diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index aea96ff387dcc..7445e815f424b 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip \
     pip install -r requirements-cuda.txt
 
 # install development dependencies
+COPY requirements-lint.txt requirements-lint.txt
+COPY requirements-test.txt requirements-test.txt
 COPY requirements-dev.txt requirements-dev.txt
 RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip \
     pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
diff --git a/requirements-dev.txt b/requirements-dev.txt
index 0b91d424db2cb..421aa2e796ec5 100644
--- a/requirements-dev.txt
+++ b/requirements-dev.txt
@@ -1,41 +1,5 @@
-# formatting
-yapf==0.32.0
-toml==0.10.2
-tomli==2.0.1
-ruff==0.1.5
-codespell==2.3.0
-isort==5.13.2
-clang-format==18.1.5
+-r requirements-lint.txt
+-r requirements-test.txt
 
-# type checking
-mypy==1.9.0
-types-PyYAML
-types-requests==2.31.0.2
-types-setuptools
-
-# testing
-autoawq
-datasets
-pytest
-tensorizer>=2.9.0
-pytest-forked
-pytest-asyncio
-pytest-rerunfailures
-pytest-shard
-
-# testing utils
-awscli
-einops # required for MPT
-httpx
-peft
-requests==2.31
-ray
-sentence-transformers # required for embedding
-optimum     # required for hf gptq baselines
-auto-gptq   # required for hf gptq baselines
-
-# Benchmarking
-aiohttp
-
-# quantization
-bitsandbytes==0.42.0
+# Avoid adding requirements directly to this file.
+# Instead, modify the two files referenced above.
diff --git a/requirements-lint.txt b/requirements-lint.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..bd34227d3e824
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-lint.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# formatting
+yapf==0.32.0
+toml==0.10.2
+tomli==2.0.1
+ruff==0.1.5
+codespell==2.3.0
+isort==5.13.2
+clang-format==18.1.5
+
+# type checking
+mypy==1.9.0
+types-PyYAML
+types-requests
+types-setuptools
diff --git a/requirements-test.txt b/requirements-test.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8b68e0e939669
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements-test.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# testing
+pytest
+tensorizer>=2.9.0
+pytest-forked
+pytest-asyncio
+pytest-rerunfailures
+pytest-shard
+
+# testing utils
+awscli
+einops # required for MPT
+httpx
+peft
+requests
+ray
+sentence-transformers # required for embedding
+
+# Benchmarking
+aiohttp
+
+# quantization
+bitsandbytes==0.42.0