diff --git a/tensorflow/contrib/tpu/python/tpu/keras_support.py b/tensorflow/contrib/tpu/python/tpu/keras_support.py
index 9f76435bebc..8bf6e4367c1 100644
--- a/tensorflow/contrib/tpu/python/tpu/keras_support.py
+++ b/tensorflow/contrib/tpu/python/tpu/keras_support.py
@@ -1536,10 +1536,17 @@ class KerasTPUModel(models.Model):
                verbose=1,
                sample_weight=None,
                steps=None):
-    assert not self._numpy_to_infeed_manager_list  # Ensure empty.
+    original_numpy_to_infeed_manager_list = []
+    if self._numpy_to_infeed_manager_list:
+      # evaluate call may be executed as callbacks during the training. In this
+      # case, _numpy_to_infeed_manager_list is not empty, so save it for
+      # recovery at the end of evaluate call.
+      original_numpy_to_infeed_manager_list = self._numpy_to_infeed_manager_list
+      self._numpy_to_infeed_manager_list = []
 
     with _tpu_session_context():
-      infeed_managers = []  # Managers to clean up at the end of the fit call.
+      # Managers to clean up at the end of the evaluate call.
+      infeed_managers = []
       if isinstance(x, dataset_ops.Dataset):
         # TODO(b/111413240): Support taking a tf.data.Dataset directly.
         raise ValueError(
@@ -1569,7 +1576,8 @@ class KerasTPUModel(models.Model):
         return super(KerasTPUModel, self).evaluate(x, y, batch_size, verbose,
                                                    sample_weight, steps)
       finally:
-        self._numpy_to_infeed_manager_list = []
+        self._numpy_to_infeed_manager_list = (
+            original_numpy_to_infeed_manager_list)
 
   def _pipeline_fit(self, x, y, batch_size, epochs, verbose, callbacks,
                     validation_split, validation_data, shuffle, class_weight,