* fix slice op bug; test=develop

* fix variabel test bug; test=develop

* remove slice while true; test=develop

* test=develop, add add_multi_gpu_install_check (#18157)

* test=develop, add add_multi_gpu_install_check

* test=develop, refine warning doc

* test=develop, refine warning doc

* test=develop, refine warning doc

* test=develop, support multi cpu

* test=release/1.5, cherry-picked from develop

* fix_create_lod_tensor, test=release/1.5

* remove program_guard import,test=release/1.5

* fix windows numpy default int32 error, test=release/1.5

* Update backward appending stragety to support double backward and fix some bug. (#18104)

* Update backward.py:
     - If there is no input grad var in all outputs of previous ops, do not append this op into graph.
     - Only apply this stragety when double backward.
* Update some double backward op.
* Update sum_op to judge whether a tensor is empty by numel or IsInitialized().

* 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)

Cherry pick retinanet_target_assign_op(#17893), sigmoid_focal_loss_op(#17895) and retinanet_detection_output_op(#17896) for supporting retinanet (#18141)

* test=release/1.5
Fix conflicts in test_layers.py when adding target assign operator for supporting retinanet. Cherry pick #17893

* test=release/1.5
Add sigmoid focal loss operator for supporting retinanet. Cherry pick #17895

* test=release/1.5
Add detection output operator for supporting retinanet. Cherry pick #17896

* test=release/1.5
fix wrong code style in test_layers.py when cherry pick retinanet_target_assign #17893

* test=release/1.5
Fix type error of std::pow in sigmoid_focal_loss. Cherry pick #17895

* 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

* remove nccl dep when the number of GPU is 1
test=develop

* use multi card run syncBN
test=release/1.5

Add cascade rcnn support.

cherry pick for deform roi pooling

cherry-pick for (https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/pull/17402)

Add Pipeline Concurrency Train Mode:
- Cpp: pipeline_trainer & section_worker
- Python: PipelineOptimizer
- Add a new data_feed type: PrivateInstantDataFeed
- Add a test demo of pipeline trainer and the test model is gnn
- Do not support win32 now

* fix py_reader iterable bug, test=release/1.5

* move data from buffered_reader,test=release/1.5

* update CPU_NUM config
test=develop

test=release/1.5
cherry-pick from #17952
The scatter op has a calc bug when the indices has same index, the scatter op use overwrite mode to calculate the same index, fix this bug by using the accumulate mode to calculate the same index.At the same time, the gather op has the same bug when the op calc the grad. And we use the lib of open-blas and eigen to optimize the time cost in accumulate mode.

test=release/1.5

* Cherry-pick fix random Python3 CI failure.

In some tests, SWEs used "print('xxx').format('xxx')". The syntax
is only supported in Python2, not python3. However, since those
lines are related to data download, if the CI machines already have
the data, it passes CI tests. That causes random failure.

* Cherry-pick: disable CUDNN case of test_warpctc_op

test=release

TODO: it is a temporary fix for Paddle release 1.5. We have to fix
this failed unit test soon.

test=develop

* Enable seq_pool op to accept len 0 input

test=develop

* Update sequence_pool's api

test=develop

* Add more unittest cases for seq_pool op

test=develop

* Remove legacy comments

test=develop

* Don't use template in op maker

test=develop

* add api commet; test=develop

* fix fc dtype bug; test=develop

* remove float32 in default parameter; test=develop

* fix exmpale bug; test=develop

* fix build once; test=develop

* fix num_chanels bug; test=develop

* fix install check failed bug; test=develop

* add reshape support tensor; test=develop

* fix reshape bug; test=develop

* change reshape attribute default value; test=develop

* fix reshape input name; test=develop

* fix reshape unitest; test=develop

* check dim tensor shape; test=develop

* test=develop, refine api

* test=develop, fix bug when error occured on save_persistable with no optimizer

* test=develop, refine waring

* test=develop, refine example code and comments

* test=develop, add dygraph_not_support and refine ocr

* test=develop, shrink name of dygraph_not_support

test=develop

* save optimizer related vars in dygraph

* test=develop, add optimizer save and load

* test=develop, add optimizer save and load

* test=develop, merge code and add multi-optimizer save and load

* test=develop, fix test_imperative_checkpoint

* test=develop, fix include error

* test=develop, fix include error

* test=develop, renew api spec

* test=develop, refine code

* test=develop, set default value for checkpoint

* test=develop, fix ci error

* test=develop, change API.spec and make api more readable

* test=develop, refine version and time stamp

* test=develop, add example code and refine code

* test=develop, refine doc

* test=develop, change version

* Enable ngraph layer_norm operator

test=develop

* Disable/Enable cuda, new unit-test test=develop

* Fix use_cudnn test=develop

* Fixed test_layer test, new funciton is added test=develop

* set use_cudnn by default test=develop

* use pyreader to read data

* add return_list to PyReader to support return value represented as list

* for debug

* test=develop, memory optimize for dygraph using shared_ptr

* test=develop, fix travis ci showed error

* test=develop, fix bug for recurrent usage of varbase

* test=develop, init varbase when it need to be Add

* test=develop, fix problem of recurrent gradient

* test=develop, add gradient test for recurrent varbase usage

* test=develop, refine ocr attention model

* test=develop, refine code, remove cpu only part

test=develop, refine code, remove cpu only part

* expand support tensor attribute; test=develop

* fix bug ; test=develop

* fix uni test bug; test=develop

* fix copy bug; test=develop

* refine expand_times default value; test=develop

* for debug

* test=develop, memory optimize for dygraph using shared_ptr

* test=develop, fix travis ci showed error

* test=develop, fix bug for recurrent usage of varbase

* test=develop, init varbase when it need to be Add

* support some input tensor remain on cpu; test=develop

* fix input = none; test=develop

* fix unfound bug; test=develop

* fix proto None case; test=develop

* fix bug; test=develop

* fix proto null bug; test=develop

* remove conv check; test=develop

* fix test bug; test=develop

* move fill constant; test=develop

* no change in proto; test=develop

* fix bug; test=develop

* change attr detph name; test=develop

* remove remain cpu; test=develop

* fix bug; test=develop

* merge develop; test=develop

* fix one_hot bug; test=develop

* fix bug; test=develop

* fix bug; test=develop

* fix bug; test=develop

* fix python api bug; test=develop

* Enable elementwise_div operator test=develop

* Fix update date test=develop

* add no_grad decorator to dygraph, test=develop

* add unittest,test=develop

Split the unittest test_dist_mmist into multiple unittests (test_dist_mnist, test_dist_mnist_nccl and test_dist_mnist_lars) to avoid timeout (#17707)