def METHOD_NAME(batch_size, seq_length, num_inputs):
  """Returns randomly initialized (x_seq, pad_seq) sequences."""
  x_seq = []
  pad_seq = []
  with ops.name_scope('inputs'):
    for seq in range(seq_length):
      x_seq.append(RandomVar([batch_size, num_inputs], name='x_seq_%d' % seq))
      # Real padding values are always a sequence of 0 followed by a
      # sequence of 1, but random values are fine for benchmarking.
      pad_seq.append(RandomVar([batch_size, 1], name='pad_seq_%d' % seq))
  return x_seq, pad_seq