Why does get_weights return an empty list?

Question

I am teaching myself data science and something peculiar has caught my eyes. In a sample DNN tutorial I was working on, I found that the Keras layer.get_weights() f

Answer 1

Maybe you are asking for weights before they are created.

Weights are created when the Model is first called on inputs or build() is called with an input_shape.

For example, if you load weights from checkpoint but you don't give an input_shape to the model, then get_weights() will return an empty list.