[Design Review Request] Extending model save/load API

2019-02-21 Thread sandeep krishnamurthy
Hello MXNet community, I have put up a design proposal to extend the MXNet model saving and loading APIs to solve the following 2 problems: 1. Currently, model export/save APIs do not allow you to export the data transformations as part of the model. By allowing this, we greatly simplify the user

Re: [Design Review Request] Extending model save/load API

2019-02-21 Thread Sheng Zha
Hi Sandeep, In the design doc, you stated that > Input/Output signature are not part of the model: Saved model missing the information about the input/output descriptions, like name/shape, making the saved model unusable out of the box. Could you elaborate why you think this is the case? -sz On

Re: [Design Review Request] Extending model save/load API

2019-02-21 Thread sandeep krishnamurthy
Hi Sheng, By stating unusable out of the box, I meant, when loading a model for inference, today, users need to know input name, shape for binding. This information if part of the model, could have simplified model training to model deployment path much easier and decoupled. Best, Sandeep On Thu