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Neural Information Processing Systems 

The authors set out to solve a problem that the highly promising architecture of MDLSTM-RNNs have, which is the ability to parallelise computations. A novel sequential flow of information is proposed, which arguably makes parallelisation much easier. Major issues i) MDRNNs are not treated fairly. Fig 1 a) and Fig 2 left are dangerously misleading: they make the impression that it takes four MDRNNs to scan a whole 2d plane. But this is not true, the scanning can continue from the center point to the lower right corner, and the prediction can be made there.