Reviews: Neural Edit Operations for Biological Sequences

It is a bit unfortunate that the authors could not find a more scalable variant of EINN, since for the larger datasets EINN was not even used because it was too slow to run, so it just came down to running a plain cnn. It's also unfortunate that the improvements due to EINN are so minor - and leads one to wonder whether this idea is useful in practice. However, the novelty of introducing a new idea like this makes it, in my opinions, worth publishing, despite not having stunning results. It seemed like the EINN could have been slightly better described. Rather than include Algorithms 2 and 3, which are barely referenced in the text, and seem to be just the result of applying chain rule to Alg. 1 (unless i'm missing something), it would be good to have an algorithm which explicitely spells out the function of an einn layer.