diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 50a5ca52..1d882737 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ evaluate>=0.3.0
 fairscale
 faiss_gpu==1.7.2
 jieba
-mmengine>0.8.0
+mmengine>=0.8.2
 nltk==3.8
 numpy==1.23.4
 openai
diff --git a/run.py b/run.py
index f671a3e8..479906f7 100644
--- a/run.py
+++ b/run.py
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ def main():
     # initialize logger
     logger = get_logger(log_level='DEBUG' if args.debug else 'INFO')
 
-    cfg = Config.fromfile(args.config)
+    cfg = Config.fromfile(args.config, format_python_code=False)
     if args.work_dir is not None:
         cfg['work_dir'] = args.work_dir
     else:
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ def main():
     cfg.dump(output_config_path)
     # Config is intentally reloaded here to avoid initialized
     # types cannot be serialized
-    cfg = Config.fromfile(output_config_path)
+    cfg = Config.fromfile(output_config_path, format_python_code=False)
 
     # report to lark bot if specify --lark
     if not args.lark: