Tensorflow: Cannot interpret feed_dict key as Tensor - neural-network

Question

I am trying to build a neural network model with one hidden layer (1024 nodes). The hidden layer is nothing but a relu unit. I am also processing the input data in batches of 128.
The inputs are images of size 28 * 28. In the following code I get the error in line
_, c = sess.run([optimizer, loss], feed_dict={x: batch_x, y: batch_y})
Error: TypeError: Cannot interpret feed_dict key as Tensor: Tensor Tensor("Placeholder_64:0", shape=(128, 784), dtype=float32) is not an element of this graph.
Here is the code I have written
#Initialize
batch_size = 128
layer1_input = 28 * 28
hidden_layer1 = 1024
num_labels = 10
num_steps = 3001
#Create neural network model
def create_model(inp, w, b):
layer1 = tf.add(tf.matmul(inp, w['w1']), b['b1'])
layer1 = tf.nn.relu(layer1)
layer2 = tf.matmul(layer1, w['w2']) + b['b2']
return layer2
#Initialize variables
x = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=(batch_size, layer1_input))
y = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=(batch_size, num_labels))
w = {
'w1': tf.Variable(tf.random_normal([layer1_input, hidden_layer1])),
'w2': tf.Variable(tf.random_normal([hidden_layer1, num_labels]))
}
b = {
'b1': tf.Variable(tf.zeros([hidden_layer1])),
'b2': tf.Variable(tf.zeros([num_labels]))
}
init = tf.initialize_all_variables()
train_prediction = tf.nn.softmax(model)
tf_valid_dataset = tf.constant(valid_dataset)
tf_test_dataset = tf.constant(test_dataset)
model = create_model(x, w, b)
loss = tf.reduce_mean(tf.nn.softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(model, y))
optimizer = tf.train.GradientDescentOptimizer(0.5).minimize(loss)
#Process
with tf.Session(graph=graph1) as sess:
tf.initialize_all_variables().run()
total_batch = int(train_dataset.shape[0] / batch_size)
for epoch in range(num_steps):
loss = 0
for i in range(total_batch):
batch_x, batch_y = train_dataset[epoch * batch_size:(epoch+1) * batch_size, :], train_labels[epoch * batch_size:(epoch+1) * batch_size,:]
_, c = sess.run([optimizer, loss], feed_dict={x: batch_x, y: batch_y})
loss = loss + c
loss = loss / total_batch
if epoch % 500 == 0:
print ("Epoch :", epoch, ". cost = {:.9f}".format(avg_cost))
print("Minibatch accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(predictions, batch_labels))
valid_prediction = tf.run(tf_valid_dataset, {x: tf_valid_dataset})
print("Validation accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(valid_prediction.eval(), valid_labels))
test_prediction = tf.run(tf_test_dataset, {x: tf_test_dataset})
print("TEST accuracy: %.1f%%" % accuracy(test_prediction.eval(), test_labels))

Answer 1

This worked for me
from keras import backend as K
and after predicting my data i inserted this part of code
then i had again loaded the model.
K.clear_session()
i faced this problem in production server,
but in my pc it was running fine
...........
from keras import backend as K
#Before prediction
K.clear_session()
#After prediction
K.clear_session()

Answer 2

Variable x is not in the same graph as model, try to define all of these in the same graph scope. For example,
# define a graph
graph1 = tf.Graph()
with graph1.as_default():
# placeholder
x = tf.placeholder(...)
y = tf.placeholder(...)
# create model
model = create(x, w, b)
with tf.Session(graph=graph1) as sess:
# initialize all the variables
sess.run(init)
# then feed_dict
# ......

Answer 3

If you use django server, just runserver with --nothreading
for example:
python manage.py runserver --nothreading

Answer 4

I had the same issue with flask. adding --without-threads flag to flask run or threaded=False to app.run() fixed it

Answer 5

In my case, I was using loop while calling in CNN multiple times, I fixed my problem by doing the following:
# Declare this as global:
global graph
graph = tf.get_default_graph()
# Then just before you call in your model, use this
with graph.as_default():
# call you models here
Note: In my case too, the app ran fine for the first time and then gave the error above. Using the above fix solved the problem.
Hope that helps.

Answer 6

The error message TypeError: Cannot interpret feed_dict key as Tensor: Tensor Tensor("...", dtype=dtype) is not an element of this graph can also arise in case you run a session outside of the scope of its with statement. Consider:
with tf.Session() as sess:
sess.run(logits, feed_dict=feed_dict)
sess.run(logits, feed_dict=feed_dict)
If logits and feed_dict are defined properly, the first sess.run command will execute normally, but the second will raise the mentioned error.

Answer 7

You can also experience this while working on notebooks hosted on online learning platforms like Coursera. So, implementing following code could help get over with the issue.
Implement this at the topmost block of Notebook file:
from keras import backend as K
K.clear_session()

Answer 8

Similar to #javan-peymanfard and #hmadali-shafiee, I ran into this issue when loading the model in an API. I was using FastAPI with uvicorn. To fix the issue I just set the API function definitions to async similar to this:
#app.post('/endpoint_name')
async def endpoint_function():
# Do stuff here, including possibly (re)loading the model