Reviews: Hierarchical Decision Making by Generating and Following Natural Language Instructions

After author feedback and reviewer discussion, this paper received diverging final ratings of 7 (R1), 3 (R2) and 4 (R3). Given this lack of consensus, the AC read the paper, reviews, feedback, and discussion closely, and in this case decided to accept. Of the three reviews, R2's rating was the most negative. R2's review noted that the paper was well-written, and praised the inclusion of challenging linguistic phenomena in the dataset, while raising concerns with the characterization of the language as'latent' and requesting additional details (e.g. In the context of the review itself, R2's rating (3, 'clear reject') appears to be calibrated to a relatively strict standard, possibly stricter than some other NeurIPS reviewers.