diff --git a/PaddleNLP/PaddleTextGEN/variational_seq2seq/args.py b/PaddleNLP/PaddleTextGEN/variational_seq2seq/args.py
index 1d856577490bc5b6dcfbaf0a93b7cb5832a69a0a..a19f65cbce28ce49356d2422da4c888572869111 100644
--- a/PaddleNLP/PaddleTextGEN/variational_seq2seq/args.py
+++ b/PaddleNLP/PaddleTextGEN/variational_seq2seq/args.py
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ def parse_args():
 
     parser.add_argument(
         '--use_gpu',
-        type=bool,
+        type=eval,
         default=False,
         help='Whether using gpu [True|False]')