NeurIPS 2020

Reducing Adversarially Robust Learning to Non-Robust PAC Learning


Meta Review

All the reviewers agreed that the paper provides a novel and important theoretical result. Specifically, one of the main contributions of the paper is to show that if a problem is PAC learnable, i.e., has finite VC dimension d, then it i also robustly PAC learnable. The result had already been proven last year, however, this paper provides a novel framework to prove it by showing how to reduce the task of robust learning to the task of normal PAC learning (it should be noted that the reduction may not be efficient (i.e., polynomial time) but still is important from the theoretical and statistical perspective. The reviewers also had some suggestions for the revised version of the paper which are reflected in the'r updated reviews.