Review for NeurIPS paper: Minimax Dynamics of Optimally Balanced Spiking Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Weaknesses: Although I believe the math derivation of the novel minimax objective function is correct, I have two major concerns. My first concern is whether this minimax objective function provides some novel insight on network dynamics which cannot be captured by traditional framework that network dynamics is minimizing an "energy" function. My concern is resulted from that the minimax objective (Eq. It seems to me that the only difference between the minimax and minimized objective function is that the network state converges to the saddle point in the former case, while in later case the network state converges to a stable fixed point. I really hope the authors explain this and correct me if I understood something wrong.