[v1.7.x] Backport #17772

[mseth10]

Description

Backport #17772 to branch v1.7.x

Checklist

Essentials

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• The PR title starts with [MXNET-$JIRA_ID], where $JIRA_ID refers to the relevant JIRA issue created (except PRs with tiny changes)
• Changes are complete (i.e. I finished coding on this PR)
• All changes have test coverage:
• Unit tests are added for small changes to verify correctness (e.g. adding a new operator)
• Nightly tests are added for complicated/long-running ones (e.g. changing distributed kvstore)
• Build tests will be added for build configuration changes (e.g. adding a new build option with NCCL)
• Code is well-documented:
• For user-facing API changes, API doc string has been updated.
• For new C++ functions in header files, their functionalities and arguments are documented.
• For new examples, README.md is added to explain the what the example does, the source of the dataset, expected performance on test set and reference to the original paper if applicable
• Check the API doc at https://mxnet-ci-doc.s3-accelerate.dualstack.amazonaws.com/PR-$PR_ID/$BUILD_ID/index.html
• To the best of my knowledge, examples are either not affected by this change, or have been fixed to be compatible with this change

Changes

• Feature1, tests, (and when applicable, API doc)
• Feature2, tests, (and when applicable, API doc)

Comments

• If this change is a backward incompatible change, why must this change be made.
• Interesting edge cases to note here

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[ciyongch]

Adding this PR to 1.7.0 roadmap #16864.

[mseth10]

@mxnet-label-bot add [pr-awaiting-merge]

[mseth10]

@ciyongch this PR is ready to be merged

[ciyongch]

@mseth10 thanks for backport the PR to v1.7.x branch, ping @TaoLv @pengzhao-intel to help merge.

[ChaiBapchya]

@mseth10 minor typo in the description: It should be v1.7.x instead of v1.x