Review for NeurIPS paper: GAIT-prop: A biologically plausible learning rule derived from backpropagation of error

Neural Information Processing Systems 

I believe this paper makes a meaningful contribution to this line of work and have changed my score accordingly to support acceptance. I do have a few comments that I hope you will consider as you prepare a final version of this paper, mainly coming from a neuroscience perspective. While the method described in this paper advances the family of target prop-related models and may serve as a foundation for future work in bio-plausible learning models, I don't think it is appropriate to describe it as more biologically plausible than backpropagation. One of the commonly cited biologically implausible features of backpropagation (weight symmetry) is replaced here by an equally implausible mechanism (perfect inverse models). It is true that bio-plausible ways of approximating inverses may exist, but there are also proposals for bio-plausible ways of maintaining weight symmetry (e.g.