tf.train.SingularMonitoredSession

Class SingularMonitoredSession

Defined in tensorflow/python/training/monitored_session.py.

See the guide: Training > Distributed execution

Session-like object that handles initialization, restoring, and hooks.

Please note that this utility is not recommended for distributed settings. For distributed settings, please use tf.train.MonitoredSession. The differences between MonitoredSession and SingularMonitoredSession are:

• MonitoredSession handles AbortedError and UnavailableError for distributed settings, but SingularMonitoredSession does not.
• MonitoredSession can be created in chief or worker modes. SingularMonitoredSession is always created as chief.
• You can access the raw tf.Session object used by SingularMonitoredSession, whereas in MonitoredSession the raw session is private. This can be used:
  • To run without hooks.
  • To save and restore.
• All other functionality is identical.

Example usage:

saver_hook = CheckpointSaverHook(...)
summary_hook = SummarySaverHook(...)
with SingularMonitoredSession(hooks=[saver_hook, summary_hook]) as sess:
  while not sess.should_stop():
    sess.run(train_op)

Initialization: At creation time the hooked session does following things in given order:

• calls hook.begin() for each given hook
• finalizes the graph via scaffold.finalize()
• create session
• initializes the model via initialization ops provided by Scaffold
• restores variables if a checkpoint exists
• launches queue runners

Run: When run() is called, the hooked session does following things:

• calls hook.before_run()
• calls TensorFlow session.run() with merged fetches and feed_dict
• calls hook.after_run()
• returns result of session.run() asked by user

Exit: At the close(), the hooked session does following things in order:

• calls hook.end()
• closes the queue runners and the session
• suppresses OutOfRange error which indicates that all inputs have been processed if the SingularMonitoredSession is used as a context.

Child Classes

class StepContext

Properties

graph

The graph that was launched in this session.

Methods

__init__

__init__(
    hooks=None,
    scaffold=None,
    master='',
    config=None,
    checkpoint_dir=None,
    stop_grace_period_secs=120,
    checkpoint_filename_with_path=None
)

Creates a SingularMonitoredSession.

Args:

• hooks: An iterable of `SessionRunHook' objects.
• scaffold: A Scaffold used for gathering or building supportive ops. If not specified a default one is created. It's used to finalize the graph.
• master: String representation of the TensorFlow master to use.
• config: ConfigProto proto used to configure the session.
• checkpoint_dir: A string. Optional path to a directory where to restore variables.
• stop_grace_period_secs: Number of seconds given to threads to stop after close() has been called.
• checkpoint_filename_with_path: A string. Optional path to a checkpoint file from which to restore variables.

__enter__

__enter__()

__exit__

__exit__(
    exception_type,
    exception_value,
    traceback
)

close

close()

raw_session

raw_session()

Returns underlying TensorFlow.Session object.

run

run(
    fetches,
    feed_dict=None,
    options=None,
    run_metadata=None
)

Run ops in the monitored session.

This method is completely compatible with the tf.Session.run() method.

Args:

• fetches: Same as tf.Session.run().
• feed_dict: Same as tf.Session.run().
• options: Same as tf.Session.run().
• run_metadata: Same as tf.Session.run().

Returns:

Same as tf.Session.run().

run_step_fn

run_step_fn(step_fn)

Run ops using a step function.

Args:

• step_fn: A function or a method with a single argument of type StepContext. The function may use methods of the argument to perform computations with access to a raw session.

  The returned value of the step_fn will be returned from run_step_fn, unless a stop is requested. In that case, the next should_stop call will return True.

  Example usage:

  ```python with tf.Graph().as_default(): c = tf.placeholder(dtypes.float32) v = tf.add(c, 4.0) w = tf.add(c, 0.5)

  def step_fn(step_context):
    a = step_context.session.run(fetches=v, feed_dict={c: 0.5})
    if a <= 4.5:
      step_context.request_stop()
    return step_context.run_with_hooks(fetches=w, feed_dict={c: 0.1})
  
  with tf.MonitoredSession() as session:
    while not session.should_stop():
      a = session.run_step_fn(step_fn)
  

  ```

  Hooks interact with the run_with_hooks() call inside the step_fn as they do with a MonitoredSession.run call.

Returns:

Returns the returned value of step_fn.

Raises:

• StopIteration: if step_fn has called request_stop(). It may be caught by with tf.MonitoredSession() to close the session.
• ValueError: if step_fn doesn't have a single argument called step_context. It may also optionally have self for cases when it belongs to an object.

should_stop

should_stop()