  We wish to thank Stefan Boettcher for prompting us to further check and
highlight the accuracy and scaling of our results. Here we provide a
comprehensive response to the Comment written by him. We argue that the Comment
did not account for the fairness of the comparison between different methods in
searching for the spin-glass ground states. We demonstrate that, with a
reasonably larger number of initial spin configurations, our results agree with
the asymptotic scaling form assumed by finite-size corrections.
