// Ownership of `aid` transferred to CallBackwardFunction below.
    Gradient* aid;
    if (output_tensor.GetDType() == tensorflow::DT_VARIANT) {
      // Note: Needs to be zeros rather than ones since there's currently no
      // ones_like for variants.
      aid = output_tensor.ZerosLike();
    } else {
      // TODO(allenl): Figure out why using zeros_like everywhere causes issues