[Memory]More memory optimization policy #8690
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After add a more optimized level, the image_classification demo memory reduced from 93024256 to 92807168. There is a little benefit.
There are still many die variables not be reused. Most of these are gradient variable. After sgd optimization, these gradient can be released. Maybe we have to delete them with a DeleteOperator.
I add another release memory policy with DeleteOp, and tested on resnet model:
Release memory policy has almost reached the upper limit(forward memory). If we want to reduce the memory occupation further, there are two ways: