[GitHub] anirudh2290 opened a new pull request #8620: Support sparse for custom python operators

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anirudh2290 opened a new pull request #8620: Support sparse for custom python operators
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/8620
 
 
   ## Description ##
   This PR is to support sparse for custom python operators. Specifically, one should be able to use sparse storage types with custom python operators, right now only default storage types are supported.
   
   ## Checklist ##
   ### Essentials ###
   - [x] Passed code style checking (`make lint`)
   - [x] Changes are complete (i.e. I finished coding on this PR)
   - [x] All changes have test coverage
   - [x] For user-facing API changes, API doc string has been updated. For new C++ functions in header files, their functionalities and arguments are well-documented. 
   - [x] To my best knowledge, examples are either not affected by this change, or have been fixed to be compatible with this change
   
   ### Changes ###
   - [x] Support for infer storage type in forward pass
   - [x] Support for infer storage type in backward pass
   
   ## Comments ##
   - Requires #8322 to be merged
   
   @piiswrong @eric-haibin-lin 
   

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