def METHOD_NAME(sample, tasks, max_seq_len, tokenizer):
    """
    Generates a dictionary of features for a given input sample that is to be consumed by a text classification model.
    :param sample: Sample object that contains human readable text and label fields from a single text classification data sample
    :type sample: Sample
    :param tasks: A dictionary where the keys are the names of the tasks and the values are the details of the task (e.g. label_list, metric, tensor name)
    :type tasks: dict
    :param max_seq_len: Sequences are truncated after this many tokens
    :type max_seq_len: int
    :param tokenizer: A tokenizer object that can turn string sentences into a list of tokens
    :return: A list with one dictionary containing the keys "input_ids", "padding_mask" and "segment_ids" (also "label_ids" if not
             in inference mode). The values are lists containing those features.
    :rtype: list
    """
    if tokenizer.is_fast:
        text = sample.clear_text["text"]
        # Here, we tokenize the sample for the second time to get all relevant ids
        # This should change once we git rid of FARM's tokenize_with_metadata()
        inputs = tokenizer(
            text,
            return_token_type_ids=True,
            truncation=True,
            truncation_strategy="longest_first",
            max_length=max_seq_len,
            return_special_tokens_mask=True,
        )
        if (len(inputs["input_ids"]) - inputs["special_tokens_mask"].count(1)) != len(sample.tokenized["tokens"]):
            logger.error(
                "FastTokenizer encoded sample %s to %s tokens, which differs "
                "from number of tokens produced in tokenize_with_metadata(). \n"
                "Further processing is likely to be wrong.",
                sample.clear_text["text"],
                len(inputs["input_ids"]) - inputs["special_tokens_mask"].count(1),
            )
    else:
        # TODO It might be cleaner to adjust the data structure in sample.tokenized
        tokens_a = sample.tokenized["tokens"]
        tokens_b = sample.tokenized.get("tokens_b", None)
        inputs = tokenizer(
            tokens_a,
            tokens_b,
            add_special_tokens=True,
            truncation=False,  # truncation_strategy is deprecated
            return_token_type_ids=True,
            is_split_into_words=False,
        )
    input_ids, segment_ids = inputs["input_ids"], inputs["token_type_ids"]
    # The mask has 1 for real tokens and 0 for padding tokens. Only real
    # tokens are attended to.
    padding_mask = [1] * len(input_ids)
    # Padding up to the sequence length.
    # Normal case: adding multiple 0 to the right
    # Special cases:
    # a) xlnet pads on the left and uses  "4"  for padding token_type_ids
    if tokenizer.__class__.__name__ == "XLNetTokenizer":
        pad_on_left = True
        segment_ids = pad(segment_ids, max_seq_len, 4, pad_on_left=pad_on_left)
    else:
        pad_on_left = False
        segment_ids = pad(segment_ids, max_seq_len, 0, pad_on_left=pad_on_left)
    input_ids = pad(input_ids, max_seq_len, tokenizer.pad_token_id, pad_on_left=pad_on_left)
    padding_mask = pad(padding_mask, max_seq_len, 0, pad_on_left=pad_on_left)
    assert len(input_ids) == max_seq_len
    assert len(padding_mask) == max_seq_len
    assert len(segment_ids) == max_seq_len
    feat_dict = {"input_ids": input_ids, "padding_mask": padding_mask, "segment_ids": segment_ids}
    # Add Labels for different tasks
    for task_name, task in tasks.items():
        try:
            label_name = task["label_name"]
            label_raw = sample.clear_text[label_name]
            label_list = task["label_list"]
            if task["task_type"] == "classification":
                # id of label
                try:
                    label_ids = [label_list.index(label_raw)]
                except ValueError:
                    raise ValueError(f"[Task: {task_name}] Observed label {label_raw} not in defined label_list")
            elif task["task_type"] == "multilabel_classification":
                # multi-hot-format
                label_ids = [0] * len(label_list)
                for l in label_raw.split(","):
                    if l != "":
                        label_ids[label_list.index(l)] = 1
            elif task["task_type"] == "regression":
                label_ids = [float(label_raw)]
            else:
                raise ValueError(task["task_type"])
        except KeyError:
            # For inference mode we don't expect labels
            label_ids = None
        if label_ids is not None:
            feat_dict[task["label_tensor_name"]] = label_ids
    return [feat_dict]