diff --git a/open_flamingo/src/flamingo.py b/open_flamingo/src/flamingo.py
index 01db18b7..1940065f 100644
--- a/open_flamingo/src/flamingo.py
+++ b/open_flamingo/src/flamingo.py
@@ -126,19 +126,7 @@ def generate(
         vision_x: torch.Tensor,
         lang_x: torch.Tensor,
         attention_mask: torch.Tensor = None,
-        num_beams=1,
-        min_new_tokens=None,
-        max_new_tokens=None,
-        temperature=1.0,
-        top_k=0,
-        top_p=1.0,
-        no_repeat_ngram_size=0,
-        repetition_penalty=1.0,
-        prefix_allowed_tokens_fn=None,
-        length_penalty=1.0,
-        num_return_sequences=1,
-        do_sample=False,
-        early_stopping=False,
+        **kwargs,
     ):
         """
         Generate text conditioned on vision and language inputs.
@@ -150,44 +138,36 @@ def generate(
                 currently only F=1 is supported (single-frame videos)
             lang_x (torch.Tensor): Language input
                 shape (B, T_txt)
-            max_length (int, optional): Maximum length of the output. Defaults to None.
-            attention_mask (torch.Tensor, optional): Attention mask. Defaults to None.
-            num_beams (int, optional): Number of beams. Defaults to 1.
-            max_new_tokens (int, optional): Maximum new tokens. Defaults to None.
-            temperature (float, optional): Temperature. Defaults to 1.0.
-            top_k (int, optional): Top k. Defaults to 0.
-            top_p (float, optional): Top p. Defaults to 1.0.
-            no_repeat_ngram_size (int, optional): No repeat ngram size. Defaults to 0.
-            length_penalty (float, optional): Length penalty. Defaults to 1.0.
-            num_return_sequences (int, optional): Number of return sequences. Defaults to 1.
-            do_sample (bool, optional): Do sample. Defaults to False.
-            early_stopping (bool, optional): Early stopping. Defaults to False.
+            **kwargs: see generate documentation in Hugging Face CausalLM models. Some notable kwargs:
+                max_length (int, optional): Maximum length of the output. Defaults to None.
+                attention_mask (torch.Tensor, optional): Attention mask. Defaults to None.
+                num_beams (int, optional): Number of beams. Defaults to 1.
+                max_new_tokens (int, optional): Maximum new tokens. Defaults to None.
+                temperature (float, optional): Temperature. Defaults to 1.0.
+                top_k (int, optional): Top k. Defaults to 50.
+                top_p (float, optional): Top p. Defaults to 1.0.
+                no_repeat_ngram_size (int, optional): No repeat ngram size. Defaults to 0.
+                length_penalty (float, optional): Length penalty. Defaults to 1.0.
+                num_return_sequences (int, optional): Number of return sequences. Defaults to 1.
+                do_sample (bool, optional): Do sample. Defaults to False.
+                early_stopping (bool, optional): Early stopping. Defaults to False.
         Returns:
             torch.Tensor: lang_x with generated tokens appended to it
         """
+        num_beams = kwargs.pop('num_beams', 1)
         if num_beams > 1:
             vision_x = vision_x.repeat_interleave(num_beams, dim=0)
 
         self.lang_encoder._use_cached_vision_x = True
         self._encode_vision_x(vision_x=vision_x)
 
+        eos_token_id = kwargs.pop('eos_token_id', self.eoc_token_id)
         output = self.lang_encoder.generate(
             input_ids=lang_x,
             attention_mask=attention_mask,
-            eos_token_id=self.eoc_token_id,
+            eos_token_id=eos_token_id,
             num_beams=num_beams,
-            min_new_tokens=min_new_tokens,
-            max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens,
-            temperature=temperature,
-            top_k=top_k,
-            top_p=top_p,
-            prefix_allowed_tokens_fn=prefix_allowed_tokens_fn,
-            no_repeat_ngram_size=no_repeat_ngram_size,
-            repetition_penalty=repetition_penalty,
-            length_penalty=length_penalty,
-            num_return_sequences=num_return_sequences,
-            do_sample=do_sample,
-            early_stopping=early_stopping,
+            **kwargs,
         )
 
         self.lang_encoder.clear_conditioned_layers()