import tensorflow as tf

    # For training, we want a lot of parallel reading and shuffling.
    # For eval, we want no shuffling and parallel reading doesn't matter.
    if is_training:
      d = tf.data.Dataset.from_tensor_slices(tf.constant(input_files))
      d = d.repeat()
      d = d.shuffle(buffer_size=len(input_files))

      # `cycle_length` is the number of parallel files that get read.
      cycle_length = min(num_cpu_threads, len(input_files))

      # `sloppy` mode means that the interleaving is not exact. This adds
      # even more randomness to the training pipeline.
      d = d.apply(
          tf.contrib.data.parallel_interleave(
              tf.data.TFRecordDataset,
              sloppy=is_training,
              cycle_length=cycle_length))
      d = d.shuffle(buffer_size=100)
    else:
      d = tf.data.TFRecordDataset(input_files)
      # Since we evaluate for a fixed number of steps we don't want to encounter
      # out-of-range exceptions.
      d = d.repeat()

    # We must `drop_remainder` on training because the TPU requires fixed
    # size dimensions. For eval, we assume we are evaluating on the CPU or GPU
