I think the callback in keras is also a solution.
The ckpt file can be saved by TF with:
saver = tf.train.Saver()
saver.save(sess, checkpoint_name)
and to load checkpoint in Keras, you need a callback class as follow:
class RestoreCkptCallback(keras.callbacks.Callback):
def __init__(self, pretrained_file):
self.pretrained_file = pretrained_file
self.sess = keras.backend.get_session()
self.saver = tf.train.Saver()
def on_train_begin(self, logs=None):
if self.pretrian_model_path:
self.saver.restore(self.sess, self.pretrian_model_path)
print('load weights: OK.')
Then in your keras script:
model.compile(loss="categorical_crossentropy", optimizer="rmsprop")
restore_ckpt_callback = RestoreCkptCallback(pretrian_model_path="./XXXX.ckpt")
model.fit(x_train, y_train, batch_size=128, epochs=20, callbacks=[restore_ckpt_callback])
That will be fine.
I think it is easy to implement and hope it helps.