What does compute_gradients return in tensorflow

mean_sqr = tf.reduce_mean(tf.pow(y_ - y, 2))
optimizer = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(LEARNING_RATE)
gradients, variables = zip(*optimizer.compute_gradients(mean_sqr))
opt = optimizer.apply_gradients(list(zip(gradients, variables)))

init = tf.global_variables_initializer()
sess = tf.Session()
sess.run(init)

for j in range(TRAINING_EPOCHS):
    sess.run(opt, feed_dict={x: batch_xs, y_: batch_xs})

I don't clearly understand what compute_gradients returns? Does it return sum(dy/dx) for a given x values assigned by batch_xs, and update gradient in apply_gradients function such as :
theta <- theta - LEARNING_RATE*1/m*gradients?

Or does it already return average of gradients that is summed for each x values in a given batch such as sum(dy/dx)*1/m, m is defined as batch_size?