tf.data.Dataset with constant size batches












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I have a dataset with 19 elements and a batch size of 10. I set my dataset to continuously iterate over the same elements but I noticed that the last batch has only 4 elements instead of 5, and then it starts over with 5, 5, 5, 4, and so on.



How is is possible to force the iterator to fill up shorter batches with elements coming from the next iteration so that all the batches have the same size?



P.S. just to understand, isn't this the obvious behavior when training a model?










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    If you look at the documentation of tf.data.Dataset.batch, there is an optional drop_remainder parameter to discard the last incomplete batch. I don't know if there is a way to complete the last batch with the beginning of the next iteration. If you're shuffling your data it shouldn't matter discarding the last batch, but anyway it would be interesting to have a way to do that.

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I have a dataset with 19 elements and a batch size of 10. I set my dataset to continuously iterate over the same elements but I noticed that the last batch has only 4 elements instead of 5, and then it starts over with 5, 5, 5, 4, and so on.



How is is possible to force the iterator to fill up shorter batches with elements coming from the next iteration so that all the batches have the same size?



P.S. just to understand, isn't this the obvious behavior when training a model?










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    If you look at the documentation of tf.data.Dataset.batch, there is an optional drop_remainder parameter to discard the last incomplete batch. I don't know if there is a way to complete the last batch with the beginning of the next iteration. If you're shuffling your data it shouldn't matter discarding the last batch, but anyway it would be interesting to have a way to do that.

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    Nov 19 '18 at 21:35
















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I have a dataset with 19 elements and a batch size of 10. I set my dataset to continuously iterate over the same elements but I noticed that the last batch has only 4 elements instead of 5, and then it starts over with 5, 5, 5, 4, and so on.



How is is possible to force the iterator to fill up shorter batches with elements coming from the next iteration so that all the batches have the same size?



P.S. just to understand, isn't this the obvious behavior when training a model?










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I have a dataset with 19 elements and a batch size of 10. I set my dataset to continuously iterate over the same elements but I noticed that the last batch has only 4 elements instead of 5, and then it starts over with 5, 5, 5, 4, and so on.



How is is possible to force the iterator to fill up shorter batches with elements coming from the next iteration so that all the batches have the same size?



P.S. just to understand, isn't this the obvious behavior when training a model?







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    If you look at the documentation of tf.data.Dataset.batch, there is an optional drop_remainder parameter to discard the last incomplete batch. I don't know if there is a way to complete the last batch with the beginning of the next iteration. If you're shuffling your data it shouldn't matter discarding the last batch, but anyway it would be interesting to have a way to do that.

    – jdehesa
    Nov 19 '18 at 21:35
















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    If you look at the documentation of tf.data.Dataset.batch, there is an optional drop_remainder parameter to discard the last incomplete batch. I don't know if there is a way to complete the last batch with the beginning of the next iteration. If you're shuffling your data it shouldn't matter discarding the last batch, but anyway it would be interesting to have a way to do that.

    – jdehesa
    Nov 19 '18 at 21:35










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If you look at the documentation of tf.data.Dataset.batch, there is an optional drop_remainder parameter to discard the last incomplete batch. I don't know if there is a way to complete the last batch with the beginning of the next iteration. If you're shuffling your data it shouldn't matter discarding the last batch, but anyway it would be interesting to have a way to do that.

– jdehesa
Nov 19 '18 at 21:35







If you look at the documentation of tf.data.Dataset.batch, there is an optional drop_remainder parameter to discard the last incomplete batch. I don't know if there is a way to complete the last batch with the beginning of the next iteration. If you're shuffling your data it shouldn't matter discarding the last batch, but anyway it would be interesting to have a way to do that.

– jdehesa
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To have this behavior, the .repeat() method should be invoked before the batch() or padded_batch() one. So:



file_names = [...]
def my_map_func(record):
....
dataset = tf.data.TFRecordDataset(file_names)
.map(map_func=my_map_func)
.repeat() # here!
.batch(5)





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    To have this behavior, the .repeat() method should be invoked before the batch() or padded_batch() one. So:



    file_names = [...]
    def my_map_func(record):
    ....
    dataset = tf.data.TFRecordDataset(file_names)
    .map(map_func=my_map_func)
    .repeat() # here!
    .batch(5)





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      To have this behavior, the .repeat() method should be invoked before the batch() or padded_batch() one. So:



      file_names = [...]
      def my_map_func(record):
      ....
      dataset = tf.data.TFRecordDataset(file_names)
      .map(map_func=my_map_func)
      .repeat() # here!
      .batch(5)





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        To have this behavior, the .repeat() method should be invoked before the batch() or padded_batch() one. So:



        file_names = [...]
        def my_map_func(record):
        ....
        dataset = tf.data.TFRecordDataset(file_names)
        .map(map_func=my_map_func)
        .repeat() # here!
        .batch(5)





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        To have this behavior, the .repeat() method should be invoked before the batch() or padded_batch() one. So:



        file_names = [...]
        def my_map_func(record):
        ....
        dataset = tf.data.TFRecordDataset(file_names)
        .map(map_func=my_map_func)
        .repeat() # here!
        .batch(5)






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