diff --git a/opencompass/utils/run.py b/opencompass/utils/run.py
index 0d44cff9..445c8451 100644
--- a/opencompass/utils/run.py
+++ b/opencompass/utils/run.py
@@ -95,7 +95,15 @@ def get_config_from_arg(args) -> Config:
                      pad_token_id=args.pad_token_id,
                      run_cfg=dict(num_gpus=args.num_gpus))
         models.append(model)
-    return Config(dict(models=models, datasets=datasets),
+    
+    summarizer = None
+    if args.summarizer:
+        s = match_cfg_file('configs/summarizers/', [args.summarizer])[0]
+        get_logger().info(f'Loading {s[0]}: {s[1]}')
+        cfg = Config.fromfile(s[1])
+        summarizer = cfg['summarizer']
+
+    return Config(dict(models=models, datasets=datasets, summarizer=summarizer),
                   format_python_code=False)
 
 
diff --git a/opencompass/utils/summarizer.py b/opencompass/utils/summarizer.py
index aefa8c94..704c159b 100644
--- a/opencompass/utils/summarizer.py
+++ b/opencompass/utils/summarizer.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class Summarizer:
 
         model_cfgs = self.cfg['models']
         dataset_cfgs = self.cfg['datasets']
-        summarizer_cfg = self.cfg.get('summarizer', {})
+        summarizer_cfg = self.cfg.get('summarizer', {}) or {} # avoid 'summarizer' is in cfg but None
         work_dir = self.cfg['work_dir']
 
         # pick up results
diff --git a/run.py b/run.py
index 0e3e15a3..00802209 100644
--- a/run.py
+++ b/run.py
@@ -38,9 +38,10 @@ def parse_args():
                         help='Whether or not enable multimodal evaluation',
                         action='store_true',
                         default=False)
-    # Add shortcut parameters (models and datasets)
+    # Add shortcut parameters (models, datasets and summarizer)
     parser.add_argument('--models', nargs='+', help='', default=None)
     parser.add_argument('--datasets', nargs='+', help='', default=None)
+    parser.add_argument('--summarizer', help='', default=None)
     # add general args
     parser.add_argument('--debug',
                         help='Debug mode, in which scheduler will run tasks '