* add event for fast executor and add threads for scopebuffer executor
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* unit commits, test=develop

* update API.spec, test=develop

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* update

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* fix bug for ctr_reader test=develop

* fix svm data test=develop

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* Enhance fused_elementwise_activation op.
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* Move the api fused_elementwise_activation to contrib.
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* Add including files.
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* Add the support of sigmoid in fused_elementwise_activetion op.

* Update API.spec.
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Optimize recurrent_op using Prepare and RunPreparedContext, avoiding create operators in every iter. (#17689)

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* Enable less_than ngraph operator

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* Added compare unit-tests test=develop

* Update: date && removed import test=develop

* fix:
1. infernce multi card occupy
2. facebox model inference occupy too much
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* refine python api comments: shuffle, while, scale, sampled_softmax_with_cross_entropy, scatter,
round, sin, sqrt, shape, split, soft_relu, slice, selu, ifelse, switch.
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* fix conflict error.
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* test=develop, add ocr in dygraph test

* test=develop, add cudnn determinist

* test=develop, remove useless code

* test=develop, fix cmake error

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* add depthwise_conv2d test=develop

* use cpu for ngraph test=develop

fix im2sequence padding bug

* fix doc in transpiler, test=develop

* add gradient clip in minimize; test=develop

* fix bug; test=develop

* fix format; test=develop

* move new grad clip to dygraph/grad_clip.py; test=develop

* fix lr decay and grad clip test; test=develop

* seperate dygraph grad clip; test=develop

* fix grad clip test; develop

* fix api spec bug; test=develop

* add blank line, test=develop,test=document_preview

to fix format problem

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Optimize the concat and split kernel for specical cases when the number of inputs/outputs is 2 (#17415)

* Optimize the concat and split kernel for special cases that the number of inputs/outputs is 2.
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* Refine codes.
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* Correct the condition.
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* Move the define of tmp_data outside the if statement.

* Print the cudnn minor version.
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* Fix the case when in_num/o_num is 1 in concat/split op.
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* Remove const_cast.
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* update python APIs

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* update API.spec

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* update merge_selected_rows

* update API.spec

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* update API.spec

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* fix the comment of less_than

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* update API.spec

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* update API.spec

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* update API.spec

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* update API

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* add INT8 conv+relu6 fuse and enbale mobilentv2 INT8 test
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* change fasle and 0.0 to fuse_brelu and brelu_threshold
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change the "fuse_relu||fuse_brelu" to "unsigned_output"
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* Use relu instead of brelu as INT8 post-op because INT8 brelu is not enabled in mkldnn v0.18
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* continuous-integration fix
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* - changes to graph detector

- Changes to pass

- Added ut for new pass

- use_pass

- Added pass to mkldnn passes

- fix to registration

- improved verbose messaging for conv bias passes

- Lint fixes

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* - Lint fixes

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* [DOC] Fix api docs, test=develop, test=document_preview

* [DOC] Fix api annotation: fluid.layers.tensor_array_to_tensor. test=develop, test=document_preview

* test=develop, test=document_preview

update MD5 of tensor_array_to_tensor

* fix the api example for create_global_var, create_parameter, SGDOptimizer, RMSPropOptimizer, MomentumOptimizer, LarsMomentumOptimizer, FtrlOptimizer
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* add example for adamoptimizer
fix API.spec
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* Bias correction for exponential moving average

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* Fix docs

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This reverts commit f34830e2.

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* Enable sqrt operator for the nGraph Bridge.

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* Update activation_op.h

* add Concat quantization
add unit test for quantizing concat
fix for wrong value when the input is not in map of calculated scales
add use_quantizer to concat_op.cc
add scale_algo rules for concat

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* missing fix for multiple inputs quantize-squash

* wojtuss review fix: adding comment

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