tf.flags.DEFINE解释

tf.flags.DEFINE_xxx()

最近在Bert代码中，看到了tf.flags.DEFINE的代码，不知道是什么含义，于是找到了一些资料。具体如下：
flags = tf.flags
FLAGS = flags.FLAGS
flags.DEFINE_xxx()
FLAGS.parse_flags()

函数意义

利用该函数，可以实现在命令行中设置需要设定的参数来运行程序。
这样的话，就可以不用在源代码中指定参数，相当于在命令行中传递需要设定的参数。

具体例子

程序run_classifer.py中的部分代码如下：

flags.DEFINE_string(
    "data_dir", None,
    "The input data dir. Should contain the .tsv files (or other data files) "
    "for the task.")

flags.DEFINE_string(
    "bert_config_file", None,
    "The config json file corresponding to the pre-trained BERT model. "
    "This specifies the model architecture.")

flags.DEFINE_string("task_name", None, "The name of the task to train.")

flags.DEFINE_string("vocab_file", None,
                    "The vocabulary file that the BERT model was trained on.")

flags.DEFINE_string(
    "output_dir", None,
    "The output directory where the model checkpoints will be written.")

## Other parameters

flags.DEFINE_string(
    "init_checkpoint", None,
    "Initial checkpoint (usually from a pre-trained BERT model).")

flags.DEFINE_bool(
    "do_lower_case", True,
    "Whether to lower case the input text. Should be True for uncased "
    "models and False for cased models.")

flags.DEFINE_integer(
    "max_seq_length", 128,
    "The maximum total input sequence length after WordPiece tokenization. "
    "Sequences longer than this will be truncated, and sequences shorter "
    "than this will be padded.")

flags.DEFINE_bool("do_train", False, "Whether to run training.")

flags.DEFINE_bool("do_eval", False, "Whether to run eval on the dev set.")

flags.DEFINE_bool(
    "do_predict", False,
    "Whether to run the model in inference mode on the test set.")

flags.DEFINE_integer("train_batch_size", 32, "Total batch size for training.")

flags.DEFINE_integer("eval_batch_size", 8, "Total batch size for eval.")

flags.DEFINE_integer("predict_batch_size", 8, "Total batch size for predict.")

flags.DEFINE_float("learning_rate", 5e-5, "The initial learning rate for Adam.")

flags.DEFINE_float("num_train_epochs", 3.0,
                   "Total number of training epochs to perform.")

flags.DEFINE_float(
    "warmup_proportion", 0.1,
    "Proportion of training to perform linear learning rate warmup for. "
    "E.g., 0.1 = 10% of training.")

flags.DEFINE_integer("save_checkpoints_steps", 1000,
                     "How often to save the model checkpoint.")

flags.DEFINE_integer("iterations_per_loop", 1000,
                     "How many steps to make in each estimator call.")

flags.DEFINE_bool("use_tpu", False, "Whether to use TPU or GPU/CPU.")

tf.flags.DEFINE_string(
    "tpu_name", None,
    "The Cloud TPU to use for training. This should be either the name "
    "used when creating the Cloud TPU, or a grpc://ip.address.of.tpu:8470 "
    "url.")

tf.flags.DEFINE_string(
    "tpu_zone", None,
    "[Optional] GCE zone where the Cloud TPU is located in. If not "
    "specified, we will attempt to automatically detect the GCE project from "
    "metadata.")

tf.flags.DEFINE_string(
    "gcp_project", None,
    "[Optional] Project name for the Cloud TPU-enabled project. If not "
    "specified, we will attempt to automatically detect the GCE project from "
    "metadata.")

tf.flags.DEFINE_string("master", None, "[Optional] TensorFlow master URL.")

flags.DEFINE_integer(
    "num_tpu_cores", 8,
    "Only used if `use_tpu` is True. Total number of TPU cores to use.")

在命令行中运行这个run_classifer.py，可以输入：

python run_classifier.py \
  --task_name=MRPC \
  --do_train=true \
  --do_eval=true \
  --data_dir=$GLUE_DIR/MRPC \
  --vocab_file=$BERT_BASE_DIR/vocab.txt \
  --bert_config_file=$BERT_BASE_DIR/bert_config.json \
  --init_checkpoint=$BERT_BASE_DIR/bert_model.ckpt \
  --max_seq_length=128 \
  --train_batch_size=32 \
  --learning_rate=2e-5 \
  --num_train_epochs=3.0 \
  --output_dir=/tmp/mrpc_output/

这样就可以在命令行中把需要设置的参数传进去。

FLAGS._parse_flags()

FLAGS = tf.flags.FLAGS #FLAGS保存命令行参数的数据
FLAGS._parse_flags() #将其解析成字典存储到FLAGS.__flags中

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