Numpy to TFrecords: Is there a more simple way to handle batch inputs from tfrecords?

My question is about how to get batch inputs from multiple (or sharded) tfrecords. I’ve read the example https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/inception/inception/image_processing.py#L410. The basic pipeline is, take the training set as as example, (1) first generate a series of tfrecords (e.g., train-000-of-005, train-001-of-005, …), (2) from these filenames, generate a list and fed them into the tf.train.string_input_producer to get a queue, (3) simultaneously generate a tf.RandomShuffleQueue to do other stuff, (4) using tf.train.batch_join to generate batch inputs.

Python memory usage of numpy arrays

I’m using python to analyse some large files and I’m running into memory issues, so I’ve been using sys.getsizeof() to try and keep track of the usage, but it’s behaviour with numpy arrays is bizarre. Here’s an example involving a map of albedos that I’m having to open: