Problem with SPICE

[peteanderson80]

Problem with SPICE

[peteanderson80]

Hi,

I haven't seen this before. The problem is originating from the LMDB database that is used to cache parsed reference captions. This is purely for speeding up repeated evaluations, so you can disable it. To do this, just delete the line '-cache', cache_dir, at /pycocoevalcap/spice/spice.py:64. Evaluations will be slower but it will definitely avoid this error.

To fix the problem, I had a quick look at the LMDB docs, but there is no further information about this error or how to resolve it. I'm not an LMDB expert so it might take a bit of digging around in the LMDB code to understand the cause.

[rasoolfa]

Hi
Thanks for your response.
Yes, it caused by cache. I did a similar thing but in a different way as you mentioned that to delete the cache after every single run. With this trick, it works. But I guess deleting that line would be a better way to deal with this. Thanks again.

[AtharvTalnikar]

Hi!
I am having issues implementing SPICE.Please help

Error: Could not score batched file input:
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.json.simple.JSONArray cannot be cast to java.lang.String
at edu.anu.spice.SpiceScorer.scoreBatch(SpiceScorer.java:95)
at edu.anu.spice.SpiceScorer.main(SpiceScorer.java:60)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/content/pycocoevalcap/spice/model_evaluation.py", line 238, in
Val_with_MLE()
File "/content/pycocoevalcap/spice/model_evaluation.py", line 236, in Val_with_MLE
spice_class.compute_score(all_usable_ref,all_gen_sents)
File "/content/pycocoevalcap/spice/test.py", line 78, in compute_score
cwd=os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(file)))
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 311, in check_call
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['java', '-jar', '-Xmx8G', 'spice-1.0.jar', '/content/pycocoevalcap/spice/tmp/tmpr49ny2ll', '-cache', '/content/pycocoevalcap/spice/cache', '-out', '/content/pycocoevalcap/spice/tmp/tmpl8edcdti', '-subset', '-silent']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

[Robertwyq]

I meet this problem too, how do you fix it

[WangLanxiao]

I meet this problem too, how do you fix it

[HenryHZY]

I have also met this problem "Error: Could not score batched file input". I cannot fix it apart from re-installing the whole environment. That is really confused.