CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to the ViT Auditing Toolkit will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Planned

• Support for additional ViT variants (DeiT, BEiT, Swin Transformer)
• Batch processing capabilities
• Export functionality for reports
• Custom model upload support
• API endpoints for programmatic access

[1.0.0] - 2024-10-26

Added

• Initial release of ViT Auditing Toolkit
• Basic Explainability features:
  • Attention Visualization with layer/head selection
  • GradCAM implementation using Captum
  • GradientSHAP for pixel-level attribution
• Advanced Auditing features:
  • Counterfactual Analysis with patch perturbation
  • Confidence Calibration analysis
  • Bias Detection across subgroups
• Web interface using Gradio:
  • Modern, responsive UI with custom styling
  • Four-tab interface for different analysis types
  • Real-time visualization of results
• Model support:
  • ViT-Base (google/vit-base-patch16-224)
  • ViT-Large (google/vit-large-patch16-224)
• Comprehensive documentation:
  • Detailed README with usage guides
  • Technical explanations of methods
  • Installation instructions
• Testing suite:
  • Unit tests for core functionality
  • Integration tests for advanced features
• Docker support for easy deployment
• CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions

Technical Details

• PyTorch 2.2+ compatibility
• Hugging Face Transformers integration
• Captum for model interpretability
• Gradio 4.19+ for web interface
• Matplotlib for visualizations

Documentation

• Comprehensive README.md
• Contributing guidelines
• MIT License
• Code of conduct

[0.1.0] - 2024-10-15

Added

• Project initialization
• Basic project structure
• Core module implementations
• Initial model loading functionality

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Version History

Version Numbering

• Major version (X.0.0): Incompatible API changes
• Minor version (0.X.0): New functionality, backwards-compatible
• Patch version (0.0.X): Backwards-compatible bug fixes

Release Notes Format

• Added: New features
• Changed: Changes in existing functionality
• Deprecated: Soon-to-be removed features
• Removed: Removed features
• Fixed: Bug fixes
• Security: Vulnerability fixes

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For more details on any version, see the GitHub Releases page.