TF_Status* status,
                                               void* device_info);

  // Method to execute an operation.
  //
  // Arguments provide enough information to reconstruct the original `TFE_Op`,
  // or construct a transformed version, by inspecting the passed `op`.
  //
  // TFE_OpGetDevice(op) records the original placement of the operation. It may

// from the forward computation and calls a vector-jacobian product function
// (also known as adjoint function) to compute, given downstream gradients,
// upstream gradients.
//
// TODO(apassos) provide concrete template instantiations for TFE_TensorHandle
// specialization, which is blocked by quite a few things needing to loop back
// into python now.
template <typename Gradient, typename BackwardFunction, typename TapeTensor>

  // Set up distributed execution environment on local and remote tasks.
  // When `reset_context` is true, initialize new cluster context state based
  // on cluster configurations provided in `server_def`; otherwise, update
  // existing context state with the provided `server_def`. Contexts created
  // on remote tasks will be considered stale and garbage collected after
  // `keep_alive_secs` of inactivity.