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Central DP (server-side adaptive clipping) #2909

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@mohammadnaseri mohammadnaseri commented Feb 6, 2024

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Central DP, also known as user-level DP, enables differential privacy strategies in Flower with server-side adaptive clipping.

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A new class, DifferentialPrivacyServerSideAdaptiveClipping, has been added. It can be wrapped around a strategy class to enable central DP with adaptive clipping. The clipping phase of clients' model updates is performed at the server side. A new clipping norm is computed on every round.

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  • Implement proposed change
  • Write tests
  • Update documentation
  • Update the changelog entry below
  • Make CI checks pass
  • Ping maintainers on Slack (channel #contributions)

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@danieljanes danieljanes merged commit d4ce2af into main Feb 29, 2024
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@danieljanes danieljanes deleted the central-dp-server-side-adaptive-clipping branch February 29, 2024 10:35
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