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    from 00ec21c  Scala inference memory leak fix #11204 (#11216)
     new f6a8cb7  Add NEWS and README
     new 719beea  add import_ for SymbolBlock (#11127)
     new dfc17bb  Improve hybridblock doc (#11236)
     new 332056a  [MXNET-532] Clarify documentation of save_parameters(), load_parameters() (#11210)

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Summary of changes:
 NEWS.md                                           |  15 ++
 README.md                                         |   1 +
 docs/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.md                    |  29 +--
 docs/tutorials/gluon/naming.md                    |   6 +-
 docs/tutorials/gluon/save_load_params.md          | 261 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 example/gluon/dcgan.py                            |   8 +-
 example/gluon/embedding_learning/train.py         |   2 +-
 example/gluon/image_classification.py             |   8 +-
 example/gluon/mnist.py                            |   2 +-
 example/gluon/style_transfer/main.py              |   8 +-
 example/gluon/super_resolution.py                 |   4 +-
 example/gluon/tree_lstm/main.py                   |   2 +-
 example/gluon/word_language_model/train.py        |   4 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/block.py                       | 151 +++++++++++--
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/alexnet.py    |   2 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/densenet.py   |   2 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/inception.py  |   2 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/mobilenet.py  |   4 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/resnet.py     |   4 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/squeezenet.py |   2 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/vgg.py        |   4 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/parameter.py                   |  14 +-
 tests/python/unittest/test_gluon.py               | 101 ++++++++-
 23 files changed, 565 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/tutorials/gluon/save_load_params.md

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[incubator-mxnet] 03/04: Improve hybridblock doc (#11236)

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commit dfc17bb6ec2627e4ee7bb65c89cc16154c9fa2f9
Author: Eric Junyuan Xie <pi...@users.noreply.github.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jun 14 14:02:48 2018 -0700

    Improve hybridblock doc (#11236)
---
 docs/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.md  | 29 ++++++++++++++++-------------
 python/mxnet/gluon/block.py     | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 python/mxnet/gluon/parameter.py | 14 +++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.md b/docs/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.md
index 5c8372a..fe8ca6f 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.md
+++ b/docs/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.md
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ net(x)
 Hybrid execution can be activated by simply calling `.hybridize()` on the top
 level layer. The first forward call after activation will try to build a
 computation graph from `hybrid_forward` and cache it. On subsequent forward
-calls the cached graph instead of `hybrid_forward` will be invoked:
+calls the cached graph, instead of `hybrid_forward`, will be invoked:
 
 ```python
 net.hybridize()
@@ -105,23 +105,26 @@ Hybridize will speed up execution and save memory. If the top level layer is
 not a `HybridBlock`, you can still call `.hybridize()` on it and Gluon will try
 to hybridize its children layers instead.
 
+Please refer to the [API manual](https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/api/python/gluon/gluon.html?highlight=hybridize#mxnet.gluon.Block.hybridize)
+for details.
+
 ## Serializing trained model for deployment
 
-Models implemented as `HybridBlock` can be easily serialized for deployment
-using other language front-ends like C, C++ and Scala. To this end, we simply
-forward the model with symbolic variables instead of NDArrays and save the
-output Symbol(s):
+Models implemented as `HybridBlock` can be easily serialized. The serialized
+model can be loaded back later or used for deployment
+with other language front-ends like C, C++ and Scala. To this end, we simply
+use `export` and `SymbolBlock.imports`:
 
 ```python
-x = mx.sym.var('data')
-y = net(x)
-print(y)
-y.save('model.json')
-net.save_parameters('model.params')
+net.export('model', epoch=1)
 ```
 
-If your network outputs more than one value, you can use `mx.sym.Group` to
-combine them into a grouped Symbol and then save. The saved json and params
-files can then be loaded with C, C++ and Scala interface for prediction.
+Two files `model-symbol.json` and `model-0001.params` are saved on disk.
+You can use other language bindings to load them. You can also load them back
+to gluon with `SymbolBlock`:
+
+```python
+net2 = gluon.SymbolBlock.imports('model-symbol.json', ['data'], 'model-0001.params')
+```
 
 <!-- INSERT SOURCE DOWNLOAD BUTTONS -->
diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py
index 1720526..948a6a8 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py
@@ -148,7 +148,8 @@ class Block(object):
 
 
     Child :py:class:`Block` assigned this way will be registered and :py:meth:`collect_params`
-    will collect their Parameters recursively.
+    will collect their Parameters recursively. You can also manually register
+    child blocks with :py:meth:`register_child`.
 
     Parameters
     ----------
@@ -307,6 +308,8 @@ class Block(object):
     def save_parameters(self, filename):
         """Save parameters to file.
 
+        Parameters
+        ----------
         filename : str
             Path to file.
         """
@@ -333,6 +336,8 @@ class Block(object):
                         ignore_extra=False):
         """Load parameters from file.
 
+        Parameters
+        ----------
         filename : str
             Path to parameter file.
         ctx : Context or list of Context, default cpu()
@@ -462,9 +467,31 @@ class Block(object):
 class HybridBlock(Block):
     """`HybridBlock` supports forwarding with both Symbol and NDArray.
 
+    `HybridBlock` is similar to `Block`, with a few differences::
+
+        import mxnet as mx
+        from mxnet.gluon import HybridBlock, nn
+
+        class Model(HybridBlock):
+            def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+                super(Model, self).__init__(**kwargs)
+                # use name_scope to give child Blocks appropriate names.
+                with self.name_scope():
+                    self.dense0 = nn.Dense(20)
+                    self.dense1 = nn.Dense(20)
+
+            def hybrid_forward(self, F, x):
+                x = F.relu(self.dense0(x))
+                return F.relu(self.dense1(x))
+
+        model = Model()
+        model.initialize(ctx=mx.cpu(0))
+        model.hybridize()
+        model(mx.nd.zeros((10, 10), ctx=mx.cpu(0)))
+
     Forward computation in :py:class:`HybridBlock` must be static to work with :py:class:`Symbol` s,
     i.e. you cannot call :py:meth:`NDArray.asnumpy`, :py:attr:`NDArray.shape`,
-    :py:attr:`NDArray.dtype`, etc on tensors.
+    :py:attr:`NDArray.dtype`, `NDArray` indexing (`x[i]`) etc on tensors.
     Also, you cannot use branching or loop logic that bases on non-constant
     expressions like random numbers or intermediate results, since they change
     the graph structure for each iteration.
@@ -474,8 +501,12 @@ class HybridBlock(Block):
     representing the forward computation and cache it. On subsequent forwards,
     the cached graph will be used instead of :py:meth:`hybrid_forward`.
 
-    Refer `Hybrid tutorial <http://mxnet.io/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.html>`_ to see
-    the end-to-end usage.
+    Please see references for detailed tutorial.
+
+    References
+    ----------
+        `Hybrid - Faster training and easy deployment
+        <http://mxnet.io/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.html>`_
     """
     def __init__(self, prefix=None, params=None):
         super(HybridBlock, self).__init__(prefix=prefix, params=params)
diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/parameter.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/parameter.py
index 99885eb..ac2eb40 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/parameter.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/parameter.py
@@ -342,6 +342,8 @@ class Parameter(object):
     def reset_ctx(self, ctx):
         """Re-assign Parameter to other contexts.
 
+        Parameters
+        ----------
         ctx : Context or list of Context, default ``context.current_context()``.
             Assign Parameter to given context. If ctx is a list of Context, a
             copy will be made for each context.
@@ -478,8 +480,8 @@ class Constant(Parameter):
                 super(Block, self).__init__(**kwargs)
                 self.const = self.params.get_constant('const', [[1,2],[3,4]])
 
-    Parameter
-    ---------
+    Parameters
+    ----------
     name : str
         Name of the parameter.
     value : array-like
@@ -619,7 +621,7 @@ class ParameterDict(object):
         found, :py:func:`get` will create a new :py:class:`Constant` with key-word
         arguments and insert it to self.
 
-        Constants
+        Parameters
         ----------
         name : str
             Name of the desired Constant. It will be prepended with this dictionary's
@@ -694,6 +696,8 @@ class ParameterDict(object):
     def reset_ctx(self, ctx):
         """Re-assign all Parameters to other contexts.
 
+        Parameters
+        ----------
         ctx : Context or list of Context, default :py:meth:`context.current_context()`.
             Assign Parameter to given context. If ctx is a list of Context, a
             copy will be made for each context.
@@ -726,6 +730,8 @@ class ParameterDict(object):
     def save(self, filename, strip_prefix=''):
         """Save parameters to file.
 
+        Parameters
+        ----------
         filename : str
             Path to parameter file.
         strip_prefix : str, default ''
@@ -750,6 +756,8 @@ class ParameterDict(object):
              ignore_extra=False, restore_prefix=''):
         """Load parameters from file.
 
+        Parameters
+        ----------
         filename : str
             Path to parameter file.
         ctx : Context or list of Context

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[incubator-mxnet] 04/04: [MXNET-532] Clarify documentation of save_parameters(), load_parameters() (#11210)

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commit 332056a3413d8065adf7ede5d6a789954b3a8326
Author: Thomas Delteil <th...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jun 14 14:10:11 2018 -0700

    [MXNET-532] Clarify documentation of save_parameters(), load_parameters() (#11210)
---
 python/mxnet/gluon/block.py | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py
index 948a6a8..9c8da7e 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py
@@ -266,12 +266,12 @@ class Block(object):
         children's Parameters(default), also can returns the select :py:class:`ParameterDict`
         which match some given regular expressions.
 
-        For example, collect the specified parameter in ['conv1_weight', 'conv1_bias', 'fc_weight',
+        For example, collect the specified parameters in ['conv1_weight', 'conv1_bias', 'fc_weight',
         'fc_bias']::
 
             model.collect_params('conv1_weight|conv1_bias|fc_weight|fc_bias')
 
-        or collect all paramters which their name ends with 'weight' or 'bias', this can be done
+        or collect all parameters whose names end with 'weight' or 'bias', this can be done
         using regular expressions::
 
             model.collect_params('.*weight|.*bias')
@@ -308,10 +308,19 @@ class Block(object):
     def save_parameters(self, filename):
         """Save parameters to file.
 
+        Saved parameters can only be loaded with `load_parameters`. Note that this method
+        only saves parameters, not model structure. If you want to save model structures,
+        please use :py:meth:`HybridBlock.export`.
+
         Parameters
         ----------
         filename : str
             Path to file.
+
+        References
+        ----------
+        `Saving and Loading Gluon Models
+        <https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/tutorials/gluon/save_load_params.html>`_
         """
         params = self._collect_params_with_prefix()
         arg_dict = {key : val._reduce() for key, val in params.items()}
@@ -334,19 +343,24 @@ class Block(object):
 
     def load_parameters(self, filename, ctx=None, allow_missing=False,
                         ignore_extra=False):
-        """Load parameters from file.
+        """Load parameters from file previously saved by `save_parameters`.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         filename : str
             Path to parameter file.
         ctx : Context or list of Context, default cpu()
-            Context(s) initialize loaded parameters on.
+            Context(s) to initialize loaded parameters on.
         allow_missing : bool, default False
             Whether to silently skip loading parameters not represents in the file.
         ignore_extra : bool, default False
             Whether to silently ignore parameters from the file that are not
             present in this Block.
+
+        References
+        ----------
+        `Saving and Loading Gluon Models
+        <https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/tutorials/gluon/save_load_params.html>`_
         """
         loaded = ndarray.load(filename)
         params = self._collect_params_with_prefix()
@@ -384,7 +398,7 @@ class Block(object):
         filename : str
             Path to parameter file.
         ctx : Context or list of Context, default cpu()
-            Context(s) initialize loaded parameters on.
+            Context(s) to initialize loaded parameters on.
         allow_missing : bool, default False
             Whether to silently skip loading parameters not represents in the file.
         ignore_extra : bool, default False

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[incubator-mxnet] 01/04: Add NEWS and README

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commit f6a8cb76b7e182e86c4c9a382421baba56bd6cb4
Author: Anirudh Subramanian <an...@ufl.edu>
AuthorDate: Fri Jun 15 00:15:06 2018 +0000

    Add NEWS and README
---
 NEWS.md   | 15 +++++++++++++++
 README.md |  1 +
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index be9e459..1a9c12b 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,20 @@
 MXNet Change Log
 ================
+## 1.2.1
+### Deprecations
+- An incorrect [usage](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/11091) of `save_params` was advertised in the gluon book which led to MXNet users depending on the incorrect usage and developing a hack around it. A change was made to the internal structure of the `.params` file saved by `save_params` to resolve a bug. This led to user scripts with the above mentioned hack to break. To fix this, `save_params` and `load_params` APIs have been reverted to previous format and marked a [...]
+
+### Bug Fixes
+- Fixed MKLDNN bugs (#10613, #10021, #10616, #10764, #10591, #10731, #10918, #10706, #10651, #10979).
+- Fixed Scala Inference Memory leak (#11216).
+- Fixed Cross Compilation for armv7 (#11054).
+
+### Performance Improvements
+- Reduced memory consumption from inplace operation for ReLU activation (#10847).
+- Improved `slice` operator performance by 20x (#11124).
+- Improved performance of depthwise convolution by using cudnnv7 if available (#11076).
+- Improved performance and memory usage of Conv1D, by adding back cuDNN support for Conv1D (#11270). This adds a known issue: The cuDNN convolution operator may throw `CUDNN_STATUS_EXECUTION_FAILED` when `req == "add"` and `cudnn_tune != off` with large inputs(e.g. 64k channels). If you encounter this issue, please consider setting `MXNET_CUDNN_AUTOTUNE_DEFAULT` to 0.
+
 ## 1.2.0
 ### New Features - Added Scala Inference APIs
 - Implemented new [Scala Inference APIs](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MXNET/MXNetScalaInferenceAPI) which offer an easy-to-use, Scala Idiomatic and thread-safe high level APIs for performing predictions with deep learning models trained with MXNet (#9678). Implemented a new ImageClassifier class which provides APIs for classification tasks on a Java BufferedImage using a pre-trained model you provide (#10054). Implemented a new ObjectDetector class which provides APIs for  [...]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c37959d..ea529e4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ deep learning systems, and interesting insights of DL systems for hackers.
 
 What's New
 ----------
+* [Version 1.2.1 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.2.1) - MXNet 1.2.1 Release.
 * [Version 1.2.0 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.2.0) - MXNet 1.2.0 Release.
 * [Version 1.1.0 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.1.0) - MXNet 1.1.0 Release.
 * [Version 1.0.0 Release](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/releases/tag/1.0.0) - MXNet 1.0.0 Release.

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[incubator-mxnet] 02/04: add import_ for SymbolBlock (#11127)

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commit 719beeaab96be2b282761ddbf479670226a77f83
Author: Eric Junyuan Xie <pi...@users.noreply.github.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Jun 13 22:01:40 2018 -0700

    add import_ for SymbolBlock (#11127)
---
 docs/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.md                    |   2 +-
 docs/tutorials/gluon/naming.md                    |   6 +-
 docs/tutorials/gluon/save_load_params.md          | 261 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 example/gluon/dcgan.py                            |   8 +-
 example/gluon/embedding_learning/train.py         |   2 +-
 example/gluon/image_classification.py             |   8 +-
 example/gluon/mnist.py                            |   2 +-
 example/gluon/style_transfer/main.py              |   8 +-
 example/gluon/super_resolution.py                 |   4 +-
 example/gluon/tree_lstm/main.py                   |   2 +-
 example/gluon/word_language_model/train.py        |   4 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/block.py                       |  90 +++++++-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/alexnet.py    |   2 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/densenet.py   |   2 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/inception.py  |   2 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/mobilenet.py  |   4 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/resnet.py     |   4 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/squeezenet.py |   2 +-
 python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/vgg.py        |   4 +-
 tests/python/unittest/test_gluon.py               | 101 ++++++++-
 20 files changed, 470 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.md b/docs/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.md
index 3554a15..5c8372a 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.md
+++ b/docs/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.md
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ x = mx.sym.var('data')
 y = net(x)
 print(y)
 y.save('model.json')
-net.save_params('model.params')
+net.save_parameters('model.params')
 ```
 
 If your network outputs more than one value, you can use `mx.sym.Group` to
diff --git a/docs/tutorials/gluon/naming.md b/docs/tutorials/gluon/naming.md
index 37b63fa..3606a03 100644
--- a/docs/tutorials/gluon/naming.md
+++ b/docs/tutorials/gluon/naming.md
@@ -203,12 +203,12 @@ except Exception as e:
     Parameter 'model1_dense0_weight' is missing in file 'model.params', which contains parameters: 'model0_mydense_weight', 'model0_dense1_bias', 'model0_dense1_weight', 'model0_dense0_weight', 'model0_dense0_bias', 'model0_mydense_bias'. Please make sure source and target networks have the same prefix.
 
 
-To solve this problem, we use `save_params`/`load_params` instead of `collect_params` and `save`/`load`. `save_params` uses model structure, instead of parameter name, to match parameters.
+To solve this problem, we use `save_parameters`/`load_parameters` instead of `collect_params` and `save`/`load`. `save_parameters` uses model structure, instead of parameter name, to match parameters.
 
 
 ```python
-model0.save_params('model.params')
-model1.load_params('model.params')
+model0.save_parameters('model.params')
+model1.load_parameters('model.params')
 print(mx.nd.load('model.params').keys())
 ```
 
diff --git a/docs/tutorials/gluon/save_load_params.md b/docs/tutorials/gluon/save_load_params.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d8eac88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/tutorials/gluon/save_load_params.md
@@ -0,0 +1,261 @@
+# Saving and Loading Gluon Models
+
+Training large models take a lot of time and it is a good idea to save the trained models to files to avoid training them again and again. There are a number of reasons to do this. For example, you might want to do inference on a machine that is different from the one where the model was trained. Sometimes model's performance on validation set decreases towards the end of the training because of overfitting. If you saved your model parameters after every epoch, at the end you can decide  [...]
+
+In this tutorial, we will learn ways to save and load Gluon models. There are two ways to save/load Gluon models:
+
+**1. Save/load model parameters only**
+
+Parameters of any Gluon model can be saved using the `save_parameters` and `load_parameters` method. This does not save model architecture. This method is used to save parameters of dynamic (non-hybrid) models. Model architecture cannot be saved for dynamic models because model architecture changes during execution.
+
+**2. Save/load model parameters AND architecture**
+
+The Model architecture of `Hybrid` models stays static and don't change during execution. Therefore both model parameters AND architecture can be saved and loaded using `export`, `imports` methods.
+
+Let's look at the above methods in more detail. Let's start by importing the modules we'll need.
+
+```python
+from __future__ import print_function
+
+import mxnet as mx
+import mxnet.ndarray as nd
+from mxnet import nd, autograd, gluon
+from mxnet.gluon.data.vision import transforms
+
+import numpy as np
+```
+
+## Setup: build and train a simple model
+
+We need a trained model before we can save it to a file. So let's go ahead and build a very simple convolutional network and train it on MNIST data.
+
+Let's define a helper function to build a LeNet model and another helper to train LeNet with MNIST.
+
+```python
+# Use GPU if one exists, else use CPU
+ctx = mx.gpu() if mx.test_utils.list_gpus() else mx.cpu()
+
+# MNIST images are 28x28. Total pixels in input layer is 28x28 = 784
+num_inputs = 784
+# Clasify the images into one of the 10 digits
+num_outputs = 10
+# 64 images in a batch
+batch_size = 64
+
+# Load the training data
+train_data = gluon.data.DataLoader(gluon.data.vision.MNIST(train=True).transform_first(transforms.ToTensor()),
+                                   batch_size, shuffle=True)
+
+# Build a simple convolutional network
+def build_lenet(net):    
+    with net.name_scope():
+        # First convolution
+        net.add(gluon.nn.Conv2D(channels=20, kernel_size=5, activation='relu'))
+        net.add(gluon.nn.MaxPool2D(pool_size=2, strides=2))
+        # Second convolution
+        net.add(gluon.nn.Conv2D(channels=50, kernel_size=5, activation='relu'))
+        net.add(gluon.nn.MaxPool2D(pool_size=2, strides=2))
+        # Flatten the output before the fully connected layers
+        net.add(gluon.nn.Flatten())
+        # First fully connected layers with 512 neurons
+        net.add(gluon.nn.Dense(512, activation="relu"))
+        # Second fully connected layer with as many neurons as the number of classes
+        net.add(gluon.nn.Dense(num_outputs))
+
+        return net
+
+# Train a given model using MNIST data
+def train_model(model):
+    # Initialize the parameters with Xavier initializer
+    model.collect_params().initialize(mx.init.Xavier(), ctx=ctx)
+    # Use cross entropy loss
+    softmax_cross_entropy = gluon.loss.SoftmaxCrossEntropyLoss()
+    # Use Adam optimizer
+    trainer = gluon.Trainer(model.collect_params(), 'adam', {'learning_rate': .001})
+
+    # Train for one epoch
+    for epoch in range(1):
+        # Iterate through the images and labels in the training data
+        for batch_num, (data, label) in enumerate(train_data):
+            # get the images and labels
+            data = data.as_in_context(ctx)
+            label = label.as_in_context(ctx)
+            # Ask autograd to record the forward pass
+            with autograd.record():
+                # Run the forward pass
+                output = model(data)
+                # Compute the loss
+                loss = softmax_cross_entropy(output, label)
+            # Compute gradients
+            loss.backward()
+            # Update parameters
+            trainer.step(data.shape[0])
+
+            # Print loss once in a while
+            if batch_num % 50 == 0:
+                curr_loss = nd.mean(loss).asscalar()
+                print("Epoch: %d; Batch %d; Loss %f" % (epoch, batch_num, curr_loss))
+```
+
+Let's build a model and train it. After training, we will save and restore this model from a file.
+
+```python
+net = build_lenet(gluon.nn.Sequential())
+train_model(net)
+```
+<pre>Epoch: 0; Batch 0; Loss 2.288904 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 50; Loss 0.269372 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 100; Loss 0.238990 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 150; Loss 0.320592 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 200; Loss 0.048619 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 250; Loss 0.121555 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 300; Loss 0.083645 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 350; Loss 0.040627 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 400; Loss 0.195946 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 450; Loss 0.155514 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 500; Loss 0.031762 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 550; Loss 0.056516 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 600; Loss 0.095174 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 650; Loss 0.054901 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 700; Loss 0.030067 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 750; Loss 0.102611 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 800; Loss 0.010036 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 850; Loss 0.051853 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 900; Loss 0.008402 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+</pre> <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+
+## Saving model parameters to file
+
+Okay, we now have a model (`net`) that we can save to a file. Let's save the parameters of this model to a file using the `save_parameters` function.
+
+```python
+file_name = "net.params"
+net.save_parameters(file_name)
+```
+
+We have successfully saved the parameters of the model into a file.
+
+Note: `Block.collect_params().save()` is not a recommended way to save parameters of a Gluon network if you plan to load the parameters back into a Gluon network using `Block.load_parameters()`.
+
+## Loading model parameters from file
+
+Let's now create a network with the parameters we saved into the file. We build the network again using the helper first and then load the weights from the file we saved using the `load_parameters` function.
+
+```python
+new_net = build_lenet(gluon.nn.Sequential())
+new_net.load_parameters(file_name, ctx=ctx)
+```
+
+Note that to do this, we need the definition of the network as Python code. If we want to recreate this network on a different machine using the saved weights, we need the same Python code (`build_lenet`) that created the network to create the `new_net` object shown above. This means Python code needs to be copied over to any machine where we want to run this network.
+
+If our network is [Hybrid](https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.html), we can even save the network architecture into files and we won't need the network definition in a Python file to load the network. We'll see how to do it in the next section.
+
+Let's test the model we just loaded from file.
+
+```python
+import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
+
+def verify_loaded_model(net):
+    """Run inference using ten random images.
+    Print both input and output of the model"""
+
+    def transform(data, label):
+        return data.astype(np.float32)/255, label.astype(np.float32)
+
+    # Load ten random images from the test dataset
+    sample_data = mx.gluon.data.DataLoader(mx.gluon.data.vision.MNIST(train=False, transform=transform),
+                                  10, shuffle=True)
+
+    for data, label in sample_data:
+
+        # Display the images
+        img = nd.transpose(data, (1,0,2,3))
+        img = nd.reshape(img, (28,10*28,1))
+        imtiles = nd.tile(img, (1,1,3))
+        plt.imshow(imtiles.asnumpy())
+        plt.show()
+
+        # Display the predictions
+        data = nd.transpose(data, (0, 3, 1, 2))
+        out = net(data.as_in_context(ctx))
+        predictions = nd.argmax(out, axis=1)
+        print('Model predictions: ', predictions.asnumpy())
+
+        break
+
+verify_loaded_model(new_net)
+```
+![Model inputs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/indhub/web-data/4a9c100aa996df3dff0e7f493029d411c2b526c3/mxnet/tutorials/gluon/save_load_params/mnist_in_1.png) <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+
+Model predictions:  [1. 1. 4. 5. 0. 5. 7. 0. 3. 6.] <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+
+## Saving model parameters AND architecture to file
+
+[Hybrid](https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/tutorials/gluon/hybrid.html) models can be serialized as JSON files using the `export` function. Once serialized, these models can be loaded from other language bindings like C++ or Scala for faster inference or inference in different environments.
+
+Note that the network we created above is not a Hybrid network and therefore cannot be serialized into a JSON file. So, let's create a Hybrid version of the same network and train it.
+
+```python
+net = build_lenet(gluon.nn.HybridSequential())
+net.hybridize()
+train_model(net)
+```
+
+<pre>Epoch: 0; Batch 0; Loss 2.323284 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 50; Loss 0.444733 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 100; Loss 0.103407 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 150; Loss 0.166772 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 200; Loss 0.227569 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 250; Loss 0.069515 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 300; Loss 0.074086 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 350; Loss 0.074382 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 400; Loss 0.026569 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 450; Loss 0.097248 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 500; Loss 0.059895 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 550; Loss 0.053194 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 600; Loss 0.076294 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 650; Loss 0.047274 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 700; Loss 0.007898 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 750; Loss 0.039478 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 800; Loss 0.031342 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 850; Loss 0.059289 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+Epoch: 0; Batch 900; Loss 0.037809 <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+</pre> <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+
+We now have a trained hybrid network. This can be exported into files using the `export` function. The `export` function will export the model architecture into a `.json` file and model parameters into a `.params` file.
+
+```python
+net.export("lenet", epoch=1)
+```
+
+`export` in this case creates `lenet-symbol.json` and `lenet-0001.params` in the current directory.
+
+## Loading model parameters AND architecture from file
+
+### From a different frontend
+
+One of the main reasons to serialize model architecture into a JSON file is to load it from a different frontend like C, C++ or Scala. Here is a couple of examples:
+1. [Loading serialized Hybrid networks from C](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/master/example/image-classification/predict-cpp/image-classification-predict.cc)
+2. [Loading serialized Hybrid networks from Scala](https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/blob/master/scala-package/infer/src/main/scala/org/apache/mxnet/infer/ImageClassifier.scala)
+
+### From Python
+
+Serialized Hybrid networks (saved as .JSON and .params file) can be loaded and used inside Python frontend using `gluon.nn.SymbolBlock`. To demonstrate that, let's load the network we serialized above.
+
+```python
+deserialized_net = gluon.nn.SymbolBlock.imports("lenet-symbol.json", ['data'], "lenet-0001.params")
+```
+
+`deserialized_net` now contains the network we deserialized from files. Let's test the deserialized network to make sure it works.
+
+```python
+verify_loaded_model(deserialized_net)
+```
+
+![Model inputs](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/indhub/web-data/4a9c100aa996df3dff0e7f493029d411c2b526c3/mxnet/tutorials/gluon/save_load_params/mnist_in_2.png) <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+
+Model predictions:  [4. 8. 0. 1. 5. 5. 8. 8. 1. 9.] <!--notebook-skip-line-->
+
+That's all! We learned how to save and load Gluon networks from files. Parameters of any Gluon network can be persisted into files. For hybrid networks, both the architecture of the network and the parameters can be saved to and loaded from files.
+
+<!-- INSERT SOURCE DOWNLOAD BUTTONS -->
diff --git a/example/gluon/dcgan.py b/example/gluon/dcgan.py
index 3233f43..8ac9c52 100644
--- a/example/gluon/dcgan.py
+++ b/example/gluon/dcgan.py
@@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ for epoch in range(opt.nepoch):
     logging.info('time: %f' % (time.time() - tic))
 
     if check_point:
-        netG.save_params(os.path.join(outf,'generator_epoch_%d.params' %epoch))
-        netD.save_params(os.path.join(outf,'discriminator_epoch_%d.params' % epoch))
+        netG.save_parameters(os.path.join(outf,'generator_epoch_%d.params' %epoch))
+        netD.save_parameters(os.path.join(outf,'discriminator_epoch_%d.params' % epoch))
 
-netG.save_params(os.path.join(outf, 'generator.params'))
-netD.save_params(os.path.join(outf, 'discriminator.params'))
+netG.save_parameters(os.path.join(outf, 'generator.params'))
+netD.save_parameters(os.path.join(outf, 'discriminator.params'))
diff --git a/example/gluon/embedding_learning/train.py b/example/gluon/embedding_learning/train.py
index 46f76b5..b8a5bf2 100644
--- a/example/gluon/embedding_learning/train.py
+++ b/example/gluon/embedding_learning/train.py
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ def train(epochs, ctx):
         if val_accs[0] > best_val:
             best_val = val_accs[0]
             logging.info('Saving %s.' % opt.save_model_prefix)
-            net.save_params('%s.params' % opt.save_model_prefix)
+            net.save_parameters('%s.params' % opt.save_model_prefix)
     return best_val
 
 
diff --git a/example/gluon/image_classification.py b/example/gluon/image_classification.py
index a67a317..2cf12f0 100644
--- a/example/gluon/image_classification.py
+++ b/example/gluon/image_classification.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def get_model(model, ctx, opt):
 
     net = models.get_model(model, **kwargs)
     if opt.resume:
-        net.load_params(opt.resume)
+        net.load_parameters(opt.resume)
     elif not opt.use_pretrained:
         if model in ['alexnet']:
             net.initialize(mx.init.Normal())
@@ -176,12 +176,12 @@ def update_learning_rate(lr, trainer, epoch, ratio, steps):
 def save_checkpoint(epoch, top1, best_acc):
     if opt.save_frequency and (epoch + 1) % opt.save_frequency == 0:
         fname = os.path.join(opt.prefix, '%s_%d_acc_%.4f.params' % (opt.model, epoch, top1))
-        net.save_params(fname)
+        net.save_parameters(fname)
         logger.info('[Epoch %d] Saving checkpoint to %s with Accuracy: %.4f', epoch, fname, top1)
     if top1 > best_acc[0]:
         best_acc[0] = top1
         fname = os.path.join(opt.prefix, '%s_best.params' % (opt.model))
-        net.save_params(fname)
+        net.save_parameters(fname)
         logger.info('[Epoch %d] Saving checkpoint to %s with Accuracy: %.4f', epoch, fname, top1)
 
 def train(opt, ctx):
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ def main():
                 optimizer = 'sgd',
                 optimizer_params = {'learning_rate': opt.lr, 'wd': opt.wd, 'momentum': opt.momentum, 'multi_precision': True},
                 initializer = mx.init.Xavier(magnitude=2))
-        mod.save_params('image-classifier-%s-%d-final.params'%(opt.model, opt.epochs))
+        mod.save_parameters('image-classifier-%s-%d-final.params'%(opt.model, opt.epochs))
     else:
         if opt.mode == 'hybrid':
             net.hybridize()
diff --git a/example/gluon/mnist.py b/example/gluon/mnist.py
index 198d7ca..6aea3ab 100644
--- a/example/gluon/mnist.py
+++ b/example/gluon/mnist.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ def train(epochs, ctx):
         name, val_acc = test(ctx)
         print('[Epoch %d] Validation: %s=%f'%(epoch, name, val_acc))
 
-    net.save_params('mnist.params')
+    net.save_parameters('mnist.params')
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
diff --git a/example/gluon/style_transfer/main.py b/example/gluon/style_transfer/main.py
index 7fcc927..c67b830 100644
--- a/example/gluon/style_transfer/main.py
+++ b/example/gluon/style_transfer/main.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ def train(args):
     style_model.initialize(init=mx.initializer.MSRAPrelu(), ctx=ctx)
     if args.resume is not None:
         print('Resuming, initializing using weight from {}.'.format(args.resume))
-        style_model.load_params(args.resume, ctx=ctx)
+        style_model.load_parameters(args.resume, ctx=ctx)
     print('style_model:',style_model)
     # optimizer and loss
     trainer = gluon.Trainer(style_model.collect_params(), 'adam',
@@ -118,14 +118,14 @@ def train(args):
                 save_model_filename = "Epoch_" + str(e) + "iters_" + str(count) + "_" + str(time.ctime()).replace(' ', '_') + "_" + str(
                     args.content_weight) + "_" + str(args.style_weight) + ".params"
                 save_model_path = os.path.join(args.save_model_dir, save_model_filename)
-                style_model.save_params(save_model_path)
+                style_model.save_parameters(save_model_path)
                 print("\nCheckpoint, trained model saved at", save_model_path)
 
     # save model
     save_model_filename = "Final_epoch_" + str(args.epochs) + "_" + str(time.ctime()).replace(' ', '_') + "_" + str(
         args.content_weight) + "_" + str(args.style_weight) + ".params"
     save_model_path = os.path.join(args.save_model_dir, save_model_filename)
-    style_model.save_params(save_model_path)
+    style_model.save_parameters(save_model_path)
     print("\nDone, trained model saved at", save_model_path)
 
 
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ def evaluate(args):
     style_image = utils.preprocess_batch(style_image)
     # model
     style_model = net.Net(ngf=args.ngf)
-    style_model.load_params(args.model, ctx=ctx)
+    style_model.load_parameters(args.model, ctx=ctx)
     # forward
     style_model.setTarget(style_image)
     output = style_model(content_image)
diff --git a/example/gluon/super_resolution.py b/example/gluon/super_resolution.py
index 38c3bec..0f2f21f 100644
--- a/example/gluon/super_resolution.py
+++ b/example/gluon/super_resolution.py
@@ -168,13 +168,13 @@ def train(epoch, ctx):
         print('training mse at epoch %d: %s=%f'%(i, name, acc))
         test(ctx)
 
-    net.save_params('superres.params')
+    net.save_parameters('superres.params')
 
 def resolve(ctx):
     from PIL import Image
     if isinstance(ctx, list):
         ctx = [ctx[0]]
-    net.load_params('superres.params', ctx=ctx)
+    net.load_parameters('superres.params', ctx=ctx)
     img = Image.open(opt.resolve_img).convert('YCbCr')
     y, cb, cr = img.split()
     data = mx.nd.expand_dims(mx.nd.expand_dims(mx.nd.array(y), axis=0), axis=0)
diff --git a/example/gluon/tree_lstm/main.py b/example/gluon/tree_lstm/main.py
index d2fe464..ad5d59f 100644
--- a/example/gluon/tree_lstm/main.py
+++ b/example/gluon/tree_lstm/main.py
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ def test(ctx, data_iter, best, mode='validation', num_iter=-1):
         if test_r >= best:
             best = test_r
             logging.info('New optimum found: {}. Checkpointing.'.format(best))
-            net.save_params('childsum_tree_lstm_{}.params'.format(num_iter))
+            net.save_parameters('childsum_tree_lstm_{}.params'.format(num_iter))
             test(ctx, test_iter, -1, 'test')
         return best
 
diff --git a/example/gluon/word_language_model/train.py b/example/gluon/word_language_model/train.py
index 9e15263..7f0a916 100644
--- a/example/gluon/word_language_model/train.py
+++ b/example/gluon/word_language_model/train.py
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ def train():
         if val_L < best_val:
             best_val = val_L
             test_L = eval(test_data)
-            model.save_params(args.save)
+            model.save_parameters(args.save)
             print('test loss %.2f, test ppl %.2f'%(test_L, math.exp(test_L)))
         else:
             args.lr = args.lr*0.25
@@ -193,6 +193,6 @@ def train():
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     train()
-    model.load_params(args.save, context)
+    model.load_parameters(args.save, context)
     test_L = eval(test_data)
     print('Best test loss %.2f, test ppl %.2f'%(test_L, math.exp(test_L)))
diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py
index 0f41543..1720526 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/block.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 # under the License.
 
 # coding: utf-8
-# pylint: disable= arguments-differ
+# pylint: disable= arguments-differ, too-many-lines
 """Base container class for all neural network models."""
 __all__ = ['Block', 'HybridBlock', 'SymbolBlock']
 
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ class Block(object):
             ret.update(child._collect_params_with_prefix(prefix + name))
         return ret
 
-    def save_params(self, filename):
+    def save_parameters(self, filename):
         """Save parameters to file.
 
         filename : str
@@ -314,8 +314,23 @@ class Block(object):
         arg_dict = {key : val._reduce() for key, val in params.items()}
         ndarray.save(filename, arg_dict)
 
-    def load_params(self, filename, ctx=None, allow_missing=False,
-                    ignore_extra=False):
+    def save_params(self, filename):
+        """[Deprecated] Please use save_parameters.
+
+        Save parameters to file.
+
+        filename : str
+            Path to file.
+        """
+        warnings.warn("save_params is deprecated. Please use save_parameters.")
+        try:
+            self.collect_params().save(filename, strip_prefix=self.prefix)
+        except ValueError as e:
+            raise ValueError('%s\nsave_params is deprecated. Using ' \
+                              'save_parameters may resolve this error.'%e.message)
+
+    def load_parameters(self, filename, ctx=None, allow_missing=False,
+                        ignore_extra=False):
         """Load parameters from file.
 
         filename : str
@@ -355,6 +370,25 @@ class Block(object):
             params[name]._load_init(loaded[name], ctx)
 
 
+    def load_params(self, filename, ctx=None, allow_missing=False,
+                    ignore_extra=False):
+        """[Deprecated] Please use load_parameters.
+
+        Load parameters from file.
+
+        filename : str
+            Path to parameter file.
+        ctx : Context or list of Context, default cpu()
+            Context(s) initialize loaded parameters on.
+        allow_missing : bool, default False
+            Whether to silently skip loading parameters not represents in the file.
+        ignore_extra : bool, default False
+            Whether to silently ignore parameters from the file that are not
+            present in this Block.
+        """
+        warnings.warn("load_params is deprecated. Please use load_parameters.")
+        self.load_parameters(filename, ctx, allow_missing, ignore_extra)
+
     def register_child(self, block, name=None):
         """Registers block as a child of self. :py:class:`Block` s assigned to self as
         attributes will be registered automatically."""
@@ -579,8 +613,8 @@ class HybridBlock(Block):
         self._infer_attrs('infer_type', 'dtype', *args)
 
     def export(self, path, epoch=0):
-        """Export HybridBlock to json format that can be loaded by `mxnet.mod.Module`
-        or the C++ interface.
+        """Export HybridBlock to json format that can be loaded by
+        `SymbolBlock.imports`, `mxnet.mod.Module` or the C++ interface.
 
         .. note:: When there are only one input, it will have name `data`. When there
                   Are more than one inputs, they will be named as `data0`, `data1`, etc.
@@ -681,6 +715,50 @@ class SymbolBlock(HybridBlock):
     >>> x = mx.nd.random.normal(shape=(16, 3, 224, 224))
     >>> print(feat_model(x))
     """
+    @staticmethod
+    def imports(symbol_file, input_names, param_file=None, ctx=None):
+        """Import model previously saved by `HybridBlock.export` or
+        `Module.save_checkpoint` as a SymbolBlock for use in Gluon.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        symbol_file : str
+            Path to symbol file.
+        input_names : list of str
+            List of input variable names
+        param_file : str, optional
+            Path to parameter file.
+        ctx : Context, default None
+            The context to initialize SymbolBlock on.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        SymbolBlock
+            SymbolBlock loaded from symbol and parameter files.
+
+        Examples
+        --------
+        >>> net1 = gluon.model_zoo.vision.resnet18_v1(
+        ...     prefix='resnet', pretrained=True)
+        >>> net1.hybridize()
+        >>> x = mx.nd.random.normal(shape=(1, 3, 32, 32))
+        >>> out1 = net1(x)
+        >>> net1.export('net1', epoch=1)
+        >>>
+        >>> net2 = gluon.SymbolBlock.imports(
+        ...     'net1-symbol.json', ['data'], 'net1-0001.params')
+        >>> out2 = net2(x)
+        """
+        sym = symbol.load(symbol_file)
+        if isinstance(input_names, str):
+            input_names = [input_names]
+        inputs = [symbol.var(i) for i in input_names]
+        ret = SymbolBlock(sym, inputs)
+        if param_file is not None:
+            ret.collect_params().load(param_file, ctx=ctx)
+        return ret
+
+
     def __init__(self, outputs, inputs, params=None):
         super(SymbolBlock, self).__init__(prefix=None, params=None)
         self._prefix = ''
diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/alexnet.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/alexnet.py
index 5549947..fdb0062 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/alexnet.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/alexnet.py
@@ -83,5 +83,5 @@ def alexnet(pretrained=False, ctx=cpu(),
     net = AlexNet(**kwargs)
     if pretrained:
         from ..model_store import get_model_file
-        net.load_params(get_model_file('alexnet', root=root), ctx=ctx)
+        net.load_parameters(get_model_file('alexnet', root=root), ctx=ctx)
     return net
diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/densenet.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/densenet.py
index 8353367..b03f5ce 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/densenet.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/densenet.py
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ def get_densenet(num_layers, pretrained=False, ctx=cpu(),
     net = DenseNet(num_init_features, growth_rate, block_config, **kwargs)
     if pretrained:
         from ..model_store import get_model_file
-        net.load_params(get_model_file('densenet%d'%(num_layers), root=root), ctx=ctx)
+        net.load_parameters(get_model_file('densenet%d'%(num_layers), root=root), ctx=ctx)
     return net
 
 def densenet121(**kwargs):
diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/inception.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/inception.py
index 6d75050..7c54691 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/inception.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/inception.py
@@ -216,5 +216,5 @@ def inception_v3(pretrained=False, ctx=cpu(),
     net = Inception3(**kwargs)
     if pretrained:
         from ..model_store import get_model_file
-        net.load_params(get_model_file('inceptionv3', root=root), ctx=ctx)
+        net.load_parameters(get_model_file('inceptionv3', root=root), ctx=ctx)
     return net
diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/mobilenet.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/mobilenet.py
index 7c3b7d6..f75de21 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/mobilenet.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/mobilenet.py
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ def get_mobilenet(multiplier, pretrained=False, ctx=cpu(),
         version_suffix = '{0:.2f}'.format(multiplier)
         if version_suffix in ('1.00', '0.50'):
             version_suffix = version_suffix[:-1]
-        net.load_params(
+        net.load_parameters(
             get_model_file('mobilenet%s' % version_suffix, root=root), ctx=ctx)
     return net
 
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ def get_mobilenet_v2(multiplier, pretrained=False, ctx=cpu(),
         version_suffix = '{0:.2f}'.format(multiplier)
         if version_suffix in ('1.00', '0.50'):
             version_suffix = version_suffix[:-1]
-        net.load_params(
+        net.load_parameters(
             get_model_file('mobilenetv2_%s' % version_suffix, root=root), ctx=ctx)
     return net
 
diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/resnet.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/resnet.py
index 5ee67b5..da279b8 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/resnet.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/resnet.py
@@ -386,8 +386,8 @@ def get_resnet(version, num_layers, pretrained=False, ctx=cpu(),
     net = resnet_class(block_class, layers, channels, **kwargs)
     if pretrained:
         from ..model_store import get_model_file
-        net.load_params(get_model_file('resnet%d_v%d'%(num_layers, version),
-                                       root=root), ctx=ctx)
+        net.load_parameters(get_model_file('resnet%d_v%d'%(num_layers, version),
+                                           root=root), ctx=ctx)
     return net
 
 def resnet18_v1(**kwargs):
diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/squeezenet.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/squeezenet.py
index 09f62a5..aaff4c3 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/squeezenet.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/squeezenet.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ def get_squeezenet(version, pretrained=False, ctx=cpu(),
     net = SqueezeNet(version, **kwargs)
     if pretrained:
         from ..model_store import get_model_file
-        net.load_params(get_model_file('squeezenet%s'%version, root=root), ctx=ctx)
+        net.load_parameters(get_model_file('squeezenet%s'%version, root=root), ctx=ctx)
     return net
 
 def squeezenet1_0(**kwargs):
diff --git a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/vgg.py b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/vgg.py
index dbae538..a3b1685 100644
--- a/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/vgg.py
+++ b/python/mxnet/gluon/model_zoo/vision/vgg.py
@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ def get_vgg(num_layers, pretrained=False, ctx=cpu(),
     if pretrained:
         from ..model_store import get_model_file
         batch_norm_suffix = '_bn' if kwargs.get('batch_norm') else ''
-        net.load_params(get_model_file('vgg%d%s'%(num_layers, batch_norm_suffix),
-                                       root=root), ctx=ctx)
+        net.load_parameters(get_model_file('vgg%d%s'%(num_layers, batch_norm_suffix),
+                                           root=root), ctx=ctx)
     return net
 
 def vgg11(**kwargs):
diff --git a/tests/python/unittest/test_gluon.py b/tests/python/unittest/test_gluon.py
index 0a5bda8..79b4fa3 100644
--- a/tests/python/unittest/test_gluon.py
+++ b/tests/python/unittest/test_gluon.py
@@ -96,20 +96,20 @@ def test_parameter_sharing():
     net1.collect_params().initialize()
     net2(mx.nd.zeros((3, 5)))
 
-    net1.save_params('net1.params')
+    net1.save_parameters('net1.params')
 
     net3 = Net(prefix='net3_')
-    net3.load_params('net1.params', mx.cpu())
+    net3.load_parameters('net1.params', mx.cpu())
 
     net4 = Net(prefix='net4_')
     net5 = Net(prefix='net5_', in_units=5, params=net4.collect_params())
     net4.collect_params().initialize()
     net5(mx.nd.zeros((3, 5)))
 
-    net4.save_params('net4.params')
+    net4.save_parameters('net4.params')
 
     net6 = Net(prefix='net6_')
-    net6.load_params('net4.params', mx.cpu())
+    net6.load_parameters('net4.params', mx.cpu())
 
 
 @with_seed()
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ def test_export():
     model = gluon.model_zoo.vision.resnet18_v1(
         prefix='resnet', ctx=ctx, pretrained=True)
     model.hybridize()
-    data = mx.nd.random.normal(shape=(1, 3, 224, 224))
+    data = mx.nd.random.normal(shape=(1, 3, 32, 32))
     out = model(data)
 
     model.export('gluon')
@@ -690,6 +690,22 @@ def test_export():
 
     assert_almost_equal(out.asnumpy(), out2.asnumpy())
 
+@with_seed()
+def test_import():
+    ctx = mx.context.current_context()
+    net1 = gluon.model_zoo.vision.resnet18_v1(
+        prefix='resnet', ctx=ctx, pretrained=True)
+    net1.hybridize()
+    data = mx.nd.random.normal(shape=(1, 3, 32, 32))
+    out1 = net1(data)
+
+    net1.export('net1', epoch=1)
+
+    net2 = gluon.SymbolBlock.imports(
+        'net1-symbol.json', ['data'], 'net1-0001.params', ctx)
+    out2 = net2(data)
+
+    assert_almost_equal(out1.asnumpy(), out2.asnumpy())
 
 @with_seed()
 def test_hybrid_stale_cache():
@@ -806,7 +822,7 @@ def test_fill_shape_load():
     net1.hybridize()
     net1.initialize(ctx=ctx)
     net1(mx.nd.ones((2,3,5,7), ctx))
-    net1.save_params('net_fill.params')
+    net1.save_parameters('net_fill.params')
 
     net2 = nn.HybridSequential()
     with net2.name_scope():
@@ -815,7 +831,7 @@ def test_fill_shape_load():
                  nn.Dense(10))
     net2.hybridize()
     net2.initialize()
-    net2.load_params('net_fill.params', ctx)
+    net2.load_parameters('net_fill.params', ctx)
     assert net2[0].weight.shape[1] == 3, net2[0].weight.shape[1]
     assert net2[1].gamma.shape[0] == 64, net2[1].gamma.shape[0]
     assert net2[2].weight.shape[1] == 3072, net2[2].weight.shape[1]
@@ -959,13 +975,80 @@ def test_req():
 
 def test_save_load():
     net = mx.gluon.model_zoo.vision.get_resnet(1, 18, pretrained=True)
-    net.save_params('test.params')
+    net.save_parameters('test_save_load.params')
 
     net = mx.gluon.model_zoo.vision.get_resnet(1, 18)
     net.output = mx.gluon.nn.Dense(1000)
 
-    net.load_params('test.params')
+    net.load_parameters('test_save_load.params')
+
+@with_seed()
+def test_symbol_block_save_load():
+    class Net(gluon.HybridBlock):
+        def __init__(self):
+            super(Net, self).__init__()
+            with self.name_scope():
+                backbone = gluon.model_zoo.vision.resnet18_v1()
+                data = mx.sym.var('data')
+                featnames = ['stage1_activation0', 'stage2_activation0', 'stage3_activation0']
+                out_names = ['_'.join([backbone.name, featname, 'output']) for featname in featnames]
+                internals = backbone(data).get_internals()
+                outs = [internals[out_name] for out_name in out_names]
+                self.backbone = gluon.SymbolBlock(outs, data, params=backbone.collect_params())
+                self.body = nn.Conv2D(3, 1)
+
+        def hybrid_forward(self, F, x):
+            x = self.body(x)
+            return self.backbone(x)
+
+    net1 = Net()
+    net1.initialize(mx.init.Normal())
+    net1.hybridize()
+    net1(mx.nd.random.normal(shape=(1, 3, 32, 32)))
+    net1.save_parameters('./test_symbol_block_save_load.params')
+
+    net2 = Net()
+    net2.load_parameters('./test_symbol_block_save_load.params', ctx=mx.cpu())
+
 
+@with_seed()
+def test_hybrid_multi_context():
+    net = mx.gluon.model_zoo.vision.get_resnet(1, 18)
+    net.initialize(ctx=[mx.cpu(0), mx.cpu(1)])
+    net.hybridize()
+    net(mx.nd.zeros((1, 3, 32, 32), ctx=mx.cpu(0))).asnumpy()
+
+@with_seed()
+def test_zero_grad():
+    data = mx.nd.random.uniform(shape=(3,3))
+    net = nn.Embedding(3, 4, prefix='test_zero_grad_')
+    net.initialize()
+    with mx.autograd.record():
+        l = net(data)
+        l.backward()
+    net.collect_params().zero_grad()
+    grad = net.collect_params()['test_zero_grad_weight'].grad()
+    assert_almost_equal(grad.asnumpy(), grad.asnumpy() * 0)
+
+def check_hybrid_static_memory(**kwargs):
+    x = mx.nd.random.uniform(shape=(2, 3, 32, 32))
+    x.attach_grad()
+
+
+@with_seed()
+def test_legacy_save_params():
+    net = gluon.nn.HybridSequential(prefix='')
+    with net.name_scope():
+        net.add(gluon.nn.Conv2D(10, (3, 3)))
+        net.add(gluon.nn.Dense(50))
+    net.initialize()
+    net(mx.nd.ones((1,1,50,50)))
+    a = net(mx.sym.var('data'))
+    a.save('test.json')
+    net.save_params('test.params')
+    model = gluon.nn.SymbolBlock(outputs=mx.sym.load_json(open('test.json', 'r').read()),
+                                     inputs=mx.sym.var('data'))
+    model.load_params('test.params', ctx=mx.cpu())
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':

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