tensorflow/models · error · ValueError

Error trying to read input files for file pattern {file_patt

Error message

Error trying to read input files for file pattern {file_pattern}

What it means

Error "Error trying to read input files for file pattern {file_pattern}" thrown in tensorflow/models.

Source

Thrown at official/projects/unified_detector/data_loaders/input_reader.py:234

      ValueError for inability to find SSTable files.
    """
    all_file_patterns = []
    if self._use_sampling:
      for file_pattern in self._input_paths:
        all_file_patterns.append([file_pattern])
      # Normalize sampling probabilities.
      total_weight = sum(self._sampling_weights)  # pyrefly: ignore[no-matching-overload]
      sampling_probabilities = [
          float(w) / total_weight for w in self._sampling_weights  # pyrefly: ignore[not-iterable]
      ]
    else:
      all_file_patterns.append(self._input_paths)

    datasets = []
    for file_pattern in all_file_patterns:
      filenames = sum(list(map(tf.io.gfile.glob, file_pattern)), [])
      if not filenames:
        raise ValueError(
            f'Error trying to read input files for file pattern {file_pattern}')
      # Create a dataset of filenames and shuffle the files. In each epoch,
      # the file order is shuffled again. This may help if
      # per_host_input_for_training = false on TPU.
      dataset = tf.data.Dataset.list_files(
          file_pattern, shuffle=self._is_training)

      if self._is_training:
        dataset = dataset.repeat()

      if self._max_intra_op_parallelism:
        # Disable intra-op parallelism to optimize for throughput instead of
        # latency.
        options = tf.data.Options()
        options.experimental_threading.max_intra_op_parallelism = 1
        dataset = dataset.with_options(options)

      dataset = dataset.interleave(

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at official/projects/unified_detector/data_loaders/input_reader.py:234 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of tensorflow/models@e006f5f0d5 (2026-08-24). Data as JSON: /api/errors/617a30835d61a509. Report an issue: GitHub.