* add save with prefix (#23449)
* add unit accessor (#23703)
* test=develop

* fix no_cvm in config_fleet (#22818)
* support get pslib version (#22835)
* add clear one table (#23089)
* fix dump slot in strategy (#23398)

* change the cmake and apis of lite engine, test=develop

* change the cmake of lite engine, test=develop

* add recorded cuda memory apis, fix typo, test=develop

* add more ut, test=develop

* follow comments, test=release/1.7

* fix py35 incompatible issues, test=release/1.7

* add sync communicator and implement

* update

* update test=develop

* update compile set test=develop

* update compile set test=develop

* update test=develop

* update test=develop

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* update compile setting test=develop

* update compile setting test=develop

* update run demo test=develop

* update test=develop

* update test=develop

* fix test=develop

* update test=develop

* update test=develop

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* update format test=develop

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* update style test=develop

* update style test=develop

* change style test=develop

* change style test=develop

* change style test=develop

* add dataset unittest test=develop

* update test=develop

* update for record test=develop

* udpate style for record test=develop

* update for record test=develop

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* fix format test=develop

* update test=develop

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* 1. load model from memory

2. scale is no longer added when saving inference model

test=develop

* raise ci coverage, test=develop

* supports saving weights to memory. test=develop

* raise ci coverage, test=develop

* fix PADDLE_ENFORCE messages, test=develop

* add thread barrier for the compiled program

* Introduce Ernie NLP

* Fix error regarding incorrect attr type

test=release/1.7
Co-authored-by: NWojciech Uss <wojciech.uss@intel.com>

* Add weight quantization in post_training_quanzitaion (#22445)

* [cherry-pick]Support int16 for Tensor (#22423)

* add int16 support, test=develop, test=release/1.7
Co-authored-by: NLeo Chen <chenqiuliang@baidu.com>

[cherry-pick] #22484

支持不依赖nccl进行编译。

多卡下，如果没有打开WITH_NCCL开关编译，则只能使用单卡

[cherry-pick] #22384 and #22371

22384增加了WITH_NCCL开关

22371修改了fluid依赖lite的commit id

* add GeneralRoleMaker which is for general usage
* test=develop

* add collective communication library in fleet to replace mpi
* test=develop

* add half_async in the communicator
* fix DistributedStrategy

* add multiprocess for dygraph data loader, test=develop

* polish code & add safe gurad, test=develop

* refactor dygraph dataloader & add signal handler, test=develop

* fix member initializer compile error on ci, test=develop

* fix member initializer compile error one more, test=develop

* remove useless config, test=develop

* skip windows incompatible problem, test=develop

* add unittest for coverage, test=coverage

* add more exception unittest case, test=develop

* deal with signal handler coverage, test=develop

* polish code & add signal handler tests, test=develop

* deal with coverage ci problem, test=develop

* split data loader test & coverage ci fix, test=develop

* remove test_imperative_data_loader_with_exception, test=develop

* remove singal process except test case, test=develop

* add exception tests again & remove sample list test, test=develop

* split normal and exception unittests to diff class, test=develop

* polish doc for use_multiprocess effect in static mode, 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

* add distributed_strategy

* Fix openblas to support compile on Windows when WITH_MKL=OFF

* python zero copy inference
* support delete inference pass

* add some debug flags to auto growth allocator, test=develop

* add comments about auto growth, test=develop

The fixed bugs:

1. The condition sub-graph is not pruned
2. When backward graph is extremely simple, the whole backward ops are pruned.

* fix compiled error of butil when with_pslib=on and with_testing=on
* test=develop

* polish cmake, test=develop

* add current directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, test=develop

* add no_need_buffer_slots interface to pybind

* refine dygraph dataloader & polish related code, test=develop

* refine code based review comment, test=develop

* add op function generator, test=develop

* add unittest, test=develop

* follow comments, test=develop

* fix windows compilation problem, test=develop

* refine init function, test=develop

* add tests, test=develop

* remove extern, which may cause symbol error in gcc-4.8, test=develop

* Add a single_process_multi_thread transpiler.
* Add some UTs.
* Fix some API description.

* add file check_op_desc.py and add interface to get default value. test=develop

* add test for c++ coverage rate. test=develop

* Correct typo. 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

* add _get_all_register_op_kernels api test=develop

* refine usage of check_op_register_type test=develop

* add import in core test=develop

* support SelectedRows in dygraph, test=develop

* fix bug of _grad_ivar interface, test=develop

* add optest for support seletedrows, test=develop

* fix bug for gradient_accumulator in GPU mode, test=develop

* fix error when Selectedrows addto LodTensor in sorted_gradient mdoe in dygraph, test=develop

* refine and simplify gradient accumulator code, test=develop

* add optest, test=develop

* add optest and simplify code, test=develop

* fix bug for test_imperative_selected_rows, test=develop

* add optest for Coverage, test=develop

* fix gradient interface and simplify code, test=develop

* update api for gradient, test=develop

* fix ShareDim's bug in DygraphExecutionContext class, test=develop

* add optest, test=develop

* use system allocator in unittests, test=develop

* fix op bugs, test=develop

* fix tensor copy bug when src and dst are the same, test=develop