* Add numpy namespace and initial impl of np.sum (not complete)

* Clean up

* Fix import error

* numpy sum

* add test and backward data type support

* add license to test_numpy_op.py

* improve test to reduce flakiness

* fix sanity build

* extra numeric test and imperative test

* add error message for initial argument

…PIs (#14758)

* Infra of new ndarray and symbol types for numpy operators

* Rename

* Fix import problem

* Refactor

* Remove redundant code

* Add docstring

* More on numpy ndarray and symbol

* Override unimplemented methdos for ndarray and _NumpySymbol

* Fix built-in methods of ndarray and _NumpySymbol

* Fix test and sanity check

* Fix pylint

* Address cr comments

* Add unit tests for ndarray and _NumpySymbol

* Add _true_divide

* Fix gpu build

* Add future import division

* More correct way of checking if an output is from a np compat op

* Fix gpu build

* Fix output ndarray/symbol types with at least one new ndarray/symbol

* Modify true_divide doc

* Fix flaky copying zero-size arrays via gpus

* Fix zero size in gluon hybridize and zeros/ones symbol not creating new symbol type

* Fix doc

* Numpy Dot case 1-4 + case 3.5 forward and 0.5 backward

* Backward computation and test coverage

* Add np transpose

More ops and namespaces for submodules

Add relu and sigmoid

Add reshape

Fix symbolic name mismatch

Add maximum and minimum

* Add convenience fluent method

* Add ndarray.item()

* Fix CI

* Fix lint

* Fix lint

* Fix reshape gpu

* Add example

* Remove python notebook outputs

* Remove notebook output

* Add one more example

* Refactor

* Initial refactoring

* Fix notebook

* Move numpy op check from backend to frontend

* Add homogeneous ndarray check

* Fix grouping inhomogeneous types of symbols

* Improve error handling of different types of symbols as outputs

* Fix test

* Fix numpy test

* Fix ci

* Try to fix gpu ci failure

* Refactor notebook

* notebook working with hybrid block

* More refactoring

* Remove unnecessary use_np_compat

* Use class decorator to initialize numpy ndarrays in parameter.py

* Clear notebook outputs

* Improve np decorator

* Remove npe op from optimizer

* Fix CI

* Fix functools.wraps issue in Python2

* Fix ci

* numpy stack

* migrate to use_np_shape

* Unary Ops

* new version of unit tests

* Add np_array semantics for Gluon

Fix notebook

Fix sanity

Fix gluon deferred infer shape

Add np.random.uniform

Add random normal

Add boolean comparison ops

Add np.ndarray indexing

Reformat test ndarray indexing

Fix unit tests

Add one more test of indexing

Fix sanity

Enable amp test

Add np.arange

Revert cython unit test to ctypes

Delete unnecessary use_np_shape decorator from test

Rebase with numpy branch

support range as index

Fix python2 range type check

Add argmax

Disable clojure test

* Fix ci

* Add np.linalg.norm for ord='fro'

* Fix pylint

* Fix

* Fix linear regression gluon

* More fix

* Fix pylint

* Fix for chapter 4

* Add np.add mul div mod pow sub and shuffle

* Fix model selection, underfitting, overfitting

* Fix weight decay

* Fix dropout

* Fix

* Fix chapter 4

* Add np array adapter decorator for layers

* Fix performance regression caused by too many conversions between nd.NDArray and np.ndarray

* Fix pylint

* Fix test backward compatibility issue

* Fix test_lambda

* Add np op doc

* Fix several issues

* Add a N-D dot b 2D support

* Simplify array creation api

* Add swapaxes

* Fix rnn gluon

* More fix

* Fix pylint

* Delete

* Fix mp windows

* numpy split

* numpy split

* unit test

* unit test

* Add npx batch_dot and topk

* Text embedding uses numpy

* Fix SoftmaxCrossEntropyLoss with np

* Fix sentiment cnn

* Fix pylint

* Fix dot attention

* Fix seq2seq attention

* Add np.tile

* Fix transformer

* Fix ci

* Fix ci and rebase

* Fix parameter initializer

* Add np.save and np.load

* Fix read-write

* Fix lint

* numpy amax

* weird cu file diff

* fix the unit test error

* fix gpu bug

* minor fix

* fix lint

* remove scalar value check

* fix the bug on unit test

* fix the case () that breaks the kernel launch

* add zero dimension unit test

* revert the tuple change

* use mshadow maximum

* remove test zero

* change the macro for now

* change the cuda to use mashadow op

* fix the broadcast_reduce_op_value.cu wrong kernel

* add more logic in shape to detect the invalid situation

* change back to type swtich

* change to as_nd_ndarray

* add missing @npx.use_np_shape

* retrigger CI

* address the comment

* undo algorithm import

* remove the numeric gradient check

* draft of multinomial

* rename to more concise name

* finish shape

* complete the forward function

* complete forward without handle 0 dimension & scalar

* handle 0 dimension

* add new line

* fix lint

* fix the build error

* fix lint

* finish unit test

* change the registration

* make multinomial support pvals as mx.ndarray

* delete newline

* fix lint error

* support input as list, mx.ndarray, np.ndarray & unit test

* fix lint

* fix the include error

* fix lint

* refactor & pass the tensor instead of tuple to kernel

* fix lint

* updata the doc

* address the comment

* draft

* finish linspace implementation

* finish linspace

* delete newline

* fix pylint

* add more unit test

* address comment

* add more test case

* disable too-many-arguments

* resolve confliction

* add ctx

* Add np.prod

* Fix ndarray.reshape accepting positional integers as arguments

* Rebase

* Fix rebase error

* Add np.ndarray.flatten

* Fix

* Add broadcast_to

* Add meshgrid and broadcast_arrays

* Fix sin, cos, sinh, cosh not supporting scalars

* Add more unary ops supporting python scalars

* Fix

* Fix

* Fix ci

* Fix sanity

* Change op name style to lower case underscore

* Add ops under image to npx

* Add image submodule to npx

* Fix split_and_load use np

* Fix fine tuning

* Fix bbox and anchor

* Fix odd

* Fix ssd and rcnn

* Remove restriction on binary element-wise scalar

* Fix gan

* Fix sanity

* Try to fix website build failure

* Add npx.random.seed

* Fix doc