A Characterization of Semi-Supervised Adversarially-Robust PAC Learnability

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Main Authors: Attias, Idan, Hanneke, Steve, Mansour, Yishay
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author Attias, Idan
Hanneke, Steve
Mansour, Yishay
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Hanneke, Steve
Mansour, Yishay
contents We study the problem of learning an adversarially robust predictor to test time attacks in the semi-supervised PAC model. We address the question of how many labeled and unlabeled examples are required to ensure learning. We show that having enough unlabeled data (the size of a labeled sample that a fully-supervised method would require), the labeled sample complexity can be arbitrarily smaller compared to previous works, and is sharply characterized by a different complexity measure. We prove nearly matching upper and lower bounds on this sample complexity. This shows that there is a significant benefit in semi-supervised robust learning even in the worst-case distribution-free model, and establishes a gap between the supervised and semi-supervised label complexities which is known not to hold in standard non-robust PAC learning.
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spellingShingle A Characterization of Semi-Supervised Adversarially-Robust PAC Learnability
Attias, Idan
Hanneke, Steve
Mansour, Yishay
Machine Learning
We study the problem of learning an adversarially robust predictor to test time attacks in the semi-supervised PAC model. We address the question of how many labeled and unlabeled examples are required to ensure learning. We show that having enough unlabeled data (the size of a labeled sample that a fully-supervised method would require), the labeled sample complexity can be arbitrarily smaller compared to previous works, and is sharply characterized by a different complexity measure. We prove nearly matching upper and lower bounds on this sample complexity. This shows that there is a significant benefit in semi-supervised robust learning even in the worst-case distribution-free model, and establishes a gap between the supervised and semi-supervised label complexities which is known not to hold in standard non-robust PAC learning.
title A Characterization of Semi-Supervised Adversarially-Robust PAC Learnability
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05420