Review for NeurIPS paper: Deep learning versus kernel learning: an empirical study of loss landscape geometry and the time evolution of the Neural Tangent Kernel

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The reviews for this paper were overall positive. The paper presents a empirical inquiry of the landscape of the loss of the data-dependent neural tangent kernel. The authors examine dynamics of the kernel, the loss landscape, comparing the learned kernel to corresponding neural networks. The reviewers appreciated that the evaluation of the so-called'parent-child spawning' phenomena and the approximation accuracy of data-dependent neural tangent kernels. The authors made a laudable effort to put to question common preconceptions about neural tangent kernels through an extensive set of numerical experiments leading to interesting empirical observations.