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Introduce new optimization levels for BFloat16 training

[Upstream] IFU 05/15/2020

Signed-off-by: asears <asears@users.noreply.github.com>

Reversible fused adam with mt support

* fix dropout scaling from p to 1/(1-p) (#816)
Co-authored-by: Sukru Eryilmaz <seryilmaz@computelab-dgx1v-32.nvidia.com>

* Improvements to apex.mlp (#804)

* update fused bias relu backward kernel

* adding support for not require first layer dgrad

* fix bug: wrong layer in requires grad

* add infrastructure for optional bias and activation, currently only support no bias and no relu

* make bias and relu optional separately

* add sigmoid activation option

* enable wider load/store for multi_tensor_apply kernels (#763)

* modify MTA axpby for wider load/store

* Make scale/axpby/l2/adam/lamb multi_tensor uses wider load

* Changes to make xentropysoftmax load/store vectorized when possible: (#725)

* Changes to make xentropysoftmax load/store vectorized when possible:
Increase default ILP so that each thread handle 16 Bytes data in one step
Make thread load/store longest vector possible
Make unroll case handle adjacent data instead of strided, so same order compare to vector case

* Add shift for not aligned case. Remove less than 16 bytes aligned access
Co-authored-by: Burc Eryilmaz <sberyilm@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Sukru Eryilmaz <seryilmaz@computelab-dgx1v-32.nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Deyu Fu <deyuf@nvidia.com>

* Changes to make xentropysoftmax load/store vectorized when possible:
Increase default ILP so that each thread handle 16 Bytes data in one step
Make thread load/store longest vector possible
Make unroll case handle adjacent data instead of strided, so same order compare to vector case

* Add shift for not aligned case. Remove less than 16 bytes aligned access

* modify MTA axpby for wider load/store

* Make scale/axpby/l2/adam/lamb multi_tensor uses wider load

* update fused bias relu backward kernel

* adding support for not require first layer dgrad

* fix bug: wrong layer in requires grad

* add infrastructure for optional bias and activation, currently only support no bias and no relu

* make bias and relu optional separately

* add sigmoid activation option