* add layer.to api

* add layer.to api

* add layer.to api

* add the doc for Layer.to

* add input type checking

* modify assert and import bug

* format code style

* format code style

* make place support str type

* add SetGradVarBase method to set the gradient after conversion

* modify argument palce to device

* modify argument palce to device

* modify doc of layers.to API

* add xpuplace to device argument

* [Rocm] fix python test of multinomial

* [Rocm] fix python test of multinomial

* [Rocm] fix python test of multinomial

* [Rocm] fix python test of multinomial

* [ROCM] fix test_gru_rnn_op

* [ROCM] fix test_expand_op

* [ROCM] fix test_cross_entropy_loss

* [ROCM] fix test_conv_nn_grad

* [ROCM] fix test_bilinear_tensor_product_op

* [ROCM] fix elementwise_op_function

* [ROCM] fix test_lstm_cudnn_op

* [ROCM] fix test_gpu_package_without_gpu_device

* [ROCM] fix test_gru_unit_op

* [ROCM] fix test_imperative_optimizer

* [ROCM] fix rnn

* [ROCM] fix group_norm_op

* [ROCM] fix test_pool3d_api

* [ROCM] fix test_pool3d_op

* [feature] support npu allocator (#30840)

[feature] support npu allocator

* [feature] support npu operator (#30951)

[feature] support npu operator

* [feature] support npu allocator, part 2 (#30972)

* support npu allocator

* add npu device context

* fix some compile problem

* fix some compile problem

* add npu info

* compile ok

* fix include dir

* support naive_best_fit_allocator

* run ut ok, bug failed to exit

* call aclrtResetDevice before exit

* fix aclFinilize

* add system allocatot test

* add selected_gpus in gtest

* add tensor_test for npu

* support npu op, initial commit

* add npu stream

* add elementwise_add_op

* compile ok

* fix typo

* fix elementwise_add_op_npu_test

* support op run

* test can run but failed

* change aclopExecuteV2 to aclopCompileAndExecute

* support parsing ascend rank table file (#31000)

support parsing ascend rank table file

* Fix reshape on GE graph. (#31084)

Fix reshape on GE graph

* add npu kernel for elementwise_sub and elementwise_sub_grad (#30973)

* add npu sub op

* fix typo

* rename test

* fix bug

* fix bug

* add fp16 kernel

* fix typo

* support sub grad op

* support elementwise_sub_grad op
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* Fix compilation problem (#31100)

Fix compilation problem (#31100)

* fix compile

* fix code stype

* remove const_cast

* support adding correct npu op in pybind.h (#31143)

* support adding correct npu op in pybind.h

* refine code

* [NPU] Support executor with NPU (#31057)

* [NPU] Support executor with NPU

* Fix code according to reviews

* Fix code

* Add unittest for sub op npu

* refactor npu device manager (#31154)

refactor npu device manager (#31154)

* fix selected npus

* fix compile

* fix reading flags from env

* format
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* fix undefind var in For

* fix code style

* Remove old custom OP to reduce whl package volume

* [Custom OP]Remove old custom OP to reduce whl package volume

* support macos

* support DictCmp and zip grammar

* fix code style

* Support converting the model from fp32 to fp16

* add layerdict class

* add docs and test cases for LayerDict class

* remove the arguments type in function define

* add update inputs type check

* Use the runtime to create the unsupported_fp16_list using in AMP.

* Add more infos about supported ops.

* Add some comments for the function of OpSupportedInfos.

* Fix the unit test of test_multi_precision_fp16_train.

* add uint8 type for flatten;test=develop

* Ascend rc (#30483)

* Fix compilcation on CANN20.1 and older (#30494)

Fix compilcation on CANN20.1 and older

* Add distribution supported (#30578)

Add distribution supported

* Build praser for Hcom* operators (#30627)

Build praser for Hcom* operators

* Pass device_ids info from launch to trainer. (#30632)

Pass device_ids info from launch to trainer

* Add Hccl program group (#30642)

Add Hccl program group

* Add startup bash files of test_ascend_group. (#30645)

Add startup bash files of test_ascend_group

* cleanup (#30646)

cleanup test_ascend_group.py

* [Feature] Build parser to support distributed training (#30658)

[Feature] Build parser to support distributed training

* fix compilation on ascend-20.1 (#30722)

fix compilation on ascend-20.1

* Dev/fix ascend string (#30749)

Dev/fix ascend string

* code style (#30781)

code style

* Merge ascend_optimizer and ascend_parser. (#30776)

Merge ascend_optimizer and ascend_parser.

* Ascendrc add converted op : [range/equal/range/uniform_random/expand/squeeze], fix cast op bug  (#30797)

Ascendrc add converted op : [range/equal/range/uniform_random/expand/squeeze], fix cast op bug

* Add paddle ascend distribution training supported (#30796)

Add paddle ascend distribution training supported

* pass cxx_flags to gloo cmake (#30857)

* Destroy session first. (#30954)

Destroy session first.

* merge

* fix, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix style, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix

* fix log fatal, test=develop

* fix enforce style, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix rccl, test=develop

* fix test, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix node_num, test=develop

* fix ids str, test=develop

* fix ids str, test=develop

* fix ids str, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix style code, test=develop

* fix style code, test=develop

* fix style code, test=develop

* fix style code, test=develop
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* improve performance of DepthwiseConv(NWHC)

As the title

* add PullSparseValue for pull sparse

* fix bug for PullSparseValue

* add test mode in lookuptable

* revert API change

* add comment for is_training

* fix test of affine_grid with rocm

* fix test of affine_grid with rocm

* support hyparallel, add topology

* fix utest

* support save/load single tensor

* compatibility modification according to unnittest

* Some python2.7 don't have 'copyreg' modules

* Handle a syntax error.

* Dealing with compatibility problems on Mac.

* Dealing with compatibility problems on Mac.

* edit unittest to improve coverage.

* Modify the code according to the review comments

* Reduce redundant code.

* support for static graph loading dygraph state_dict

* edit code according to CI

* edit unittest

* edit unnittest

* delete redundant file

* edit code according to Comments

* edit english doc

* edit english doc

* edit English DOC.

* get/set_tensor->get/set_value; return_numpy=False

* get/set_tensor->get/set_value; return_numpy=False

* edit unnittest

* edit unnittest

* polish code.

* graph engine demo

* upload unsaved changes

* fix dependency error

* fix shard_num problem

* py client

* remove lock and graph-type

* add load direct graph

* add load direct graph

* add load direct graph

* batch random_sample

* batch_sample_k

* fix num_nodes size

* batch brpc

* batch brpc

* add test

* add test

* add load_nodes; change add_node function

* change sample return type to pair

* resolve conflict

* resolved conflict

* resolved conflict

* separate server and client

* merge pair type

* fix

* resolved conflict

* fixed segment fault; high-level VLOG for load edges and load nodes

* random_sample return 0

* rm useless loop

* test:load edge

* fix ret -1

* test: rm sample

* rm sample

* random_sample return future

* random_sample return int

* test fake node

* fixed here

* memory leak

* remove test code

* fix return problem

* add common_graph_table

* random sample node &test & change data-structure from linkedList to vector

* add common_graph_table

* sample with srand

* add node_types

* optimize nodes sample

* recover test

* random sample

* destruct weighted sampler

* GraphEdgeBlob

* WeightedGraphEdgeBlob to GraphEdgeBlob

* WeightedGraphEdgeBlob to GraphEdgeBlob

* pybind sample nodes api

* pull nodes with step

* fixed pull_graph_list bug; add test for pull_graph_list by step

* add graph table;name

* add graph table;name

* add pybind

* add pybind

* add FeatureNode

* add FeatureNode

* add FeatureNode Serialize

* add FeatureNode Serialize

* get_feat_node

* avoid local rpc

* fix get_node_feat

* fix get_node_feat

* remove log

* get_node_feat return  py:bytes

* merge develop with graph_engine

* fix threadpool.h head

* fix

* fix typo

* resolve conflict

* fix conflict

* recover lost content

* fix pybind of FeatureNode

* recover cmake

* recover tools

* resolve conflict

* resolve linking problem

* code style

* change test_server port

* fix code problems

* remove shard_num config

* remove redundent threads

* optimize start server

* remove logs

* fix code problems by reviewers' suggestions
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* support control flow

* supoort sync_parameters_buffers

* fix the bug of sparse embedding

* fix doc of MaxPool1D

* fix doc

* fix doc format error

* dbg

* fix doc

* dbg doc format test=document_fix

* fix format test=document_fix

* test doc

* remove - from doc

* fix indent

* remove space before bracket

* dbg format

* fix indent test=document_fix

* remove new line

* fix descrip of Shape test=document_fix

* add description for default value test=document_fix

* fix bug test=document_fix

* add custom init grad for backward function

* add custom init grad for backward function

* handle when the grad_tensor is none

* handle when the grad_tensor is none

* fix the args type error on windows platform

* modify the args order and doc

* format code

* add grad_tensor to xpu

* modify the grad_tensor type check

* add paddle.backward api to support multi tensors gradient compute

* add paddle.backward api to support multi tensors gradient compute

* add paddle.atuograd module and backward api

* change tensor.backward func args

* modify tensor backward api

* remove create_graph intputs args

* add doc and examplex code for backward api

* when have the same tensor, throw error

* modify test Init func args

* modify the execute.Init func args in test files

* add paddle.autograd package in setup.py.in

* modify error msg, remove _run_backward method in class Tensor

* add test cases for backward api

* upgrade vlog

* train from dataset fetch optimize