diff --git a/muse_maskgit_pytorch/muse_maskgit_pytorch.py b/muse_maskgit_pytorch/muse_maskgit_pytorch.py
index 3e01412..b76b031 100644
--- a/muse_maskgit_pytorch/muse_maskgit_pytorch.py
+++ b/muse_maskgit_pytorch/muse_maskgit_pytorch.py
@@ -198,6 +198,18 @@ def forward_with_cond_scale(
 
         return null_logits + (logits - null_logits) * cond_scale
 
+    def forward_with_neg_prompt(
+        self,
+        text_embed: torch.Tensor,
+        neg_text_embed: torch.Tensor,
+        cond_scale = 3.,
+        **kwargs
+    ):
+        neg_logits = self.forward(*args, neg_text_embed = neg_text_embed, cond_drop_prob = 0., **kwargs)
+        pos_logits = self.forward(*args, text_embed = text_embed, cond_drop_prob = 0., **kwargs)
+
+        return neg_logits + (pos_logits - neg_logits) * cond_scale
+
     def forward(
         self,
         x,
@@ -340,6 +352,7 @@ def load(self, path):
     def generate(
         self,
         texts: List[str],
+        negative_texts: Optional[List[str]] = None,
         cond_images: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
         fmap_size = None,
         temperature = 1.,
@@ -369,6 +382,17 @@ def generate(
 
         text_embeds = self.transformer.encode_text(texts)
 
+        demask_fn = self.transformer.forward_with_cond_scale
+
+        # negative prompting, as in paper
+
+        neg_text_embeds = None
+        if exists(negative_texts):
+            assert len(texts) == len(negative_texts)
+
+            neg_text_embeds = self.transformer.encode_text(negative_texts)
+            demask_fn = partial(self.transformer.forward_with_neg_prompt, neg_text_embeds = neg_text_embeds)
+
         if self.resize_image_for_cond_image:
             assert exists(cond_images), 'conditioning image must be passed in to generate for super res maskgit'
             with torch.no_grad():
@@ -383,7 +407,7 @@ def generate(
 
             ids = ids.scatter(1, masked_indices, self.mask_id)
 
-            logits = self.transformer.forward_with_cond_scale(
+            logits = demask_fn(
                 ids,
                 text_embeds = text_embeds,
                 conditioning_token_ids = cond_ids,
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f34404b..0367e8f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 setup(
   name = 'muse-maskgit-pytorch',
   packages = find_packages(exclude=[]),
-  version = '0.0.14',
+  version = '0.0.15',
   license='MIT',
   description = 'MUSE - Text-to-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformers, in Pytorch',
   author = 'Phil Wang',