diff --git a/flaml/nlp/utils.py b/flaml/nlp/utils.py
index 489d00b96..357dbe0ae 100644
--- a/flaml/nlp/utils.py
+++ b/flaml/nlp/utils.py
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ class HFArgs:
 
     def __post_init__(self):
         if self.task in NLG_TASKS:
-            HFArgs.model_path = "t5-small"
+            self.model_path = "t5-small"
 
     @staticmethod
     def load_args_from_console():
diff --git a/notebook/automl_nlp.ipynb b/notebook/automl_nlp.ipynb
index c74d89c9d..7c255ceb9 100644
--- a/notebook/automl_nlp.ipynb
+++ b/notebook/automl_nlp.ipynb
@@ -1398,7 +1398,7 @@
     "\n",
     "automl_settings = {\n",
     "    \"time_budget\": 500,         # setting the time budget\n",
-    "    \"task\": \"summarization\",    # setting the task as multiplechoice-classification\n",
+    "    \"task\": \"summarization\",    # setting the task as summarization\n",
     "    \"hf_args\": {\n",
     "        \"output_dir\": \"data/output/\",  # setting the output directory\n",
     "        \"ckpt_per_epoch\": 1,    # setting the number of checkoints per epoch\n",