Adding a README to the examples folder. #226
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John might have better comments as he is more well versed on FL strategies, but overall was pretty clear to for me who has limited knowledge on the subject which I think is a good thing.
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| The examples in this folder are basic implementations of differentially private (DP) FL training. There are two levels of DP guarantees. Client-level DP refers to guarantees protecting <b>client</b> participation in FL training. Instance-level DP refers to guarantees protecting <b>datapoint</b> participation in FL training. Instance-level DP is classically achieved using DP-SGD on the client-side. The client-level examples include adaptive clipping implementations. |
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Maybe one sentence explaining what differential privacy is? What does it mean to 'protect client participation' or 'protect datapoint participation'? This is also partially my own curiosity. Is it guarantees against information leakage from the client dataset to the server/other clients?
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Sure. Will add a sentence there. In brief, there are different "threat-models" that change the privacy you're guaranteeing. However, most of what we consider is a "third-party" perspective, which is an outside observer who only receives the final model. Client-level DP prevents this "third-party" observer from being able to tell if a particular client participated in training the model with certainty. Instance-level DP prevents this observer from being able to tell if a particular data point was used during training.
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Other than the small changes mentioned by Shawn and I, this looks good!
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Adding a README, along the lines specified in the ticket below, to the examples folder.
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