model_from_json fails with "TypeError: arg 5 (closure) must be tuple"

create_SDmodel_json_or_yaml.py

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

import numpy as np
np.random.seed(2 ** 10)

# Prevent reaching to maximum recursion depth in `theano.tensor.grad`
# import sys
# sys.setrecursionlimit(2 ** 20)

from six.moves import range

from keras.datasets import cifar10
from keras.layers import Input, Dense, Layer, merge, Activation, Flatten, Lambda
from keras.layers.convolutional import Convolution2D, AveragePooling2D
from keras.layers.normalization import BatchNormalization
from keras.models import Model
from keras.optimizers import SGD
from keras.regularizers import l2
from keras.callbacks import Callback, LearningRateScheduler
from keras.preprocessing.image import ImageDataGenerator
from keras.utils import np_utils
import keras.backend as K


batch_size = 64
nb_classes = 10
nb_epoch = 500
N = 18
weight_decay = 1e-4
lr_schedule = [0.5, 0.75]

death_mode = "lin_decay"  # or uniform
death_rate = 0.5

img_rows, img_cols = 32, 32
img_channels = 3


add_tables = []

inputs = Input(shape=(img_channels, img_rows, img_cols))

net = Convolution2D(16, 3, 3, border_mode="same", W_regularizer=l2(weight_decay))(inputs)
net = BatchNormalization(axis=1)(net)
net = Activation("relu")(net)


def residual_drop(x, input_shape, output_shape, strides=(1, 1)):
    global add_tables

    nb_filter = output_shape[0]
    conv = Convolution2D(nb_filter, 3, 3, subsample=strides,
                         border_mode="same", W_regularizer=l2(weight_decay))(x)
    conv = BatchNormalization(axis=1)(conv)
    conv = Activation("relu")(conv)
    conv = Convolution2D(nb_filter, 3, 3,
                         border_mode="same", W_regularizer=l2(weight_decay))(conv)
    conv = BatchNormalization(axis=1)(conv)

    if strides[0] >= 2:
        x = AveragePooling2D(strides)(x)

    if (output_shape[0] - input_shape[0]) > 0:
        pad_shape = (1,
                     output_shape[0] - input_shape[0],
                     output_shape[1],
                     output_shape[2])
        padding = K.zeros(pad_shape)
        padding = K.repeat_elements(padding, K.shape(x)[0], axis=0)
        x = Lambda(lambda y: K.concatenate([y, padding], axis=1),
                   output_shape=output_shape)(x)

    _death_rate = K.variable(death_rate)
    scale = K.ones_like(conv) - _death_rate
    conv = Lambda(lambda c: K.in_test_phase(scale * c, c),
                  output_shape=output_shape)(conv)

    out = merge([conv, x], mode="sum")
    out = Activation("relu")(out)

    gate = K.variable(1, dtype="uint8")
    add_tables += [{"death_rate": _death_rate, "gate": gate}]
    return Lambda(lambda tensors: K.switch(gate, tensors[0], tensors[1]),
                  output_shape=output_shape)([out, x])


for i in range(N):
    net = residual_drop(net, input_shape=(16, 32, 32), output_shape=(16, 32, 32))

net = residual_drop(
    net,
    input_shape=(16, 32, 32),
    output_shape=(32, 16, 16),
    strides=(2, 2)
)
for i in range(N - 1):
    net = residual_drop(
        net,
        input_shape=(32, 16, 16),
        output_shape=(32, 16, 16)
    )

net = residual_drop(
    net,
    input_shape=(32, 16, 16),
    output_shape=(64, 8, 8),
    strides=(2, 2)
)
for i in range(N - 1):
    net = residual_drop(
        net,
        input_shape=(64, 8, 8),
        output_shape=(64, 8, 8)
    )

pool = AveragePooling2D((8, 8))(net)
flatten = Flatten()(pool)

predictions = Dense(10, activation="softmax", W_regularizer=l2(weight_decay))(flatten)
model = Model(input=inputs, output=predictions)

sgd = SGD(lr=0.1, momentum=0.9, nesterov=True)
model.compile(optimizer=sgd, loss="categorical_crossentropy")


def open_all_gates():
    for t in add_tables:
        K.set_value(t["gate"], 1)


# setup death rate
for i, tb in enumerate(add_tables, start=1):
    if death_mode == "uniform":
        K.set_value(tb["death_rate"], death_rate)
    elif death_mode == "lin_decay":
        K.set_value(tb["death_rate"], i / len(add_tables) * death_rate)
    else:
        raise


class GatesUpdate(Callback):
    def on_batch_begin(self, batch, logs={}):
        open_all_gates()

        rands = np.random.uniform(size=len(add_tables))
        for t, rand in zip(add_tables, rands):
            if rand < K.get_value(t["death_rate"]):
                K.set_value(t["gate"], 0)

    def on_batch_end(self, batch, logs={}):
        open_all_gates()  # for validation


def schedule(epoch_idx):
    if (epoch_idx + 1) < (nb_epoch * lr_schedule[0]):
        return 0.1
    elif (epoch_idx + 1) < (nb_epoch * lr_schedule[1]):
        return 0.01

    return 0.001


with open('model.yaml', 'w') as f:
#    f.write(model.to_json())
    f.write( model.to_yaml() )