* fix auc layer and add check for auc op

* use input to check if states are inited

* optimize code

This reverts commit f5d5d7b2.

* add is_test for while_op

* Change API

* Disable in_place in batch_norm API.

* Fix scatter_op python API and remove inconsistency between implementation and doc

* API spec change

* Change as review comment

* Fix bug in conditional_block_op.
* Fix bug and add comments.
* Rename arguments.

Add dependency to send recv

* Add three modes for prelu_op.

Add flatten op interface and enhance APIs about detection to support variable-length image. (#12422)

* add flatten api&enhance detection api

* unify shape_op data type

* update API.spec

Fix str and bytes problem
Fix sorted problem
Fix math problem
Fix CI problem

* fix the result of unit test

* fix resnext

* compare the result of PE and Exe

* compare the result of reduce and allreduce

* api clean

* update API.spec

* "remove inplace in single op"

* "fix ci"

* "add transpiler case"

* fix conflict

* "fix reshape"

* "delete reshape inplace attr"

* "follo the comments"

* "rerun ci"

* Hidden APIs for While, StaticRNN, ParallelDo.

* Hiden some LoDTensor ralatted ops' Python wrapper.

* expose rank_loss python api

1. Make the feeding thread of py_reader a daemon thread.
2. Update buffer_reader's destructor, fixing a bug.
3. Make pyreader demo script supporting CPU environment.

* Fix serious bug in nesterov momentum optimizer.