Tensorflow - ValueError: Failed to convert a NumPy array to a Tensor (Unsupported object type float)
TL;DR Several possible errors, most fixed with x = np.asarray(x).astype('float32')
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Others may be faulty data preprocessing; ensure everything is properly formatted (categoricals, nans, strings, etc). Below shows what the model expects:
[print(i.shape, i.dtype) for i in model.inputs]
[print(o.shape, o.dtype) for o in model.outputs]
[print(l.name, l.input_shape, l.dtype) for l in model.layers]
The problem's rooted in using lists as inputs, as opposed to Numpy arrays; Keras/TF doesn't support former. A simple conversion is: x_array = np.asarray(x_list)
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The next step's to ensure data is fed in expected format; for LSTM, that'd be a 3D tensor with dimensions (batch_size, timesteps, features)
- or equivalently, (num_samples, timesteps, channels)
. Lastly, as a debug pro-tip, print ALL the shapes for your data. Code accomplishing all of the above, below:
Sequences = np.asarray(Sequences)
Targets = np.asarray(Targets)
show_shapes()
Sequences = np.expand_dims(Sequences, -1)
Targets = np.expand_dims(Targets, -1)
show_shapes()
# OUTPUTS
Expected: (num_samples, timesteps, channels)
Sequences: (200, 1000)
Targets: (200,)
Expected: (num_samples, timesteps, channels)
Sequences: (200, 1000, 1)
Targets: (200, 1)
As a bonus tip, I notice you're running via main()
, so your IDE probably lacks a Jupyter-like cell-based execution; I strongly recommend the Spyder IDE. It's as simple as adding # In[]
, and pressing Ctrl + Enter
below:
Function used:
def show_shapes(): # can make yours to take inputs; this'll use local variable values
print("Expected: (num_samples, timesteps, channels)")
print("Sequences: {}".format(Sequences.shape))
print("Targets: {}".format(Targets.shape))
After trying everything above with no success, I found that my problem was that one of the columns from my data had boolean
values. Converting everything into np.float32
solved the issue!
import numpy as np
X = np.asarray(X).astype(np.float32)