Most Simple Usage Of Tensorboard
Starting to learn tensorflow, some questions confused me so much. The problems are like such. Does it necessary to initialize the tensorflow.summaryFileWriter
instance? sometimes I wrote a graph and be able to access the graph, sometimes failed to do so.
I had some try. I figured some of my questions out.
Write A Most Simple Graph
import tensorflow as tf
with tf.name_scope('scp1'):
a = tf.Variable(5.5,name="var0")
b = a + tf.Variable(34.2)
with tf.Session() as sess0:
tf.summary.FileWriter('logs',sess0.graph)
save the above code to a .py
file, execute it. In the directory where the .py
file is stored, there will be a subdirectory logs
created. Open command prompt
at the dierectory contented the .py
file and execute the command tensorboard --logdir logs
. It should not be . Then, you can view the graph in chrome.tensorboard --logdir = logs
Problems I Encountered
P1
import tensorflow as tf
with tf.name_scope('scp1'):
a = tf.Variable(5.5,name="var0")
b = a + 34.2
with tf.Session() as sess0:
tf.summary.FileWriter('logs',sess0.graph)
I tried this code, I never wrote a graph. The number 3.42
in the code should be tensorflow.constant(34.2)
or tensorflow.Variable(34.2)
.
P2
import tensorflow as tf
with tf.name_scope('scp1'):
a = tf.Variable(5.5,name="var0")
b = a + 34.2
with tf.Session() as sess0:
graf = tf.summary.FileWriter('logs',sess0.graph)
tf.global_variables_initializer().run()
Once, I thought the instance of tensorflow.summary.FileWriter
may also need to be initialized. I tried some code like the above. In fact, the last sentence above is not necessary.
As the name implied, it’s the the initializer for variables. The graph is not a variable. So, the initializer is not work for the graph. What’s more. The graph is just depends on the definition of the structure. For showing a graph of the structure, initializing the whole structure seems strange. These were what I perplexed with, when I found a code with tf.global_variables_initializer().run()
worked.