* support shard reader

* support shard reader

* add parallel mode

* update process mesh

* add method to compute comm_group

* implement dist_embedding forward func

* implement dist matmul forward func

* implement dist reshape forward func

* add transpiler framework

* add transpiler forward

* implement transpiler forward

* implement transpiler backward & update

* add process

* add unitest

* chmod

* chmod

* chmod

* update unitest

* add unitest for gpt

* remove unused print

* rename transpiler --> partitioner

* rename transpiler --> partitioner

* chmod

* chmod

* bug fixed

* remove amp function

* update case for dp mode

* update case for dp mode

* add cache for send_recv

* add eval_batch for pipeline

* add eval batch for pipelineparallel

* add style code

* add auto_parallel dir

* mv to paddle.distributed

* add shard_xx api

* add distributed attrs for var

* add ut, test=develop

* add dist

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update

* update, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* update

* update

* delete unused proto

* resotre op_desc

* restore type_defs

* update var_desc

* remove dimss_mapping for proto_pybind

* update interface.py

* update framework.py

* update

* update

* add auto_parallel dir

* mv to paddle.distributed

* add shard_xx api

* add distributed attrs for var

* add ut, test=develop

* [WIP] Add the auto completion feature and related codes

* [WIP] Improve the auto completion and related codes

* [WIP] Make the auto completion to support data-parallel

* [WIP] Make the completion support mp and dp+mp

* [WIP] Refactor auto completion unit test for MLP

* [WIP] Refactor the implementation of DistributedOperatorImpl

* [WIP] Improve dims_mapping update rule and fix a bug

* [WIP] Support auto completion for one transformer decoder layer

* [WIP] Add a minor change

* [WIP] Fix a bug within the uint test

* Shard XShape tensor, add embedding completion and refactor code

* Add the distributed_operators dir to setup.py.in

* Improve the completion process and add the unittest for gpt

* fix process_mesh ut

* fix process_mesh ut

* update

* update, test=develop

* Add support for automatically completing distributed attrs of special ops

* update

* update

* update

* fix doc sample codes, test=develop

* improve coverage, test=develop

* add static_mode check, test=develop

* Model the cluster for cost model and physical mapping

* update, test=develop

* add set_placement, test=develop

* Add the check to make sure the candidate tensors' size is great than zero

* update doc, test=develop

* update doc, test=develop

* update doc, test=develop

* update doc, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* Auto mark dist attrs annotated by user

* update ndarray to nested list, test=develop

* update, test=develop

* Add auto-completion module for auto-parallel (based on PR#33804)

* Remove unnecessary files

* Remove unrelated files for the auto completion pr

* Update the unit test to improve the coverage

* Modify codes based on reviews

* Minor changes for CI

* Improve some codes based on new comments

* Fix bugs caused by shallow copy in attributes.py
* Imporve amend_distributed_attr_for_program in context.py
* Other changes for weihang's comments
Co-authored-by: Nsandyhouse <lilong12@baidu.com>

[Hybrid Performance] Move the cast op of AMP which cast fp32 param to fp16 param to the optimizer (#34965)

[CPU-PSLIB] Add consistency insepection of use_var_list and data_generator data, test=develop (#34463)

* fix bug of py36 import

* add recompute for pp

* add recompute offload

* add recompute partition

* add auto_parallel apis

* add save/load for pipelineparallel

* add save/load

* fix bug of p2p for partial

* fix error

* add layer segment

* add segement for transformer

* add utest

* support 1f1b for pipeline

* add utest

* add send_partial/recv_partial

* support amp for pp

* fix logger

* add trainer desc config to distributed strategy

* code style modified

* fix force kill for elastic

* fix the docs bug in collective file

Fix the bug in paddle.distributed.split demo. The paddle.distributed.split op just can be used in static mode. (#34306)

* fix the bug in paddle.distributed.split demo