diff --git a/opensora/models/vae/vae.py b/opensora/models/vae/vae.py
index 4a9a278..a4637e0 100644
--- a/opensora/models/vae/vae.py
+++ b/opensora/models/vae/vae.py
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ def OpenSoraVAE_V1_2(
     local_files_only=False,
     freeze_vae_2d=False,
     cal_loss=False,
+    force_huggingface=True,
 ):
     vae_2d = dict(
         type="VideoAutoencoderKL",
@@ -277,7 +278,7 @@ def OpenSoraVAE_V1_2(
         scale=scale,
     )
 
-    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 = VideoAutoencoderPipeline.from_pretrained(from_pretrained, **kwargs)
     else:
         config = VideoAutoencoderPipelineConfig(**kwargs)