Review for NeurIPS paper: LoCo: Local Contrastive Representation Learning

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Reviewers were satisfied by the author's response and clarifications. Discussion phase also contributed to harmonizing their view on the relevance and usefulness of well-working local criteria. As a result, R1 and R5 increased their score. The consensus is that the work is a novel and valuable contribution to research on local un/self-supervised learning criteria, with potential relevance for memory savings and biologically plausible alternatives to backpropagation. The AC agrees and recommends acceptance.