freeze.md

Freeze a model

The trained neural network is extracted from a checkpoint and dumped into a protobuf(.pb) file. This process is called "freezing" a model. The idea and part of our code are from Morgan. To freeze a model, typically one does

$ dp freeze -o graph.pb

in the folder where the model is trained. The output model is called graph.pb.

In multi-task mode:

• This process will in default output several models, each of which contains the common descriptor and one of the user-defined fitting nets in {ref}fitting_net_dict <model/fitting_net_dict>, let's name it fitting_key, together frozen in graph_{fitting_key}.pb. Those frozen models are exactly the same as single-task output with fitting net fitting_key.
• If you add --united-model option in this situation, the total multi-task model will be frozen into one unit graph.pb, which is mainly for multi-task initialization and can not be used directly for inference.