diff --git a/lora/lora.py b/lora/lora.py
index 723e783d..8e96f3b0 100644
--- a/lora/lora.py
+++ b/lora/lora.py
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ def build_parser():
         default="mlx_model",
         help="The path to the local model directory or Hugging Face repo.",
     )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--revision",
+        default="main",
+        help="Specify the version of the model to use. This can be a branch name, tag, or commit hash. Defaults to 'main'.",
+    )
+
     # Generation args
     parser.add_argument(
         "--max-tokens",
@@ -333,7 +340,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         tokenizer_config["add_eos_token"] = bool(args.add_eos_token)
 
     print("Loading pretrained model")
-    model, tokenizer, _ = lora_utils.load(args.model, tokenizer_config)
+    model, tokenizer, _ = lora_utils.load(args.model, args.revision, tokenizer_config)
     # Freeze all layers other than LORA linears
     model.freeze()
     for l in model.model.layers[len(model.model.layers) - args.lora_layers :]:
diff --git a/lora/utils.py b/lora/utils.py
index a334723c..b278179f 100644
--- a/lora/utils.py
+++ b/lora/utils.py
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ import transformers
 from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
 
 
-def fetch_from_hub(hf_path: str):
+def fetch_from_hub(hf_path: str, revision: str = "main"):
     model_path = snapshot_download(
         repo_id=hf_path,
+        revision=revision,
         allow_patterns=["*.json", "*.safetensors", "tokenizer.model"],
     )
     weight_files = glob.glob(f"{model_path}/*.safetensors")
@@ -122,7 +123,7 @@ def save_model(save_dir: str, weights, tokenizer, config):
         )
 
 
-def load(path_or_hf_repo: str, tokenizer_config={}):
+def load(path_or_hf_repo: str, revision: str = "main", tokenizer_config={}):
     # If the path exists, it will try to load model form it
     # otherwise download and cache from the hf_repo and cache
     model_path = Path(path_or_hf_repo)
@@ -130,6 +131,7 @@ def load(path_or_hf_repo: str, tokenizer_config={}):
         model_path = Path(
             snapshot_download(
                 repo_id=path_or_hf_repo,
+                revision=revision,
                 allow_patterns=["*.json", "*.safetensors", "tokenizer.model"],
             )
         )