diff --git a/distrifuser/pipelines.py b/distrifuser/pipelines.py
index 7dbe05a..158c852 100644
--- a/distrifuser/pipelines.py
+++ b/distrifuser/pipelines.py
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ def prepare(self, **kwargs):
             prompt_embeds=None,
             negative_prompt_embeds=None,
             lora_scale=None,
-            clip_skip=pipeline.clip_skip,
+            clip_skip=kwargs.get("clip_skip", None),
         )
 
         batch_size = 2 if distri_config.do_classifier_free_guidance else 1
diff --git a/scripts/run_sdxl.py b/scripts/run_sdxl.py
index 087ad8d..3ff758b 100644
--- a/scripts/run_sdxl.py
+++ b/scripts/run_sdxl.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ def get_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
         "--sync_mode",
         type=str,
         default="corrected_async_gn",
-        choices=["separate_gn", "async_gn", "corrected_async_gn", "sync_gn", "full_sync", "no_sync"],
+        choices=["separate_gn", "stale_gn", "corrected_async_gn", "sync_gn", "full_sync", "no_sync"],
         help="Different GroupNorm synchronization modes",
     )
     parser.add_argument(
diff --git a/scripts/sd_example.py b/scripts/sd_example.py
index cf92b5a..ccc5a08 100644
--- a/scripts/sd_example.py
+++ b/scripts/sd_example.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from distrifuser.pipelines import DistriSDPipeline
 from distrifuser.utils import DistriConfig
 
-distri_config = DistriConfig(height=512, width=512, warmup_steps=4)
+distri_config = DistriConfig(height=512, width=512, warmup_steps=4, mode="stale_gn")
 pipeline = DistriSDPipeline.from_pretrained(
     distri_config=distri_config,
     pretrained_model_name_or_path="CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4",