def serialized(self):
        to_ret = {}
        for group, requirements in self.items():
            to_ret[group] = [str(requirement) for requirement in requirements]
        return to_ret
def residual_with_slice_fn(inp, out):
      inp_sliced = array_ops.slice(inp, [0, 0], [-1, 3])
      return inp_sliced + out