diff --git a/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-gsm-vllm-baseline.sh b/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-gsm-vllm-baseline.sh
index 65be3c5d93b20..b98d42aa7b822 100644
--- a/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-gsm-vllm-baseline.sh
+++ b/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-gsm-vllm-baseline.sh
@@ -46,6 +46,6 @@ while getopts "m:b:l:f:t:" OPT; do
 done
 
 lm_eval --model vllm \
-  --model_args "pretrained=$MODEL,tensor_parallel_size=$TP_SIZE,distributed_executor_backend=ray,trust_remote_code=true,max_model_len=4096" \
+  --model_args "pretrained=$MODEL,tensor_parallel_size=$TP_SIZE,add_bos_token=true,trust_remote_code=true,max_model_len=4096" \
   --tasks gsm8k --num_fewshot "$FEWSHOT" --limit "$LIMIT" \
   --batch_size "$BATCH_SIZE"
diff --git a/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/test_lm_eval_correctness.py b/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/test_lm_eval_correctness.py
index 930adfaf3e192..ceea01166b7f4 100644
--- a/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/test_lm_eval_correctness.py
+++ b/.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/test_lm_eval_correctness.py
@@ -18,12 +18,14 @@ RTOL = 0.08
 
 def launch_lm_eval(eval_config, tp_size):
     trust_remote_code = eval_config.get("trust_remote_code", False)
+    max_model_len = eval_config.get("max_model_len", 4096)
     model_args = (
         f"pretrained={eval_config['model_name']},"
         f"tensor_parallel_size={tp_size},"
         f"enforce_eager=true,"
         f"add_bos_token=true,"
-        f"trust_remote_code={trust_remote_code}"
+        f"trust_remote_code={trust_remote_code},"
+        f"max_model_len={max_model_len}"
     )
     results = lm_eval.simple_evaluate(
         model="vllm",