diff --git a/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py b/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
index bf1360d..bb1da34 100644
--- a/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
+++ b/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
@@ -922,11 +922,12 @@ class DiffusionPrior(nn.Module):
         loss_type = "l2",
         predict_x_start = True,
         beta_schedule = "cosine",
-        condition_on_text_encodings = True, # the paper suggests this is needed, but you can turn it off for your CLIP preprocessed text embed -> image embed training
-        sampling_clamp_l2norm = False,
+        condition_on_text_encodings = True,  # the paper suggests this is needed, but you can turn it off for your CLIP preprocessed text embed -> image embed training
+        sampling_clamp_l2norm = False,       # whether to l2norm clamp the image embed at each denoising iteration (analogous to -1 to 1 clipping for usual DDPMs)
+        sampling_final_clamp_l2norm = False, # whether to l2norm the final image embedding output (this is also done for images in ddpm)
         training_clamp_l2norm = False,
         init_image_embed_l2norm = False,
-        image_embed_scale = None,           # this is for scaling the l2-normed image embedding, so it is more suitable for gaussian diffusion, as outlined by Katherine (@crowsonkb) https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch/issues/60#issue-1226116132
+        image_embed_scale = None,            # this is for scaling the l2-normed image embedding, so it is more suitable for gaussian diffusion, as outlined by Katherine (@crowsonkb) https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch/issues/60#issue-1226116132
         clip_adapter_overrides = dict()
     ):
         super().__init__()
@@ -963,23 +964,32 @@ class DiffusionPrior(nn.Module):
         self.condition_on_text_encodings = condition_on_text_encodings
 
         # in paper, they do not predict the noise, but predict x0 directly for image embedding, claiming empirically better results. I'll just offer both.
+
         self.predict_x_start = predict_x_start
 
         # @crowsonkb 's suggestion - https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch/issues/60#issue-1226116132
+
         self.image_embed_scale = default(image_embed_scale, self.image_embed_dim ** 0.5)
 
         # whether to force an l2norm, similar to clipping denoised, when sampling
+
         self.sampling_clamp_l2norm = sampling_clamp_l2norm
+        self.sampling_final_clamp_l2norm = sampling_final_clamp_l2norm
+
         self.training_clamp_l2norm = training_clamp_l2norm
         self.init_image_embed_l2norm = init_image_embed_l2norm
 
         # device tracker
+
         self.register_buffer('_dummy', torch.tensor([True]), persistent = False)
 
     @property
     def device(self):
         return self._dummy.device
 
+    def l2norm_clamp_embed(self, image_embed):
+        return l2norm(image_embed) * self.image_embed_scale
+
     def p_mean_variance(self, x, t, text_cond, clip_denoised = False, cond_scale = 1.):
         assert not (cond_scale != 1. and not self.can_classifier_guidance), 'the model was not trained with conditional dropout, and thus one cannot use classifier free guidance (cond_scale anything other than 1)'
 
@@ -1020,6 +1030,9 @@ class DiffusionPrior(nn.Module):
             times = torch.full((batch,), i, device = device, dtype = torch.long)
             image_embed = self.p_sample(image_embed, times, text_cond = text_cond, cond_scale = cond_scale)
 
+        if self.sampling_final_clamp_l2norm and self.predict_x_start:
+            image_embed = self.l2norm_clamp_embed(image_embed)
+
         return image_embed
 
     @torch.no_grad()
@@ -1055,7 +1068,7 @@ class DiffusionPrior(nn.Module):
                 x_start.clamp_(-1., 1.)
 
             if self.predict_x_start and self.sampling_clamp_l2norm:
-                x_start = l2norm(x_start) * self.image_embed_scale
+                x_start = self.l2norm_clamp_embed(x_start)
 
             c1 = eta * ((1 - alpha / alpha_next) * (1 - alpha_next) / (1 - alpha)).sqrt()
             c2 = ((1 - alpha_next) - torch.square(c1)).sqrt()
@@ -1065,6 +1078,9 @@ class DiffusionPrior(nn.Module):
                           c1 * noise + \
                           c2 * pred_noise
 
+        if self.predict_x_start and self.sampling_final_clamp_l2norm:
+            image_embed = self.l2norm_clamp_embed(image_embed)
+
         return image_embed
 
     @torch.no_grad()
@@ -1091,7 +1107,7 @@ class DiffusionPrior(nn.Module):
         )
 
         if self.predict_x_start and self.training_clamp_l2norm:
-            pred = l2norm(pred) * self.image_embed_scale
+            pred = self.l2norm_clamp_embed(pred)
 
         target = noise if not self.predict_x_start else image_embed
 
diff --git a/dalle2_pytorch/version.py b/dalle2_pytorch/version.py
index cd5705a..bd5657d 100644
--- a/dalle2_pytorch/version.py
+++ b/dalle2_pytorch/version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.19.5'
+__version__ = '0.19.6'