What are the output files in OUTPUT_DIR after fine-tuning BioBERT for NER?

[sbi30]

After fine-tuning BioBERT and running in inference mode, I get some files in my specified OUTPUT_DIR such as .index, .data, .meta, .tf_record files, etc. What are these and what do they do?

I would like to load my fine-tuned model into a Jupyter notebook to run predictions on a new dataset. Which file is the fine-tuned model?

[wonjininfo]

Hi!
Thank you for your interest in our work.
{.index, .data, .meta} files are a trained weights saved to the destination folder (OUTPUT_DIR).
.tf_record file is pre-processed data for train, dev, or test data.

If you want to load trained weights, use the file name without extensions as an initial checkpoint (--init_checkpoint=).
(For example, if you have model.ckpt-20000.data -> use --init_checkpoint=model.ckpt-20000. For other files such as config or vocab, you can use the original one. )

Also, please change OUTPUT_DIR to a new location!
Thank you!
Best,
Wonjin