create a tensor proto whose content is larger than 2GB

Question

I created a ndarray (W) which size is (2^22, 256), and I tried to use this array as my initialization of weight matirx using:

w = tf.Variable(tf.convert_to_t         


        

Answer 1

for tf v1.14.0 you can solve this with tf.compat.v1.enable_eager_execution() tf v2.0+ doesn't throw error in situation at all.