How do I list certain variables in the checkpoint?

Question

I am working with autoencoders. My checkpoint contains the complete state of the network (i.e. the encoder, decoder, optimizer, etc). I want to fool around with the encodings. T

Answer 1

There's list_variables method in checkpoint_utils.py which lets you see all saved variables.

However, for your use-case, it may be easier to restore with a Saver. If you know the names of the variables when you saved the checkpoint, you can create a new saver, and tell it to initialize those names into new Variable objects (possibly with different names). This is used in CIFAR example to select a restore a subset of variables. See Choosing which Variables to Save and Restore in the Howto