diff --git a/OmniGen/model.py b/OmniGen/model.py
index 5389931..161fbfb 100644
--- a/OmniGen/model.py
+++ b/OmniGen/model.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # The code is revised from DiT
 import os
+import gc
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 import numpy as np
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@
 from timm.models.vision_transformer import PatchEmbed, Attention, Mlp
 from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
 from safetensors.torch import load_file
+from accelerate import init_empty_weights
 
 from OmniGen.transformer import Phi3Config, Phi3Transformer
 
@@ -187,20 +189,37 @@ def __init__(
         self.llm.config.use_cache = False
     
     @classmethod
-    def from_pretrained(cls, model_name):
+    def from_pretrained(cls, model_name: str|os.PathLike, dtype: torch.dtype = torch.bfloat16, low_cpu_mem_usage: bool = True,):
         if not os.path.exists(model_name):
             cache_folder = os.getenv('HF_HUB_CACHE')
             model_name = snapshot_download(repo_id=model_name,
                                            cache_dir=cache_folder,
                                            ignore_patterns=['flax_model.msgpack', 'rust_model.ot', 'tf_model.h5'])
-        config = Phi3Config.from_pretrained(model_name)
-        model = cls(config)
-        if os.path.exists(os.path.join(model_name, 'model.safetensors')):
+        
+        model_path = os.path.join(model_name, 'model.safetensors')
+        if not os.path.exists(model_path):
+            model_path = os.path.join(model_name, 'model.pt')
+            ckpt = torch.load(model_path, map_location='cpu')
+        else:
             print("Loading safetensors")
-            ckpt = load_file(os.path.join(model_name, 'model.safetensors'))
+            ckpt = load_file(model_path, 'cpu')
+
+        if low_cpu_mem_usage:
+            with init_empty_weights():
+                config = Phi3Config.from_pretrained(model_name)
+                model = cls(config)
+        
+            model.load_state_dict(ckpt, assign=True)
+            model = model.to(dtype)
         else:
-            ckpt = torch.load(os.path.join(model_name, 'model.pt'), map_location='cpu')
-        model.load_state_dict(ckpt)
+            config = Phi3Config.from_pretrained(model_name)
+            model = cls(config)
+            model.load_state_dict(ckpt)
+            model = model.to(dtype)
+        
+        del ckpt
+        torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+        gc.collect()
         return model
 
     def initialize_weights(self):
diff --git a/OmniGen/pipeline.py b/OmniGen/pipeline.py
index 572452b..bf776c9 100644
--- a/OmniGen/pipeline.py
+++ b/OmniGen/pipeline.py
@@ -41,6 +41,15 @@
         ```
 """
 
+def best_available_device():
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        device = torch.device("cuda")
+    elif torch.backends.mps.is_available():
+        device = torch.device("mps")
+    else:
+        logger.info("Don't detect any available GPUs, using CPU instead, this may take long time to generate image!!!")
+        device = torch.device("cpu")
+    return device
 
 class OmniGenPipeline:
     def __init__(
@@ -55,14 +64,10 @@ def __init__(
         self.processor = processor
         self.device = device
 
-        if device is None:
-            if torch.cuda.is_available():
-                self.device = torch.device("cuda")
-            elif torch.backends.mps.is_available():
-                self.device = torch.device("mps")
-            else:
-                logger.info("Don't detect any available GPUs, using CPU instead, this may take long time to generate image!!!")
-                self.device = torch.device("cpu")
+        if self.device is None:
+            self.device = best_available_device()
+        elif isinstance(self.device, str):
+            self.device = torch.device(self.device)
 
         # self.model.to(torch.bfloat16)
         self.model.eval()
@@ -71,7 +76,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.model_cpu_offload = False
 
     @classmethod
-    def from_pretrained(cls, model_name, vae_path: str=None):
+    def from_pretrained(cls, model_name, vae_path: str=None, device=None, low_cpu_mem_usage=True):
         if not os.path.exists(model_name) or (not os.path.exists(os.path.join(model_name, 'model.safetensors')) and model_name == "Shitao/OmniGen-v1"):
             # logger.info("Model not found, downloading...")
             print("Model not found, downloading...")
@@ -79,20 +84,24 @@ def from_pretrained(cls, model_name, vae_path: str=None):
             model_name = snapshot_download(repo_id=model_name,
                                            cache_dir=cache_folder,
                                            ignore_patterns=['flax_model.msgpack', 'rust_model.ot', 'tf_model.h5', 'model.pt'])
-            # logger.info(f"Downloaded model to {model_name}")
-            print(f"Downloaded model to {model_name}")
-        model = OmniGen.from_pretrained(model_name)
+            logger.info(f"Downloaded model to {model_name}")
+        
+        if device is None:
+            device = best_available_device()
+
+        model = OmniGen.from_pretrained(model_name, dtype=torch.bfloat16, low_cpu_mem_usage=low_cpu_mem_usage)
         processor = OmniGenProcessor.from_pretrained(model_name)
 
-        if os.path.exists(os.path.join(model_name, "vae")):
-            vae = AutoencoderKL.from_pretrained(os.path.join(model_name, "vae"))
-        elif vae_path is not None:
-            vae = AutoencoderKL.from_pretrained(vae_path).to(device)
-        else:
+        if vae_path is None:
+            vae_path = os.path.join(model_name, "vae")
+        
+        if not os.path.exists(vae_path):
             logger.info(f"No VAE found in {model_name}, downloading stabilityai/sdxl-vae from HF")
-            vae = AutoencoderKL.from_pretrained("stabilityai/sdxl-vae").to(device)
+            vae_path = "stabilityai/sdxl-vae"
+            
+        vae = AutoencoderKL.from_pretrained(vae_path).to(device)
 
-        return cls(vae, model, processor)
+        return cls(vae, model, processor, device)
     
     def merge_lora(self, lora_path: str):
         model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(self.model, lora_path)