Tensorflow: how to save/restore a model?

Question

After you train a model in Tensorflow:

1. How do you save the trained model?
2. How do you later restore this saved model?

Answer 1

As Yaroslav said, you can hack restoring from a graph_def and checkpoint by importing the graph, manually creating variables, and then using a Saver.

I implemented this for my personal use, so I though I'd share the code here.

Link: https://gist.github.com/nikitakit/6ef3b72be67b86cb7868

(This is, of course, a hack, and there is no guarantee that models saved this way will remain readable in future versions of TensorFlow.)