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

Wherever you want to save the model,

self.saver = tf.train.Saver()
with tf.Session() as sess:
            sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer())
            ...
            self.saver.save(sess, filename)

Make sure, all your tf.Variable have names, because you may want to restore them later using their names. And where you want to predict,

saver = tf.train.import_meta_graph(filename)
name = 'name given when you saved the file' 
with tf.Session() as sess:
      saver.restore(sess, name)
      print(sess.run('W1:0')) #example to retrieve by variable name

Make sure that saver runs inside the corresponding session. Remember that, if you use the tf.train.latest_checkpoint('./'), then only the latest check point will be used.