Review for NeurIPS paper: Online Structured Meta-learning

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Weaknesses: The primary weaknesses of the approach is that the authors do not sufficiently convince the reader that the knowledge block approach is necessary to yield the achieved performance improvements. Generally, it is unclear if the machinery of the knowledge blocks truly result in modular knowledge representations. While the authors present a framework that achieves reasonably strong performance on their chosen benchmarks, I think the paper does not effectively present a contribution that authors could build on in future work. I believe ablations of the model would help convince a reader of the utility of the knowledge block formulation. In particular, an experiment with the same architecture but without the meta-knowledge pathway construction would help convince a reader that this step is necessary.