tensorflow:Can save best model only with val_acc available, skipping

Question

I have an issue with tf.callbacks.ModelChekpoint. As you can see in my log file, the warning comes always before the last iteration where the val_acc is calculated. Therefore, Modelcheckpoint never finds the val_acc

Epoch 1/30
1/8 [==>...........................] - ETA: 19s - loss: 1.4174 - accuracy: 0.3000
2/8 [======>.......................] - ETA: 8s - loss: 1.3363 - accuracy: 0.3500 
3/8 [==========>...................] - ETA: 4s - loss: 1.3994 - accuracy: 0.2667
4/8 [==============>...............] - ETA: 3s - loss: 1.3527 - accuracy: 0.3250
6/8 [=====================>........] - ETA: 1s - loss: 1.3042 - accuracy: 0.3333
WARNING:tensorflow:Can save best model only with val_acc available, skipping.
8/8 [==============================] - 4s 482ms/step - loss: 1.2846 - accuracy: 0.3375 - val_loss: 1.3512 - val_accuracy: 0.5000

Epoch 2/30
1/8 [==>...........................] - ETA: 0s - loss: 1.0098 - accuracy: 0.5000
3/8 [==========>...................] - ETA: 0s - loss: 0.8916 - accuracy: 0.5333
5/8 [=================>............] - ETA: 0s - loss: 0.9533 - accuracy: 0.5600
6/8 [=====================>........] - ETA: 0s - loss: 0.9523 - accuracy: 0.5667
7/8 [=========================>....] - ETA: 0s - loss: 0.9377 - accuracy: 0.5714
WARNING:tensorflow:Can save best model only with val_acc available, skipping.
8/8 [==============================] - 1s 98ms/step - loss: 0.9229 - accuracy: 0.5750 - val_loss: 1.2507 - val_accuracy: 0.5000

This is my code for training the CNN.

callbacks = [
        TensorBoard(log_dir=r'C:\Users\reda\Desktop\logs\{}'.format(Name),
                    histogram_freq=1),
        ModelCheckpoint(filepath=r"C:\Users\reda\Desktop\checkpoints\{}".format(Name), monitor='val_acc',
                        verbose=2, save_best_only=True, mode='max')]
history = model.fit_generator(
        train_data_gen, 
        steps_per_epoch=total_train // batch_size,
        epochs=epochs,
        validation_data=val_data_gen,
        validation_steps=total_val // batch_size,
        callbacks=callbacks)

Answer 1

I know how frustrating these things can be sometimes..but tensorflow requires that you explicitly write out the name of metric you are wanting to calculate

You will need to actually say 'val_accuracy'

metric = 'val_accuracy'
ModelCheckpoint(filepath=r"C:\Users\reda.elhail\Desktop\checkpoints\{}".format(Name), monitor=metric,
                    verbose=2, save_best_only=True, mode='max')]

Hope this helps =)

*** As later noted by BlueTurtle (Give their answer a thumbs up please, likely still beneath this) you also need to use the full metric name to match your model.compile, ModelCheckpoint, and EarlyStopping.