This is a PyTorch implementation of the paper:

ViP: A Differentially Private Foundation Model for Computer Vision [paper link]

Yaodong Yu (UC Berkeley, Meta AI), Maziar Sanjabi (Meta AI), Yi Ma (UC Berkeley), Kamalika Chaudhuri (Meta AI), and Chuan Guo (Meta AI).

• This repo is a modification on the MAE repo. Installation and preparation follow that repo.
• For differentially private training, we utilize opacus and functorch libraries.
• To ensure our model is compatible with DP training, we use timm==0.6.12.

The below figure presents an overview of the pipeline for our proposed recipe for training DP foundation vision models -- ViP:

In Step 1, we first pre-train a MAE model on synthetic images with standard optimizers (e.g., SGD, AdamW). We denote this model by (Syn)-ViP. In Step 2, we use the MAE model pre-trained on synthetic images as initialization, and then apply differential private optimizers (e.g., DP-SGD, DP-AdamW) to train a ViP model that satisfies (ϵ, δ)-DP.

The differentially private (DP) pre-training instruction is in PRETRAIN.md.

The following table provides the pre-trained checkpoints used in the paper:

• To load the ViP-Syn-Base (MAE encoder & decoder), please refer to the main_pretrain_vip.py script.
• To load the ViP-Base (MAE encoder), please refer to the main_linprobe.py script.

For instructions on linear probing and fine-tuning, please refer to the EVAL_LP_FT.md.

For technical details and full experimental results, please check the paper. Please consider citing our work if you find it helpful to yours:

@Article{ViP2023,
  author  = {Yaodong Yu and Maziar Sanjabi and Yi Ma and Kamalika Chaudhuri and Chuan Guo},
  journal = {arXiv:2306.08842},
  title   = {ViP: A Differentially Private Foundation Model for Computer Vision},
  year    = {2023},
}

The majority of ViP-MAE is licensed under CC-BY-NC, however portions of the project are available under separate license terms: Opacus is licensed under Apache 2.0, while Shaders21k is also licensed under CC-BY-NC. Note that due to the non-commercial nature of the CC-BY-NC license, this code is not ready for production use.