* remove duplicate code and duplicate config of master+patch
* drop all ins which has conflict slot or size < merge_size
* user only need to set merge size，if ins num of same id is not equal to merge size, just drop these ins
* user must make sure master data and patch data has no same slot whose feasigns are both non-zero, otherwise these ins will be dropped. (slot list should still be the same of both master and patch)
* test=develop

* add launch_ps module so that we can launch a parameter server training job
1) a user can specify worker_num and server_num
2) parameter server can be killed after all workers exit
3) unit test is added
test=develop

* 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

* update pserver decay blocks

* update distributed notify handler

* fix PaddleCloud Role maker & add warning in distribute transpiler  & change rpc_retry_times

* maxout support channel_last input, test=develop

* modified details of Input(X) and Attr(groups, axis) in doc, 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

* Refine the cache of program, context and scope in executor.
test=develop

* Refine the unittest test_executor_and_use_program_cache.

* Add the test the PaddingRNN with use_program_cache=True.
test=develop

* Remove a check.
test=develop

* Refine the unittest to check whether it is correct when setting use_program_cache=True.
test=develop

* fix jit_matmul bug 

* update jit matmul and add test

* fix persistable;

* fix save load bugs; test=develop

* fix bug; test=develop

* add example for new io api; test=develop

* addd example; test=develop

* add Sequential api
test=develop

* fix unittest
test=develop

* refine code sample

* test=develop

support Tensor for split and concat, support -1 in num_or_sections, add check num_or_sections (#20780)

* improve split and concat op:
1. support Tensor for argument 'dim' in split op.
2. support Tensor for argument 'axis' in concat op.
test=develop

* redefine function GetDataFromTensor and set unknown output shape to - 1.
test=develop

* add check: Attr(sections) match Input(X). test=develop

* support Tensor for attr(sections) and attr(sections) can contain -1.
add check for attr(sections).
test=develop

* modify error message for concat and call Resize only when necessary. test=develop

* Refine the InferShape of ReadFrom and WriteTo op, and add comment to explain why not call ShareLoD for runtime.
test=develop

* Add comment for ReorderLoDTensorByRank op.

* Add comment for lod_tensor_to_tensor_array op to explain why only call DecreaseLoDLevel for compile time.
test=develop

* ShrinkRNNMemory op should call ShareLoD for compile time.
test=develop

* Add the implementation of IncreaseLoDLevel and add the compile-time check of lod_level in InferShape of sequence_pool.
test=develop

* Refine the unittest of DynamicRNN.
test=develop

* Change PADDLE_ENFORCE to PADDLE_ENFORCE_NE.
test=develop

* improve unsqueeze op to support int, Tensor and Tensor list for argument axes.
test=develop

* call Resize only when necessary. test=develop

*  Make shape tensor support int32

* no longer need to define all embedding layers (no one less) of all slots in each program. make trainer_param repeated in ps.proto.
* add find_distributed_lookup_table_grads instead of hard code GRAD
* support embedding stop gradient. push sparse has error before fix this.* 
* fix fill sparse, skip slots which do not have embedding. each slot's embedding in a sparse table should be used in all training programs before fix this.
* fix pull sparse, skip slots which do not have embedding.
* fix collect feasign label info, skip slots which do not have embedding.
* support when there are multi sparse tables in one or multi training programs, each program can pull/push its own related sparse tables instead of all sparse tables.
* test=develop

* All elements in attr(shape) of crop_tensor can be -1, test=develop, test=document_preview

* fix the bug that attr(offsets) should be initialized, test=develop

* make search_compute support avx only

* clean search_compute.h

* rename sse_axpy to avx_axpy

test=develop

* update CMakeLists.txt

test=develop

* jit/trace 1st version, test=develop

* add more unittests, test=develop

* update the infer shape of matmul,  test=release/1.6

* add unittests of matmul, test=release/1.6

* change func names, test=develop

* add support for __get_item__ of Variable test=develop

* add cuda place and remove fluid.layers.data for test of python API, test=develop

* add cuda place and remove fluid.layers.data for test of python API, test=develop

* modified batch size for Python API test, test=develop

* test=develop, communicator_is_sgd_optimizer flags

* Support fp16 in fused_elemwise_activation_op.
* Fix unit testing in ONLY-CPU mode.