diff --git a/examples/run_pplm.py b/examples/run_pplm.py
index b18e97b5a8..4d335a9241 100644
--- a/examples/run_pplm.py
+++ b/examples/run_pplm.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ PPLM_BOW = 1
 PPLM_DISCRIM = 2
 PPLM_BOW_DISCRIM = 3
 SMALL_CONST = 1e-15
-SmallConst = 1e-15
+BIG_CONST = 1e10
 TOKENIZER = GPT2Tokenizer.from_pretrained("gpt2-medium")
 
 BAG_OF_WORDS_ARCHIVE_MAP = {
@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ def top_k_filter(logits, k, probs=False):
         if probs:
             return torch.where(logits < batch_mins,
                                torch.ones_like(logits) * 0.0, logits)
-        return torch.where(logits < batch_mins, torch.ones_like(logits) * -1e10,
+        return torch.where(logits < batch_mins,
+                           torch.ones_like(logits) * -BIG_CONST,
                            logits)
 
 
@@ -137,7 +138,7 @@ def perturb_past(
         accumulated_hidden = 0
 
     if decay:
-        decay_mask = torch.arange(0., 1.0 + SmallConst, 1.0 / (window_length))[
+        decay_mask = torch.arange(0., 1.0 + SMALL_CONST, 1.0 / (window_length))[
                      1:]
     else:
         decay_mask = 1.0
@@ -233,9 +234,9 @@ def perturb_past(
         kl_loss = 0.0
         if kl_scale > 0.0:
             p = (F.softmax(unpert_logits[:, -1, :], dim=-1))
-            p = p + SmallConst * (p <= SmallConst).type(
+            p = p + SMALL_CONST * (p <= SMALL_CONST).type(
                 torch.FloatTensor).cuda().detach()
-            correction = SmallConst * (probabs <= SmallConst).type(
+            correction = SMALL_CONST * (probabs <= SMALL_CONST).type(
                 torch.FloatTensor).cuda().detach()
             corrected_probabs = probabs + correction.detach()
             kl_loss = kl_scale * (
@@ -254,7 +255,7 @@ def perturb_past(
                 for index, p_ in
                 enumerate(past_perturb)]
         else:
-            grad_norms = [(torch.norm(p_.grad * window_mask) + SmallConst) for
+            grad_norms = [(torch.norm(p_.grad * window_mask) + SMALL_CONST) for
                           index, p_ in enumerate(past_perturb)]
 
         grad = [
@@ -560,31 +561,31 @@ def generate_text_pplm(
         # Piero modified model call
         # hidden = model.hidden_states  # update hidden
         # logits = model.forward_hidden(hidden)
-        logits = logits[:, -1, :] / temperature  # + SmallConst
+        logits = logits[:, -1, :] / temperature  # + SMALL_CONST
 
-        # logits = top_k_filter(logits, k=args.top_k)  # + SmallConst
+        # logits = top_k_filter(logits, k=args.top_k)  # + SMALL_CONST
 
         log_probs = F.softmax(logits, dim=-1)
 
         # Fuse the modified model and original model
         if perturb:
 
-            # original_probs = top_k_filter(original_probs[:, -1, :]) #+ SmallConst
+            # original_probs = top_k_filter(original_probs[:, -1, :]) #+ SMALL_CONST
             unpert_logits = F.softmax(unpert_logits[:, -1, :], dim=-1)
             # likelywords = torch.topk(original_probs, k=10, dim=-1)
             # print(TOKENIZER.decode(likelywords[1].tolist()[0]))
 
             log_probs = ((log_probs ** gm_scale) * (
-                    unpert_logits ** (1 - gm_scale)))  # + SmallConst
+                    unpert_logits ** (1 - gm_scale)))  # + SMALL_CONST
 
             log_probs = top_k_filter(log_probs, k=top_k,
-                                     probs=True)  # + SmallConst
+                                     probs=True)  # + SMALL_CONST
 
             if torch.sum(log_probs) <= 1:
                 log_probs = log_probs / torch.sum(log_probs)
 
         else:
-            logits = top_k_filter(logits, k=top_k)  # + SmallConst
+            logits = top_k_filter(logits, k=top_k)  # + SMALL_CONST
             log_probs = F.softmax(logits, dim=-1)
 
         if sample: