diff --git a/examples/summarization/bart/evaluate_cnn.py b/examples/summarization/bart/evaluate_cnn.py
index 474fcd46cb..93590614eb 100644
--- a/examples/summarization/bart/evaluate_cnn.py
+++ b/examples/summarization/bart/evaluate_cnn.py
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ def generate_summaries(lns, out_file, batch_size=8, device=DEFAULT_DEVICE):
     fout = Path(out_file).open("w")
     model = BartForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("bart-large-cnn", output_past=True,).to(device)
     tokenizer = BartTokenizer.from_pretrained("bart-large")
+
+    max_length = 140
+    min_length = 55
+
     for batch in tqdm(list(chunks(lns, batch_size))):
         dct = tokenizer.batch_encode_plus(batch, max_length=1024, return_tensors="pt", pad_to_max_length=True)
         summaries = model.generate(
@@ -27,11 +31,12 @@ def generate_summaries(lns, out_file, batch_size=8, device=DEFAULT_DEVICE):
             attention_mask=dct["attention_mask"].to(device),
             num_beams=4,
             length_penalty=2.0,
-            max_length=142,  # +2 from original because we start at step=1 and stop before max_length
-            min_length=56,  # +1 from original because we start at step=1
+            max_length=max_length + 2,  # +2 from original because we start at step=1 and stop before max_length
+            min_length=min_length + 1,  # +1 from original because we start at step=1
             no_repeat_ngram_size=3,
             early_stopping=True,
             do_sample=False,
+            decoder_start_token_id=model.config.eos_token_ids[0]
         )
         dec = [tokenizer.decode(g, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=False) for g in summaries]
         for hypothesis in dec: