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@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ specified list, of the variables in the graph. The saver object provides
methods to run these ops, specifying paths for the checkpoint files to write to
or read from.
+Note that to restore a model checkpoint without a graph one must first import
+the graph from the meta graph file (typical extension is `.meta`). This is
+done with @{tf.train.import_meta_graph}, which in turn returns a `Saver` from
+which one can than perform a `restore`.
+
### Checkpoint Files
Variables are saved in binary files that, roughly, contain a map from variable