// marked as a stateful. If so, set the tensor's is_variable as true
  // This is v1 ref variable semantics in the TFLite runtime.
  bool is_variable = false;
  for (auto& use : value.getUses()) {
    is_variable = IsStatefulOperand(use.getOwner(), use.getOperandNumber());
    if (is_variable) {
      break;
    }
  }

  """
  variable_nodes = {}

  for var_node in filter(_is_variable, graph_def.node):
    shared_name = str(var_node.attr['shared_name'].s, encoding='utf-8')
    variable_nodes[shared_name] = var_node

  for func in graph_def.library.function:
    for var_node in filter(_is_variable, func.node_def):
      variable_nodes[shared_name] = var_node

  return variable_nodes