def _truncate_seq_pair(tokens_a, tokens_b, max_length):
  """Truncates a sequence pair in place to the maximum length."""

  # This is a simple heuristic which will always truncate the longer sequence
  # one token at a time. This makes more sense than truncating an equal percent
  # of tokens from each, since if one sequence is very short then each token
  # that's truncated likely contains more information than a longer sequence.
  while True:
    total_length = len(tokens_a) + len(tokens_b)
    if total_length <= max_length:
      break
    if len(tokens_a) > len(tokens_b):
      tokens_a.pop()
    else:
      tokens_b.pop()
Truncates a sequence pair in place to the maximum length.
src/classifier_utils.py