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+# Run the benchmarks
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+Install the required dependencies via `pip install -r requirements-bench.txt` from the triton/python/bench folder.
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+Run the benchmarks through `python3 bench/run.py`, this will produce an HTML report in a results folder.
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+pandas >= 1.3.3
+matplotlib >= 3.4.3
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