diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 8f94afe..aee52f8 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -30,4 +30,6 @@ dependencies:
     - gradio==3.47.1
     - accelerate==0.20.3
     - bitsandbytes==0.37.0
+    - scikit-image
+    - visual-genome
     - wandb
diff --git a/minigpt4/conversation/conversation.py b/minigpt4/conversation/conversation.py
index 6e4a5c1..73a995e 100644
--- a/minigpt4/conversation/conversation.py
+++ b/minigpt4/conversation/conversation.py
@@ -151,7 +151,8 @@ class Chat:
     def answer_prepare(self, conv, img_list, max_new_tokens=300, num_beams=1, min_length=1, top_p=0.9,
                        repetition_penalty=1.05, length_penalty=1, temperature=1.0, max_length=2000):
         conv.append_message(conv.roles[1], None)
-        embs = self.get_context_emb(conv, img_list)
+        prompt = conv.get_prompt()
+        embs = self.model.get_context_emb(prompt, img_list)
 
         current_max_len = embs.shape[1] + max_new_tokens
         if current_max_len - max_length > 0:
@@ -176,8 +177,7 @@ class Chat:
 
     def answer(self, conv, img_list, **kargs):
         generation_dict = self.answer_prepare(conv, img_list, **kargs)
-
-        output_token = self.model.llama_model.generate(**generation_dict)[0]
+        output_token = self.model_generate(**generation_dict)[0]
         output_text = self.model.llama_tokenizer.decode(output_token, skip_special_tokens=True)
 
         output_text = output_text.split('###')[0]  # remove the stop sign '###'
@@ -190,10 +190,16 @@ class Chat:
         generation_kwargs = self.answer_prepare(conv, img_list, **kargs)
         streamer = TextIteratorStreamer(self.model.llama_tokenizer, skip_special_tokens=True)
         generation_kwargs['streamer'] = streamer
-        thread = Thread(target=self.model.llama_model.generate, kwargs=generation_kwargs)
+        thread = Thread(target=self.model_generate, kwargs=generation_kwargs)
         thread.start()
         return streamer
 
+    def model_generate(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        # for 8 bit and 16 bit compatibility
+        with self.model.maybe_autocast():
+            output = self.model.llama_model.generate(*args, **kwargs)
+        return output
+
     def encode_img(self, img_list):
         image = img_list[0]
         img_list.pop(0)
@@ -218,21 +224,3 @@ class Chat:
 
         return msg
 
-    def get_context_emb(self, conv, img_list):
-        prompt = conv.get_prompt()
-        prompt_segs = prompt.split('<ImageHere>')
-        assert len(prompt_segs) == len(img_list) + 1, "Unmatched numbers of image placeholders and images."
-        seg_tokens = [
-            self.model.llama_tokenizer(
-                seg, return_tensors="pt", add_special_tokens=i == 0).to(self.device).input_ids
-            # only add bos to the first seg
-            for i, seg in enumerate(prompt_segs)
-        ]
-        print('debug device: ', self.device)
-        print('debug model device: ', self.model.device)
-        seg_embs = [self.model.embed_tokens(seg_t) for seg_t in seg_tokens]
-        mixed_embs = [emb for pair in zip(seg_embs[:-1], img_list) for emb in pair] + [seg_embs[-1]]
-        mixed_embs = torch.cat(mixed_embs, dim=1)
-        return mixed_embs
-
-
diff --git a/minigpt4/models/minigpt_base.py b/minigpt4/models/minigpt_base.py
index cd051ec..4ded50f 100644
--- a/minigpt4/models/minigpt_base.py
+++ b/minigpt4/models/minigpt_base.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ from minigpt4.common.registry import registry
 from minigpt4.models.base_model import BaseModel
 from transformers import StoppingCriteria, StoppingCriteriaList
 
+from minigpt4.conversation.conversation import StoppingCriteriaSub
+
 
 
 class MiniGPTBase(BaseModel):
@@ -314,7 +316,6 @@ class MiniGPTBase(BaseModel):
             embeds = self.llama_model.base_model.embed_tokens(token_ids)
         return embeds
 
-
     @torch.no_grad()
     def generate(
         self,