9ec51f6eb240fb631a35864e13737bca-AuthorFeedback.pdf

We thank all reviewers for their careful reading of the paper, thoughtful feedback, and constructive suggestions. Each reviewer's major comments are addressed below. Reviewer 1. Thanks for your time and effort devoted to reviewing our submission, as well as for the positive comments Distinct novelties relative to Ref. [31] are: i) Algorithm: The present submission develops Following your suggestion, [31] will be discussed more thoroughly in the revised paper. We will respectfully disagree that it "makes more sense to take a decaying step-size." Due to space limitation, the focus of this paper was placed on analysis under both IID and Markovian data.