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    *   Fix device placement issues related to datasets with ragged tensors of
        strings (i.e. variant encoded data with types not supported on GPU).
    *   'experimental_follow_type_hints' for tf.function has been deprecated.
        Please use input_signature or reduce_retracing to minimize retracing.

*   `tf.SparseTensor`: