Return Dense Tensors for Fixed List Columns #112
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Change to Output Type
Columns that have fixed shapes will return fixed size dense tensors/arrays instead of the ragged representation.
Motivation
By handling the special case of fixed list features where the lists are all of the same length, we can bypass some of the slower code that handles ragged lists and load these features more quickly.