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@drbh drbh commented Jan 9, 2026

This is a work in progress PR to add a new benchmark command to the kernels cli tool. The idea is to enable a standard way to benchmark kernels

uvx \
--from git+https://github.com/huggingface/kernels.git@initial-benchmark-command \
--with torch \
--with numpy \
kernels benchmark kernels-community/activation # <- the expected command once merged

output

    Updated https://github.com/huggingface/kernels.git (daa75e4edfaccca487b9de9fb2b85b4cd052fd42)
      Built kernels @ git+https://github.com/huggingface/kernels.git@daa75e4edfaccca487b9de9fb2b85b4cd052fd42
Installed 45 packages in 81ms
Downloading kernels-community/activation@main...
Running benchmark.py...

┌────────────────┬──────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬──────────┬───────────┐
│ Benchmark      │ Workload │   Mean(ms) │    Std(ms) │    Min(ms) │    Max(ms) │    IQR(ms) │ Outliers │ Ref Match │
├────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼──────────┼───────────┤
│ SiluWorkloads  │ medium   │     0.0109 │     0.0003 │     0.0105 │     0.0130 │     0.0002 │        3 │     ✓     │
│ SiluWorkloads  │ small    │     0.0051 │     0.0005 │     0.0049 │     0.0095 │     0.0002 │        3 │     ✓     │
│ SiluWorkloads2 │ medium   │     0.0298 │     0.0017 │     0.0282 │     0.0390 │     0.0010 │        5 │     ·     │
│ SiluWorkloads2 │ small    │     0.0061 │     0.0025 │     0.0055 │     0.0305 │     0.0001 │        7 │     ✓     │
└────────────────┴──────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴──────────┴───────────┘

Dry run - use --upload to submit results

benchmark file

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drbh commented Jan 13, 2026

updated output

uvx \
--from git+https://github.com/huggingface/kernels.git@initial-benchmark-command \
--with torch \
--with numpy \
kernels benchmark kernels-community/activation # <- the expected command once merged

output

kernels benchmark kernels-community/activation # <- the expected command once merged
    Updated https://github.com/huggingface/kernels.git (a78fc45da9c22ac06411fb282570a8d7123fb412)
      Built kernels @ git+https://github.com/huggingface/kernels.git@a78fc45da9c22ac06411fb282570a8d7123fb412
Installed 45 packages in 73ms
Downloading kernels-community/activation@main...
Running benchmark.py...

┌────────────────┬──────────┬───────┬─────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬──────────┬────────────┬───────┐
│ Benchmark      │ Workload │     N │ Speedup │   Mean(ms) │    Std(ms) │    Min(ms) │    Max(ms) │    IQR(ms) │ Outliers │    Ref(ms) │ Match │
├────────────────┼──────────┼───────┼─────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼──────────┼────────────┼───────┤
│ SiluWorkloads  │ medium   │   100 │   6.93x │     0.0109 │     0.0002 │     0.0107 │     0.0123 │     0.0002 │        4 │     0.0755 │   ✓   │
│ SiluWorkloads  │ small    │   100 │  10.62x │     0.0053 │     0.0011 │     0.0050 │     0.0159 │     0.0002 │        6 │     0.0563 │   ✓   │
│ SiluWorkloads2 │ medium   │   100 │         │     0.0152 │     0.0018 │     0.0138 │     0.0257 │     0.0004 │       14 │            │   ·   │
│ SiluWorkloads2 │ small    │   100 │  10.60x │     0.0103 │     0.0006 │     0.0095 │     0.0136 │     0.0004 │        5 │     0.1092 │   ✓   │
└────────────────┴──────────┴───────┴─────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴──────────┴────────────┴───────┘

  medium: 6.93x faster (95% CI: 0.0109-0.0109ms vs ref 0.0755ms) ✓ significant
  small: 10.62x faster (95% CI: 0.0051-0.0055ms vs ref 0.0563ms) ✓ significant
  small: 10.60x faster (95% CI: 0.0102-0.0104ms vs ref 0.1092ms) ✓ significant

Kernel: 6ff8e1a  Benchmark: 9b68fca
Dry run - use --upload to submit results

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