* add APIs
* implement save_sharded_model
* add test for hybrid checkpointio
* implement naive loading for sharded model
* implement efficient sharded model loading
* open a new file for hybrid checkpoint_io
* small fix
* fix circular importing
* fix docstring
* arrange arguments and apis
* small fix
* [shardformer/sequence parallel] Support sequence parallel for gpt2 (#4384)
* [sequence parallel] add sequence parallel linear col/row support (#4336)
* add sequence parallel linear col/row support
* add annotation
* add annotation
* add support for gpt2 fused qkv linear layer
* support sequence parallel in GPT2
* add docstring and note
* add requirments
* remove unused flash-attb
* modify flash attn test
* modify flash attn setting
* modify flash attn code
* add assert before divide, rename forward function
* [shardformer/test] fix gpt2 test with seq-parallel
* [shardformer/sequence parallel] Overlap input gather and grad computation during col backward (#4401)
* overlap gather input / grad computing during col backward
* modify test for overlap
* simplify code
* fix code and modify cuda stream synchronize
* [shardformer/sequence parallel] polish code
* 1.support sam 2.add fused qkv for nn.Linear
* update utils support set element in list
* overtwrite SamVisionAttention foward to use DropoutForParallelInput
* remove unused code
* add naive optimizer for 3DPlugin/refactor gpt2 shardformer test
* merge tests of PP/DP/TP combinations into one test file
* fix bug when sync grad for dp in HybridPlugin
* update supported precisions for 3DPlugin/fix bug when shifting tp_degree
* improve the passing of lazy_init
* modify lazy_init/use sync_shared_params
* * fix typehint & docstring in sharder.py
* * update pipeline forward for GPT2Model
* * add test for pipeline forward of GPT2Model
* * add cache cleaning in gpt2 test
* * change assert to raise command
* [shardformer] support lazy init
* [shardformer] linear support lazy init
* [shardformer] embedding support lazy init
* [shardformer] norm support lazy init
* [shardformer] fused linear support lazy init
* [test] update shardformer test layer
* [test] shardformer with lazy init fit ddp
* [lazy] hotfix deepcopy of param
* [shardformer] fix bert policy and update test
* [shardformer] fix bloom policy and update test
* [shardformer] fix opt policy and update test
* [shardformer] fix t5 policy and update test
* [shardformer] fix gpt2 policy and update test
* [shardformer] fix llama policy and update test
* first v of vit shardformer
* keep vit
* update
* vit shard add vitattention vitlayer
* update num head shard para
* finish test for vit
* add new_model_class & postprocess
* add vit readme
* delete old files & fix the conflict
* fix sth
* add layernorm to bert
* add layernorm test
* add layernorm test with load state dict
* add use_mixedfusedLN in shard config
* refactor policy to support fused_layernorm
* add dropout layer, add dropout test
* modify seed manager as context manager
* add a copy of col_nn.layer
* add dist_crossentropy loss; separate module test
* polish the code
* fix dist crossentropy loss
* add dropout layer, add dropout test
* modify seed manager as context manager
* add a copy of col_nn.layer
* add dist_crossentropy loss; separate module test
* polish the code
* fix dist crossentropy loss
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