Reviews: The continuous Bernoulli: fixing a pervasive error in variational autoencoders

I have read the author response and am strengthening my confidence (since after the response and seeing other reviews, I believe I have understood everything correctly). I loved the analysis of the "concentration of mass at the extrema" between the CB and beta that the authors provided in their response. It is exactly this kind of careful study and how it relates to what you saw in your experiments with MNIST (and why it matters specifically for the particular characteristics of the dataset) that make me love a paper like this. I hope that the authors add that analysis to the supplementary material at least. It almost sounds like your supplement could even be a mini paper on such a study that's interesting in its own right (though please don't write another paper on it). I find the paper very inspiring.