diff --git a/demo/elmo/elmo_finetune.py b/demo/elmo/elmo_finetune.py
index e0f077c183b4671a15783fe0d61661a53ed263d4..f39cd1ed20618569b49e8e3727f67fe8ef55a093 100644
--- a/demo/elmo/elmo_finetune.py
+++ b/demo/elmo/elmo_finetune.py
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     config = hub.RunConfig(
         use_cuda=args.use_gpu,
         use_data_parallel=True,
+        use_pyreader=False,
         num_epoch=args.num_epoch,
         batch_size=args.batch_size,
         checkpoint_dir=args.checkpoint_dir,
diff --git a/demo/elmo/predict.py b/demo/elmo/predict.py
index 3fb9b7140a06e16437f022e1e91d844a35769e05..c37e4aac6a878f84bb0eef683e6a0011b08cc418 100644
--- a/demo/elmo/predict.py
+++ b/demo/elmo/predict.py
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     config = hub.RunConfig(
         use_cuda=args.use_gpu,
         use_data_parallel=True,
+        use_pyreader=False,
         batch_size=args.batch_size,
         checkpoint_dir=args.checkpoint_dir,
         strategy=strategy)
diff --git a/demo/senta/predict.py b/demo/senta/predict.py
index 1c258343a286d124a4fb70c551168fb1d4f0be22..dfb5017f54e93df18255961534f1b5b78afe81d3 100644
--- a/demo/senta/predict.py
+++ b/demo/senta/predict.py
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import paddlehub as hub
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(__doc__)
 parser.add_argument("--checkpoint_dir", type=str,                 default=None, help="Directory to model checkpoint")
 parser.add_argument("--use_gpu",        type=ast.literal_eval,    default=True, help="Whether use GPU for finetuning, input should be True or False")
-parser.add_argument("--use_pyreader",   type=ast.literal_eval,    default=False, help="Whether use pyreader to feed data.")
 args = parser.parse_args()
 # yapf: enable.
 
@@ -40,7 +39,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
 
     config = hub.RunConfig(
         use_data_parallel=False,
-        use_pyreader=args.use_pyreader,
+        use_pyreader=False,
         use_cuda=args.use_gpu,
         batch_size=1,
         enable_memory_optim=False,
diff --git a/demo/senta/senta_finetune.py b/demo/senta/senta_finetune.py
index 8af5a720bfb44dbf20be3932913d418c15f49648..49eaa171fdcbcf7471553463622f2d33f8e680c8 100644
--- a/demo/senta/senta_finetune.py
+++ b/demo/senta/senta_finetune.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         num_epoch=args.num_epoch,
         batch_size=args.batch_size,
         checkpoint_dir=args.checkpoint_dir,
+        use_pyreader=False,
         strategy=strategy)
 
     # Define a classfication finetune task by PaddleHub's API