import tensorflow as tf


  flat_offsets = tf.reshape(
      tf.range(0, batch_size, dtype=tf.int32) * seq_length, [-1, 1])
  flat_positions = tf.reshape(positions + flat_offsets, [-1])
  flat_sequence_tensor = tf.reshape(sequence_tensor,
                                    [batch_size * seq_length, width])
  output_tensor = tf.gather(flat_sequence_tensor, flat_positions)
  return output_tensor
