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 **NOTE:** This step must be performed each time (for each shell process) the frontend is to be used.
 
+
+## Download CNN Model Files 
+
+The weight (model) and data files to use with the CNN benchmarks are hosted on Git LFS and need to separately downloaded. This can be done using:
+
+```
+git lfs fetch 
+git lfs checkout 
+```
+
+**NOTE:** Data donwload is necesary before running benchmarks
+
 ## Running Benchmaks
 
 Benchmarks under `./src/`