diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/tensor_util.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/tensor_util.cs
index 2bd25da0..abfb6840 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/tensor_util.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/tensor_util.cs
@@ -589,23 +589,17 @@ would not be rank 1.", tensor.op.get_attr("axis")));
             {
                 return "<unprintable>";
             }
+            else if (dtype == TF_DataType.TF_RESOURCE)
+            {
+                return "<unprintable>";
+            }
 
             var nd = tensor.numpy();
 
             if (nd.size == 0)
                 return "[]";
 
-            switch (dtype)
-            {
-                case TF_DataType.TF_STRING:
-                    return string.Join(string.Empty, nd.ToArray<byte>()
-                        .Select(x => x < 32 || x > 127 ? "\\x" + x.ToString("x") : Convert.ToChar(x).ToString()));
-                case TF_DataType.TF_VARIANT:
-                case TF_DataType.TF_RESOURCE:
-                    return "<unprintable>";
-                default:
-                    return nd.ToString();
-            }
+            return nd.ToString();
         }
 
         public static ParsedSliceArgs ParseSlices(Slice[] slices)
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/MetricsContainer.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/MetricsContainer.cs
index 39ba2a27..6fed2bf3 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/MetricsContainer.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Engine/MetricsContainer.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Linq;
+using Tensorflow.Keras.Losses;
 using Tensorflow.Keras.Metrics;
 using static Tensorflow.KerasApi;
 
@@ -74,11 +75,15 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Engine
                     metric_obj = keras.metrics.sparse_categorical_accuracy;
                 else
                     metric_obj = keras.metrics.categorical_accuracy;
-
-                return new MeanMetricWrapper(metric_obj, metric);
             }
+            else if(metric == "mean_absolute_error" || metric == "mae")
+            {
+                metric_obj = keras.metrics.mean_absolute_error;
+            }
+            else
+                throw new NotImplementedException("");
 
-            throw new NotImplementedException("");
+            return new MeanMetricWrapper(metric_obj, metric);
         }
 
         public IEnumerable<Metric> metrics
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Metrics/MetricsApi.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Metrics/MetricsApi.cs
index f165a347..64723a22 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Metrics/MetricsApi.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Metrics/MetricsApi.cs
@@ -40,5 +40,11 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Metrics
 
             return math_ops.cast(math_ops.equal(y_true, y_pred), TF_DataType.TF_FLOAT);
         }
+
+        public Tensor mean_absolute_error(Tensor y_true, Tensor y_pred)
+        {
+            y_true = math_ops.cast(y_true, y_pred.dtype);
+            return keras.backend.mean(math_ops.abs(y_pred - y_true), axis: -1);
+        }
     }
 }