Reply to: Deep reinforced learning heuristic tested on spin-glass ground states: The larger picture

Abstract

We wish to thank Stefan Boettcher for prompting us to further check and highlight the accuracy and scaling of our results. Here we provide a comprehensive response to the Comment written by him. We argue that the Comment did not account for the fairness of the comparison between different methods in searching for the spin-glass ground states. We demonstrate that, with a reasonably larger number of initial spin configurations, our results agree with the asymptotic scaling form assumed by finite-size corrections.