positive scores (7 7 7 6) and that all the reviewers appreciated the paper for the following: (i) theoretical contributions

We thank all the reviewers for their time and effort in providing feedback. For clarity, we would like to reiterate the goal and motivation of the paper. We address the individual concerns below. We thank R3 for pointing out the typo. Thus, the approximated network achieved 97.17% test set accuracy with On the other hand, one of our networks resulting from edge-popup achieved a 97.53% test set accuracy by retaining We would again like to thank the reviewers for the positive reviews.