Reviews: No Pressure! Addressing the Problem of Local Minima in Manifold Learning Algorithms

I have read the authors' response and other reviewers' comments. I choose to raise my score. The way these points are utilized is also inspirational. Cons: - Like many other work in nonlinear dimension reduction, this paper does not provide a systematic, convincing way to evaluate and compare the new approach against previous methods which are claimed to be less effective. The visual comparison in Figure 6 appears cherry-picking in methodology.