Critique

I thought the article was well-written and the details to present of the multinomial VAE were well chosen! Each hypothesis and the results were clear and it was easy to compare performance using the table!

I am wondering if there is a specific motivation for predicting the gender of users.

Also, in the conclusion, the reason for the results on the new binarization method is discussed. It would be interesting to see the average number of ratings for the users whose gender was predicted correctly compared to those users whose gender was not predicted correctly.

Minor errors

Abstract

• take in an user's -> take in a user's