* test=develop, rm pathlib

* add reducer

* refine envent for memorycopy

* add concat&split for allreduce

* apply concat & split for fuse tensor

* fix nccl dep

* fix the untest, compile problem and ddp initialize problem

* fix untest for mac & add some comments & solve the repeated param in sublayers

* fix untest for windows & fix document

* add Inmemorydataset

* 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.

* update, test=develop

* polish parallel api impl & doc details

* add unittest for coverage

* remove spawn test in py2.7

* add parallel api into white list

* 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 '''

* test=develop, optimize global_step

* update, test=develop

* 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

* fix fleetrun heter ps on paddlecloud

* add sharding

fleet support paddle.optimzier

* bug fix

* fix fleet_base

* bug fix

* fix coverage

* add doc, test=document_fix

* update, test=develop

* add size method for large scale

* add large scale UT

* add ut for checkpoint

* test=develop, fix geo sgd communicator

* test=develop, gloo_init_method

* test=develop, bug fix for gloo http_init

* raise error if use multi-cards in fleet non_distributed mode; test=develop

* modify cond while_loop to paddle.static.nn.cond

* modify crop_tensor to paddle.crop

* modify Variable to paddle.static.Variable

* remove nn.beam_search, nn.beam_search_decode, nn.gather_tree

* remove bpr_loss, center_loss, rank_loss, smooth_l1, teacher_student_sigmoid_loss, edit_distance, sampled_softmax_with_cross_entropy in nn.functional

* remove apis in nn.functional.learn_rate.py

* remove pool2d, pool3d, adaptive_pool2d, adaptive_pool3d in nn.functional

* remove apis in nn.functional.vision

* remove erf, soft_relu in nn.functional.activation

* remove apis in nn.functional.extension

* remove nn.functional.rnn

* remove hash from nn.functional.lod

* remove row_conv from nn.functional.extension

* remove one_hot, pad2d, pad_constant_like from nn.functional.common

* remove nn.gather_tree, nn.BilinearTensorProduct, nn.Pool2D, nn.Pad2D

* remove apis from optimizer.__init

* remove tensor.creation.fill_constant

* remove elementwise_mul in nn.functional.common and  modify to paddle.multiply

* remove  tensor.stat.reduce_mean

* remove reduce_all, reduce_any in tensor.logic

* remove apis in tensor.math

* remove apis in tensor.__init__

* remove has_inf, has_nan in tensor.search

* remove apis in framework.__init__

* remove apis in paddle.__init__

* remove apis in nn.functional.__init__

* modify removed alias apis to raw api in doc and unittests

* fix remove grid_sample bug

* modify removed alias apis to raw api in doc and unittests

* modify removed alias apis to raw api in doc and unittests

* modify removed alias apis to raw api in doc and unittests

* modify removed alias apis to raw api in doc and unittests

* modify removed alias apis to raw api in doc and unittests

* modify removed alias apis to raw api in doc and unittests

* delete alias api relastions in doc

* reserve paddle.compat, paddle.sysconfig

* remove unittest for paddle.reduce_all, paddle.reduce_any

* modify removed alias apis to raw api in doc and unittests

* recover paddle.save and paddle.load

* resolve conflicts

* fix sample code missing paddle.enable_static() bug

* fix sample code missing paddle.enable_static() bug

* fix to_string sample code error

* add sparse tensor load method

* test=develop, bug fix for parameter_recv
* test=develop, for unittest, test_fleet_rolemaker_new

* support gradient merge with recompute, test=develop
test=develop

* refine fleetrun.ps_launch

* update fleet run for multi device support

* ps_graph support ps-gpu

* fix heter save

* add heter save unittest

* fix unittest & simple code

* update fleetrun

* fix fleetrun

* fix launch barrier

* fix role maker

* add paddlecloud rolemaker unittest

* rename heter_worker_device_guard

* fleet support non_distributed training in dygraph mode; test=develop

* add double grad for expand, test=develop

* add gloo initializer, test=develop