InterpreterApi

public interface InterpreterApi
Known Indirect Subclasses

Interface to TensorFlow Lite model interpreter, excluding experimental methods.

An InterpreterApi instance encapsulates a pre-trained TensorFlow Lite model, in which operations are executed for model inference.

For example, if a model takes only one input and returns only one output:

try (InterpreterApi interpreter =
     new InterpreterApi.create(file_of_a_tensorflowlite_model)) {
   interpreter.run(input, output);
 }
 

If a model takes multiple inputs or outputs:

Object[] inputs = {input0, input1, ...};
 Map<Integer, Object> map_of_indices_to_outputs = new HashMap<>();
 FloatBuffer ith_output = FloatBuffer.allocateDirect(3 * 2 * 4);  // Float tensor, shape 3x2x4.
 ith_output.order(ByteOrder.nativeOrder());
 map_of_indices_to_outputs.put(i, ith_output);
 try (InterpreterApi interpreter =
     new InterpreterApi.create(file_of_a_tensorflowlite_model)) {
   interpreter.runForMultipleInputsOutputs(inputs, map_of_indices_to_outputs);
 }
 

If a model takes or produces string tensors:

String[] input = {"foo", "bar"};  // Input tensor shape is [2].
 String[][] output = new String[3][2];  // Output tensor shape is [3, 2].
 try (InterpreterApi interpreter =
     new InterpreterApi.create(file_of_a_tensorflowlite_model)) {
   interpreter.runForMultipleInputsOutputs(input, output);
 }
 

Note that there's a distinction between shape [] and shape[1]. For scalar string tensor outputs:

String[] input = {"foo"};  // Input tensor shape is [1].
 ByteBuffer outputBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(OUTPUT_BYTES_SIZE);  // Output tensor shape is [].
 try (Interpreter interpreter = new Interpreter(file_of_a_tensorflowlite_model)) {
   interpreter.runForMultipleInputsOutputs(input, outputBuffer);
 }
 byte[] outputBytes = new byte[outputBuffer.remaining()];
 outputBuffer.get(outputBytes);
 // Below, the `charset` can be StandardCharsets.UTF_8.
 String output = new String(outputBytes, charset);
 

Orders of inputs and outputs are determined when converting TensorFlow model to TensorFlowLite model with Toco, as are the default shapes of the inputs.

When inputs are provided as (multi-dimensional) arrays, the corresponding input tensor(s) will be implicitly resized according to that array's shape. When inputs are provided as Buffer types, no implicit resizing is done; the caller must ensure that the Buffer byte size either matches that of the corresponding tensor, or that they first resize the tensor via resizeInput(int, int[]). Tensor shape and type information can be obtained via the Tensor class, available via getInputTensor(int) and getOutputTensor(int).

WARNING:InterpreterApi instances are not thread-safe.

WARNING:An InterpreterApi instance owns resources that must be explicitly freed by invoking close()

The TFLite library is built against NDK API 19. It may work for Android API levels below 19, but is not guaranteed.

Nested Classes

class InterpreterApi.Options An options class for controlling runtime interpreter behavior. 

Public Methods

abstract void
allocateTensors()
Explicitly updates allocations for all tensors, if necessary.
abstract void
close()
Release resources associated with the InterpreterApi instance.
static InterpreterApi
create(File modelFile, InterpreterApi.Options options)
Constructs an InterpreterApi instance, using the specified model and options.
static InterpreterApi
create(ByteBuffer byteBuffer, InterpreterApi.Options options)
Constructs an InterpreterApi instance, using the specified model and options.
abstract int
getInputIndex(String opName)
Gets index of an input given the op name of the input.
abstract Tensor
getInputTensor(int inputIndex)
Gets the Tensor associated with the provided input index.
abstract int
getInputTensorCount()
Gets the number of input tensors.
abstract Long
getLastNativeInferenceDurationNanoseconds()
Returns native inference timing.
abstract int
getOutputIndex(String opName)
Gets index of an output given the op name of the output.
abstract Tensor
getOutputTensor(int outputIndex)
Gets the Tensor associated with the provided output index.
abstract int
getOutputTensorCount()
Gets the number of output Tensors.
abstract void
resizeInput(int idx, int[] dims, boolean strict)
Resizes idx-th input of the native model to the given dims.
abstract void
resizeInput(int idx, int[] dims)
Resizes idx-th input of the native model to the given dims.
abstract void
run(Object input, Object output)
Runs model inference if the model takes only one input, and provides only one output.
abstract void
runForMultipleInputsOutputs(Object[] inputs, Map<IntegerObject> outputs)
Runs model inference if the model takes multiple inputs, or returns multiple outputs.

Inherited Methods

Public Methods

public abstract void allocateTensors ()

Explicitly updates allocations for all tensors, if necessary.

This will propagate shapes and memory allocations for dependent tensors using the input tensor shape(s) as given.

Note: This call is *purely optional*. Tensor allocation will occur automatically during execution if any input tensors have been resized. This call is most useful in determining the shapes for any output tensors before executing the graph, e.g.,

 interpreter.resizeInput(0, new int[]{1, 4, 4, 3}));
 interpreter.allocateTensors();
 FloatBuffer input = FloatBuffer.allocate(interpreter.getInputTensor(0).numElements());
 // Populate inputs...
 FloatBuffer output = FloatBuffer.allocate(interpreter.getOutputTensor(0).numElements());
 interpreter.run(input, output)
 // Process outp