run inference-perf --config_file config.yml failed

[liyuerich]

1 update config.yml with my current used model_name and base_URL（all are located in local cloud)

2 run command according to readme.md
inference-perf --config_file config.yml --log-level DEBUG

OSError: We couldn't connect to 'https://huggingface.co' to load the files, and couldn't find them in the cached files.
Checkout your internet connection or see how to run the library in offline mode at 'https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/installation#offline-mode'.

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/conda/envs/py312/bin/inference-perf", line 8, in
sys.exit(main_cli())
^^^^^^^^^^
File "/opt/conda/envs/py312/lib/python3.12/site-packages/inference_perf/main.py", line 122, in main_cli
raise Exception("Tokenizer initialization failed") from e

not sure why it connects "https://huggingface.co" ?

[achandrasekar]

/assign @aish1331

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[liyuerich]

ref: #126