NeurIPS 2020

Flows for simultaneous manifold learning and density estimation


Meta Review

All reviewers agree that the presented technique for simultaneous manifold and density estimation is interesting and novel. However, they also agree that the paper leaves important questions open. While one of the reviewers would like to see a stronger statistical analysis before acceptance, the others believe that the paper is above acceptance threshold and that the community would benefit from its communication. The meta-reviewer agrees. To address the concerns of the reviewers, the camera-ready paper needed to include at least the following results: 1. Include results that investigate if the invertible nature of the normalising flow in the decoder is useful by e.g considering a version of the Me-flow where g is not constrained to be invertible. In the same vein, a comparison with a simple VAE baseline should be included. 2. Include results that demonstrate how the latent dimension n can be chosen by cross-validation. Investigate how the results on CelebA depend on the latent dimension n.