Review for NeurIPS paper: Bayesian filtering unifies adaptive and non-adaptive neural network optimization methods
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After a discussion with the reviewers, I converged towards recommending to accept this submission. The reviewers raised the following aspects: 1) The perspective is novel, and has interesting potential. Re 1: all reviewers agree that this is a pro for the paper and should be considered its main strength. The authors agree (rebuttal, lines 23-25). Re 2: R3 believes that questioning the approximations is a valid point. However, as the authors argue, they have provided sufficient empirical evidence for mini-batch Gaussianity in appendix B, and Gaussianity is sometimes assumed without further justification in other Bayesian inference applications as well, simply to keep the computations tractable.
Neural Information Processing Systems
Feb-6-2025, 15:32:53 GMT
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