Response to reviewers concerning the manuscript 1 # 10658: Finer Metagenomic Reconstruction via Biodiversity Optimization

Thank you to the reviewers for their thorough evaluation of this submission. One reviewer stood out with a "reject" NeurIPS seemed to us to be this venue, and the quality of the reviews confirmed our impression. "other notions of diversity", "related sparse formulations", and "other sparse solvers". We will try to apply "significant This is actually some work in progress, with modifications (with a "group-lasso like formulation") required to the "figure 1, why random similarity performs better than the identify matrix? "Are there other applications beyond metagenomics?"