How to *actually* read CSV data in TensorFlow?

Question

I\'m relatively new to the world of TensorFlow, and pretty perplexed by how you\'d actually read CSV data into a usable example/label tensors in Te

Answer 1

If anyone came here searching for a simple way to read absolutely large and sharded CSV files in tf.estimator API then , please see below my code

CSV_COLUMNS = ['ID','text','class']
LABEL_COLUMN = 'class'
DEFAULTS = [['x'],['no'],[0]]  #Default values

def read_dataset(filename, mode, batch_size = 512):
    def _input_fn(v_test=False):
#         def decode_csv(value_column):
#             columns = tf.decode_csv(value_column, record_defaults = DEFAULTS)
#             features = dict(zip(CSV_COLUMNS, columns))
#             label = features.pop(LABEL_COLUMN)
#             return add_engineered(features), label

        # Create list of files that match pattern
        file_list = tf.gfile.Glob(filename)

        # Create dataset from file list
        #dataset = tf.data.TextLineDataset(file_list).map(decode_csv)
        dataset = tf.contrib.data.make_csv_dataset(file_list,
                                                   batch_size=batch_size,
                                                   column_names=CSV_COLUMNS,
                                                   column_defaults=DEFAULTS,
                                                   label_name=LABEL_COLUMN)

        if mode == tf.estimator.ModeKeys.TRAIN:
            num_epochs = None # indefinitely
            dataset = dataset.shuffle(buffer_size = 10 * batch_size)
        else:
            num_epochs = 1 # end-of-input after this

        batch_features, batch_labels = dataset.make_one_shot_iterator().get_next()

        #Begins - Uncomment for testing only -----------------------------------------------------<
        if v_test == True:
            with tf.Session() as sess:
                print(sess.run(batch_features))
        #End - Uncomment for testing only -----------------------------------------------------<
        return add_engineered(batch_features), batch_labels
    return _input_fn

Example usage in TF.estimator:

train_spec = tf.estimator.TrainSpec(input_fn = read_dataset(
                                                filename = train_file,
                                                mode = tf.estimator.ModeKeys.TRAIN,
                                                batch_size = 128), 
                                      max_steps = num_train_steps)