We thank the reviewers for their careful reading of our manuscript and their many insightful comments and suggestions towards improving

Below we provide a single response to all the comments of the reviewers, which will be added to the paper. The main computational core of FSM-based networks involves additions and indexing operations. " is a stochastic representation of length 4 for both real values of FSM-based models, WLFSMs are treated as a memory to hold the past information of the data sequence. The encoding capacity of FSM-based models is determined by the number of FSMs and their number of states. "b c a" (see Figure B) when considering a dictionary containing the three characters of "a", "b" and "c" only.