* update the demo code and the doc of varbase.backward.

* update the doc of the fake interface `paddle.fluid.Variable`.

* remove BackwardStrategy.

* add double grad implementation for dygraph, test=develop

* polish code, add uts, test=develop

* fix place bug, test=develop

* polish codes, add more uts for coverages, test=develop

* add no_grad_set, test=develop

* add star gan ut, test=develop

* follow comments, test=develop

* refine grad maker, test=develop

* refactor tracer stage 1, test=develop

* merge develop to solve conflict third times, test=develop

* modify fc to linear in sample code, test=develop

* remove FC, test=develop

* remove warnings, test=develop

* drop fluid/imperative/README.md , test=develop

* change fc to linear, test=develop

* polish code style, test=develop

* move private weight properties to public ones
test=develop

* revert changes to FC
test=develop

* fix unittest
test=develop

* fix unittest
test=develop

* fix coverage
test=develop

* fix merged dev
test=develop

* bug fix
test=develop

* remove params in Tracer object, test=develop

* Repair failed optest, test=develop

* remove build_once & name_scope (Conv2D)
test=develop

* fix unittest
test=develop

* Conv2DTranspose

* Conv3D & Conv3DTranspose
test=develop

* Pool2D & BatchNorm

* Embedding

* LayerNorm

* GRUUnit & NCE

* PRelu

* BilinearTensorProduct

* GroupNorm & SpectralNorm

* TreeConv
test=develop

* fix LayerNorm in transformer unnittest
test=develop

* disable LayerNorm or BatchNorm in multicard
test=develop

* refine Layer.create_parameter api
test=develop

* refine LayerNorm, remove begin_norm_axis param, add normed shape check
test=develop

* LayerNorm bug fix
test=develop

* fix optest,test=develop

* fix optest, test=develop

* fix optest for pass parameter_list when constructing an Optimizer class instance, test=develop

* polish code for better code style, test=develop

* fix se_resnext optest, test=develop

* polish code for better code style, test=develop
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* remove build_once & name_scope (Conv2D)
test=develop

* fix unittest
test=develop

* Conv2DTranspose

* Conv3D & Conv3DTranspose
test=develop

* Pool2D & BatchNorm

* Embedding

* LayerNorm

* GRUUnit & NCE

* PRelu

* BilinearTensorProduct

* GroupNorm & SpectralNorm

* TreeConv
test=develop

* fix LayerNorm in transformer unnittest
test=develop

* disable LayerNorm or BatchNorm in multicard
test=develop

* refine Layer.create_parameter api
test=develop

* refine LayerNorm, remove begin_norm_axis param, add normed shape check
test=develop

* LayerNorm bug fix
test=develop

* test=develop, fix docker with paddle nccl problem

* 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

* add variable method to varbase and refactor to_variable to support return varbase

* support kwargs in varbase constructor

* add VarBase constructor to support default python args

* refine varbase initial method

* reset branch

* fix ut for change VarBase error info to PaddleEnforce

* cherry is parameter change before

* overload isinstance to replace too many change of is_variable

* rm useless files

* rm useless code merged by git

* test=develop, fix some ut failed error

* test=develop, fix test_graph_wrapper

* add some tests, test=develop

* refine __getitem__, test=develop

* add tests, test=develop

* fix err_msg, 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

* test=develop, fix docker with paddle nccl problem

* test=develop, Add Variable api and refine dygraph related API

* test=develop, Add Variable api and refine dygraph related API

* test=develop, refine test for new api and error info

* test=develop, refine error info and test_layers

* test=develop, add API.spec

* test=devleop, fix to_string python2 and python3 compat error and refien doc

* test=devleop, add API spec

* test=devleop, update API spec

* test=devleop, update API spec

* test=develop, invoke ci

* test=develop, fix example code

* test=develop, update API spec

* test=develop, fix auto_prune_error_on_leaf

* test=develop, fix auto prune error on loss stop_gradient

* test=develop, remove useless error check

* test=develop, add more ut for sorted gradient

* 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

* test=develop, refoctor name to make it easier to understand

* test=develop, refoctor name to make it easier to understand

* test=develop, fix multi-gpu failed problem , add Tracer tests, change PADDLEENFORCE to PADDLEENFORCE_EQ

* test=develop, fix ut failed on parallel se-resnext

* test=develop, change one more PADDLE_ENFORCE

* support auto prune in dygraph mode

* test=develop, support auto prune

* test=develop, merge develop conflict

* test=develop, fix test_layer and test_tracer ut

* test=develop, fix bug which may cause stop_gradient disabled with a list of backward inputs