye it does seem to reconstruct an image" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"They show images of a single reconstruction but no quantification of reconstruction quality or comparison to previous methods" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"In the spirit of insight it would have been very nice to have a quantification of error with respect to parameters (priors on slow identity, fast form)." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"If it had been evaluated and its efficacy varied in an interesting way with respect to the parameters of the model this could be a potentially important model to understand why the nervous system trades off between object identity associated features, transformation features, and speed." "['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"
"Seemed broad and was unsupported by any citations and to my knowledge GANs and VAEs have been used specifically to find interpretable features." "['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"
"Paper was organized, figures clear and readable." "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Some development of the model could have been left to the references and didn't add much to their contribution (e.g. Taylor approximation to a Lie model) ." "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"When they say steerable filter I was a little confused, do they just mean the basis vectors learned vary smoothly with respect to some affine transform parameter?" "['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"
"Their statement of the novelty of their method: (1) allowing each feature to have its own transformation was not clear" "['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"
"Does this mean previous methods learned the same transformation for all features." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"They make an interesting connection to speed of processing that rapid changes better represented by the magnocellular pathway would be associated with transformations and slow parvo with identity" "['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"
"It was not clear though where they experimentally varied/tested this prior in their algorithm" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"So while an interesting connection they did not make clear where they substantively pursue it" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"They draw an analogy between the ventral and dorsal stream of cortex and bilinear models of images." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"The main place to improve is to have some quantitative analysis of the quality of their model perhaps MSE of image reconstruction." "['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"
"Then this evaluation could be used to study impacts of the parameters of their model which could then lead to neural hypotheses." "['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"
"They have some qualitative evaluation in images of filters but they could explore the parameter space to understand what led to these features." "['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"
"One of their stated novel contribution was that their filters were convolutional but they do not discuss the potential connection convolutional filters have to transformation of features which seemed like a gap" "['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']" "paper quality"
"Weight sharing across shifted filters separates out feature and position yet many of their learned transformations are also translations." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"Is this an issue of spatial scale?" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"This warranted some potentially interesting discussion though admittedly 4 pages isnt a lot of space." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"The surprisingly high power of randomly weighted DCNNs is a point that has popped up a couple of times in recent human fMRI / MEG work." "['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 present paper makes the important case that random networks should be included as a matter of course in DCNN modelling projects, and sounds a note of caution about the field's temptation to over-interpret the particular features learned by high-performing trained networks" "['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"
"Comprehensive data measurement and modelling pipeline" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Use of the same spatial transformer model with an interchangeable bank of input features is elegant" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Figures exceptionally detailed and thoroughly labelled" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Methods described clearly and in good detail" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Mostly neuroscientific, but addresses the important topic of how models from machine learning can best be used in neuro research" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Generally, great paper" "['non', 'non', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Clear presentation of thorough work, exploring an important question" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"Would have been great to include another Imagenet-trained architecture, since different architectures have widely varying macaque brain predictivity, and that of VGG16 is not particularly high (Schrimpf et al., 2018 BrainScore)." "['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', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"Typo page 4 line 158: ""pray"" >> ""prey""" "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"Premise is that feedback alignment networks are also more robust to adversarial attacks." "['non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non', 'non']" "paper quality"
"The authors show because the ""gradient"" in the feedback pathway is a rough approximation, it is hard to use this gradient to train an adversarial attack." "['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 basic premise is very strange" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"For FA networks, it's unclear why an attacker could not access true gradient, and be forced to use the approximate gradient" "['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"
"Overall the technical aspects of this paper seem sound" "['arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg', 'arg']" "paper quality"
"No trouble understanding the material or writing By focusing on the more biologically plausible ""feedback alignment"" networks, the paper does sit at the intersection of neuro and AI" "['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"