// EagerService to maintain consistency between client and worker. The
// context_id is initialized with a dummy value and is later set when the worker
// is initialized (either locally or remotely). The context_id can change during
// the process lifetime although this should cause the worker to be
// reinitialized (e.g. cleared caches) as well.

  // from a backward gradient function. Fills `out_grads` corresponding to
  // `output_tensors`. `out_grads` must not be null.
  //
  // Executes the backward function in order to trace its gradient, which will
  // waste computation if executing eagerly (when graph building the unneeded
  // computation is pruned). Temporarily sets `backward_tape` so that