diff --git a/PrepareVicuna.md b/PrepareVicuna.md
index 0585e62..b18cfd8 100644
--- a/PrepareVicuna.md
+++ b/PrepareVicuna.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ pip install git+https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat.git@v0.1.10
 Then, run the following command to create the final working weight
 
 ```
-python -m fastchat.model.apply_delta --base /path/to/llama-13bOR7b-hf/  --target /path/to/save/working/vicuna/weight/  --delta /path/to/vicuna-13bOR7b-delta-v0/
+python -m fastchat.model.apply_delta --base /absolute/path/to/llama-13bOR7b-hf/  --target /absolute/path/to/save/working/vicuna/weight/  --delta /absolute/path/to/vicuna-13bOR7b-delta-v0/
 ```
 
 Now you are good to go!
diff --git a/dataset/README_1_STAGE.md b/dataset/README_1_STAGE.md
index 47ffaae..5c92b92 100644
--- a/dataset/README_1_STAGE.md
+++ b/dataset/README_1_STAGE.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ laion_synthetic_filtered_large.json
 
 ### setup the dataset folder and move the annotation file to the data storage folder
 ```
-export MINIGPT4_DATASET=/YOUR/PATH/FOR/LARGE/DATASET/
+export MINIGPT4_DATASET=/YOUR/ABSOLUTE/PATH/FOR/LARGE/DATASET/
 mkdir ${MINIGPT4_DATASET}/cc_sbu
 mkdir ${MINIGPT4_DATASET}/laion
 mv ccs_synthetic_filtered_large.json ${MINIGPT4_DATASET}/cc_sbu
diff --git a/eval_configs/minigpt4_llama2_eval.yaml b/eval_configs/minigpt4_llama2_eval.yaml
index eea99d3..284019c 100644
--- a/eval_configs/minigpt4_llama2_eval.yaml
+++ b/eval_configs/minigpt4_llama2_eval.yaml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ model:
   end_sym: "</s>"
   low_resource: True
   prompt_template: '[INST] {} [/INST] '
-  ckpt: '/path/to/checkpoint/'
+  ckpt: '/absolute/path/to/checkpoint/'
 
 
 datasets:
diff --git a/minigpt4/configs/datasets/cc_sbu/align.yaml b/minigpt4/configs/datasets/cc_sbu/align.yaml
index 5710834..7f34394 100644
--- a/minigpt4/configs/datasets/cc_sbu/align.yaml
+++ b/minigpt4/configs/datasets/cc_sbu/align.yaml
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ datasets:
   cc_sbu_align:
     data_type: images
     build_info:
-      storage: /path/to/cc_sbu_align/
+      storage: /absolute/path/to/cc_sbu_align/
diff --git a/minigpt4/configs/datasets/cc_sbu/defaults.yaml b/minigpt4/configs/datasets/cc_sbu/defaults.yaml
index 60390ee..d159ada 100644
--- a/minigpt4/configs/datasets/cc_sbu/defaults.yaml
+++ b/minigpt4/configs/datasets/cc_sbu/defaults.yaml
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ datasets:
   cc_sbu:
     data_type: images
     build_info:
-      storage: /path/to/cc_sbu_dataset/{00000..01255}.tar
+      storage: /absolute/path/to/cc_sbu_dataset/{00000..01255}.tar
diff --git a/minigpt4/configs/datasets/laion/defaults.yaml b/minigpt4/configs/datasets/laion/defaults.yaml
index 6bad629..fcf51b3 100644
--- a/minigpt4/configs/datasets/laion/defaults.yaml
+++ b/minigpt4/configs/datasets/laion/defaults.yaml
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ datasets:
   laion:
     data_type: images
     build_info:
-      storage: /path/to/laion_dataset/{00000..10488}.tar
+      storage: /absolute/path/to/laion_dataset/{00000..10488}.tar
diff --git a/minigpt4/configs/models/minigpt4_llama2.yaml b/minigpt4/configs/models/minigpt4_llama2.yaml
index c201bdc..19115b4 100644
--- a/minigpt4/configs/models/minigpt4_llama2.yaml
+++ b/minigpt4/configs/models/minigpt4_llama2.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ model:
   # generation configs
   prompt: ""
 
-  llama_model: "/path/to/llama2/weight"
+  llama_model: "/absolute/path/to/llama2/weight"
 
 preprocess:
     vis_processor:
diff --git a/minigpt4/configs/models/minigpt4_vicuna0.yaml b/minigpt4/configs/models/minigpt4_vicuna0.yaml
index 34bd2ed..e94cee0 100644
--- a/minigpt4/configs/models/minigpt4_vicuna0.yaml
+++ b/minigpt4/configs/models/minigpt4_vicuna0.yaml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ model:
   # generation configs
   prompt: ""
 
-  llama_model: "/path/to/vicuna/weight"
+  llama_model: "/absolute/path/to/vicuna/weight"
 
 preprocess:
     vis_processor:
diff --git a/train_configs/minigpt4_llama2_stage2_finetune.yaml b/train_configs/minigpt4_llama2_stage2_finetune.yaml
index 9a6ac2d..9923154 100644
--- a/train_configs/minigpt4_llama2_stage2_finetune.yaml
+++ b/train_configs/minigpt4_llama2_stage2_finetune.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ model:
   end_sym: "</s>"
   prompt_path: "prompts/alignment.txt"
   prompt_template: '[INST] {} [/INST] '
-  ckpt: '/path/to/stage1/checkpoint/'
+  ckpt: '/absolute/path/to/stage1/checkpoint/'
 
 
 datasets:
diff --git a/train_configs/minigpt4_stage2_finetune.yaml b/train_configs/minigpt4_stage2_finetune.yaml
index 54cedb4..9046f31 100644
--- a/train_configs/minigpt4_stage2_finetune.yaml
+++ b/train_configs/minigpt4_stage2_finetune.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ model:
   end_sym: "###"
   prompt_path: "prompts/alignment.txt"
   prompt_template: '###Human: {} ###Assistant: '
-  ckpt: '/path/to/stage1/checkpoint/'
+  ckpt: '/absolute/path/to/stage1/checkpoint/'
 
 
 datasets: