What is the difference between Variables and Placeholders?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

The major differences between Variables and Placeholders are

S. No.CriteriaVariablesPlaceholders
1.Based on UsageVariables are used to store the present as well as the past state of a graph.Placeholders are used to feed external data into a graph and the data is assigned to a later date.
2.Based on declaration commandTo declare a variable we use the tf.Variable() command.To declare a placeholder tf.placeholder() command.
3.Based on the requirement of initializationThe variables are needed to be initialized before running the graph.Initialization is not required in the case of the placeholders.

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