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Motivation

In the current version, "--resume" will make engine loading data like regular training, but discard all of this data before reaching the specified iteration. Therefore, the time required for resuming will not be much faster than starting a new training session.

Modification

Added a new method called skip_iter , which skips data without triggering data loading by calling the _next_index in the built-in iterator of DataLoader

Checklist

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