def METHOD_NAME(features):
    """Row-normalize feature matrix and convert to tuple representation"""
    rowsum = np.array(features.sum(1))
    r_inv = np.power(rowsum, -1).flatten()
    r_inv[np.isinf(r_inv)] = 0.0
    r_mat_inv = sp.diags(r_inv)
    features = r_mat_inv.dot(features)
    if isinstance(features, np.ndarray):
        return features
    else:
        return features.todense(), sparse_to_tuple(features)