diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 34dbb7366..ff9c4555e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -202,7 +202,6 @@ Please note we are not currently accepting pull requests or issues on this repos
 The [utils/](utils) folder contains utilities libraries and scripts that are used across the other code examples. This includes:
 
 * [utils/examples_tests](utils/examples_tests) - Common Python helper functions for the repository's unit tests
-* [utils/benchmarks](utils/benchmarks) - Common Python helper functions for running benchmarks on the IPU in different frameworks
 
 <br>
 
diff --git a/gnn/cluster_gcn/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml b/gnn/cluster_gcn/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
index 794f5e195..3aa93e73b 100644
--- a/gnn/cluster_gcn/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/gnn/cluster_gcn/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ---
 # --- Train Cluster-GCN model ---
 train_options: &train_options
-  location: public_examples/gnn/cluster_gcn/tensorflow2/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'Mean throughput over real nodes \(no padding\) for training:\s*([\d\.]+)'
diff --git a/gnn/cluster_gcn/tensorflow2/requirements.txt b/gnn/cluster_gcn/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
index 0916752ba..4ba5b26b0 100644
--- a/gnn/cluster_gcn/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
+++ b/gnn/cluster_gcn/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@ scikit-learn==0.24.2
 tensorflow-addons==0.14.0
 trainlog==0.2
 wandb==0.12.8
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/gnn/message_passing/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml b/gnn/message_passing/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
index 6dfaeb8d4..59c052b2b 100644
--- a/gnn/message_passing/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/gnn/message_passing/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 # --- Benchmark Message Passing Neural Network model ---
 train_options: &train_options
-  location: public_examples/gnn/message_passing/tensorflow2/
   env:
     TF_POPLAR_FLAGS: '--executable_cache_path=./tf_cache/'
   data:
diff --git a/gnn/message_passing/tensorflow2/requirements.txt b/gnn/message_passing/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
index 95b06ec4d..4e781b724 100644
--- a/gnn/message_passing/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
+++ b/gnn/message_passing/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ pytest-pythonpath==0.7.4
 pytest-xdist==2.5.0
 regex==2022.4.24
 wandb==0.12.8
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/gnn/tgn/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml b/gnn/tgn/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
index f6d8f1b08..8366f9557 100644
--- a/gnn/tgn/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/gnn/tgn/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location: public_examples/gnn/tgn/tensorflow1/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'throughput: *(.*?),'
diff --git a/gnn/tgn/tensorflow1/requirements.txt b/gnn/tgn/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
index 5b0090e70..ba10e168b 100644
--- a/gnn/tgn/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
+++ b/gnn/tgn/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ torch-scatter==2.0.6
 torch-sparse==0.6.9
 tqdm==4.60.0
 types-dataclasses==0.6.1
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/miscellaneous/sales_forecasting/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml b/miscellaneous/sales_forecasting/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
index 602de3fc9..fa9713820 100644
--- a/miscellaneous/sales_forecasting/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/miscellaneous/sales_forecasting/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ tf1_sales_forecasting_train_real_2ipu:
       --base-learning-rate=-16
       --weight-decay=0.0001
       --no-lr-warmup
-  location:
-    public_examples/miscellaneous/sales_forecasting/tensorflow1
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: "Training:.*, *samples/sec: (.*), *time"
@@ -36,8 +34,6 @@ tf1_sales_forecasting_no_validation_train_real_2ipu:
       --base-learning-rate=-16
       --weight-decay=0.0001
       --no-lr-warmup
-  location:
-    public_examples/miscellaneous/sales_forecasting/tensorflow1
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: "Training:.*, *samples/sec: (.*), *time"
diff --git a/miscellaneous/sales_forecasting/tensorflow1/requirements.txt b/miscellaneous/sales_forecasting/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
index f61a6bf8b..b9deb8a06 100644
--- a/miscellaneous/sales_forecasting/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
+++ b/miscellaneous/sales_forecasting/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 pytest==6.2.5
 pandas==1.1.4
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/multimodal/CLIP/pytorch/benchmarks.yml b/multimodal/CLIP/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
index 6fd7aa4bf..4c4e57e1a 100644
--- a/multimodal/CLIP/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/multimodal/CLIP/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 common_options: &common_options
-    location: public_examples/multimodal/CLIP/pytorch/
     data:
         throughput:
             reduction_type: "mean"
diff --git a/multimodal/CLIP/pytorch/requirements.txt b/multimodal/CLIP/pytorch/requirements.txt
index 91a7f5003..c8dd43911 100644
--- a/multimodal/CLIP/pytorch/requirements.txt
+++ b/multimodal/CLIP/pytorch/requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ transformers==4.10.0
 ftfy==6.0.3
 torchvision==0.11.1
 pytest==6.2.5
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/multimodal/mini_dalle/pytorch/benchmarks.yml b/multimodal/mini_dalle/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
index 51b16953b..fe13dc823 100644
--- a/multimodal/mini_dalle/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/multimodal/mini_dalle/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location:
-      public_examples/multimodal/mini_dalle/pytorch/
   data:
     throughput:
       reduction_type: "final"
diff --git a/multimodal/mini_dalle/pytorch/requirements.txt b/multimodal/mini_dalle/pytorch/requirements.txt
index 9a3c5fe4d..210000e76 100644
--- a/multimodal/mini_dalle/pytorch/requirements.txt
+++ b/multimodal/mini_dalle/pytorch/requirements.txt
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ pytest==6.2.5
 pytest-pythonpath==0.7.4
 torchvision==0.11.1+cpu
 horovod==0.24.3
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/nlp/bert/popart/benchmarks.yml b/nlp/bert/popart/benchmarks.yml
index 2ff470deb..0bae24e49 100644
--- a/nlp/bert/popart/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/nlp/bert/popart/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ---
 # --- Pretraining ---
 pretrain_options: &pretrain_options
-   location: public_examples/nlp/bert/popart/
    data:
       throughput:
          regexp: 'Throughput\:\s*(.*) sequences/s'
@@ -229,7 +228,6 @@ popart_bert_large_sl512_pretrain_real_pod64_conv:
 
 # --- SQuAD ---
 squad_options: &squad_options
-   location: public_examples/nlp/bert/popart/
    data:
       throughput:
          regexp: 'Throughput\:\s*(.*) sequences/s'
@@ -336,7 +334,6 @@ popart_bert_squad_large_infer_gen_pod4:
         --input-files=$DATASETS_DIR/squad/dev-v1.1.json
         --minimum-latency-inference
         --buffering-depth 1
-  location: public_examples/nlp/bert/popart/
   env:
     POPLAR_ENGINE_OPTIONS: '{"exchange.enablePrefetch": false}'
   data:
@@ -386,7 +383,6 @@ squad_base_128_4_ipu_inference_opts: &squad_base_128_4_ipu_inference_opts
   description: |
     BERT-B 128 (SQuAD) inference benchmark on 4 IPUs using
     data generated on the host
-  location: public_examples/nlp/bert/popart/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'Throughput\:\s*(.*) sequences/s'
diff --git a/nlp/bert/popart/requirements.txt b/nlp/bert/popart/requirements.txt
index 815a8ed4c..1b7ada57c 100644
--- a/nlp/bert/popart/requirements.txt
+++ b/nlp/bert/popart/requirements.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ pyyaml==5.4.1
 wandb==0.12.8
 filelock==3.0.12
 numba==0.53.1
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
 
 
diff --git a/nlp/bert/popxl/benchmarks.yml b/nlp/bert/popxl/benchmarks.yml
index 9618f7395..6a968ef71 100644
--- a/nlp/bert/popxl/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/nlp/bert/popxl/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ---
 # --- Pretraining ---
 pretrain_options: &pretrain_options
-  location: public_examples/nlp/bert/popxl/
   data:
    throughput:
     regexp: 'Throughput\:\s*(.*) samples/s'
diff --git a/nlp/bert/popxl/requirements.txt b/nlp/bert/popxl/requirements.txt
index 789d75771..8abb9aefa 100644
--- a/nlp/bert/popxl/requirements.txt
+++ b/nlp/bert/popxl/requirements.txt
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ wandb==0.12.8
 
 pytest
 pytest-pythonpath
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
 git+ssh://git@phabricator.sourcevertex.net/diffusion/POPXLADDONSINTERNAL/popxladdonsinternal.git@sdk-release-2.6#egg=popxl-addons
diff --git a/nlp/bert/pytorch/benchmarks.yml b/nlp/bert/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
index 368095321..664a65dd2 100644
--- a/nlp/bert/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/nlp/bert/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ---
 # --- Pretraining ---
 pretrain_options: &pretrain_options
-   location: public_examples/nlp/bert/pytorch/
    data:
       throughput:
          regexp: \s([\d\.]+|nan)\ssequences
@@ -232,8 +231,7 @@ pytorch_bert_large_packed_sl384_pretrain_real_pod64_conv:
 
 # --- SQuAD ---
 squad_options: &squad_options
-   location: public_examples/nlp/bert/pytorch/
-   data:
+      data:
       throughput:
          regexp: "throughput=(.*) samples/s"
       loss:
@@ -294,8 +292,7 @@ pytorch_bert_squad_large_pretrain_real_pod64_conv:
 pytorch_bert_squad_large_infer_gen_pod16:
   description: |
     BERT Large SQuAD in inference.
-  location: public_examples/nlp/bert/pytorch/
-  data:
+    data:
     throughput:
       regexp: throughput=(.*) samples/s
   output:
diff --git a/nlp/bert/pytorch/requirements.txt b/nlp/bert/pytorch/requirements.txt
index 6e740f592..31aca0142 100644
--- a/nlp/bert/pytorch/requirements.txt
+++ b/nlp/bert/pytorch/requirements.txt
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ tfrecord==1.14.1
 filelock==3.4.1
 mpi4py==3.1.3
 horovod==0.24.0 
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml b/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
index d5bfb6812..d628a8266 100644
--- a/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ---
 # --- Pretraining ---
 pretrain_options: &pretrain_options
-  location: public_examples/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'samples\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -205,8 +204,6 @@ tf1_groupbert_base_sl384_pretrain_real_pod64_conv:
 
 # --- SQuAD training ---
 squad_options: &squad_options
-  location:
-    public_examples/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'throughput\s+(\S+)\s+'
@@ -269,9 +266,6 @@ tf1_bert_squad_large_train_real_pod16_conv:
       --vocab-file $DATASETS_DIR/ckpts/uncased_L-24_H-1024_A-16/vocab.txt
       --predict-file $DATASETS_DIR/squad/dev-v1.1.json
       --wandb
-
-  location:
-    public_examples/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'throughput\s+(\S+)\s+'
@@ -281,8 +275,6 @@ tf1_bert_squad_large_train_real_pod16_conv:
 
 # --- GLUE training ---
 glue_options: &glue_options
-  location:
-    public_examples/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'throughput\s+(\S+)\s+'
@@ -333,8 +325,6 @@ tf1_bert_squad_large_infer_gen_2ipu:
       --embedded-runtime
       --micro-batch-size 1
       --num-iter 10000
-  location:
-    public_examples/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/
   env:
     TF_POPLAR_FLAGS: ""
   data:
@@ -374,8 +364,6 @@ tf1_bert_squad_large_infer_gen_4ipu:
       --embedded-runtime
       --micro-batch-size 1
       --num-iter 10000
-  location:
-    public_examples/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/
   env:
     TF_POPLAR_FLAGS: ""
   data:
diff --git a/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/requirements.txt b/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
index 6c63cf11a..12963363d 100644
--- a/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
+++ b/nlp/bert/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ onnx==1.8.1
 pytest==6.2.5
 pytest-pythonpath==0.7.4
 scipy==1.5.4
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
 
diff --git a/nlp/bert/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml b/nlp/bert/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
index 8de772643..bf599494e 100644
--- a/nlp/bert/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/nlp/bert/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 ---
 # --- Pretraining ---
 pretrain_options: &pretrain_options
-  location: public_examples/nlp/bert/tensorflow2/
   env:
     TF_POPLAR_FLAGS: '--executable_cache_path=./tf_cache/'
   data:
@@ -70,7 +69,6 @@ tf2_bert_large_sl384_pretrain_real_pod64_conv:
 
 # --- SQuAD training ---
 squad_options: &squad_options
-  location: public_examples/nlp/bert/tensorflow2/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'throughput:\s*([\d\.]+)'
@@ -111,7 +109,6 @@ tf2_bert_squad_large_train_real_pod16_conv:
 
 # --- GLUE training ---
 glue_options: &glue_options
-  location: public_examples/nlp/bert/tensorflow2/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'throughput:\s*([\d\.]+)'
diff --git a/nlp/bert/tensorflow2/requirements.txt b/nlp/bert/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
index cbfb85988..82a00f091 100644
--- a/nlp/bert/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
+++ b/nlp/bert/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@ tensorflow-addons==0.14.0
 tensorflow-datasets==4.4.0
 torch==1.9.0
 git+https://github.com/graphcore/transformers-fork@v4.18-gc#egg=transformers # Fork of transformers to support KerasTensor from the Keras package with Python 3.6.
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
 wandb==0.12.8
diff --git a/nlp/gpt/pytorch/benchmarks.yml b/nlp/gpt/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
index 6276fd53b..5756d929c 100644
--- a/nlp/gpt/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/nlp/gpt/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 train_options: &train_options
-  location: public_examples/nlp/gpt/pytorch/
   data:
     throughput:
       reduction_type: "final"
@@ -220,7 +219,6 @@ pytorch_gpt2_large_train_gen_pod16:
       --epochs 1
 
 inference_options: &inference_options
-  location: public_examples/nlp/gpt/pytorch/
   data:
     throughput:
       reduction_type: "final"
diff --git a/nlp/gpt/pytorch/requirements.txt b/nlp/gpt/pytorch/requirements.txt
index 247e5434a..3a94ce9b9 100644
--- a/nlp/gpt/pytorch/requirements.txt
+++ b/nlp/gpt/pytorch/requirements.txt
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ tfrecord>=1.13
 pytest==6.2.5
 pytest-pythonpath>=0.7.3
 horovod>=0.24.0 --no-binary=horovod
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
 tqdm>=4.63.1
diff --git a/probability/contrastive_divergence_vae/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml b/probability/contrastive_divergence_vae/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
index 8f90e3113..61f0f84a6 100644
--- a/probability/contrastive_divergence_vae/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/probability/contrastive_divergence_vae/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ tf1_mcmc_vae_synth_pod4:
   cmd:
     python3 main.py --config-file=configs/benchmark_config.json --no-testing
     -b 3072
-  location: public_examples/probability/contrastive_divergence_vae/tensorflow1
   data:
     time_per_iters:
       regexp: '\|\sTime\staken:\s*(.*?)(?:\n|$)'
diff --git a/probability/contrastive_divergence_vae/tensorflow1/requirements.txt b/probability/contrastive_divergence_vae/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
index 83faf76b8..3e76f130a 100644
--- a/probability/contrastive_divergence_vae/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
+++ b/probability/contrastive_divergence_vae/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ statsmodels==0.12.1
 tensorflow-probability==0.7.0
 tqdm==4.64.0
 urllib3==1.26.6
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
 
 # For machinable
 pendulum==2.1.2
diff --git a/probability/mcmc/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml b/probability/mcmc/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
index 851259445..aa86deea4 100644
--- a/probability/mcmc/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/probability/mcmc/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 tf1_mcmc_train_real_pod4:
    description: 
       Training for a MCMC model with TensorFlow Probability
-   location: 
-       public_examples/probability/mcmc/tensorflow1
    cmd: 
        python3 mcmc_tfp.py --num_ipus=4 --dataset_dir $DATASETS_DIR/mcmc/
    data:
diff --git a/probability/mcmc/tensorflow1/requirements.txt b/probability/mcmc/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
index 9aa1a2346..6ebe20dc3 100644
--- a/probability/mcmc/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
+++ b/probability/mcmc/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tensorflow-probability==0.8
 pytest==6.2.5
 pytest-pythonpath==0.7.3
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/recommendation/autoencoder/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml b/recommendation/autoencoder/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
index 3e064423d..facae24ca 100644
--- a/recommendation/autoencoder/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/recommendation/autoencoder/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ tf1_autoencoder_train_gen_2ipu:
   cmd:
     python3 autoencoder_benchmark.py --size 128 --num-ipus 2
     --base-learning-rates 16..17 --epochs 10
-  location: public_examples/recommendation/autoencoder/tensorflow1
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp:
diff --git a/recommendation/autoencoder/tensorflow1/requirements.txt b/recommendation/autoencoder/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
index 06fb63652..120bd202c 100644
--- a/recommendation/autoencoder/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
+++ b/recommendation/autoencoder/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 pytest==6.2.5
 pytest-pythonpath==0.7.4
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/recommendation/click_through_rate/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml b/recommendation/click_through_rate/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
index 74b657643..ef5216c39 100644
--- a/recommendation/click_through_rate/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/recommendation/click_through_rate/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ tf1_din_train_synth_1ipu:
     Training for a DIN model on MK2
   cmd:
     python3 din_train.py --use-synthetic-data True
-  location:
-    public_examples/recommendation/click_through_rate/tensorflow1/din/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'sample\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -18,8 +16,6 @@ tf1_din_infer_synth_1ipu:
     Inference for a DIN model on MK2
   cmd:
     python3 din_infer.py --use-synthetic-data True
-  location:
-    public_examples/recommendation/click_through_rate/tensorflow1/din/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'throughput: *(.*?),'
diff --git a/recommendation/click_through_rate/tensorflow1/requirements.txt b/recommendation/click_through_rate/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
index beab92ba2..b7385a7ef 100644
--- a/recommendation/click_through_rate/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
+++ b/recommendation/click_through_rate/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ pytest==6.2.5
 pytest-forked==1.3.0
 pytest-pythonpath==0.7.4
 pytest-xdist==2.1.0
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/reinforcement_learning/rl_policy_model/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml b/reinforcement_learning/rl_policy_model/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
index 3b537c454..9718ad84e 100644
--- a/reinforcement_learning/rl_policy_model/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/reinforcement_learning/rl_policy_model/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ tf1_reinforcement_learning_infer_synth_1ipu:
   cmd: >-
     python3 rl_benchmark.py --num_iter 20 --micro_batch_size=16 --time_steps=16
       --num_ipus=1
-  location: public_examples/reinforcement_learning/rl_policy_model/tensorflow1
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'Average *(.*) items/sec'
diff --git a/reinforcement_learning/rl_policy_model/tensorflow1/requirements.txt b/reinforcement_learning/rl_policy_model/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
index 06fb63652..120bd202c 100644
--- a/reinforcement_learning/rl_policy_model/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
+++ b/reinforcement_learning/rl_policy_model/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 pytest==6.2.5
 pytest-pythonpath==0.7.4
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/sparsity/dynamic_sparsity/tensorflow1/requirements.txt b/sparsity/dynamic_sparsity/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
index a31762f0e..7135c58ee 100644
--- a/sparsity/dynamic_sparsity/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
+++ b/sparsity/dynamic_sparsity/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ scipy==1.5.4
 jax==0.2.17
 jaxlib==0.1.69
 wandb==0.12.8
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/speech/conformer/popart/requirements.txt b/speech/conformer/popart/requirements.txt
index 9b93c6905..97ec09bd1 100644
--- a/speech/conformer/popart/requirements.txt
+++ b/speech/conformer/popart/requirements.txt
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ pytest==6.2.5
 pytest-pythonpath==0.7.4
 torch==1.10.0+cpu
 torchaudio==0.10.0+cpu
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/speech/deepvoice3/popart/benchmarks.yml b/speech/deepvoice3/popart/benchmarks.yml
index 2931a282c..97b8bbe40 100644
--- a/speech/deepvoice3/popart/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/speech/deepvoice3/popart/benchmarks.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ common_options: &common_options
       skip: 1
   output:
     - [queries/s, 'throughput']
-  location: public_examples/speech/deepvoice3/popart
 
 #takes approximately 45 minutes to compile and run on an M2000
 popart_deepvoice_train_gen_pod4:
diff --git a/speech/deepvoice3/popart/requirements.txt b/speech/deepvoice3/popart/requirements.txt
index 6b9369d07..42c3dca18 100644
--- a/speech/deepvoice3/popart/requirements.txt
+++ b/speech/deepvoice3/popart/requirements.txt
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ tqdm==4.46.1
 six==1.15.0
 pytest==6.2.5
 pytest-pythonpath==0.7.4
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/speech/fastpitch/pytorch/benchmarks.yml b/speech/fastpitch/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
index 20a66c1d3..e6c0ce698 100644
--- a/speech/fastpitch/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/speech/fastpitch/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location: public_examples/speech/fastpitch/pytorch/
   data:
     throughput:
       skip: 1
diff --git a/speech/fastpitch/pytorch/requirements.txt b/speech/fastpitch/pytorch/requirements.txt
index 6110af4ec..5437da275 100644
--- a/speech/fastpitch/pytorch/requirements.txt
+++ b/speech/fastpitch/pytorch/requirements.txt
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ setuptools==59.5.0
 protobuf==3.19.4
 wandb==0.12.8
 git+https://github.com/NVIDIA/dllogger@v0.1.0#egg=dllogger
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/speech/fastspeech2/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml b/speech/fastspeech2/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
index 59dd9d3ac..4c3831489 100644
--- a/speech/fastspeech2/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/speech/fastspeech2/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 train_options: &train_options
-  location: public_examples/speech/fastspeech2/tensorflow2/
   data:
     throughput:
       reduction_type: 'final'
@@ -9,7 +8,6 @@ train_options: &train_options
     - [samples/sec, 'throughput']
 
 inference_options: &inference_options
-  location: public_examples/speech/fastspeech2/tensorflow2/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'Averaged Metrics.*\n.*Throughput:\s*([\d\.]+)'
diff --git a/speech/fastspeech2/tensorflow2/requirements.txt b/speech/fastspeech2/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
index d3e4413fe..cf759c037 100644
--- a/speech/fastspeech2/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
+++ b/speech/fastspeech2/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ scikit-learn==0.24.2
 pyworld==0.3.0
 wandb==0.12.8
 dataclasses==0.8; python_version < '3.7'
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
 
diff --git a/speech/transformer_transducer/popart/benchmarks.yml b/speech/transformer_transducer/popart/benchmarks.yml
index b7cbdc6aa..549594d8f 100644
--- a/speech/transformer_transducer/popart/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/speech/transformer_transducer/popart/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location: public_examples/speech/transformer_transducer/popart/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'Throughput:\s*(.*?),'
diff --git a/speech/transformer_transducer/popart/training/requirements.txt b/speech/transformer_transducer/popart/training/requirements.txt
index b56255943..127585996 100644
--- a/speech/transformer_transducer/popart/training/requirements.txt
+++ b/speech/transformer_transducer/popart/training/requirements.txt
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@ pytest==6.2.5
 torch==1.10.0+cpu
 --extra-index-url https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/redist 
 nvidia-dali-cuda110==0.28.0
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/speech/wenet_conformer/pytorch/benchmarks.yml b/speech/wenet_conformer/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
index f37705695..39dab7c51 100644
--- a/speech/wenet_conformer/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/speech/wenet_conformer/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location: public_examples/speech/wenet_conformer/pytorch
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: '\s+tput:\s*(.*?),'
diff --git a/vision/cnns/pytorch/inference/benchmarks.yml b/vision/cnns/pytorch/inference/benchmarks.yml
index e5fe47920..e4f47a24e 100644
--- a/vision/cnns/pytorch/inference/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/cnns/pytorch/inference/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location: public_examples/vision/cnns/pytorch/inference
   output:
     - [batchsize, 'batchsize']
     - [throughput, 'throughput']
diff --git a/vision/cnns/pytorch/requirements.txt b/vision/cnns/pytorch/requirements.txt
index 75ad02149..d07423172 100644
--- a/vision/cnns/pytorch/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/cnns/pytorch/requirements.txt
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ pyyaml==5.4.1
 checksumdir==1.2.0
 horovod==0.24.3
 git+https://github.com/lilohuang/PyTurboJPEG.git@8706665787c7290397859075ae2f0bf35afeb41a
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/vision/cnns/pytorch/train/benchmarks.yml b/vision/cnns/pytorch/train/benchmarks.yml
index da3630cb1..51ddb9751 100644
--- a/vision/cnns/pytorch/train/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/cnns/pytorch/train/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location: public_examples/vision/cnns/pytorch/train
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'throughput: *(.*?) samples\/sec'
diff --git a/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml b/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
index b8a2af37f..3dfa19cf2 100644
--- a/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-   location:
-      public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
    output:
       - [Images/sec, 'throughput']
       - [accuracy, 'accuracy']
@@ -212,8 +210,6 @@ tf1_resnet50_val_real_pod64_conv:
   env:
     TF_POPLAR_FLAGS: "--executable_cache_path=/localdata/$USER/tf_cache/"
     POPLAR_ENGINE_OPTIONS: '{"opt.enableMultiAccessCopies":"false"}'
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -315,8 +311,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b4_train_real_pod16:
       --epochs-per-ckpt 1
       --no-validation
       --eight-bit-io
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -354,8 +348,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b4_g16_train_real_pod16:
       --eight-bit-io
       --num-io-tiles 32
       --prefetch-depth 3
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -420,8 +412,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b4_g16_train_real_pod64_conv:
   env:
     TF_POPLAR_FLAGS: "--executable_cache_path=/localdata/$USER/tf_cache/"
     POPLAR_ENGINE_OPTIONS: '{"opt.enableMultiAccessCopies":"false"}'
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -483,8 +473,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b4_g16_validation_real_pod16_conv:
   env:
     TF_POPLAR_FLAGS: "--executable_cache_path=/localdata/$USER/tf_cache/"
     POPLAR_ENGINE_OPTIONS: '{"opt.enableMultiAccessCopies":"false"}'
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -513,8 +501,6 @@ tf1_resnet50_infer_synth_1ipu:
       --batch-norm
       --enable-half-partials
       --fused-preprocessing
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -551,8 +537,6 @@ tf1_resnet50_infer_gen_pod4:
       --fused-preprocessing
       --num-io-tiles 64
       --prefetch-depth 2
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -590,8 +574,6 @@ tf1_resnet50_low_latency_infer_gen_pod4:
       --tmp-execs
       --num-io-tiles 32
       --prefetch-depth 2
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   env:
     POPLAR_RUNTIME_OPTIONS: '{"streamCallbacks.maxLookahead":"2"}'
   data:
@@ -631,8 +613,6 @@ tf1_resnext101_infer_gen_1ipu:
       --batch-norm
       --enable-half-partials
       --fused-preprocessing
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -658,8 +638,6 @@ tf1_resnext101_long_infer_synth_1ipu:
       --batch-norm
       --enable-half-partials
       --fused-preprocessing
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -695,8 +673,6 @@ tf1_resnext101_long_infer_gen_pod4:
       --fused-preprocessing
       --num-io-tiles 64
       --prefetch-depth 4
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -733,8 +709,6 @@ tf1_resnext101_low_latency_infer_gen_pod4:
       --tmp-execs
       --num-io-tiles 64
       --prefetch-depth 3
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   env:
     POPLAR_RUNTIME_OPTIONS: '{"streamCallbacks.maxLookahead":"2"}'
   data:
@@ -775,8 +749,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b0_infer_synth_1ipu:
       --batch-norm
       --enable-half-partials
       --fused-preprocessing
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -803,8 +775,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b0_long_infer_synth_1ipu:
       --batch-norm
       --enable-half-partials
       --fused-preprocessing
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -834,8 +804,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b0_g16_infer_synth_1ipu:
       --batch-norm
       --enable-half-partials
       --fused-preprocessing
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -872,8 +840,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b0_long_infer_gen_pod4:
       --fused-preprocessing
       --num-io-tiles 64
       --prefetch-depth 4
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -913,8 +879,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b0_infer_gen_pod4:
       --fused-preprocessing
       --num-io-tiles 64
       --prefetch-depth 3
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -952,8 +916,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b0_g16_low_latency_infer_gen_pod4:
       --tmp-execs
       --num-io-tiles 64
       --prefetch-depth 2
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   env:
     POPLAR_RUNTIME_OPTIONS: '{"streamCallbacks.maxLookahead":"2"}'
   data:
@@ -1006,8 +968,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b0_low_latency_infer_gen_pod4:
       --tmp-execs
       --num-io-tiles 32
       --prefetch-depth 2
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   env:
     POPLAR_RUNTIME_OPTIONS: '{"streamCallbacks.maxLookahead":"2"}'
   data:
@@ -1049,8 +1009,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b4_infer_synth_1ipu:
       --enable-half-partials
       --eight-bit-io
       --fused-preprocessing
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -1081,8 +1039,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b4_g16_infer_synth_1ipu:
       --enable-half-partials
       --eight-bit-io
       --fused-preprocessing
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -1119,8 +1075,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b4_infer_gen_pod4:
       --fused-preprocessing
       --num-io-tiles 32
       --prefetch-depth 3
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -1160,8 +1114,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b4_g16_infer_synth_1ipu:
       --fused-preprocessing
       --num-io-tiles 32
       --prefetch-depth 3
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
@@ -1198,8 +1150,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b4_low_latency_infer_gen_pod4:
       --tmp-execs
       --num-io-tiles 32
       --prefetch-depth 3
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   env:
     POPLAR_RUNTIME_OPTIONS: '{"streamCallbacks.maxLookahead":"2"}'
   data:
@@ -1255,8 +1205,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b4_g16_low_latency_infer_gen_pod4:
       --tmp-execs
       --num-io-tiles 64
       --prefetch-depth 2
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   env:
     POPLAR_RUNTIME_OPTIONS: '{"streamCallbacks.maxLookahead":"2"}'
   data:
@@ -1307,8 +1255,6 @@ tf1_efficientnet_b7_infer_gen_pod4:
       --no-dataset-cache
       --num-inference-thread 3
       --tmp-execs
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'img\/sec: *(.*?),'
diff --git a/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/inference/requirements.txt b/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/inference/requirements.txt
index dde0e03d4..38d8402ca 100644
--- a/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/inference/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/inference/requirements.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ pytest-xdist==2.5.0
 pytest-forked==1.4.0
 scipy==1.5.4
 wandb==0.12.8
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training/requirements.txt b/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training/requirements.txt
index 7297f2739..75e0f4c1b 100644
--- a/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/cnns/tensorflow1/training/requirements.txt
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ pytest-cov==3.0.0
 pytest-forked==1.4.0
 pytest-pythonpath==0.7.4
 pytest-xdist==2.5.0
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/vision/cnns/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml b/vision/cnns/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
index 6e2e8af76..2f9110ecf 100644
--- a/vision/cnns/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/cnns/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location: public_examples/vision/cnns/tensorflow2
   data:
     throughput:
       reduction_type: 'mean'
diff --git a/vision/cnns/tensorflow2/requirements.txt b/vision/cnns/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
index b5aad2997..8a6e188be 100644
--- a/vision/cnns/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/cnns/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ tensorflow-datasets==4.5.2
 autopep8==1.6.0
 opencv-python==4.5.5.64
 mpi4py==3.1.3
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/vision/dino/pytorch/benchmarks.yml b/vision/dino/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
index 55e4759a8..8f45ce298 100644
--- a/vision/dino/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/dino/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location:
-    public_examples/vision/dino/pytorch/
   output:
     - [Images/sec, 'throughput']
     - [accuracy, 'accuracy']
diff --git a/vision/dino/pytorch/requirements.txt b/vision/dino/pytorch/requirements.txt
index 91f8d7039..f882806bd 100644
--- a/vision/dino/pytorch/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/dino/pytorch/requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ torchvision==0.11.1+cpu
 pytest==6.2.4
 pyyaml==5.4.1
 horovod==0.24.0
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/vision/efficientdet/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml b/vision/efficientdet/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
index 3b1ee4017..1e724a31e 100644
--- a/vision/efficientdet/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/efficientdet/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location: public_examples/vision/efficientdet/tensorflow2
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'Throughput:\s+mean = (.*?),'
diff --git a/vision/efficientdet/tensorflow2/requirements.txt b/vision/efficientdet/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
index 909cbf5bc..8ee6848b6 100644
--- a/vision/efficientdet/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/efficientdet/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ six==1.16.0
 tensorflow-model-optimization==0.7.2
 pytest==6.2.5
 pytest-pythonpath==0.7.4
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/vision/faster_rcnn/popart/benchmarks.yml b/vision/faster_rcnn/popart/benchmarks.yml
index aa3308207..63ff56863 100644
--- a/vision/faster_rcnn/popart/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/faster_rcnn/popart/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location: public_examples/vision/faster_rcnn/popart/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'throughput:\s*([\d\.]+)'
diff --git a/vision/faster_rcnn/popart/requirements.txt b/vision/faster_rcnn/popart/requirements.txt
index ae3c77cec..0fc54ccac 100644
--- a/vision/faster_rcnn/popart/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/faster_rcnn/popart/requirements.txt
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ PyYAML==5.4.1
 torch==1.10.0+cpu
 torchvision==0.11.1+cpu
 fire==0.4.0
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/vision/resnext_inference/popart/requirements.txt b/vision/resnext_inference/popart/requirements.txt
index 012a8db2a..9536cc019 100644
--- a/vision/resnext_inference/popart/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/resnext_inference/popart/requirements.txt
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ urllib3==1.26.6
 pretrainedmodels==0.7.4
 pytest==6.2.5
 pytest-pythonpath==0.7.4
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/vision/swin/pytorch/benchmarks.yml b/vision/swin/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
index 65f2986f1..9ceefd496 100644
--- a/vision/swin/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/swin/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location: public_examples/vision/swin/pytorch/
   data:
     throughput:
       skip: 1
diff --git a/vision/swin/pytorch/requirements.txt b/vision/swin/pytorch/requirements.txt
index cb830123e..691ff02e7 100644
--- a/vision/swin/pytorch/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/swin/pytorch/requirements.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ wandb==0.12.8
 transformers==4.18.0
 yacs==0.1.8
 pyyaml==5.4.1
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/vision/unet_medical/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml b/vision/unet_medical/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
index acdae939e..6e9763564 100644
--- a/vision/unet_medical/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/unet_medical/tensorflow2/benchmarks.yml
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ tf2_unet_train_real_pod4:
       --num-epochs 200
       --data-dir $DATASETS_DIR/tif
       --benchmark
-  location: public_examples/vision/unet_medical/tensorflow2
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'Throughput *(.*?) images'
@@ -49,7 +48,6 @@ tf2_unet_infer_gen_pod4:
       --infer
       --host-generated-data
       --benchmark
-  location: public_examples/vision/unet_medical/tensorflow2
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'Throughput *(\d*\.\d*) images'
diff --git a/vision/unet_medical/tensorflow2/requirements.txt b/vision/unet_medical/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
index 9925b0a0c..2b73510f4 100644
--- a/vision/unet_medical/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/unet_medical/tensorflow2/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 pytest==6.2.5
 Pillow==8.4.0
 scikit-learn==0.24.2
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
 
diff --git a/vision/vit/pytorch/benchmarks.yml b/vision/vit/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
index 8dfdc0103..b54152cbf 100644
--- a/vision/vit/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/vit/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 ---
 common_options: &common_options
-  location: public_examples/vision/vit/pytorch/
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'Throughput: *(.*?) samples/sec'
diff --git a/vision/vit/pytorch/requirements.txt b/vision/vit/pytorch/requirements.txt
index 227aa7cbd..b5417ce93 100644
--- a/vision/vit/pytorch/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/vit/pytorch/requirements.txt
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ pillow==8.4.0
 attrdict==2.0.1
 horovod==0.24.0
 randaugment==1.0.2
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/vision/yolo_v3/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml b/vision/yolo_v3/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
index 178b6c43d..bee6f3a5c 100644
--- a/vision/yolo_v3/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/yolo_v3/tensorflow1/benchmarks.yml
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ tf1_yolov3_train_real_pod4:
     python3 train.py
        --config ./config/config_544_performance_test.json
        --train-annot-path ./data/dataset/voc_train.txt
-  location: public_examples/vision/yolo_v3/tensorflow1
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'samples/s:*(.*?),'
diff --git a/vision/yolo_v3/tensorflow1/requirements.txt b/vision/yolo_v3/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
index 9b9945393..86b8c8a2e 100644
--- a/vision/yolo_v3/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/yolo_v3/tensorflow1/requirements.txt
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ opencv-python==4.5.2.52
 easydict==1.9
 pytest==6.2.5
 tqdm==4.64.0
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
diff --git a/vision/yolo_v4/pytorch/benchmarks.yml b/vision/yolo_v4/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
index 588518816..4d9c866d5 100644
--- a/vision/yolo_v4/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
+++ b/vision/yolo_v4/pytorch/benchmarks.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ pytorch_yolov4_infer_real_pod4:
         --mode test_inference
         --nms-max-detections {max_detections}
         --pre-nms-topk-k {topk_nums}
-  location: public_examples/vision/yolo_v4/pytorch
   data:
     throughput:
       regexp: 'Average Inference Throughput: (\d*.\d*) img\/s'
diff --git a/vision/yolo_v4/pytorch/requirements.txt b/vision/yolo_v4/pytorch/requirements.txt
index d0fd02010..2055c09e1 100644
--- a/vision/yolo_v4/pytorch/requirements.txt
+++ b/vision/yolo_v4/pytorch/requirements.txt
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ torchvision==0.11.1+cpu
 protobuf==3.19.4
 wandb==0.12.8
 yacs==0.1.8
-git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@6d3b8367d5c6d2cda5a0e7849138d0ee8a8c6756#egg=examples-utils
+git+https://github.com/graphcore/examples-utils@e60289e0744c061dcfb060131cd3fbd7ad2840e0#egg=examples-utils
 torchinfo==1.5.4