Review for NeurIPS paper: Estimating Training Data Influence by Tracing Gradient Descent

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Weaknesses: I have some major concerns with the evaluation part of the paper. A simple baseline could be a loss based selection method. Simply select training points based on loss change. A recent paper [DataLens IJCNN 20] shows that a simple loss based selection outperforms both influence functions and representer selection on mislabelled data identification when the mislabeled data is small. As the fraction of mislabelled data increases, influence function works better than loss based method.