NeurIPS 2020

Robustness Analysis of Non-Convex Stochastic Gradient Descent using Biased Expectations


Meta Review

After significant discussions with the reviewers, the reviewers were all unanimously in appreciation of the simplicity and cleanliness of the approach presented by the paper. However the authors are strongly encouraged to improve the presentation of the paper - especially the crucial proof of Lemma 1 - multiple steps have been contracted in the presentation and clarifying them is necessary. Furthermore the case of the diminishing step-size scheme is strongly suggested to be fleshed out in theory rather than being left as straightforward extensions. Lastly, the reviewers suggested to use heavier tailed distribution like the Levy distribution to verify the theory better.