params = self._default_params
        params = {**params, **kwargs}
        inputs = self.tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt")["input_ids"]
        outputs = self.client.generate(inputs, **params)
        text = self.tokenizer.decode(outputs[0])
        if stop is not None:
            # I believe this is required since the stop tokens
            # are not enforced by the model parameters
            text = enforce_stop_tokens(text, stop)
        return text