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We agree that our discussion of Seung et al. was not1 sufficient and we will address this inafuture version. We kindly ask the reviewer to reconsider the following contributions. Thenotion ofbalanced networks isnot6 considered at all in Seung et al., but is an important phenomenon in neuroscience (Poo et al, 2009, Rupprecht et al,7 2018). Using ourframework,weconstructed balanced spiking neural networksforsolving various11 tasks (reconstruction, fixed point and manifold attractor dynamics) heavily studied in neuroscience. The attractors include specific inhibitory neurons and the network weights are pretrained20 giventhesespecific EandIneurons.