diff --git a/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/arguments.py b/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/arguments.py
index 33ec3507..c56139c2 100644
--- a/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/arguments.py
+++ b/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/arguments.py
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ class ModelArguments:
         default=None, metadata={"help": "Where do you want to store the pretrained models downloaded from s3"}
     )
 
-    normlized: bool = field(default=True)
 
 
 @dataclass
@@ -71,3 +70,4 @@ class RetrieverTrainingArguments(TrainingArguments):
     temperature: Optional[float] = field(default=0.02)
     fix_position_embedding: bool = field(default=False, metadata={"help": "Freeze the parameters of position embeddings"})
     sentence_pooling_method: str = field(default='cls', metadata={"help": "the pooling method, should be cls or mean"})
+    normlized: bool = field(default=True)
diff --git a/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/run.py b/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/run.py
index b8bd5e7a..e83e3519 100644
--- a/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/run.py
+++ b/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/run.py
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ def main():
     logger.info('Config: %s', config)
 
     model = BiEncoderModel(model_name=model_args.model_name_or_path,
-                           normlized=model_args.normlized,
+                           normlized=training_args.normlized,
                            sentence_pooling_method=training_args.sentence_pooling_method,
                            negatives_cross_device=training_args.negatives_cross_device,
                            temperature=training_args.temperature)
diff --git a/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/trainer.py b/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/trainer.py
index 91405bd1..0165359e 100644
--- a/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/trainer.py
+++ b/FlagEmbedding/baai_general_embedding/finetune/trainer.py
@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@
 from transformers.trainer import *
 
 
-def save_ckpt_for_sentence_transformers(ckpt_dir, pooling_mode: str = 'cls'):
+def save_ckpt_for_sentence_transformers(ckpt_dir, pooling_mode: str = 'cls', normlized: bool=True):
     word_embedding_model = models.Transformer(ckpt_dir)
     pooling_model = models.Pooling(word_embedding_model.get_word_embedding_dimension(), pooling_mode=pooling_mode)
-    model = SentenceTransformer(modules=[word_embedding_model, pooling_model], device='cpu')
+    if normlized:
+        normlize_layer = models.Normalize()
+        model = SentenceTransformer(modules=[word_embedding_model, pooling_model, normlize_layer], device='cpu')
+    else:
+        model = SentenceTransformer(modules=[word_embedding_model, pooling_model], device='cpu')
     model.save(ckpt_dir)
 
 
@@ -29,7 +33,9 @@ def _save(self, output_dir: Optional[str] = None):
 
         # save the checkpoint for sentence-transformers library
         if self.is_world_process_zero():
-            save_ckpt_for_sentence_transformers(output_dir, pooling_mode=self.args.sentence_pooling_method)
+            save_ckpt_for_sentence_transformers(output_dir,
+                                                pooling_mode=self.args.sentence_pooling_method,
+                                                normlized=self.args.normlized)
 
     def compute_loss(self, model, inputs, return_outputs=False):
         """
diff --git a/examples/pretrain/README.md b/examples/pretrain/README.md
index a578250e..ffccfaa7 100644
--- a/examples/pretrain/README.md
+++ b/examples/pretrain/README.md
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ torchrun --nproc_per_node {number of gpus} \
 --per_device_train_batch_size {batch size; set 1 for toy data} \
 --dataloader_drop_last True \
 --max_seq_length 512 \
---logging_steps 10
+--logging_steps 10 \
+--dataloader_num_workers 12
 ```
 
 More training arguments please refer to [transformers.TrainingArguments](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main_classes/trainer#transformers.TrainingArguments). 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 315a7710..6f802ecd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
         'torch>=1.6.0',
         'transformers>=4.18.0',
         'datasets',
-        'accelerate>=0.20.1'
+        'accelerate>=0.20.1',
+        'sentence_transformers',
     ],
 )