Reviews: Bayesian Layers: A Module for Neural Network Uncertainty

Neural Information Processing Systems 

This work was debated controversially among the reviewers. They all agreed that the work was presented well, and both the idea of the paper and how it is realised as a software interface are novel (or at least a clear improvement over existing frameworks). Software packages generally struggle to get accepted at major conferences. I would thus like to throw my own vote in for this paper. It is true that the community has not yet developed a good and consistent way to evaluate software contributions, in particular vis-a-vis theoretical and empirical papers. But it is high time that our community becomes more professional in software development.