Error in Apex's FusedLayerNorm
Author: Hyperparticle
Pull request: no

After installing `apex` with the cuda extensions and running BERT, I get the following error in `FusedLayerNormAffineFunction`, [apex/normalization/fused_layer_norm.py](https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex/blob/master/apex/normalization/fused_layer_norm.py#L16) (line 21).

```
RuntimeError: a Tensor with 2482176 elements cannot be converted to Scalar (item at /pytorch/aten/src/ATen/native/Scalar.cpp:9)
```

Here are the shapes of my tensors:

```
input_ - [32, 101, 768]  (this is the embeddings tensor in BertEmbeddings)
bias_ - [768]
weight_ - [768]
self.normalized_shape - [768]
```

I'm not sure if it's a problem with `pytorch-pretrained-BERT` or `apex`. Any idea?

Full stacktrace below.

```
File "/home/hyper/Documents/anaconda3/envs/allennlp/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytorch_pretrained_bert/modeling.py", line 710, in forward
    embedding_output = self.embeddings(input_ids, token_type_ids)
  File "/home/hyper/Documents/anaconda3/envs/allennlp/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py", line 489, in __call__
    result = self.forward(*input, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hyper/Documents/anaconda3/envs/allennlp/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytorch_pretrained_bert/modeling.py", line 261, in forward
    embeddings = self.LayerNorm(embeddings)
  File "/home/hyper/Documents/anaconda3/envs/allennlp/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py", line 489, in __call__
    result = self.forward(*input, **kwargs)
  File "/home/hyper/Documents/anaconda3/envs/allennlp/lib/python3.6/site-packages/apex-0.1-py3.6-linux-x86_64.egg/apex/normalization/fused_layer_norm.py", line 149, in forward
    input, self.weight, self.bias)
  File "/home/hyper/Documents/anaconda3/envs/allennlp/lib/python3.6/site-packages/apex-0.1-py3.6-linux-x86_64.egg/apex/normalization/fused_layer_norm.py", line 21, in forward
    input_, self.normalized_shape, weight_, bias_, self.eps)

RuntimeError: a Tensor with 2482176 elements cannot be converted to Scalar (item at /pytorch/aten/src/ATen/native/Scalar.cpp:9)

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frame #2: at::native::item(at::Tensor const&) + 0x12c3 (0x7f1aa690d5b3 in /home/hyper/Documents/anaconda3/envs/allennlp/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/lib/libcaffe2.so)
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frame #6: layer_norm_affine(at::Tensor, c10::ArrayRef<long>, at::Tensor, at::Tensor, double) + 0x185 (0x7f1a82e762a5 in /home/hyper/Documents/anaconda3/envs/allennlp/lib/python3.6/site-packages/apex-0.1-py3.6-linux-x86_64.egg/fused_layer_norm_cuda.cpython-36m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so)
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```


Comments:
This was an error in `apex`, due to mismatched compiled libraries. Fix can be found [here](https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex/issues/156#issuecomment-465301976).

> Try a full `pip uninstall apex`, then `cd apex_repo_dir; rm-rf build; python setup.py install --cuda_ext --cpp_ext` and see if the segfault persists.