Tflite-model-maker with MacOS 12

erik_olson · August 26, 2021, 5:01am

I want to use this:

with this:

Is this possible? I want the brevity/ease of use of tflite-model-maker with the acceleration capabilities of my M1 MacBook Air running macOS 12.0.

I successfully completed the step to install tensorflow-macos, which to my understanding is just a special version of tensorflow 2.5 to take advantage of the M1 hardware acceleration.

Now, when I try to follow the tflite-model-maker example this happens:

I expected an error because in the requirements.txt, tensorflow==2.6.0 is specified (not tensorflow-macos==2.5.0).

Could I just edit that requirements file to specify tensorflow-macos=2.5.0 instead of tensorflow==2.6.0? Or is there an older version of tflite-model-maker that will work with tensorflow-macos==2.5.0?

I assume this is what is also causing the tflite-support dependency problem.

lgusm · August 26, 2021, 11:40am

@Yuqi_Li or @Tian_LIN ight be able to help here

Tian_LIN · August 31, 2021, 7:34am

Can you try pip install tflite-model-maker first and then tensorflow-metal?

Basically satisfy tflite-model-maker requirements first, and then use tensorflow-metal while preserving the tensorflow API.

We didn’t do that before, so are not sure whether it is possible. Please let us know your experience. Good luck!

jimjamslam · December 11, 2021, 11:31am

I’m also struggling:I can’t install tflite-model-maker on my M1 Mac at all

From a fresh conda environment (using the Apple Silicon version of Conda through miniforge3) or a Docker python image (dockerfile below), I get:

root@XXXXXXXXXXX:/# pip install tflite-model-maker
Collecting tflite-model-maker
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.3.4-py3-none-any.whl (616 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 616 kB 4.8 MB/s 
Collecting flatbuffers==1.12
  Downloading flatbuffers-1.12-py2.py3-none-any.whl (15 kB)
Collecting tensorflow-hub<0.13,>=0.7.0
  Downloading tensorflow_hub-0.12.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (108 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 108 kB 4.9 MB/s 
Collecting lxml>=4.6.1
  Downloading lxml-4.6.4-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.manylinux_2_24_aarch64.whl (6.6 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 6.6 MB 5.3 MB/s 
Collecting neural-structured-learning>=1.3.1
  Downloading neural_structured_learning-1.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (120 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 120 kB 18.7 MB/s 
Collecting sentencepiece>=0.1.91
  Downloading sentencepiece-0.1.96-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl (1.2 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.2 MB 31.9 MB/s 
Collecting pillow>=7.0.0
  Downloading Pillow-8.4.0-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl (3.0 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 3.0 MB 12.0 MB/s 
Collecting tf-models-official==2.3.0
  Downloading tf_models_official-2.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (840 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 840 kB 10.4 MB/s 
Collecting tflite-model-maker
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.3.3-py3-none-any.whl (616 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 616 kB 25.3 MB/s 
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.3.2-py3-none-any.whl (591 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 591 kB 21.2 MB/s 
Collecting librosa>=0.5
  Downloading librosa-0.8.1-py3-none-any.whl (203 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 203 kB 9.6 MB/s 
Collecting tflite-model-maker
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.3.1-py3-none-any.whl (590 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 590 kB 11.9 MB/s 
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.3.0-py3-none-any.whl (567 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 567 kB 13.8 MB/s 
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.2.5-py3-none-any.whl (499 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 499 kB 13.4 MB/s 
Collecting tensorflow-datasets>=2.1.0
  Downloading tensorflow_datasets-4.4.0-py3-none-any.whl (4.0 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 4.0 MB 12.7 MB/s 
Collecting tflite-model-maker
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.2.4-py3-none-any.whl (190 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 190 kB 16.1 MB/s 
Collecting numpy>=1.17.3
  Downloading numpy-1.21.4-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_17_aarch64.manylinux2014_aarch64.whl (13.0 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 13.0 MB 943 kB/s 
Collecting absl-py<0.11>=0.10.0
  Downloading absl_py-0.10.0-py3-none-any.whl (127 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 127 kB 12.2 MB/s 
Collecting tflite-model-maker
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.2.3-py3-none-any.whl (114 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 114 kB 14.3 MB/s 
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.2.2-py3-none-any.whl (103 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 103 kB 16.8 MB/s 
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.2.1-py3-none-any.whl (102 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 102 kB 18.9 MB/s 
Collecting fire>=0.3.1
  Downloading fire-0.4.0.tar.gz (87 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 87 kB 4.6 MB/s 
Collecting absl-py>=0.10.0
  Downloading absl_py-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl (126 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 126 kB 19.2 MB/s 
Collecting tflite-model-maker
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.2.0-py3-none-any.whl (102 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 102 kB 18.7 MB/s 
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.1.2-py3-none-any.whl (104 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 104 kB 13.7 MB/s 
Collecting tf-models-nightly
  Downloading tf_models_nightly-2.7.0.dev20211210-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.9 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.9 MB 24.1 MB/s 
Collecting tflite-model-maker
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.1.1-py3-none-any.whl (86 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 86 kB 4.2 MB/s 
Collecting tflite-support==0.1.0a0
  Downloading tflite-support-0.1.0a0.tar.gz (258 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 258 kB 14.2 MB/s 
Collecting tflite-model-maker
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (84 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 84 kB 2.8 MB/s 
ERROR: Cannot install tflite-model-maker==0.1.0, tflite-model-maker==0.1.1, tflite-model-maker==0.1.2, tflite-model-maker==0.2.0, tflite-model-maker==0.2.1, tflite-model-maker==0.2.2, tflite-model-maker==0.2.3, tflite-model-maker==0.2.4, tflite-model-maker==0.2.5, tflite-model-maker==0.3.0, tflite-model-maker==0.3.1, tflite-model-maker==0.3.2, tflite-model-maker==0.3.3 and tflite-model-maker==0.3.4 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

The conflict is caused by:
    tflite-model-maker 0.3.4 depends on numba==0.53
    tflite-model-maker 0.3.3 depends on numba==0.53
    tflite-model-maker 0.3.2 depends on tflite-support>=0.1.0rc4
    tflite-model-maker 0.3.1 depends on tflite-support>=0.1.0rc4
    tflite-model-maker 0.3.0 depends on tflite-support>=0.1.0rc4
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.5 depends on tensorflow>=2.4.0
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.4 depends on tflite-support==0.1.0rc4
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.3 depends on tf-nightly==2.4.0.dev20200902
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.2 depends on tf-nightly==2.4.0.dev20200902
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.1 depends on tf-nightly==2.4.0.dev20200811
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.0 depends on tf-nightly==2.4.0.dev20200810
    tflite-model-maker 0.1.2 depends on tf-nightly
    tflite-model-maker 0.1.1 depends on tf-nightly
    tflite-model-maker 0.1.0 depends on tf-nightly

To fix this you could try to:
1. loosen the range of package versions you've specified
2. remove package versions to allow pip attempt to solve the dependency conflict

ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide/#fixing-conflicting-dependencies
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.2.4; however, version 21.3.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the '/usr/local/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

Dockerfile:

FROM python:latest

RUN pip install tflite-model-maker

Sorry, very new to TF (and a little fresh on Python too, tbh!) and not sure what else would be useful in terms of a reprex!

Gurmukh_Panesar · December 31, 2021, 1:37pm

Same here.

I’ve installed Tensorflow as per the Apple docs:

and then tried to install tflite-model-maker and get the same issue as the OP. If I edit requirements.txt to change the dependency to tensorflow-macos instead of tensorflow, I get an error with tflite-support.

Is there a working guide on how to install tflite-model-maker on a M1 Macbook? I’m not too bothered about using the M1 neural capabilities just yet.

Gurmukh_Panesar · December 31, 2021, 1:37pm

If I try and install the packages as per the tflite-model-maker docs and a simple Python script that converts a model, Python crashes and it seems to be related to Rosetta trying to run a x86 version of Tensorflow on M1

mzouink · May 9, 2022, 3:10am

sane problem here.

kaanberke · October 14, 2022, 10:27am

Even M2 is out for some time and this isn’t resolved, right?

Haesunglee · May 9, 2023, 3:10am

I have also same problem.
My System information

OS Platform and Distribution: macOS 13.3.1 (MacBook Pro M2)
Python Version: Python 3.9.16

My log:

haesunglee@MacBookPro14-haesunglee ~ % sudo pip3 install tflite-model-maker
Password:
WARNING: The directory '/Users/haesunglee/Library/Caches/pip' or its parent directory is not owned or is not writable by the current user. The cache has been disabled. Check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you should use sudo's -H flag.
Collecting tflite-model-maker
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.4.2-py3-none-any.whl (577 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 577.3/577.3 kB 12.7 MB/s eta 0:00:00
Collecting tf-models-official==2.3.0 (from tflite-model-maker)
  Downloading tf_models_official-2.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (840 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 840.9/840.9 kB 11.7 MB/s eta 0:00:00
...
...
...
Collecting tflite-model-maker
  Downloading tflite_model_maker-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl (84 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 84.6/84.6 kB 12.7 MB/s eta 0:00:00
ERROR: Cannot install tflite-model-maker==0.1.2, tflite-model-maker==0.2.0, tflite-model-maker==0.2.1, tflite-model-maker==0.2.2, tflite-model-maker==0.2.3, tflite-model-maker==0.2.4, tflite-model-maker==0.2.5, tflite-model-maker==0.3.0, tflite-model-maker==0.3.1, tflite-model-maker==0.3.2, tflite-model-maker==0.3.3, tflite-model-maker==0.3.4, tflite-model-maker==0.4.0, tflite-model-maker==0.4.1 and tflite-model-maker==0.4.2 because these package versions have conflicting dependencies.

The conflict is caused by:
    tflite-model-maker 0.4.2 depends on tflite-support>=0.4.2
    tflite-model-maker 0.4.1 depends on tflite-support-nightly
    tflite-model-maker 0.4.0 depends on tflite-support>=0.4.0
    tflite-model-maker 0.3.4 depends on tflite-support>=0.3.1
    tflite-model-maker 0.3.3 depends on tflite-support>=0.3.1
    tflite-model-maker 0.3.2 depends on tflite-support>=0.1.0rc4
    tflite-model-maker 0.3.1 depends on tflite-support>=0.1.0rc4
    tflite-model-maker 0.3.0 depends on tflite-support>=0.1.0rc4
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.5 depends on tflite-support==0.1.0rc4
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.4 depends on tflite-support==0.1.0rc4
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.3 depends on tflite-support==0.1.0rc3.dev2
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.2 depends on tflite-support==0.1.0rc3.dev2
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.1 depends on tflite-support==0.1.0rc3.dev2
    tflite-model-maker 0.2.0 depends on tflite-support==0.1.0rc3.dev2
    tflite-model-maker 0.1.2 depends on tflite-support==0.1.0rc3.dev2

To fix this you could try to:
1. loosen the range of package versions you've specified
2. remove package versions to allow pip attempt to solve the dependency conflict

ERROR: ResolutionImpossible: for help visit https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/topics/dependency-resolution/#dealing-with-dependency-conflicts
haesunglee@MacBookPro14-haesunglee ~ %