tensorflow/models · error · ValueError

Export path is not specified: %s

Error message

Export path is not specified: %s

What it means

Error "Export path is not specified: %s" thrown in tensorflow/models.

Source

Thrown at official/legacy/bert/run_classifier.py:344

  return predictions, labels


def export_classifier(model_export_path, input_meta_data, bert_config,
                      model_dir):
  """Exports a trained model as a `SavedModel` for inference.

  Args:
    model_export_path: a string specifying the path to the SavedModel directory.
    input_meta_data: dictionary containing meta data about input and model.
    bert_config: Bert configuration file to define core bert layers.
    model_dir: The directory where the model weights and training/evaluation
      summaries are stored.

  Raises:
    Export path is not specified, got an empty string or None.
  """
  if not model_export_path:
    raise ValueError('Export path is not specified: %s' % model_export_path)
  if not model_dir:
    raise ValueError('Export path is not specified: %s' % model_dir)

  # Export uses float32 for now, even if training uses mixed precision.
  tf_keras.mixed_precision.set_global_policy('float32')
  classifier_model = bert_models.classifier_model(
      bert_config,
      input_meta_data.get('num_labels', 1),
      hub_module_url=FLAGS.hub_module_url,
      hub_module_trainable=False)[0]

  model_saving_utils.export_bert_model(
      model_export_path, model=classifier_model, checkpoint_dir=model_dir)


def run_bert(strategy,
             input_meta_data,
             model_config,

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at official/legacy/bert/run_classifier.py:344 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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