Author Response for " Generating Diverse High-Fidelity Images with VQV AE-2"

We thank the reviewers for the detailed and constructive feedback. R2 had positive remarks about the significance of our method and the thoroughness of our evaluation. We believe these clarifications will resolve all reviewers' concerns, but would be R1 - Interpolations: There is indeed no simple way to do interpolations, which We will clarify in the final version. We also implemented incremental sampling (as in Paine et al. arxiv.org/abs/1611.09482) Average version which does not use stop-gradients.