WARNING from Tensorflow when creating VGG16

Question

I am using Keras to create a deep learning model. When I creating a VGG16 model, the model is created but I get the following warning.

vgg16_model = VGG16()

why this warning happens and how can I resolve this?

WARNING:tensorflow:From /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/op_def_library.py:263: colocate_with (from tensorflow.python.framework.ops) is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
Instructions for updating:
Colocations handled automatically by placer.

this would be fine if it was just a warning and continued running my program, but currently it just halts it — Akin Hwan, Jun 02 '19 at 22:54
I doubt this warning is the reason anything is failing, probably a red herring. — David Parks, Jun 11 '19 at 15:52

score 8 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '19 at 21:17

It looks like there's an open git issue to clean this up in the keras code:

https://github.com/tensorflow/minigo/issues/740

You should be safe to ignore the warning, I don't believe you can change it without modifying the TF repo. You can disable warnings as mentioned here:

tf.logging.set_verbosity(tf.logging.ERROR)

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '19 at 21:43

You can use the function below to avoid these warnings. First, you must make the appropriate imports:

 import os
 os.environ['KERAS_BACKEND']='tensorflow'
 import tensorflow as tf


def tf_no_warning():
    """
    Make Tensorflow less verbose
    """
    try:

        tf.logging.set_verbosity(tf.logging.ERROR)
        os.environ['TF_CPP_MIN_LOG_LEVEL'] = '3'

    except ImportError:
        pass

And then call the above function at the beginning of the code.

 tf_no_warning()

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 14 '19 at 07:47

So , the method colocate_with is a context manager to make sure that the operation or tensor you're about to create will be placed on the same device the reference operation is on. But, your warning says that it will be deprecated and that this will from now on be handled automatically. From the next version of tensorflow, this method will be removed so you will either have to update your code now (which will run currently) or later (when you update the version of tensorflow to the next one, this code will no longer be runnable because that method will be removed)

I get the same Warning when I use TensorFlow's `fully_connected` function for creating layers of the network. How can I correct it? — Leevo, Feb 20 '19 at 19:50

WARNING from Tensorflow when creating VGG16

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