.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at .. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. TensorFlow Frontend =================== The TensorFlow frontend helps in importing TensorFlow models into TVM. Supported versions: - 1.12 and below Tested models: - Inception (V1/V2/V3/V4) - Resnet (All) - Mobilenet (V1/V2 All) - Vgg (16/19) - BERT (Base/3-layer) Preparing a Model for Inference ------------------------------- Remove Unneeded Nodes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The export process will remove many nodes that are not needed for inference, but unfortunately will leave some remaining. The nodes that should be manually removed are: - Dropout, including `Dropout`_ and `DropoutWrapper`_ - `Assert`_ .. _Dropout: https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/nn/dropout .. _DropoutWrapper: https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r1.12/api_docs/python/tf/nn/rnn_cell/DropoutWrapper?hl=hr .. _Assert: https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/debugging/Assert Convert None Dimensions to Constants ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TVM has minimal support for dynamic tensor shapes. Dimensions that are ``None`` should be replaced with constants. For example, a model may accept an input with shape ``(None,20)``. This should be converted to a shape like ``(1,20)``. The model should be modified accordingly to ensure that these shapes match throughout the graph. Export ~~~~~~ TensorFlow frontend expects a frozen protobuf (.pb) or saved model as input. It currently does not support checkpoint (.ckpt). The graphdef needed by the TensorFlow frontend can be extracted from the active session, or by using the `TFParser`_ helper class. .. _TFParser: https://github.com/apache/tvm/blob/main/python/tvm/relay/frontend/tensorflow_parser.py The model should be exported with a number of transformations to prepare the model for inference. It is also important to set ```add_shapes=True```, as this will embed the output shapes of each node into the graph. Here is one function to export a model as a protobuf given a session: .. code:: python import tensorflow as tf from tensorflow.tools.graph_transforms import TransformGraph def export_pb(session): with tf.gfile.GFile("myexportedmodel.pb", "wb") as f: inputs = ["myinput1", "myinput2"] # replace with your input names outputs = ["myoutput1"] # replace with your output names graph_def = session.graph.as_graph_def(add_shapes=True) graph_def = tf.graph.util.convert_variables_to_constants(session, graph_def, outputs) graph_def = TransformGraph( graph_def, inputs, outputs, [ "remove_nodes(op=Identity, op=CheckNumerics, op=StopGradient)", "sort_by_execution_order", # sort by execution order after each transform to ensure correct node ordering "remove_attribute(attribute_name=_XlaSeparateCompiledGradients)", "remove_attribute(attribute_name=_XlaCompile)", "remove_attribute(attribute_name=_XlaScope)", "sort_by_execution_order", "remove_device", "sort_by_execution_order", "fold_batch_norms", "sort_by_execution_order", "fold_old_batch_norms", "sort_by_execution_order" ] ) f.write(graph_def.SerializeToString()) Another method is to `export and freeze the graph `_. Import the Model ---------------- Explicit Shape: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To ensure shapes can be known throughout the entire graph, pass the ```shape``` argument to ```from_tensorflow```. This dictionary maps input names to input shapes. Please refer to these `test cases `_ for examples. Data Layout ~~~~~~~~~~~ Most TensorFlow models are released with NHWC layout. NCHW layout often provides better performance, especially on GPU. The TensorFlow frontend can automatically convert the model's data layout by passing the argument ```layout='NCHW'``` to ```from_tensorflow```. Best Practices -------------- - Use static tensor shapes instead of dynamic shapes (remove ```None``` dimensions). - Use static RNN instead of dynamic RNN, as ```TensorArray``` isn't supported yet. Supported Ops ------------- - Abs - Add - AddN - All - Any - ArgMax - ArgMin - AvgPool - BatchMatMul - BatchMatMulV2 - BatchNormWithGlobalNormalization - BatchToSpaceND - BiasAdd - BroadcastTo - Cast - Ceil - CheckNumerics - ClipByValue - Concat - ConcatV2 - Conv2D - Cos - Tan - CropAndResize - DecodeJpeg - DepthwiseConv2dNative - DepthToSpace - Dilation2D - Equal - Elu - Enter - Erf - Exit - Exp - ExpandDims - Fill - Floor - FloorDiv - FloorMod - FusedBatchNorm - FusedBatchNormV2 - Gather - GatherNd - GatherV2 - Greater - GreaterEqual - Identity - IsFinite - IsInf - IsNan - LeakyRelu - LeftShift - Less - LessEqual - Log - Log1p - LoopCond - LogicalAnd - LogicalOr - LogicalNot - LogSoftmax - LRN - LSTMBlockCell - MatMul - Max - MaxPool - Maximum - Mean - Merge - Min - Minimum - MirrorPad - Mod - Mul - Neg - NextIteration - NotEqual - OneHot - Pack - Pad - PadV2 - Pow - Prod - Range - Rank - RealDiv - Relu - Relu6 - Reshape - ResizeBilinear - ResizeBicubic - ResizeNearestNeighbor - ReverseV2 - RightShift - Round - Rsqrt - Select - Selu - Shape - Sigmoid - Sign - Sin - Size - Slice - Softmax - Softplus - SpaceToBatchND - SpaceToDepth, - Split - SplitV - Sqrt - Square - SquareDifference - Squeeze - StridedSlice - Sub - Sum - Switch - Tanh - TensorArrayV3 - TensorArrayScatterV3 - TensorArrayGatherV3 - TensorArraySizeV3 - TensorArrayWriteV3 - TensorArrayReadV3 - TensorArraySplitV3 - TensorArrayConcatV3 - Tile - TopKV2 - Transpose - TruncateMod - Unpack - UnravelIndex - Where - ZerosLike