Save and Load Model with Tensorflow

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Save a model

# The file path to save the data
save_file = './model.ckpt'

# Two Tensor Variables: weights and bias
weights = tf.Variable(tf.truncated_normal([2, 3]))
bias = tf.Variable(tf.truncated_normal([3]))

# Class used to save and/or restore Tensor Variables
saver = tf.train.Saver()

with tf.Session() as sess:
    # Initialize all the Variables
    sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer())

    # Show the values of weights and bias
    print('Weights:')
    print(sess.run(weights))
    print('Bias:')
    print(sess.run(bias))

    # Save the model
    saver.save(sess, save_file)

Restore the model

The tf.train.Saver.restore() function loads the saved data into weights and bias. Since tf.train.Saver.restore() sets all the TensorFlow Variables, we don’t need to call tf.global_variables_initializer().

# Remove the previous weights and bias
tf.reset_default_graph()

# Two Variables: weights and bias
weights = tf.Variable(tf.truncated_normal([2, 3]))
bias = tf.Variable(tf.truncated_normal([3]))

# Class used to save and/or restore Tensor Variables
saver = tf.train.Saver()

with tf.Session() as sess:
    # Load the weights and bias
    saver.restore(sess, save_file)

    # Show the values of weights and bias
    print('Weight:')
    print(sess.run(weights))
    print('Bias:')
    print(sess.run(bias))