test=release/1.6

TODO: fix cudnn_conv and re-enable it

test=develop
test=release/1.6

* Add asymetric padding support for mkldnn pooling
test=develop

* Add asymetric padding support for mkldnn conv
test=develop

* Add asymetric padding support for mkldnn conv_transpose
test=develop

* fix uniform random; test=develop

* add uniform random test; test=develop

* [cherry-pick]fix bug in reshape: (#20781)

consider the situation that shape of input can contain more than one -1.

* [cherry-pick]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.
* redefine function GetDataFromTensor and set unknown output shape to - 1.
* add check: Attr(sections) match Input(X).
* support Tensor for attr(sections) and attr(sections) can contain -1.
* modify error message and fix bug for concat and call Resize only when necessary.
test=release/1.6

* [cherry-pick]improve unsqueeze op to support int, Tensor for argument axes (#20824)

* improve unsqueeze op to support int, Tensor and Tensor list for argument axes.
* call Resize only when necessary. test=release/1.6

* [cherry-pick]Compatible int32 and int64 for attr in concat/split/unsqueeze. test=release/1.6 (#20912)

cherry-pick1.6 simplify master+patch，remove ins when size != merge_size or has conflict slot  (#20941)

* simplify master+patch，remove ins when size != merge_size or has conflict slot
* test=develop

* update pserver decay blocks

* update distributed notify handler

* Fix Paddle Cloud role maker (#20860)

- fix jit::matmul bug 

input x, shape(m, k), weight, shape(k, n) 

* Serialize to pickle format (#20820)

test=develop

* save load problem fix and new feature add (#20823)

* 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 support for __get_item__ of Variable test=develop

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

* add unittests of matmul, test=release/1.6

* change func names, test=release/1.6

* test=develop, communicator_is_sgd_optimizer flags

* Fix communicator slow bug & fix communicator stop bug (#20366)

* test=develop,Fix communicator slow bug

* test=develop, delete if() in stop_worker()

* test=develop

* fix UT, test=develop

* fix bug in fetch handler, test=develop

* fix bug in fetch handler, test=develop

* test=develop, fix fetch barrier bug

* test=develop, bug fix

* test=develop, bug fix

* test=develop, fix bug

* test=develop,test=release/1.6

test=release/1.6, test=develop

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

test=release/1.6

* bug fix: invalid learning rate decay in pserver async mode

test=release/1.6

* add input type and dtype check, enhance shape error message for concat_op (#20101)

* add input type and dtype check, enhance shape error message for concat_op
test=develop

* enhance shape check
test=develop

* improve coverage

test=develop

* enhance input type chec for concat (#20584)

test=develop

* add expand_as op, test=develop

* add expand_as op,test=develop

* add expand_as op,test=develop

* add nn.py, test=develop

* delele paddle_enforce, test=develop

* add data type check, test=develop

* polish error messages, test=develop

* polish error messages, test=develop

* Remove support for the CPU architecture matmul, test=develop

* fix syntax bug, test=develop

* modified group_norm's unittest for pass statement, test=develop

* fix group_norm's bug: scale or bias is None which causes segmentation fault, test=develop

* fix recurrent bug
test=develop

* Fix while op bug
test=release/1.6

* add unit test
test=release/1.6

* Fix docs of gru_unit and dynamic_gru.

Fix basic_gru in rnn_impl.py.

Add error messages for param_attr setting in layer_norm api.

Add int64 dtype for expand.

test=develop

* Reopen unit-tests of basic_gru/basic_lstm in rnn_impl.py.
test=develop

* Add unit test for layer_norm api.
test=develop

* Remove the deprecated gru doc fix. test=develop

* Fix basic_gru test coverage. test=develop

* Update API.spec. test=develop

* Update API.spec. test=develop

* Fix test_basic_gru coverage test. test=develop

* Update test_basic_gru in test_layers to use fluid.data
test=develop

* Update test_basic_gru for coverage. test=develop

test=release/1.6

test=release/1.6

* fix the error message of zeros op
test=develop

* Fix unittest of zeros op
test=develop

* Add seq2seq api related code (#19820)

* fix expand bug  (#20340)

* fix expand bug test=develop

* fix style test=develop

* fix style test=develop

* fix style test=develop

* fix style test=develop

* Fix the assign data check (#20564)

* Fix the assign data check. test=develop

* Fix test_assign_op.py. test=develop

* Update API.spec

Refine error message of transpose. fix en doc about unsqueeze, unstack, transpose, multiplex. test=develop, test=document_preview, test=document_fix (#20594)

* support reshape doubel grad, test=develop

* fix reshape double grad, pass converage, test=develop

* fix review, test=develop

1. fill_constant support Tensor;
2. fix bug in backward.py: using fill_constant instead of fill_constant_batch_size_like
3. fix bug in ExpandGradOp.
test=release/1.6 (#20521)

* Add input check and refine error message

* Refine test case and comments

test=develop
Signed-off-by: Nzhaoyuchen <zhaoyuchen01@baidu.com>

test=develop, test=release/1.6

* Fix the error message of assign op
test=develop

* Refine input type checking for assign op
test=develop

* Refine unittest of assign op
test=develop

 [Cherry-pick #20263] to Add API 'fluid.requird_version(min_version, max_version=None)' to check if the installed PaddlePaddle version is satisfied

please see #20263 for details