diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 628782228e97..a105b0e14c4a 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ repos:
   hooks:
   - id: yapf
     args: [--in-place, --verbose]
+    # Keep the same list from yapfignore here to avoid yapf failing without any inputs
+    exclude: '(.buildkite|benchmarks|build|examples)/.*'
 - repo: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff-pre-commit
   rev: v0.11.7
   hooks:
diff --git a/benchmarks/benchmark_utils.py b/benchmarks/benchmark_utils.py
index 272b7979cc55..283f938df50a 100644
--- a/benchmarks/benchmark_utils.py
+++ b/benchmarks/benchmark_utils.py
@@ -66,4 +66,9 @@ class InfEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
 
 def write_to_json(filename: str, records: list) -> None:
     with open(filename, "w") as f:
-        json.dump(records, f, cls=InfEncoder)
+        json.dump(
+            records,
+            f,
+            cls=InfEncoder,
+            default=lambda o: f"<{type(o).__name__} object is not JSON serializable>",
+        )