* Adding missing pre-commit requirement to tests.txt

* Added support for setting a timeout for distributed learning

* Adding documentation about how to change the runtime timeout into the distributed manual.

* Fixed type in documentation to correctly specify an integer

* Removing type-cast after checking the correct type already before

* Update mmengine/dist/utils.py

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* Removing explicit type check and replacing it with more pythonic way of assuming it is the right type and handling the exception if the type doesn't match.

* Removing pre-commit from test requirements again

* Simplified the code according to suggestions from PR

* Update distributed.md

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* init npu

* Update mmengine/optim/optimizer/amp_optimizer_wrapper.py

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* Update mmengine/dist/dist.py

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* change to is_hccl_backend

* Update mmengine/optim/optimizer/amp_optimizer_wrapper.py

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* add comment with AmpOptimWrapper

* Update mmengine/runner/amp.py

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* Update mmengine/runner/amp.py

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* add npu fn in base_model

* Update mmengine/optim/optimizer/amp_optimizer_wrapper.py

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* clean lint

* Update mmengine/optim/optimizer/amp_optimizer_wrapper.py

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* Update mmengine/model/base_model/base_model.py

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* add is_npu_available

* try to fix

* Add comments

* Refine grammar

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* Add smddp dist backend option

* [Dev]: Upgrade pre commit hooks (#576)

* Upgrade the versions of pre-commit-hooks

* update zh-cn.yaml

* [Docs] Fix the docstring of model sub-package (#573)

* [Doc]: Update config.md (#562)

* Update config.md

* Update config.md

* [Doc] delete the error comment  in docs (#514)

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* [CI] Full tests

* Add github tests

* fix

* fix typo

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* Rename data to structure

* adjust the way to import module

* adjust the way to import module

* rename Structure to Data Structures in docs api

* rename structure to structures

* support using some modules of mmengine without torch

* fix circleci config

* fix circleci config

* fix registry ut

* minor fix

* move init method from model/utils to model/weight_init.py

* move init method from model/utils to model/weight_init.py

* move sync_bn to model

* move functions depending on torch to dl_utils

* format import

* fix logging ut

* add weight init in model/__init__.py

* move get_config and get_model to mmengine/hub

* move log_processor.py to mmengine/runner

* fix ut

* Add TimeCounter in dl_utils/__init__.py

* fix RuntimeError of SyncBuffersHook

* add UT

* support mlu

* add ut and refine docstring

* refine sync random seed

* cancel seed param in batch-sampler

* Add profiling tools

* fix docstr

* fix docstr

* update

* fix bug

* update

* update

* fix error

* fix mypy

* uodate

* merge main

* fix UT

* [Fix] Replace torch distributed with mmengine dist module

* minor refinement

* move all_reduce_params to dist.py

* add unit tests

* update unit tests

* fix test_logger.py

* add examples

* [Enhancement] Handle the device type of inputs in functions

* rename and move three fucntions to dist/utils.py

* minor refinement

* rename dist to torch_dist in utils.py

* update unit tests

* refine unit tests

* add unit tests

* fix unit tests

* replace Sequence with list and tuple

* rename get_backend_device to get_comm_device

* fix unit tests

* fix unit tests

* refactor and add more unit tests

* cast_data_device does not support set type

* [Feature] Add distributed module

* fix IS_DIST error

* all_reduce_dict does operations in-place

* support 'mean' operation

* provide local group process

* add tmpdir argument for collect_results

* add unit tests

* refactor unit tests

* simplify steps to create multiple processes

* minor fix

* describe the different of *gather* in mmengine and pytorch

* minor fix

* add unit tests for nccl

* test nccl backend in multiple gpu

* add get_default_group function to handle different torch versions

* minor fix

* [Feature] Add distributed module

* fix IS_DIST error

* all_reduce_dict does operations in-place

* support 'mean' operation

* provide local group process

* add tmpdir argument for collect_results

* add unit tests

* refactor unit tests

* simplify steps to create multiple processes

* minor fix

* describe the different of *gather* in mmengine and pytorch

* minor fix

* add unit tests for nccl

* test nccl backend in multiple gpu

* add get_default_group function to handle different torch versions

* minor fix

* minor fix

* handle torch1.5

* handle torch1.5

* minor fix

* fix typo

* refactor unit tests

* nccl does not support gather and gather_object

* fix gather

* fix collect_results_cpu

* fix collect_results and refactor unit tests

* fix collect_results unit tests

* handle torch.cat in torch1.5

* refine docstring

* refine docstring

* fix comments

* fix comments