diff --git a/userbenchmark/test_bench/run.py b/userbenchmark/test_bench/run.py
index 45154ec76c..a9c894989b 100644
--- a/userbenchmark/test_bench/run.py
+++ b/userbenchmark/test_bench/run.py
@@ -111,6 +111,57 @@ def generate_model_configs_from_bisect_yaml(
     return result
 
 
+def generate_model_configs_from_yaml(
+    yaml_file: str,
+) -> List[TorchBenchModelConfig]:
+    """
+    The configuration might like this:
+
+        devices:
+          - "foo"
+        models:
+          - model: BERT_pytorch
+            batch_size: 1
+
+          - model: yolov3
+            skip: true
+        extra_args:
+          - "--accuracy"
+    """
+    yaml_file_path = os.path.join(yaml_file)
+    assert os.path.exists(yaml_file_path)
+
+    def _get_val(d: dict, key: str, default_value = None):
+        if d is None:
+            return default_value
+        else:
+            return d.get(key, default_value)
+
+    with open(yaml_file_path, "r") as yf:
+        config_obj = yaml.safe_load(yf)
+    devices = _get_val(config_obj, "devices")
+    batch_size = _get_val(config_obj, "batch_size")
+    extra_args = _get_val(config_obj, "extra_args", [])
+
+    model_names = set(list_models(internal=False))
+    cfgs = itertools.product(*[devices, model_names])
+    configs = []
+    for device, model in cfgs:
+        model_cfg = next(filter(lambda c: c["model"] == model, config_obj["models"]), None)
+        tests = _get_val(model_cfg, "tests", ["eval"])
+        for test in tests:
+            config = TorchBenchModelConfig(
+                name=model,
+                device=device,
+                test=test,
+                batch_size=_get_val(model_cfg, "batch_size", batch_size),
+                extra_args=_get_val(model_cfg, "extra_args", extra_args),
+                skip=_get_val(model_cfg, "skip", False),
+            )
+            configs.append(config)
+    return configs
+
+
 def init_output_dir(
     configs: List[TorchBenchModelConfig], output_dir: pathlib.Path
 ) -> List[TorchBenchModelConfig]:
@@ -340,6 +391,8 @@ def run(args: List[str]):
     args, extra_args = parse_known_args(args)
     if args.run_bisect:
         configs = generate_model_configs_from_bisect_yaml(args.run_bisect)
+    elif args.config:
+        configs = generate_model_configs_from_yaml(args.config)
     else:
         modelset = set(list_models(internal=(not args.oss)))
         timm_set = set(list_extended_models(suite_name="timm"))