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-[^1]: [tools/perplexity/README.md](./tools/perplexity/README.md)
+[^1]: [tools/perplexity/README.md](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/tree/master/tools/perplexity/README.md)
 [^2]: [https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/perplexity](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/perplexity)
 
 ## [`llama-bench`](tools/llama-bench)