* 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

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* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

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* update

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* 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

* 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

* [Auto Parallel] Integrate all parts with the newest code

* Integrate all parts of auto parallel and improve codes

* Integrate all parts by AutoParallelizer
* Add unit test for AutoParallelizer
* Improve auto completion module for pipeline parallel
* Add support for matmul_v2 in dist_matmul
* Correct the typo "stratergy" to "strategy"

* Modify distributed_strategy.proto to conform the main stream

* Restore parts of distributed_strategy to conform the develop branch
Co-authored-by: Nsandyhouse <lilong12@baidu.com>
Co-authored-by: NJZ-LIANG <jianzhongliang10@gmail.com>

[Hybrid Performance] Move the cast op of AMP which cast fp32 param to fp16 param to the optimizer (#34965)

* add trainer desc config to distributed strategy

* code style modified

* modify API nn.Bilinear's doc, test=develop

* fix precision of mp

* fix bug of seed

* fix dp

* print group

* fix find_unused_parameters default value

* add raw program, test=develop

* update

* sharding: update config DOC

* update pipeline config

* sharding update doc

* add model parallel support in dygraph

* support control flow

* supoort sync_parameters_buffers

* fix the bug of sparse embedding

* update, test=develop

* add tensor_indices in AssignGroupBySize

* add rebuild group in reducer

* fix fleet api doc

* add lars to fleet meta optimizer

* add lamb to proto

* add lamb to fleet meta optimizer

* fixed syntax bug

* fixed syntax bug

* fixed syntax error in lamb, add config setter of lamb in distributed_strategy

* trigger unitest to rerun

* add new unitest func for lamb

* revise unitest for lars and lamb

* revise dgc meta unitest

* revise lars document in distribute_strategy

* revise lars lamb document in distributed_strategy.py

* revise lars lamb document in distributed_strategy.py

* add weight decay exclude logic to lars

* restore optimzier.py

* restore optimizer.py as develop except lars

* add epsilon and exclude fn to distributed_sttrategy

* add lars epsilon

* revise unitest for fleet lars and lamb

* revise lars lamb unitest for CI coverage

* revise lars argument api

* revise lars argument api

* revise lars argument api

* revise api doc of lars

* fix op role

* add sharding save and add_sync_comm_for_test function

* add comm_analyse to utlis

* revise sharding_utils

* add sharding saving unittest

* revise sharding utils for unittest

* revise sharding en doc

* update sharding utils api

* add doc for sharding

* fixed bug in sharding var size count

* update varsize count in sharding

* fix sharding num_nccl_comm

* Revert "fix sharding num_nccl_comm"

This reverts commit d51587c15e9323acf226ddd36154275f0d1daf76.

* upgrade comment string to raw string

* fix string in

* fix string with ' '

* revert update on comments

* upgrade only necessary

* fix sample code checker

* fix comments with '''

* add sharding

* add get final strategy for user to print final strategy

* add adaptivelsgd

* Todo fix the code to avoid the conflict.

* rm auto from localsgd

* refine launch and distributed repr string for print

* add auto parallel L1 implementation
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* fix doc

* test=develop

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* test=develop

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* test=develop

* fix doc, test=develop

* update localsgd doc
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* update localsgd doc
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* fix fleet dgc amp doc, test=develop

* fix, test=develop

* fix async configs
Co-authored-by: Nliuyi05 <gavin1332@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: NWangXi <wangxi16@baidu.com>
Co-authored-by: NseiriosPlus <tangwei12@baidu.com>

* fix api document

* modified timeout value on windows and mac (#26690)

* add Local SGD algorithm referenced paper
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