Automatically save Tensorboard-like plot of loss to image file

Question

I am currently trying to predict the movement of a particle using a tensorflow premade Estimator (tf.estimator.DNNRegressor).

I want to save an image of the average loss plot, like the one tensorboard displays, into each model's folder.

Tensorboard is pretty good to monitor this during training, but I want to save an image for future reference (e.g. comparing different approaches visually)

Is there an easy way to do this? I could save the results of the evaluation at different times and use matplotlib, but I haven't found anything on how to get the loss from the regressor.train method.

Solan

Not actual solutions, but alternatives. 1) You can download the data in JSON/CSV (check "Show data download links" in upper-left corner) and plot it with Excel/Pandas/etc. 2) Someone wrote exportTensorFlowLog to solve this problem (didn't test it myself) 3) Browser developer tools let you to take screenshots of specific elements (e.g. Chrome, Firefox) – Statist

exportTensorFlowLog works well for me - I'd recommend it – Solan

Answer 1

Yes, currently, you can download the .svg of loss/other_metric history as @Jdehesa pointed out in the comment:

1. Check Show data download links;

2. You can see a download symbol on the bottom of the figure;

3. See the yellow marks in the figure if you can't locate them.

Remsen

Answer 2

If you would like to do it programmatically, you could combine the CSVLogger and a custom callback for plotting:

class CustomCallbackPlot(Callback):

def __init__(self, training_data_dir):
    self.tdr = training_data_dir

def on_epoch_end(self, epoch, logs=None):
    df_loan = pd.read_csv(os.path.join(self.tdr, 'training_metrics.csv'))
    df_loan[['loss', 'val_loss']].plot()
    plt.xlabel('epochs')
    plt.title('train/val loss')
    plt.savefig(os.path.join(self.tdr, 'training_metrics.png'))

use the CSVLogger callback to first generate the training and validation loss data. After that use this CustomCallbackPlot to plot it.

    csv_logger = CSVLogger(os.path.join(self.training_data_dir, 'training_metrics.csv'))
    callbacks = [csv_logger, CustomCallbackPlot(self.training_data_dir)]

in my example I use the training_data_dir to store the path.

Yehudit