* add pattern for auto search

* add unittest

* [CodeStyle][py2][U004] unecessary explicit `object` inheritance in class definition

* fix an increment

* [CodeStyle][py2][U008] remove unnecessary args in `super()`

* remove remained args

* revert changes in test_pylayer_op

* Revert "revert changes in test_pylayer_op"

This reverts commit ff185a9ae738afac3b0264f61bde6c6b7f72e7c4.

* revert some changes in example code

* [CodeStyle][E711] use `is`/`is not` for comparison with `None`

* `self.assertTrue($A is None)` -> `self.assertIsNone($A)`

* `self.assertTrue($A is not None)` -> `self.assertIsNotNone($A)`

* `self.assertFalse($A is None)` -> `self.assertIsNotNone($A)`

* `self.assertEqual($A, None)` -> `self.assertIsNone($A)`

* `self.assertNotEqual($A, None)` -> `self.assertIsNotNone($A)`

* [CodeStyle][E712] use `if cond`/`if cond is True` for comparison with `True`

* revert changes in fluid

* revert unrelated file

* revert changes in norm

* revert changes in auto_parallel_amp

* fix norm and auto_parallel_amp

* revert a typo fix due to fixed at #47477

* update config

* re-blacken python code

* temporarily disable date and diff_py_file

* skip a format

* add parallel tuner

* add unittest

* fix unittest

* set timeout of unittest

* set unittest timeout

* fix auto_mode setting

* update unittest

* sync from develop and update unittest

* remove unused import

* update unittest

* update cmakelist

* add unittests

* [Auto Parallel] Suppport different dataloaders

* [Auto Parallel] Add num_shards config for dataset

* [Auto Parallel] Unify the logger and outputs of Engine API

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the bugs of to_static

* [Auto Parallel] Adjust the test_to_static.py

* [Auto Parallel] Add the prepare API and replace __call__ with run

* [Auto Parallel] Improve the private implementations of Engine

* [Auto Parallel] Set capacity of dataloader for opt tuning

* [Auto Parallel] [WIP] Change the fine-grained API

* [Auto Parallel] Improve APIs to support different user cases

* [Auto Parallel] Add removed config

* [Auto Parallel] Add imports

* [Auto Parallel] Fix bugs for to_static

* [Auto Parallel] Remove unnecessary imports

* [CodeStyle][F401] remove unused import in python/paddle/distributed

* remove pass

* empty commit

* Fix ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list for meta_optimizer_names.

Fix ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list for meta_optimizer_names.

* Fix split import.

Fix split import.

* add noqa after meta_optimizers in factory

* restort collective ops

* expand `import *`

* add noqa after required imports

* try to fix APIs without core.ops

* Revert "try to fix APIs without core.ops"

This reverts commit 6172beaf601e84bf61f2490c12c4739f0edaa5eb.

* fix an increment

* empty commit

* add noqa after required imports

* expand `import *`, fix ci error
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* [Auto Parallel] Unify the logger and outputs of Engine API

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the bugs of to_static

* [Auto Parallel] Adjust the test_to_static.py

* support input mask

* [Auto Parallel] Use c++ dist attr in the completion process

* [Auto Parallel] Add minor changes

* [Auto Parallel] Use c++ dist attr in the completion process

* [Auto Parallel] Add minor changes

* [Auto Parallel] Add the serialization process for dist attrs

* [Auto Parallel] Remove unnecessary comments

* [Auto Parallel] Fix some bugs

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the code style

* [Auto Parallel] Remove unnecessary impls

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the importing error

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the copy from bugs of op dist attr

* [Auto Parallel] Replace the use of constexpr if

* [Auto Parallel] Redesign the shard_tensor, shard_op and ProcessMesh

* [Auto Parallel] Change API of the completion unittest

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the bug when set_attr an int

* [Auto Parallel] Add the unittest for the serialization

* [Auto Parallel] Add some unit tests

* [Auto Paralle] Unify the strategy

* [Auto Parallel] Improve the engine api

* [Auto Parallel] Reset the changes made to the framework

* [Auto Parallel] Change the engine unittest

* [Auto Parallel] Update API of the completion and partitioner

* [Auto Parallel] Update unit tests using engine api

* update shard annotation

* [Auto Parallel] Remove the modifications of other modules

* [Auto Parallel] Add docs for APIs

* add new strategy

* [Auto Parallel] Replace the logger

* [Auto Parallel] Restore the test_program.py

* [Auto Parallel] Change the import rules

* [Auto Parallel] Add the examples for Engine

* [Auto Parallel] Do some minor changes

* [Auto Parallel] Remove yaml dependency

* [Auto Parallel] Fix the unittests

* add valid after train

* bug fix
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Co-authored-by: Ncaozhou <caozhou@radi.ac.cn>
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* trim trailing whitespace

* fix `.cmake-format.py`

* revert npu ut changes, avoid npu ci error

* add collate_fn

* fix number of inputs

* bugfix

* remove scaling

* support rescale_grad opt

* fixed bug for pass & engine

* fixed bug for benchmark GPT-3

* add tuner & profiler

* add algorithms & config

* use yapf to format all python file

* yapf exclude two unittests file for they rely on writing and reading file, and format will break them

* disable diff_py_file because too many diff files cause command following failed

* [Auto Parallel] Replace the old planner by the new partition tuner

* [Auto Parallel] Improve the completion and distributed context

* [Auto Parallel] Fix some bugs of the compatible check of some dist ops

* [Auto Parallel] Fix some bugs

* [Auto Parallel] Add links for the reference codes.

* Update recorder.py

* Update trial.py

* Update test=document_fix

* Update test=document_fix

Add the recorder

* [Auto Parallel] Redesign the tunner for Auto Parallel