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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Intel Corporation
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+"""A small utility to inspect the contents of checkpoint files.
+
+Sometimes it is useful to look at the contents of a checkpoint file, and this utility is meant to help
+with this.
+By default this utility will print just the names and types of the keys it finds in the checkpoint
+file.  If the key type is simple (i.e. integer, float, or string), then the value is printed as well.
+
+You can also print the model keys (i.e. the names of the parameters tensors in the model), and the
+weight tensor masks in the schedule).
+
+$ python3 inspect_ckpt.py checkpoint.pth.tar --model --schedule
+"""
+import torch
+import argparse
+from tabulate import tabulate
+
+
+def inspect_checkpoint(chkpt_file, args):
+    def inspect_val(val):
+        if isinstance(val, (int, float, str)):
+            return val
+        return None
+
+    print("Inspecting checkpoint file: ", chkpt_file)
+    checkpoint = torch.load(chkpt_file)
+
+    chkpt_keys = [[k, type(checkpoint[k]).__name__, inspect_val(checkpoint[k])] for k in checkpoint.keys()]
+    print(tabulate(chkpt_keys, headers=["Key", "Type", "Value"], tablefmt="fancy_grid"))
+
+    if args.model and "state_dict" in checkpoint:
+        print("\nModel keys (state_dict):\n{}".format(", ".join(list(checkpoint["state_dict"].keys()))))
+
+    if args.schedule and "compression_sched" in checkpoint:
+        compression_sched = checkpoint["compression_sched"]
+        print("\nSchedule keys (compression_sched):\n{}\n".format("\n\t".join(list(compression_sched.keys()))))
+        sched_keys = [[k, type(compression_sched[k]).__name__] for k in compression_sched.keys()]
+        print(tabulate(sched_keys, headers=["Key", "Type"], tablefmt="fancy_grid"))
+        if "masks_dict" in checkpoint["compression_sched"]:
+            print("compression_sched[\"masks_dict\"] keys:\n{}".format(", ".join(
+                  list(compression_sched["masks_dict"].keys()))))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Distiller checkpoint inspection')
+    parser.add_argument('chkpt_file', help='path to the checkpoint file')
+    parser.add_argument('-m', '--model', action='store_true', help='print the model keys')
+    parser.add_argument('-s', '--schedule', action='store_true', help='print the schedule keys')
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    inspect_checkpoint(args.chkpt_file, args)