“pickled weights”?
serious question, how on Earth should someone like me, who has completely missed the last 12 months of AI development, catch up with the state of the art?
serious question, how on Earth should someone like me, who has completely missed the last 12 months of AI development, catch up with the state of the art?
Read more here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html
Then "weights" is just referring to a model's weights, a specific instance of a python object that can be pickled.
Conway & Miles - Machine Learning for Hackers: Case Studies and Algorithms to Get You Started
Once you read and understood this, I'd do an online course...
tl;dr .ckpt files can contain Python pickles containing runnable Python code, which means a Bad Guy could create a .ckpt model containing malicious python code. Basically.