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?