* Update the mnist test cases with the new API syntax.

* Turn on the tests for MNIST

* delete the test files got merged accidently.

* Enable the mnist tests. ready for test driven development.

* Comment out the infer first
This is to confirm that the Trainer.train is working

* Add CMake file to include the tests

* Make the train program only return avg_cost for now

* Update the tests to use the latest syntax

* add Inference.infer

* optimize code

* update no_test_word2vec_new_api.py

* update trainer

* split check_and_get_place

* use inference_program to save inference model in Trainer

* update demo

* update save_inference_model

* clean code

* a draft of trainer.test()

* polish trainer.test()

* polish trainer.test()

* update code format

* update

* polish code

* polish code

* polish code

* Make trainer.test follow the rule of returning [loss, metric, metric, ..]

* "add float64 tests"

* "fix based comment"

* "fixed based comment"

* Put all new tests under high-level-api

* be consistent with the naming

* Save the base of the new test.

* Create the notest_recognize_digits_conv and notest_recognize_digits_mlp

* precommit check

* Change the function name from _network to _program.
Update several variable names to make them more consistant.
Update the Inferencer construction call.

* Fix the incorrect format.

* Add label semantic examples with new api

* Address review comments

* Address review comment

* Added auto transform to beam_search_decode_op

* Added some comment

* Added unittest for beam_search_decode_op on GPU

* add test float16 inference accuracy example

* complete the test

* clean code

* add argument parse and refine tests

* add shell script

* add float16 benchmark code

* refine code

* prepare for contrib/float16

* put things in contrib float16 folder

* update benchmark result

* further update benchmark report

* add float16 inference report

* update report

* Add understand apiu with stacked lstm for new API

* Complete exam

* Initial implementation of forward pass for MKLDNN batch norm

* Added attributes for MKLDNN batch norm

* MKLDNN batch norm forward pass passes unittest. Started working on backward

* Backward pass for MKLDNN batch norm added

* MKLDNN batch norm: scoring added to forward pass

* MKLDNN batch norm: bias as input added; handling AnyLayout when kernel is looked up

* MKLDNN batch norm: python unit tests added; mkldnn tests removed

* MKLDNN batch norm: changes required by cpplint

* MKLDNN batch norm: refactoring the operator

* MKLDNN batch norm: saved variance inversed in backward pass for correct execution of MKLDNN unit tests

* MKLDNN batch norm: refctoring, function for static/const cast to void* added

* MKLDNN batch norm: remove AnyLayout from batch norm

*  MKLDNN batch norm: only NCHW format is supported. Unittests refactored

* MKDNN batch norm: use_mkldnn added to attributes

* MKLDNN batch norm: AnyLayout removed from unittest

* MKLDNN batch norm: added CUDNN defines to batch norm

* MKLDNN batch norm: undefined data_format variable corrected

* MKLDNN batch norm: use_cudnn added, use of setUp method for configuring attributes

* MKLDNN batch norm: added use_cudnn attribute to batch norm operator

* MKLDNN batch norm: correcting batch norm unit tests for MKLDNN

* MKLDNN batch norm: MKLDNN tests moved to another file; reverting changes for saved variance not being inverted

* Change default layout to NCHW

* MKLDNN batch norm: init_kernel_type method added to unit tests

* MKLDNN batch norm: style changes

* MKLDNN batch norm: unit tests refactored

* MKLDNN batch norm: added use_mkldnn attribute to batch norm python interface

- The trainer and inferencer will load params from disk if param_path
  argument is not None in their constructor.

- Remove params.py, we will expose core.Scope to the user if needed
  (e.g., for GAN). Currently we will not expose it, unless we clearly
  know doing so can support GAN.

- Add `save_params` to Trainer (a TODO item).

- rename "network" to "program"

* "re-commit "

* "picked up"

* "fix ci"

* "fix pdb hang up issue in cuda 9"