Does autodp support arbitrary group size? about autodp

[yuxiangw]

Good question. The "group_size" parameter there was part of the initial design. It's not implemented yet besides the default value of 1. In particular, supporting group composition for a generic mechanism having approx DP, Renyi DP, f-DP, privacy profile etc all together requires some thoughts and design that we don't have time for right now. But it will be added in the months to come.

For now, I suggest setting the "sensitivity" parameter according to your required group size. Simply increasing the calculated noise scale by sqrt{n} may or may not be valid.

Generally speaking, the parameters inside the Mechanism class should not be modified externally. They are "private attributes" in C++ terms. Use a Mechanism object only by the "public method" would be the right way to go.

[yuxiangw]

I will not close this for now because this is to be solved by adding a "TransformerZoo.GroupComposition"