diff --git a/configs/opensora-v1-2/inference/sample.py b/configs/opensora-v1-2/inference/sample.py
index 3e2c623..49efca2 100644
--- a/configs/opensora-v1-2/inference/sample.py
+++ b/configs/opensora-v1-2/inference/sample.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ model = dict(
     qk_norm=True,
     enable_flash_attn=True,
     enable_layernorm_kernel=True,
+    force_huggingface=True,
 )
 vae = dict(
     type="OpenSoraVAE_V1_2",
diff --git a/opensora/models/stdit/stdit3.py b/opensora/models/stdit/stdit3.py
index e857a37..e6dc8b4 100644
--- a/opensora/models/stdit/stdit3.py
+++ b/opensora/models/stdit/stdit3.py
@@ -458,9 +458,9 @@ def STDiT3_XL_2(from_pretrained=None, **kwargs):
 
 
 @MODELS.register_module("STDiT3-3B/2")
-def STDiT3_3B_2(from_pretrained=None, **kwargs):
+def STDiT3_3B_2(from_pretrained=None, force_huggingface=True, **kwargs):
     # check if from_pretrained is a path
-    if from_pretrained is not None and not os.path.isdir(from_pretrained):
+    if force_huggingface or (from_pretrained is not None and not os.path.isdir(from_pretrained)):
         model = STDiT3.from_pretrained(from_pretrained, **kwargs)
     else:
         config = STDiT3Config(depth=28, hidden_size=1872, patch_size=(1, 2, 2), num_heads=26, **kwargs)