Reviews: Attentive State-Space Modeling of Disease Progression

Neural Information Processing Systems 

The authors propose a generative discrete state space model and novel variational inference algorithm for modeling disease trajectories. Overall, reviewers found the paper well-written and convincing. However, the authors are encouraged to strongly consider the feedback received. Specifically, in preparing the camera-ready version please incorporate experiments comparing to common extensions of simple well-understood methods (e.g., higher-order HMMs).