ValueError: Trying to share variable rnn/multi_rnn_cell/cell_0/basic_lstm_cell/kernel
I encountered a similar problem when I upgraded to v1.2 (tensorflow-gpu).
Instead of using [rnn_cell]*3
, I created 3 rnn_cells
(stacked_rnn) by a loop (so that they don't share variables) and fed MultiRNNCell
with stacked_rnn
and the problem goes away. I'm not sure it is the right way to do it.
stacked_rnn = []
for iiLyr in range(3):
stacked_rnn.append(tf.nn.rnn_cell.LSTMCell(num_units=512, state_is_tuple=True))
MultiLyr_cell = tf.nn.rnn_cell.MultiRNNCell(cells=stacked_rnn, state_is_tuple=True)
An official TensorFlow tutorial recommends this way of multiple LSTM network definition:
def lstm_cell():
return tf.contrib.rnn.BasicLSTMCell(lstm_size)
stacked_lstm = tf.contrib.rnn.MultiRNNCell(
[lstm_cell() for _ in range(number_of_layers)])
You can find it here: https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/recurrent
Actually it it almost the same approach that Wasi Ahmad and Maosi Chen suggested above but maybe in a little bit more elegant form.
I guess it's because your RNN cells on each of your 3 layers share the same input and output shape.
On layer 1, the input dimension is 513 = 1(your x dimension) + 512(dimension of the hidden layer) for each timestamp per batch.
On layer 2 and 3, the input dimension is 1024 = 512(output from previous layer) + 512 (output from previous timestamp).
The way you stack up your MultiRNNCell probably implies that 3 cells share the same input and output shape.
I stack up MultiRNNCell by declaring two separate types of cells in order to prevent them from sharing input shape
rnn_cell1 = tf.contrib.rnn.BasicLSTMCell(512)
run_cell2 = tf.contrib.rnn.BasicLSTMCell(512)
stack_rnn = [rnn_cell1]
for i in range(1, 3):
stack_rnn.append(rnn_cell2)
m_rnn_cell = tf.contrib.rnn.MultiRNNCell(stack_rnn, state_is_tuple = True)
Then I am able to train my data without this bug. I'm not sure whether my guess is correct, but it works for me. Hope it works for you.