In fact if you dig up the case, then even official support told me that savedmodel needs some freezing using bazel otherwise it doesn't work.

The github page and stackoverflow are full of these. If you can, please take the message to the other side :(

I don't think the cloud guys (where training will happen in distributed mode) talk to the android guys (where models will be used after quantization). There is a huge serialization problem that all of us are currently struggling with.