Reviews: Metamers of neural networks reveal divergence from human perceptual systems

Neural Information Processing Systems 

My review for this work remains the same following author response because I believe that the authors have demonstrated this work to be of high quality and relevance to the NeurIPS community. Originality: Although the algorithms used to synthesize the metamers themselves are nothing new, the work is a novel combination of previous approaches and techniques, and the analysis approach gives these methods a fresh perspective that leads to good insights. Quality: The work is of high quality and is a complete piece of work that will advance our understanding of the relationships between architecture, task and training in determining representational similarity between networks and humans (as well as between networks). Clarity: The paper is overall clear, though some details could use a bit of clarifying (what was the threshold for satisfactory termination of synthesis? Significance: This work builds on theoretical and experimental work from neuroscience used to analyze how well models of perceptual systems capture the representation within the human brain by synthesizing stimuli that match the responses of some part of the model completely and using human subjects to validate that the original and matched stimulus are in fact the same.