Maybe there’s a connotation/denotation issue. If X is a proxy for Y, then “adversarial robustness” connotes robustness to those who try to minimize Y while maximizing X. But often the only required meaning is that exponential selection on X should still yield commensurable selection on Y, which is a weaker meaning as it doesn’t directly involve minimizing Y.
Maybe there’s a connotation/denotation issue. If X is a proxy for Y, then “adversarial robustness” connotes robustness to those who try to minimize Y while maximizing X. But often the only required meaning is that exponential selection on X should still yield commensurable selection on Y, which is a weaker meaning as it doesn’t directly involve minimizing Y.
Though if X and Y both require some shared limited resource, then the weaker adversarial robustness may essentially require the stronger one. 🤔