keras-team/keras · error · ValueError

Expected `variables` to be a list/tuple/set. Received instea

Error message

Expected `variables` to be a list/tuple/set. Received instead object of type '{type(variables)}'.

What it means

Error "Expected `variables` to be a list/tuple/set. Received instead object of type '{type(variables)}'." thrown in keras-team/keras.

Source

Thrown at keras/src/export/saved_model_export_archive.py:225

        # Register an endpoint
        export_archive.add_endpoint(
            name="serve",
            fn=model.call,
            input_signature=[keras.InputSpec(shape=(None, 3), dtype="float32")],
        )
        # Save a variable collection
        export_archive.add_variable_collection(
            name="optimizer_variables", variables=model.optimizer.variables)
        export_archive.write_out("path/to/location")

        # Reload the object
        revived_object = tf.saved_model.load("path/to/location")
        # Retrieve the variables
        optimizer_variables = revived_object.optimizer_variables
        ```
        """
        if not isinstance(variables, (list, tuple, set)):
            raise ValueError(
                "Expected `variables` to be a list/tuple/set. "
                f"Received instead object of type '{type(variables)}'."
            )
        # Ensure that all variables added are either tf.Variables
        # or Variables created by Keras 3 with the TF or JAX backends.
        if not all(
            isinstance(v, (tf.Variable, backend.Variable)) for v in variables
        ):
            raise ValueError(
                "Expected all elements in `variables` to be "
                "`tf.Variable` instances. Found instead the following types: "
                f"{list(set(type(v) for v in variables))}"
            )
        if backend.backend() == "jax":
            variables = tree.flatten(
                tree.map_structure(self._convert_to_tf_variable, variables)
            )
        setattr(self._tf_trackable, name, list(variables))

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at keras/src/export/saved_model_export_archive.py:225 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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