README Tutorial fails

[mrx23dot]

I followed the readme.md tutorial.
Done the fine tuning.
It created \checkpoint\run1\ directory.

But when I run the 2nd part (standalone generate, from same dir I ran fine tuning from) it fails:

import gpt_2_simple as gpt2
sess = gpt2.start_tf_sess()
gpt2.load_gpt2(sess)
gpt2.generate(sess)

λ python generate.py
checkpoint_path checkpoint\run1
ckpt None
2022-05-24 10:59:28.937419: I tensorflow/compiler/mlir/mlir_graph_optimization_pass.cc:354] MLIR V1 optimization pass is not enabled
Loading checkpoint None
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "generate.py", line 8, in <module>
    gpt2.load_gpt2(sess)
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\gpt_2_simple\gpt_2.py", line 410, in load_gpt2
    saver.restore(sess, ckpt)
  File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\training\saver.py", line 1405, in restore
    raise ValueError("Can't load save_path when it is None.")
ValueError: Can't load save_path when it is None.

if I specify checkpoint:

gpt2.load_gpt2(sess, checkpoint='run1')
checkpoint_path checkpoint\run1
ckpt checkpoint\run1\run1
ValueError: The passed save_path is not a valid checkpoint: checkpoint\run1\run1

So I guess it expects an empty string:

Detected at node 'save/RestoreV2' defined at (most recent call last):
    File "generate.py", line 8, in <module>
      gpt2.load_gpt2(sess, checkpoint='')
    File "C:\Python37\lib\site-packages\gpt_2_simple\gpt_2.py", line 403, in load_gpt2
      saver = tf.compat.v1.train.Saver(allow_empty=True)
Node: 'save/RestoreV2'
Unable to open table file checkpoint\run1\: NOT_FOUND: NewRandomAccessFile failed to Create/Open: checkpoint\run1\ : The system cannot find the path specified.
; No such process
         [[{{node save/RestoreV2}}]]

So it defensively fails out of the box.
It did seem to generate some sample text during the fine tuning, but not in standalone generation.

[shizhediao]

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