Keras: How to save model and continue training?

As it’s quite difficult to clarify where the problem is, I created a toy example from your code, and it seems to work alright.

import numpy as np
from numpy.testing import assert_allclose
from keras.models import Sequential, load_model
from keras.layers import LSTM, Dropout, Dense
from keras.callbacks import ModelCheckpoint

vec_size = 100
n_units = 10

x_train = np.random.rand(500, 10, vec_size)
y_train = np.random.rand(500, vec_size)

model = Sequential()
model.add(LSTM(n_units, input_shape=(None, vec_size), return_sequences=True))
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(LSTM(n_units, return_sequences=True))
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(LSTM(n_units))
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(Dense(vec_size, activation='linear'))
model.compile(loss="mean_squared_error", optimizer="adam")

# define the checkpoint
filepath = "model.h5"
checkpoint = ModelCheckpoint(filepath, monitor="loss", verbose=1, save_best_only=True, mode="min")
callbacks_list = [checkpoint]

# fit the model
model.fit(x_train, y_train, epochs=5, batch_size=50, callbacks=callbacks_list)

# load the model
new_model = load_model(filepath)
assert_allclose(model.predict(x_train),
                new_model.predict(x_train),
                1e-5)

# fit the model
checkpoint = ModelCheckpoint(filepath, monitor="loss", verbose=1, save_best_only=True, mode="min")
callbacks_list = [checkpoint]
new_model.fit(x_train, y_train, epochs=5, batch_size=50, callbacks=callbacks_list)

The loss continues to decrease after model loading. (restarting python also gives no problem)

Using TensorFlow backend.
Epoch 1/5
500/500 [==============================] - 2s - loss: 0.3216     Epoch 00000: loss improved from inf to 0.32163, saving model to model.h5
Epoch 2/5
500/500 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.2923     Epoch 00001: loss improved from 0.32163 to 0.29234, saving model to model.h5
Epoch 3/5
500/500 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.2542     Epoch 00002: loss improved from 0.29234 to 0.25415, saving model to model.h5
Epoch 4/5
500/500 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.2086     Epoch 00003: loss improved from 0.25415 to 0.20860, saving model to model.h5
Epoch 5/5
500/500 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1725     Epoch 00004: loss improved from 0.20860 to 0.17249, saving model to model.h5

Epoch 1/5
500/500 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1454     Epoch 00000: loss improved from inf to 0.14543, saving model to model.h5
Epoch 2/5
500/500 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1289     Epoch 00001: loss improved from 0.14543 to 0.12892, saving model to model.h5
Epoch 3/5
500/500 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1169     Epoch 00002: loss improved from 0.12892 to 0.11694, saving model to model.h5
Epoch 4/5
500/500 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1097     Epoch 00003: loss improved from 0.11694 to 0.10971, saving model to model.h5
Epoch 5/5
500/500 [==============================] - 0s - loss: 0.1057     Epoch 00004: loss improved from 0.10971 to 0.10570, saving model to model.h5

BTW, redefining the model followed by load_weight() definitely won’t work, because save_weight() and load_weight() does not save/load the optimizer.

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