Can I use TensorBoard with Google Colab?

Question

Is there any way to use TensorBoard when training a TensorFlow model on Google Colab?

Answer 1

I tried but did not get the result but when used as below, got the results

import tensorboardcolab as tb
tbc = tb.TensorBoardColab()

after this open the link from the output.

import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np

Explicitly create a Graph object

graph = tf.Graph()
with graph.as_default()

Complete example :

with tf.name_scope("variables"):
    # Variable to keep track of how many times the graph has been run
    global_step = tf.Variable(0, dtype=tf.int32, name="global_step")

    # Increments the above `global_step` Variable, should be run whenever the graph is run
    increment_step = global_step.assign_add(1)

    # Variable that keeps track of previous output value:
    previous_value = tf.Variable(0.0, dtype=tf.float32, name="previous_value")

# Primary transformation Operations
with tf.name_scope("exercise_transformation"):

    # Separate input layer
    with tf.name_scope("input"):
        # Create input placeholder- takes in a Vector 
        a = tf.placeholder(tf.float32, shape=[None], name="input_placeholder_a")

    # Separate middle layer
    with tf.name_scope("intermediate_layer"):
        b = tf.reduce_prod(a, name="product_b")
        c = tf.reduce_sum(a, name="sum_c")

    # Separate output layer
    with tf.name_scope("output"):
        d = tf.add(b, c, name="add_d")
        output = tf.subtract(d, previous_value, name="output")
        update_prev = previous_value.assign(output)

# Summary Operations
with tf.name_scope("summaries"):
    tf.summary.scalar('output', output)  # Creates summary for output node
    tf.summary.scalar('product of inputs', b, )
    tf.summary.scalar('sum of inputs', c)

# Global Variables and Operations
with tf.name_scope("global_ops"):
    # Initialization Op
    init = tf.initialize_all_variables()
    # Collect all summary Ops in graph
    merged_summaries = tf.summary.merge_all()

# Start a Session, using the explicitly created Graph
sess = tf.Session(graph=graph)

# Open a SummaryWriter to save summaries
writer = tf.summary.FileWriter('./Graph', sess.graph)

# Initialize Variables
sess.run(init)

def run_graph(input_tensor):
    """
    Helper function; runs the graph with given input tensor and saves summaries
    """
    feed_dict = {a: input_tensor}
    output, summary, step = sess.run([update_prev, merged_summaries, increment_step], feed_dict=feed_dict)
    writer.add_summary(summary, global_step=step)


# Run the graph with various inputs
run_graph([2,8])
run_graph([3,1,3,3])
run_graph([8])
run_graph([1,2,3])
run_graph([11,4])
run_graph([4,1])
run_graph([7,3,1])
run_graph([6,3])
run_graph([0,2])
run_graph([4,5,6])

# Writes the summaries to disk
writer.flush()

# Flushes the summaries to disk and closes the SummaryWriter
writer.close()

# Close the session
sess.close()

# To start TensorBoard after running this file, execute the following command:
# $ tensorboard --logdir='./improved_graph'