* fix cache table bug
* add save_paddle_inference_model
* fix hdfs util bug
* test=develop

* friendly trace interface, test=develop

* refine TracedLayer, test=develop

* add some docs, test=develop

* add input type and dtype check template, and update some APIs check

* refine check template, and update some APIs check in nn.py

* update some APIs check in loss.py

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use 2 cards test=develop

* Add Asypadding for conv fusion.

test=develop

reference: pr/20042

* Fix eigen build link error

* Change back file mode

* Use math function & add more checks.

modify the implementation of save_persistables and save_inference_model for fleet collective mode (#20802)

* modify the implementation of  save_persistables and save_inference_model functions for fleet collective, test=develop

* add ut, test=develop

* fix instance norm

* update unitest,test=develop

* set the default value of alpha for prelu to 0.25, test=develop

* add the call to __syncthreads(), test=develop

* fix the implementation of cpu prelu, test=develop

* repair the implementation of element mode prelu, test=develop

* modify test_prelu_op.py, test=develop

* Add the check of lod_level between compile-time and runtime.
test=develop

* Fix bug in check_compile_vs_runtime.
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* Fix the check of output when it is dispensiable or intermediate.
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* Share lod of x to out in match_matrix_tensor op in compile-time.

* Implement GetLoDLevel in InferShapeContext.

* Set the default value of check_compile_vs_runtime to False and enable it in test_sequence_pad_op.
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* Enable check_compile_vs_runtime in test_match_matrix_tensor.

* Add the implementation of SetLoDLevel in InferShapeContext.

* Remove the implementation of IncreaseLoDLevel and call Get/SetLoDLevel instead.

* Remove the implementation of DecreaseLoDLevel and call Set/GetLoDLevel instead.

* Refine some ops and unittests.
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* Fix a typo.
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* Remove the check of var type, and change int to int32_t.
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* Add unittest for Get/SetLoDLevel.
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* Add transpose2 INT8 for mkl-dnn

test=develop

* Fix test_transpose_int8_mkldnn

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* Revert "Merge branch 'develop' into transpose_int8_mkldnn_2"

This reverts commit 34011bdb, reversing
changes made to 2ce6473f.

* Revert "Revert "Merge branch 'develop' into transpose_int8_mkldnn_2""

This reverts commit 23754dd7.

* Add template to TransposeMKLDNNHandler

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* Resolve conflict

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* Restore get_size and refactor

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fix bug in pool/conv/conv_transpose: UpdatePaddingAndDilation, _get_padding_with_SAME and conv2dtranspose_forward_naive. (#20997)

* fix bug in pool/conv/conv_transpose:
1. It should be stride[i] not stride[0] in UpdatePaddingAndDilation;
2. fix bug of func  _get_padding_with_SAME in test_conv/conv_transpose_op.py;
3. fix bug of the computation process in function conv2dtranspose_forward_naive.
test=develop

* change test to make the data of different dimensions different. test=develop

* Add asymetric padding support for mkldnn pooling
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* Add asymetric padding support for mkldnn conv
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* Add asymetric padding support for mkldnn conv_transpose
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These ops are useful in control flow.

* fix uniform random; test=develop

* add uniform random test; test=develop

* remove duplicate code and duplicate config of master+patch
* drop all ins which has conflict slot or size < merge_size
* user only need to set merge size，if ins num of same id is not equal to merge size, just drop these ins
* user must make sure master data and patch data has no same slot whose feasigns are both non-zero, otherwise these ins will be dropped. (slot list should still be the same of both master and patch)
* test=develop

* add launch_ps module so that we can launch a parameter server training job
1) a user can specify worker_num and server_num
2) parameter server can be killed after all workers exit
3) unit test is added
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* don't expose numerous Tensor.set(), test=develop

* fix condition, test=develop

* fix float16 bug, test=develop

* feed should be Tensor or np.array, not Variable or number, test=develop

* use forcecast to copy numpy slice to new array, test=develop

* remove float16-uint16 hacking, test=develop

* update pserver decay blocks

* update distributed notify handler

* fix PaddleCloud Role maker & add warning in distribute transpiler  & change rpc_retry_times

* maxout support channel_last input, test=develop

* modified details of Input(X) and Attr(groups, axis) in doc, test=develop

* refactor dygraph,test=develop

* fix failed unittest,test=develop

* polish code,test=develop

* check windows ci error,test=develop
try to fix windows ci error by np.allclose,test=develop

* polish vlog and profiler, test=develop

* try to fix preceding ops order,test=develop

* test transformer in windows ci, test=develop

* use python c-api to speed up tracer.trace,test=develop

* test=develop, fix docker with paddle nccl problem

* test=develop, add ut for debug string and gradient_accumulator

* test=develop, add tests for layer/gradient_accumulator/prepared_op

* test=develop, fix complie error for test_prepared_op

* test=develop, add more ut for dygraph

* test=develop, create API.spec for dygraph api change

* optimize grad maker; test=develop

* optimize grad maker

* test

* grad make optim; test=develop

* fix unittest bugs; test=develop

* add dygraph grad op maker and split_op

* grad op maker refactor; test=develop

* add dygraph grad maker; test=develop

* fix op deformable_conv_v1_op bug; test=develop

* fix deformable_conv prroi pool bugs;

* fix new op grad op maker bug; test=develop

* fix split by ref bug; test=develop

* fix dygraph auto prune bug; test=develop

* fix test_trace bug; test=develop

* fix fused emb seq pool bug; test=develop

* remove useless code in op_desc file; test=develop

* remove useless code, StrVarBaseNode; test=develop

* fix review issues; test=develop

* fix rank_loss grad maker; test=develop

* remove flag in VarBase; test=develop

* fix distributed_notify_op compile bug ; test=develop

* fix reshape op double grad; test=develop

* fix expand as op; test=develop

* add impertive type_defs.h for demo_train; test=develop

* fix inference lib cmake; test=develop

* fix inference lib; test=develop

* fix infernce_lib; test=develop

* fix inference cmake; test=develop

* fix inference lib; test=develop

* fix inference lib; test=develop

* remove condition dygraph grad maker, modify local name; test=develop

* fix split grad maker bug; test=develop

* fix pyramid_op bug; test=develop

* change travis time out limit; test=develop

* restore travis; test=develop

* change timeout limit; test=develop

* Refine the cache of program, context and scope in executor.
test=develop

* Refine the unittest test_executor_and_use_program_cache.

* Add the test the PaddingRNN with use_program_cache=True.
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* Remove a check.
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* Refine the unittest to check whether it is correct when setting use_program_cache=True.
test=develop

* fix jit_matmul bug 

* update jit matmul and add test

* fix persistable;

* fix save load bugs; test=develop

* fix bug; test=develop

* add example for new io api; test=develop

* addd example; test=develop

* add Sequential api
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* fix unittest
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* refine code sample

* test=develop

support Tensor for split and concat, support -1 in num_or_sections, add check num_or_sections (#20780)

* improve split and concat op:
1. support Tensor for argument 'dim' in split op.
2. support Tensor for argument 'axis' in concat op.
test=develop

* redefine function GetDataFromTensor and set unknown output shape to - 1.
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* add check: Attr(sections) match Input(X). test=develop

* support Tensor for attr(sections) and attr(sections) can contain -1.
add check for attr(sections).
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* modify error message for concat and call Resize only when necessary. test=develop

* Refine the InferShape of ReadFrom and WriteTo op, and add comment to explain why not call ShareLoD for runtime.
test=develop

* Add comment for ReorderLoDTensorByRank op.

* Add comment for lod_tensor_to_tensor_array op to explain why only call DecreaseLoDLevel for compile time.
test=develop

* ShrinkRNNMemory op should call ShareLoD for compile time.
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* Add the implementation of IncreaseLoDLevel and add the compile-time check of lod_level in InferShape of sequence_pool.
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* Refine the unittest of DynamicRNN.
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* Change PADDLE_ENFORCE to PADDLE_ENFORCE_NE.
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