Opacus v1.5.3

New features

Improvments to ghost clipping

• The interface for ghost clipping is now similar to that of PyTorch and vanilla DP-SGD (#668)
• Updated a tutorial on training language models with DP-SGD to include ghost clipping (#667) and LoRA (#698)
• Added adaptive clipping support for ghost clipping (#711)
• Add ghost clipping support for embedding layers (#694)
• Support generative NLP tasks with ghost clipping (#722)
• Add functionality to access per-sample gradients with ghost clipping (#724)

Enabling more external contributions

• Added a research folder for external contribution of promising new methods for PPML (#700)
• DP-SGD optimizers with Kalman filters are now available in the research folder (#706)
• Made it easier to define custom extensions of PrivacyEngine (#703, #704, #710)

Bug fixes

• Fix the clipping operation for ghost clipping when using the PrivacyEngine interface (#664)
• Fix issue with ghost clipping and BatchMemoryManager
• Add strict and force_functorch parameters in initaliziation of GradSampleModuleFastGradientClipping (#675)
• Fix failing tests (e.g., #726, #713, #727, #674)

Miscellaneous

• Switch from testing with CircleCI to GithubActions CI (#701)
• Website and Github improvements (#723, #721, #677, #712)
• Added multi-gpu test for ghost clipping (#665)