Review for NeurIPS paper: Invertible Gaussian Reparameterization: Revisiting the Gumbel-Softmax

Neural Information Processing Systems 

This paper presents a simple alternative to the Gumbel-Softmax based on Gaussians and invertible transformations to the hypersimplex. As one reviewer noted, "the proposed approach is simple, has nice properties, and extensible". Many reviewers criticized the lack of experiments on non-linear models in the main text. Some reviewers felt that the clarity of the draft could be improved, in particular the motivation. This was a borderline paper, however I would like to recommend acceptance.