* sync misc changes

* add authors
Co-authored-by: NZhaorui Chen <zhaoruic@graphcore.ai>

* up x

* Revert "up x"

This reverts commit f3fde458c6cc48613269a643cfe2acf689caccd3.

* add guarg for ipu
Co-authored-by: NZhaorui Chen <zhaoruic@graphcore.ai>