//  description - optional human-readable description of this function.
//  status - Set to OK on success and an appropriate error on failure.
//
// Note that when the same TF_Output is listed as both an input and an output,
// the corresponding function's output will equal to this input,
// instead of the original node's output.
//
// Callers must also satisfy the following constraints:

      if (existing != accumulated_gradients_.end()) {
        // This is a somewhat odd case to be in, since it means we have two
        // operations which supposedly both created the same Tensor. It comes up
        // in recompute_grad, where the gradients have the same value. However,
        // only the original gradient is connected to everything else, so we
        // should still use that.

                 std::unique_ptr<tensorflow::Tensor>* out_tensor,
                 TF_Status* out_status) const;

 private:
  // Uses "v2_reader_" to build "var name -> shape" and "var name -> data type"
  // maps; both owned by caller.
  // REQUIRES: "v2_reader_ != nullptr && v2_reader_.status().ok()".
  std::pair<std::unique_ptr<TensorSliceReader::VarToShapeMap>,
            std::unique_ptr<TensorSliceReader::VarToDataTypeMap> >