Save only the best checkpoint

[bernardohenz]

Instead of using EarlyStop to avoid overfitting, I would like to save the model at the time it had the best (lowest) validation loss. In other words, I would like to keep track only for the best checkpoint (based on val/dev set).

I tried to use a wrapper for tf.train.Saver (this one: https://github.com/vonclites/checkmate), but couldn't make it works with DeepSpeech. Is there a easy way to do tha (maybe using the MonitoredTrainingSession as you are using)?

[reuben]

I looked into this briefly but couldn't find a clean way to implement it with MonitoredTrainingSession (which is IMO a terrible API). I ended up just writing a hack that works, but isn't really code we can land. I'm attaching the patch.

save_best_val.patch.txt

[bernardohenz]

Thanks @reuben , I had to change the name of the MonitoredTrainingSession to train_session for this to work. Now it is working perfectly fine.

[lissyx]

@bernardohenz What's the status here, is the issue fixed, do you have a workaround ? Should we close this ?

[bernardohenz]

@lissyx yes, the patch from @reuben worked just fine.

[reuben]

We should have a proper solution for this in-tree. This would be too much work with the current training setup, but would probably be very simple if we used TF Eager, for example. Reopening so we don't forget.

[reuben]

Updated version of the patch is here: https://gist.github.com/reuben/dcc2deaf85568591e34ce363bc3bac2a

[tilmankamp]

#1988 added this feature. It checkpoints the best validating epoch and supports different ways to resume - see load command-line parameter.

[lock]

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