Class PaddingInputExample

classifier_utils.py:76–84

Fake example so the num input examples is a multiple of the batch size. When running eval/predict on the TPU, we need to pad the number of examples to be a multiple of the batch size, because the TPU requires a fixed batch size. The alternative is to drop the last batch, which is bad because i

class PaddingInputExample(object):
  """Fake example so the num input examples is a multiple of the batch size.
  When running eval/predict on the TPU, we need to pad the number of examples
  to be a multiple of the batch size, because the TPU requires a fixed batch
  size. The alternative is to drop the last batch, which is bad because it means
  the entire output data won't be generated.
  We use this class instead of `None` because treating `None` as padding
  battches could cause silent errors.
  """


class DataProcessor(object):