Update outdated links (#2368)

.github/workflows/markdown-links-check.yml

@@ -17,10 +17,7 @@ name: Check Markdown links
 
 on:
   push:
-    branches: [ "main", "dev" ]
   pull_request:
-    # The branches below must be a subset of the branches above
-    branches: [ "main", "dev" ]
 
 jobs:
   markdown-link-check:

.github/workflows/premerge.yml

@@ -17,8 +17,6 @@ name: pre-merge
 on:
   # quick tests for pull requests and the releasing branches
   push:
-    branches:
-      - dev
   pull_request:
   workflow_dispatch:
 

examples/advanced/cifar10/README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Please make sure you set up virtual environment and follows [example root readme
 This example includes instructions on running [FedAvg](https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05629), 
 [FedProx](https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06127), [FedOpt](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.00295), 
 and [SCAFFOLD](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06378) algorithms using NVFlare's 
-[FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/fl_simulator.html).
+[FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/nvflare_cli/fl_simulator.html).
 
 ### [Real-world Federated Learning with CIFAR-10](./cifar10-real-world/README.md)
 Real-world FL deployment requires secure provisioning and the admin API to submit jobs. 

examples/advanced/cifar10/cifar10-sim/README.md

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ To speed up the following experiments, first download the [CIFAR-10](https://www
 
 ## 3. Run simulated FL experiments
 
-We are using NVFlare's [FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/fl_simulator.html) to run the following experiments. 
+We are using NVFlare's [FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/nvflare_cli/fl_simulator.html) to run the following experiments. 
 
 The output root of where to save the results is set in [./run_simulator.sh](./run_simulator.sh) as `RESULT_ROOT=/tmp/nvflare/sim_cifar10`.
 

examples/advanced/nlp-ner/README.md

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Let's take a closer look at the word-label correspondence:
 As shown above, the task is to capture the keywords related to medical findings.
 
 ## Run automated experiments
-We use the NVFlare [simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/fl_simulator.html) to run the FL training.
+We use the NVFlare [simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/nvflare_cli/fl_simulator.html) to run the FL training.
 Set `PYTHONPATH` to include custom files of this example:
 ```
 export PYTHONPATH=${PWD}

examples/advanced/sklearn-kmeans/README.md

@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ Below is a sample config for site-1, saved to `./jobs/sklearn_kmeans_3_uniform/a
 ```
 
 ## Run experiment with FL simulator
-The [FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/fl_simulator.html) simulates FL experiments or debugging codes,
+The [FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/nvflare_cli/fl_simulator.html) simulates FL experiments or debugging codes,
 not for real-world FL deployment.
 We can run the FL simulator with 3 clients under the uniform data split with
 ```commandline

examples/advanced/sklearn-linear/README.md

@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Below is a sample config for site-1, saved to `./jobs/sklearn_linear_5_uniform/a
 ```
 
 ## Run experiment with FL simulator
-[FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/fl_simulator.html) is used to simulate FL experiments or debug codes, not for real FL deployment.
+[FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/nvflare_cli/fl_simulator.html) is used to simulate FL experiments or debug codes, not for real FL deployment.
 We can run the FL simulator with five clients under the uniform data split with
 ```commandline
 bash run_experiment_simulator.sh

examples/advanced/sklearn-svm/README.md

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Under this setting, federated learning can be formulated in two steps:
 
 Unlike other iterative federated algorithms, federated SVM only involves 
 these two training steps. Hence, in the server config, we have
-```json
+```
 "num_rounds": 2
 ```
 The first round is the training round, performing local training and global aggregation. 
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Below is a sample config for site-1, saved to `./jobs/sklearn_svm_3_uniform/app_
 ```
 
 ## Run experiment with FL simulator
-[FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/fl_simulator.html) is used to simulate FL experiments or debug codes, not for real FL deployment.
+[FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/nvflare_cli/fl_simulator.html) is used to simulate FL experiments or debug codes, not for real FL deployment.
 We can run the FL simulator with three clients under the uniform data split with
 ```commandline
 bash run_experiment_simulator.sh

examples/advanced/vertical_federated_learning/cifar10-splitnn/README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Split Learning with CIFAR-10
 
 This example includes instructions on how to run [split learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06060) (SL) using the 
-CIFAR-10 dataset and the [FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/fl_simulator.html).
+CIFAR-10 dataset and the [FL simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/nvflare_cli/fl_simulator.html).
 
 We assume one client holds the images, and the other client holds the labels to compute losses and accuracy metrics. 
 Activations and corresponding gradients are being exchanged between the clients using NVFlare.

examples/tutorials/flare_simulator.ipynb

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
    "source": [
     "## Intro to the FL Simulator\n",
     "\n",
-    "The [FL Simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/main/user_guide/fl_simulator.html) runs a local simulation of a running NVFLARE FL deployment.  This allows researchers to test and debug an application without provisioning a real, distributed FL project. The FL Simulator runs a server and multiple clients in the same local process, with communication that mimics a real deployment.  This allows researchers to more quickly build out new components and jobs that can be directly used in a production deployment.\n",
+    "The [FL Simulator](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/nvflare_cli/fl_simulator.html) runs a local simulation of a running NVFLARE FL deployment.  This allows researchers to test and debug an application without provisioning a real, distributed FL project. The FL Simulator runs a server and multiple clients in the same local process, with communication that mimics a real deployment.  This allows researchers to more quickly build out new components and jobs that can be directly used in a production deployment.\n",
     "\n",
     "### Setup\n",
     "The NVFlare [Getting Started Guide](https://nvflare.readthedocs.io/en/main/getting_started.html) provides instructions for setting up FLARE on a local system or in a Docker image.  We've also cloned the NVFlare GitHub in our top-level working directory."