from Tensorflow's documentation, there seems to be a large array of options for "running", serving, testing, and predicting using a Tensorflow model. I've made a model very similar to MNIST, where it outputs a distribution from an image. For a beginner, what would be the easiest way to take one or a few images, and send them through the model, getting an output prediction? It is mostly for experimentation purposes. Sorry if this is too redundant, but all my research has led me to so many different ways of doing this and the documentation doesn't really give any info on the pros and cons of the different methods. Thanks
I guess you are using placeholders for your model input and then using feed_dict to feed values into your model.
If that's the case the simplest way would be after you have a trained model you save it using tf.saver. Then you can have a test script where you restore your model and then sess.run on your output variable with a feed_dict of whatever you want your input to be.
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I'm training a neural network using keras but I'm not sure how to feed the training data into the model in the way that I want.
My training data set is effectively infinite, I have some code to generate training examples as needed, so I just want to pipe a continuous stream of novel data into the network. keras seems to want me to specify my entire dataset in advance by creating a numpy array with everything in it, but this obviously wont work with my approach.
I've experimented with creating a generator class based on keras.utils.Sequence which seems like a better fit, but it still requires me to specify a length via the __len__ method which makes me think it will only create that many examples before recycling them. Can someone suggest a better approach?
How can I evaluate my object detection model in a simple and understandable way, I used the TensorFlow's Object Detection API, but I didn’t understand the Tensorboard graphs. Can I evaluate it manually?
Any help? :(
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In short, yes you can. Yet it could be quite time-consuming to achieve your goal.
Here are the steps you might want to follow(assuming you have some basic understanding of Tensorflow graphs and sessions, otherwise please update your question):
Export your model to a frozen graph(*.pb file) via HERE. This step will give you an out-of-the-box model that you could load without any dependencies of Object Detection API.
Write a script to load your model(frozen graph) and perform the evaluation. Some instructions can be found from HERE. Make sure you use tools such as Netron to check the input and output node names of your frozen graph.
Once you could perform the evaluation, you could write metrics on your own dataset, such as mAP, and loop through all images to get the desired evaluation performed.
You could use the confusion matrix to evaluate your model on the test dataset.
After training the model on your dataset, export the inference graph for evaluation.
Find the attached link which helps you step by step towards evaluation.
Best of luck!
confusion_matrix
For some reason, I get wildly different loss and acc when I evaluate my BERT test set right after training vs. when I load from a saved checkpoint. I thought it might have been my adaptation of BERT, so I tried modifying the run_classifier.py script as little as possible to fit my use case, and I still am seeing this problem.
The only reason I can think of is that the model isn't loading correctly, but I don't know how to fix it. I believe I'm loading how originally intended. For the init_checkpoint parameter, I pass path/to/classifier/model.ckpt-{last_step}. There are three model files (meta, index, data) but there are also the checkpoint, events, and graph files. Do I need to be doing something with those other three files as well? I'm used to using keras, and this pure tensorflow saving/loading process seems unnecessarily convoluted to me.
Thank you in advance for any help/insight regarding BERT or pure tf saving/loading! If you're unfamiliar with BERT, here's the github link: BERT GitHub
I'm trying to implement a fully convolutional network and train it on the Pascal VOC dataset, however after reading up on the labels in the set, I see that I need to somehow ignore the "void" label. In Caffe their softmax function has an argument to ignore labels, so I'm wondering what the mechanic is, so I can implement something similar in tensorflow.
Thanks
In tensorflow you're feeding the data in feed_dict right? Generally you'd want to just pre-process the data and remove the unwanted samples - don't give them to tensorflow for processing.
My prefered approach is a producer-consumer model where you fire up a tensorflow queue and load it with samples from a loader thread which just skips enqueuing your void samples.
In training your model dequeue samples in the model (you don't use feed_dict in the optimize step). This way you're not bothering to write out a whole new dataset with the specific preprocessing step you're interested in today (tomorrow you're likely to find you want to do some other preprocessing step).
As a side comment, I think tensorflow is a little more do-it-yourself than some other frameworks. But I tend to like that, it abstracts enough to be convenient, but not so much that you don't understand what's happening. When you implement it you understand it, that's the motto that comes to mind with tensorflow.
This is a newbie question for the tensorflow experts:
I reading lot of data from power transformer connected to an array of solar panels using arduinos, my question is can I use tensorflow to predict the power generation in future.
I am completely new to tensorflow, if can point me to something similar I can start with that or any github repo which is doing similar predictive modeling.
Edit: Kyle pointed me to the MNIST data, which I believe is a Image Dataset. Again, not sure if tensorflow is the right computation library for this problem or does it only work on Image datasets?
thanks, Rajesh
Surely you can use tensorflow to solve your problem.
TensorFlow™ is an open source software library for numerical
computation using data flow graphs.
So it works not only on Image dataset but also others. Don't worry about this.
And about prediction, first you need to train a model(such as linear regression) on you dataset, then predict. The tutorial code can be found in tensorflow homepage .
Get your hand dirty, you will find it works on your dataset.
Good luck.
You can absolutely use TensorFlow to predict time series. There are plenty of examples out there, like this one. And this is a really interesting one on using RNN to predict basketball trajectories.
In general, TF is a very flexible platform for solving problems with machine learning. You can create any kind of network you can think of in it, and train that network to act as a model for your process. Depending on what kind of costs you define and how you train it, you can build a network to classify data into categories, predict a time series forward a number of steps, and other cool stuff.
There is, sadly, no short answer for how to do this, but that's just because the possibilities are endless! Have fun!