tfm.optimization.ema_optimizer.maybe_merge_call

Maybe invoke fn via merge_call which may or may not be fulfilled.

The caller of this utility function requests to invoke fn via merge_call at tf.distribute.Strategy's best efforts. It is tf.distribute's internal whether the request is honored, depending on the Strategy. See tf.distribute.ReplicaContext.merge_call() for more information.

This is adapted from tensorflow/python/distribute/merge_call_interim.py.

fn the function to be invoked.
strategy the tf.distribute.Strategy to call fn with.
*args the positional arguments to be passed in to fn.
**kwargs the keyword arguments to be passed in to fn.

The return value of the fn call.