diff --git a/ci/docker/install/ubuntu_perl.sh b/ci/docker/install/ubuntu_perl.sh
index 1f4a983c35af..31dc294725b8 100755
--- a/ci/docker/install/ubuntu_perl.sh
+++ b/ci/docker/install/ubuntu_perl.sh
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ set -ex
 # install libraries for mxnet's perl package on ubuntu
 apt-get update || true
 apt-get install -y libmouse-perl pdl cpanminus swig libgraphviz-perl
-cpanm -q Function::Parameters Hash::Ordered CHM/PDL-2.019.tar.gz PDL::CCS
+cpanm -q Function::Parameters Hash::Ordered PDL~2.064 PDL::CCS
diff --git a/docker/install/perl.sh b/docker/install/perl.sh
index 29313c7bfa6e..47f32e1209b5 100755
--- a/docker/install/perl.sh
+++ b/docker/install/perl.sh
@@ -19,4 +19,4 @@
 
 # install libraries for mxnet's perl package on ubuntu
 apt-get update && apt-get install -y libmouse-perl pdl cpanminus swig libgraphviz-perl
-cpanm -q Function::Parameters Hash::Ordered PDL::CCS
+cpanm -q Function::Parameters Hash::Ordered PDL~2.064 PDL::CCS
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Changes b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Changes
index 6807d79d088a..40a0afac6b45 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Changes
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Changes
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 Revision history for Perl extension AI::MXNet
+	- Update mapping between PDL and MX types - Zakariyya Mughal
+	- Upgrade minimum PDL dependency to PDL v2.064 for
+	  int8 (PDL: sbyte) type - Zakariyya Mughal
+
 1.5     Sun Feb 16 19:56:17 PST 2020
         - Runtime features
         - INT64 Tensor support
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.json b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.json
index 02357d478095..ed4fd68536c5 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.json
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.json
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
             "Hash::Ordered" : "0.012",
             "GraphViz" : "2.14",
             "Mouse" : "v2.1.0",
-            "PDL" : "2.007",
+            "PDL" : "2.064",
             "PDL::CCS" : "1.23.4",
             "Archive::Tar": "0",
             "Digest::SHA": "0",
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.yml b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.yml
index b06b331ec4ae..ee3f8a61408b 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.yml
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/META.yml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ requires:
   Hash::Ordered: '0.012'
   GraphViz: '2.14'
   Mouse: v2.1.0
-  PDL: '2.007'
+  PDL: '2.064'
   PDL::CCS: '1.23.4'
   Archive::Tar: '0'
   Digest::SHA: '0'
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Makefile.PL b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Makefile.PL
index 4a9016234ad6..17cfc01396d7 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Makefile.PL
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/Makefile.PL
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ my %WriteMakefileArgs = (
     "Function::Parameters" => "1.0705",
     "Hash::Ordered" => "0.012",
     "Mouse" => "v2.1.0",
-    "PDL" => "2.007",
+    "PDL" => "2.064",
     "PDL::CCS" => "1.23.4",
     "GraphViz" => "2.14"
   },
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ my %FallbackPrereqs = (
   "Function::Parameters" => "1.0705",
   "Hash::Ordered" => "0.012",
   "Mouse" => "v2.1.0",
-  "PDL" => "2.007",
+  "PDL" => "2.064",
   "PDL::CCS" => "1.23.4",
   "GraphViz" => "2.14"
 );
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet/Base.pm b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet/Base.pm
index 9ac917b57b41..d0a1aacae511 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet/Base.pm
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet/Base.pm
@@ -60,27 +60,28 @@ use constant DTYPE_MX_TO_STR => {
     6 => 'int64'
 };
 use constant DTYPE_MX_TO_PDL => {
-    0 => 6,
-    1 => 7,
-    2 => 6,
-    3 => 0,
-    4 => 3,
-    5 => 0,
-    6 => 5,
-    float32 => 6,
-    float64 => 7,
-    float16 => 6,
-    uint8   => 0,
-    int32   => 3,
-    int8    => 0,
-    int64   => 5
+    0 => PDL::Type->new('float')->enum,
+    1 => PDL::Type->new('double')->enum,
+    2 => PDL::Type->new('float')->enum,
+    3 => PDL::Type->new('byte')->enum,
+    4 => PDL::Type->new('long')->enum,
+    5 => PDL::Type->new('sbyte')->enum,
+    6 => PDL::Type->new('longlong')->enum,
+    float32 => PDL::Type->new('float')->enum,
+    float64 => PDL::Type->new('double')->enum,
+    float16 => PDL::Type->new('float')->enum,
+    uint8   => PDL::Type->new('byte')->enum,
+    int32   => PDL::Type->new('long')->enum,
+    int8    => PDL::Type->new('sbyte')->enum,
+    int64   => PDL::Type->new('longlong')->enum,
 };
 use constant DTYPE_PDL_TO_MX => {
-    6 => 0,
-    7 => 1,
-    0 => 3,
-    3 => 4,
-    5 => 6
+    PDL::Type->new('float')->enum     => 0,
+    PDL::Type->new('double')->enum    => 1,
+    PDL::Type->new('byte')->enum      => 3,
+    PDL::Type->new('long')->enum      => 4,
+    PDL::Type->new('sbyte')->enum     => 5,
+    PDL::Type->new('longlong')->enum  => 6,
 };
 use constant DTYPE_MX_TO_PERL => {
     0 => 'f',
diff --git a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet/Metric.pm b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet/Metric.pm
index cf98458d61ab..52b44507a5cc 100644
--- a/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet/Metric.pm
+++ b/perl-package/AI-MXNet/lib/AI/MXNet/Metric.pm
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ use overload '""' => sub {
 has 'name'       => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Str');
 has 'num'        => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Int');
 has 'num_inst'   => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Maybe[Int|ArrayRef[Int]]');
-has 'sum_metric' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Maybe[Num|ArrayRef[Num]]');
+has 'sum_metric' => (is => 'rw', isa => 'Maybe[Num|ArrayRef[Num]|PDL]');
 has '_kwargs'    => (is => 'rw', init_arg => undef);
 around BUILDARGS => \&AI::MXNet::Base::process_arguments;
 
@@ -168,8 +168,8 @@ method get()
 method get_name_value()
 {
     my ($name, $value) = $self->get;
-    $name = [$name] unless ref $name;
-    $value = [$value] unless ref $value;
+    $name = [$name] unless ref $name eq 'ARRAY';
+    $value = [$value] unless ref $value eq 'ARRAY';
     my %ret;
     @ret{ @$name } = @$value;
     return \%ret;
@@ -221,8 +221,8 @@ method get()
     for my $metric (@{ $self->metrics })
     {
         my ($name, $result) = $metric->get;
-        $name = [$name] unless ref $name;
-        $result = [$result] unless ref $result;
+        $name = [$name] unless ref $name eq 'ARRAY';
+        $result = [$result] unless ref $result eq 'ARRAY';
         push @$names, @$name;
         push @$results, @$result;
     }