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 ## Run
 The followings are command to show how to use it.
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+> Note: if neural-compressor version is 3.0, please ```export FORCE_DEVICE="cpu"```, it is used to ensure calibration on cpu device.
 ### 1. Performance
 ``` bash
 # fp16