diff --git a/textgrad/engine/vllm.py b/textgrad/engine/vllm.py
index 69f241a..c898a63 100644
--- a/textgrad/engine/vllm.py
+++ b/textgrad/engine/vllm.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ def __init__(
         self,
         model_string="meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct",
         system_prompt=DEFAULT_SYSTEM_PROMPT,
+        **llm_config,
     ):
         root = platformdirs.user_cache_dir("textgrad")
         cache_path = os.path.join(root, f"cache_vllm_{model_string}.db")
@@ -25,7 +26,7 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.model_string = model_string
         self.system_prompt = system_prompt
-        self.client = LLM(self.model_string)
+        self.client = LLM(self.model_string, **llm_config)
         self.tokenizer = self.client.get_tokenizer()
 
     def generate(