diff --git a/inference/bot.py b/inference/bot.py
index 00a4f05..4d952aa 100644
--- a/inference/bot.py
+++ b/inference/bot.py
@@ -85,23 +85,28 @@ def __init__(self, model_name, gpu_id, max_memory):
 
     def do_inference(self, prompt, max_new_tokens, do_sample, temperature, top_k, stream_callback=None):
         stop_criteria = StopWordsCriteria(self._tokenizer, [self.human_id], stream_callback)
-        inputs = (
-            self._tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors='pt')
-            .to(self._model.device)
-        )
-        outputs = self._model.generate(
-            **inputs,
-            max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens,
-            do_sample=do_sample,
-            temperature=temperature,
-            top_k=top_k,
-            pad_token_id=self._tokenizer.eos_token_id,
-            stopping_criteria=StoppingCriteriaList([stop_criteria]),
-        )
-        output = self._tokenizer.batch_decode(outputs)[0]
-
-        # remove the context from the output
-        output = output[len(prompt):]
+        try:
+            inputs = (
+                self._tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors='pt')
+                .to(self._model.device)
+            )
+            outputs = self._model.generate(
+                **inputs,
+                max_new_tokens=max_new_tokens,
+                do_sample=do_sample,
+                temperature=temperature,
+                top_k=top_k,
+                pad_token_id=self._tokenizer.eos_token_id,
+                stopping_criteria=StoppingCriteriaList([stop_criteria]),
+            )
+            del inputs
+            output = self._tokenizer.batch_decode(outputs)[0]
+            del outputs
+
+            # remove the context from the output
+            output = output[len(prompt):]
+        finally:
+            torch.cuda.empty_cache()
 
         return output