Encoding/decoding NLP model in tensorflow lite (fine-tuned GPT2)
We are in the process of building a small virtual assistant and would like it to be able to run a fine-tuned version of GPT-2 on a raspberry-pi with a coral accelerator. 

So far, we managed to convert our model to a tflite and to get first results. We know how to convert from words to indices with the previous tokenizer but then we need a bigger tensor as input to the interpreter. We miss the conversion from indices to tensors. Is there a way to do this simply?

You can find our pseudo-code here, we are stuck at step 2 and 6 :

```
import tensorflow as tf
 
#Prelude
TF_MODEL_PATH_LITE = "/path/model.tflite"
 
interpreter = tf.lite.Interpreter(model_path=TF_MODEL_PATH_LITE)
interpreter.allocate_tensors()
tokenizer = GPT2Tokenizer.from_pretrained('gpt2')
input_details = interpreter.get_input_details()
output_details = interpreter.get_output_details()
input_shape = input_details[0]['shape']
 
#1-Encode input, giving you indices
context_idx = tokenizer.encode("Hello world.", return_tensors = "tf")
 
#2-How to convert the context_idx to appropriate np.array ?
input_data = np.array(np.random.random_sample(input_shape), dtype=np.int32) #dummy input for now
 
#3- feed input
interpreter.set_tensor(input_details[0]['index'], input_data)
 
#4- Run model
interpreter.invoke()
 
#5- Get output as tensor
output_data = interpreter.get_tensor(output_details[0]['index'])
 
#6- How decode this np array to idx
output_idx=np.random.randint(100) #dummy for now ...
 
#7- Decode Output from idx to word
string_tf = tokenizer.decode(output_idx, skip_special_tokens=True)

```
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