diff --git a/scripts/playground/reference_hf.py b/scripts/playground/reference_hf.py
index 9354e01d5c..3f5fe2024a 100644
--- a/scripts/playground/reference_hf.py
+++ b/scripts/playground/reference_hf.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ def normal_text(args):
     t = get_tokenizer(args.model_path, trust_remote_code=True)
     m = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
         args.model_path,
-        torch_dtype=torch.float16,
+        torch_dtype=args.dtype,
         low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
         device_map="auto",
         trust_remote_code=True,
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def normal_text(args):
         "The capital of the United Kindom is",
         "Today is a sunny day and I like",
     ]
-    max_new_tokens = 16
+    max_new_tokens = args.max_new_tokens
 
     torch.cuda.set_device(0)
 
@@ -104,6 +104,16 @@ def synthetic_tokens(args):
         default="TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v0.4",
         # default="meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf",
     )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--max-new-tokens",
+        type=int,
+        default=16)
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--dtype",
+        type=str,
+        default="float16")
+
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     normal_text(args)