* fix bug in Class MultiSlotDataGenerator's function _gen_str, test=develop (#18222)
* fix some bug when merge sparse embedding parameters, test=develop (#18223)
* fix communicator with pyreader (#18350)
* delete AllocatorFacade destructor  (#18606)
* fix distribute transpiler GRPC error code 4, RPC Deadline (#18984)
* merge pr #18441

* test=develop

* test=develop

* fix save/load in fleet (#17675)

* fix save/load in Fleet
* add UT framework of Fleet (#18058)

* add paddle cloud role maker for customized usage, note this is only for industrial users that have cloud environment pre-configuration (#18121)

add paddle cloud role maker for specific cloud usage. This pr will simplifies user's configuration in distributed training.

* assign role_maker before use (#18137)

* fix logging unable. test=develop

* unset sys.stdout for stream handler. test=develop

* fix newly add basicConfig. test=develop

* fix import error. test=release/1.5

* fix the bug that sub_scope_ may be null in AnalysisPredictor::Run.

* add more directions about io APIs' docs.

* update the API.spec. test=develop test=document_preview

Fix some api example codes' bugs and these APIs include load_inference_model, load_vars, save_vars, L1DecayRegularizer and L2DecayRegularizer. (#17324)

* fix some api example codes' bugs.

* update API.spec. test=develop test=document_preview

* add import fluid. test=develop test=document_preview

The parameter dirpath will be passed directly to c++ operater. The file address format will be different under win and UNIX.

* Fix API example code of save_inference_model

test=develop

* Add "import" in exmaple of save_inference_model

* Fix typo "exsample" -> "example"

test=develop

* save infer model bug fix, return target vars' name list

* fix params with only 1 dim
* test=develop

test=develop

checkpoint for distributed training.

* fix io doc
test=develop

* refine data_feeder doc
test=develop

test=develop

*  fix mkdir conflict

*  fix load/save lookup tables

 test=develop

* add lookup_table_utils

* fix load optimize vars on pserver

* delete lookup table utils

* fix save and load lookup tables

* fix load optimizer var

* fix load optimizer var, test=develop

* fix python 3 style, test=develop

* move lookup_table_utils to contrib utils

*  fix mkdir conflict

test=develop

* fix dim0 in _load_slice_up_vars

* fix dim0 in _load_slice_up_vars, fix innershape in delete_var_op

* Revert "fix lookuptable in reduce strategy"

This reverts commit 0e722c5e

* add unit test for dist

* add unit test for dist, test=develop

* cancel revert, test=develop

In the future, we'd like to encourage user to save
everything during training.
This allows us to
1. Do more flexible optimization passes
2. Re-train and fune-tune

* hide program APIs

* fix merge error

* update

add export_for_deployment flag to save_inference_model