WARNING:tensorflow with constraint is deprecated and will be removed in a future version

Question

I am following Tensorflow's tutorial on building a simple neural network, and after importing the necessary libraries (tensorflow, keras, numpy & matplotlib) and datasets (fashion_mnist) I ran this code as per the tutorial:

model = keras.Sequential([
    keras.layers.Flatten(input_shape=(28, 28)),
    keras.layers.Dense(128, activation='relu'),
    keras.layers.Dense(10, activation='softmax')
]) 

after running this code i received this warning message:

WARNING:tensorflow:From /Applications/anaconda3/envs/tensorfloe/lib/python3.7/site-packages/tensorflow_core/python/ops/resource_variable_ops.py:1630: calling BaseResourceVariable.init (from tensorflow.python.ops.resource_variable_ops) with constraint is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Instructions for updating: If using Keras pass *_constraint arguments to layers.

How do i fix this? Your help is highly appreciated.

Answer 1

This is internal TensorFlow message, you can safely ignore it. It will be gone in future versions of TensorFlow, no actions from your side is needed.

Answer 2

I had a similar warning when I was using tf.compat.v1.get_variable(...) and what I needed to do was to set the use_resource argument to False. Might help someone looking for a similar warning but doesn't look like the case with you though.