* [AutoParallel] selective recompute

* add cmakelist

* [CodeStyle][py2][U004] unecessary explicit `object` inheritance in class definition

* fix an increment

* update config

* re-blacken python code

* temporarily disable date and diff_py_file

* skip a format

* [AutoParallel] add callbacks

* fix unittest

* fix dist_context

* fix engine

* fix cmakelist

* fix unittest's returns

* fix cmakelist

* [Auto Parallel] Suppport different dataloaders

* [Auto Parallel] Add num_shards config for dataset

* [Auto Parallel] Unify the logger and outputs of Engine API

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the bugs of to_static

* [Auto Parallel] Adjust the test_to_static.py

* [Auto Parallel] Add the prepare API and replace __call__ with run

* [Auto Parallel] Improve the private implementations of Engine

* [Auto Parallel] Set capacity of dataloader for opt tuning

* [Auto Parallel] [WIP] Change the fine-grained API

* [Auto Parallel] Improve APIs to support different user cases

* [Auto Parallel] Add removed config

* [Auto Parallel] Add imports

* [Auto Parallel] Fix bugs for to_static

* [Auto Parallel] Remove unnecessary imports

* [CodeStyle][F401] remove unused import in python/paddle/distributed

* remove pass

* empty commit

* Fix ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list for meta_optimizer_names.

Fix ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list for meta_optimizer_names.

* Fix split import.

Fix split import.

* add noqa after meta_optimizers in factory

* restort collective ops

* expand `import *`

* add noqa after required imports

* try to fix APIs without core.ops

* Revert "try to fix APIs without core.ops"

This reverts commit 6172beaf601e84bf61f2490c12c4739f0edaa5eb.

* fix an increment

* empty commit

* add noqa after required imports

* expand `import *`, fix ci error
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* [Auto Parallel] Unify the logger and outputs of Engine API

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the bugs of to_static

* [Auto Parallel] Adjust the test_to_static.py

* [Auto Parallel] Imporve the user-defined fetches and logging

* [Auto Parallel] Make Engine class callable

* [Auto Parallel] Update the data loading of tuner

* bugfix

* bugfix

* typos fixed

* [Auto Parallel] Use c++ dist attr in the completion process

* [Auto Parallel] Add minor changes

* [Auto Parallel] Use c++ dist attr in the completion process

* [Auto Parallel] Add minor changes

* [Auto Parallel] Add the serialization process for dist attrs

* [Auto Parallel] Remove unnecessary comments

* [Auto Parallel] Fix some bugs

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the code style

* [Auto Parallel] Remove unnecessary impls

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the importing error

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the copy from bugs of op dist attr

* [Auto Parallel] Replace the use of constexpr if

* [Auto Parallel] Redesign the shard_tensor, shard_op and ProcessMesh

* [Auto Parallel] Change API of the completion unittest

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the bug when set_attr an int

* [Auto Parallel] Add the unittest for the serialization

* [Auto Parallel] Add some unit tests

* [Auto Paralle] Unify the strategy

* [Auto Parallel] Improve the engine api

* [Auto Parallel] Reset the changes made to the framework

* [Auto Parallel] Change the engine unittest

* [Auto Parallel] Update API of the completion and partitioner

* [Auto Parallel] Update unit tests using engine api

* update shard annotation

* [Auto Parallel] Remove the modifications of other modules

* [Auto Parallel] Add docs for APIs

* add new strategy

* [Auto Parallel] Replace the logger

* [Auto Parallel] Restore the test_program.py

* [Auto Parallel] Change the import rules

* [Auto Parallel] Add the examples for Engine

* [Auto Parallel] Do some minor changes

* [Auto Parallel] Remove yaml dependency

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the unittests

* add valid after train

* bug fix
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* trim trailing whitespace

* fix `.cmake-format.py`

* revert npu ut changes, avoid npu ci error

* refactor eager flags

* fix flags error when we switch from eager to dygraph

* fix ci problem

* fix ci

* fix ci

* merge develop and fix code style

* merge develop and fix code style

* fix op test error

* fix op test error

* fix op test error

* fix op test error

* fix op test error

* merge develop

* default dist op

* add dist_attr for dist op

* add unitest

* update inputname

* update function name

* add unitest

* update CMakeLists.txt for CI

* fix dis_matmul

* fix compile error

* update matmul to matmul_v2

* unify api

* unify api

* todo

* update distop forward func

* update distop forward func

* auto parallel backward

* update dist op

* autoparallel backward

* add backward for embedding

* temp1

* temp2

* temp3

* temp4

* backward done1

* backward done2

* backward done3

* dist embedding remove mp mode

* dist matmul remove mp mode

* update dist embedding
『

* dist op init1

* dist op init 2

* update unitest

* context remove parallel mode

* partitioner remove parallel mode

* update unitest

* a more general method to support varying mesh in pipeline parallel

* support varying mesh in pipeline parallel

* embedding support varying mesh in pipeline parallel

* matmul support varying mesh in pipeline parallel

* default dist op support varying mesh in pipeline parallel

* dist attribute for startup program

* default dist op support varying mesh in pipeline parallel 2

* partitoner support varying mesh in pipeline parallel

* revise logic for auto compeletion

* revise framework.py

* revise reshard unitest

* revise unitest for parallelize

* chmod

* fixed bug for dist embedding name mapping

* Improve the interface and the underlying mechanisms of auto parallel

* revise completion for backward

* revise completion for update

* revise completion for update

* update unitest

* chmod

* bugfix for grad_op output var's mesh

* Modify codes for pr 36744

* Remove unnecessary comments in framework.py

* Remove unnecessary comments in completion.py
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* update, test=develop

* support shard reader

* support shard reader

* add parallel mode

* update process mesh

* add method to compute comm_group

* implement dist_embedding forward func

* implement dist matmul forward func

* implement dist reshape forward func

* add transpiler framework

* add transpiler forward

* implement transpiler forward

* implement transpiler backward & update

* add process

* add unitest

* chmod

* chmod

* chmod

* update unitest

* add unitest for gpt

* remove unused print

* rename transpiler --> partitioner

* rename transpiler --> partitioner

* chmod

* chmod

* bug fixed

* remove amp function

* update case for dp mode

* update case for dp mode

* add auto_parallel dir

* mv to paddle.distributed

* add shard_xx api

* add distributed attrs for var

* add ut, test=develop

* add dist

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update

* update

* delete unused proto

* resotre op_desc

* restore type_defs

* update var_desc

* remove dimss_mapping for proto_pybind

* update interface.py

* update framework.py

* update

* update

* add auto_parallel dir

* mv to paddle.distributed

* add shard_xx api

* add distributed attrs for var

* add ut, test=develop

* [WIP] Add the auto completion feature and related codes

* [WIP] Improve the auto completion and related codes

* [WIP] Make the auto completion to support data-parallel

* [WIP] Make the completion support mp and dp+mp

* [WIP] Refactor auto completion unit test for MLP

* [WIP] Refactor the implementation of DistributedOperatorImpl

* [WIP] Improve dims_mapping update rule and fix a bug

* [WIP] Support auto completion for one transformer decoder layer

* [WIP] Add a minor change

* [WIP] Fix a bug within the uint test

* Shard XShape tensor, add embedding completion and refactor code

* Add the distributed_operators dir to setup.py.in

* Improve the completion process and add the unittest for gpt

* fix process_mesh ut

* fix process_mesh ut

* update

* update, test=develop

* Add support for automatically completing distributed attrs of special ops

* update

* update

* update

* fix doc sample codes, test=develop

* improve coverage, test=develop

* add static_mode check, test=develop

* Model the cluster for cost model and physical mapping

* update, test=develop

* add set_placement, test=develop

* Add the check to make sure the candidate tensors' size is great than zero

* update doc, test=develop

* update doc, test=develop

* update doc, test=develop

* update doc, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* Auto mark dist attrs annotated by user

* update ndarray to nested list, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* Add auto-completion module for auto-parallel (based on PR#33804)

* Remove unnecessary files

* Remove unrelated files for the auto completion pr

* Update the unit test to improve the coverage

* Modify codes based on reviews

* Minor changes for CI

* Improve some codes based on new comments

* Fix bugs caused by shallow copy in attributes.py
* Imporve amend_distributed_attr_for_program in context.py
* Other changes for weihang's comments
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* add auto_parallel apis