# Inference slows down after restrictions

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**Created:** [March 22, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Finference-slows-down-after-restrictions%2F4918 "2021-03-22T16:23:56Z")\
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Earlier I was using `generate` without `length_penalty` and `no_repeat_ngram_size`, and after using these two params, inference has slowed down significantly (more than 2x). Is this the intended behaviour here ?