Before revision:  The proposed method adds little overhead in training, can be readily applied without any substantial modifications to the original architecture, does not introduce additional saturating non-linearities or auxiliary losses, and does not prohibit applying other methods for binarizing the activations.
After revision:  The proposed method adds little overhead in training, can be readily applied without any substantial modifications to the original architecture, does not introduce additional saturating nonlinearities or auxiliary losses, and does not prohibit applying other methods for binarizing the activations.