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* update accelerator

* fix timer

* fix amp

* update

* fix

* update bug

* add error raise

* fix autocast

* fix set device

* remove doc accelerator

* update doc

* update doc

* update doc

* use nullcontext

* update cpu

* update null context

* change time limit for example

* udpate

* update

* update

* update

* [npu] polish accelerator code

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Co-authored-by: zxl <43881818+oahzxl@users.noreply.github.com>

* [shardformer] implement policy for all GPT-J models and test

* [shardformer] support interleaved pipeline parallel for bert finetune

* [shardformer] shardformer support falcon (#4883)

* [shardformer]: fix interleaved pipeline for bert model (#5048)

* [hotfix]: disable seq parallel for gptj and falcon, and polish code (#5093)

* Add Mistral support for Shardformer (#5103)

* [shardformer] add tests to mistral (#5105)

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Co-authored-by: Pengtai Xu <henryxu880@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: ppt0011 <143150326+ppt0011@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: flybird11111 <1829166702@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: eric8607242 <e0928021388@gmail.com>

* [legacy] remove outdated codes of pipeline (#4692)

* [legacy] remove cli of benchmark and update optim (#4690)

* [legacy] remove cli of benchmark and update optim

* [doc] fix cli doc test

* [legacy] fix engine clip grad norm

* [legacy] remove outdated colo tensor (#4694)

* [legacy] remove outdated colo tensor

* [test] fix test import

* [legacy] move outdated zero to legacy (#4696)

* [legacy] clean up utils (#4700)

* [legacy] clean up utils

* [example] update examples

* [legacy] clean up amp

* [legacy] fix amp module

* [legacy] clean up gpc (#4742)

* [legacy] clean up context

* [legacy] clean core, constants and global vars

* [legacy] refactor initialize

* [example] fix examples ci

* [example] fix examples ci

* [legacy] fix tests

* [example] fix gpt example

* [example] fix examples ci

* [devops] fix ci installation

* [example] fix examples ci

* [devops] fix concurrency group

* [devops] fix compatibility test

* [devops] fix tensornvme install

* [devops] fix tensornvme install

* [devops] fix colossalai install

* [workflow] fixed example check workflow

* polish yaml

* [example] improved the clarity yof the example readme

* polish workflow

* polish workflow

* polish workflow

* polish workflow

* polish workflow

* polish workflow

* [workflow] refactored the example check workflow

* polish code

* polish code

* polish code

* polish code

* polish code

* polish code

* polish code

* polish code

* polish code

* polish code

* polish code

* [workflows]bug_repair

* [workflow]new_pr_fixing_bugs
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