diff --git a/detic/modeling/text/text_encoder.py b/detic/modeling/text/text_encoder.py
index 3ec5090..6e80f8d 100644
--- a/detic/modeling/text/text_encoder.py
+++ b/detic/modeling/text/text_encoder.py
@@ -171,11 +171,12 @@ def forward(self, captions):
         return features
 
 
-def build_text_encoder(pretrain=True):
+def build_text_encoder(pretrain=True, clip_download_root=None):
     text_encoder = CLIPTEXT()
     if pretrain:
         import clip
-        pretrained_model, _ = clip.load("ViT-B/32", device='cpu')
+        pretrained_model, _ = clip.load("ViT-B/32", device='cpu',
+                                        download_root=clip_download_root)
         state_dict = pretrained_model.state_dict()
         to_delete_keys = ["logit_scale", "input_resolution", \
         "context_length", "vocab_size"] + \
@@ -186,4 +187,4 @@ def build_text_encoder(pretrain=True):
         print('Loading pretrained CLIP')
         text_encoder.load_state_dict(state_dict)
     # import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
-    return text_encoder
\ No newline at end of file
+    return text_encoder
diff --git a/detic/predictor.py b/detic/predictor.py
index 047ed80..d3c43a6 100644
--- a/detic/predictor.py
+++ b/detic/predictor.py
@@ -11,28 +11,18 @@
 from detectron2.engine.defaults import DefaultPredictor
 from detectron2.utils.video_visualizer import VideoVisualizer
 from detectron2.utils.visualizer import ColorMode, Visualizer
-from pathlib import Path
-from hashlib import md5
 
 from .modeling.utils import reset_cls_test
 
 
-def get_clip_embeddings(vocabulary, prompt='a '):
-    # NOTE: need hashing due to filename length limit
-    hash_value = md5("-".join(sorted(vocabulary)).encode()).hexdigest()
-    cache_file_path = f"/tmp/detic-clip-embeddings-{hash_value}.pt"
-    if Path(cache_file_path).exists():
-        print(f"loading embeddings for {vocabulary} from {cache_file_path}")
-        return torch.load(cache_file_path)
-    else:
-        from detic.modeling.text.text_encoder import build_text_encoder
-        text_encoder = build_text_encoder(pretrain=True)
-        text_encoder.eval()
-        texts = [prompt + x for x in vocabulary]
-        emb = text_encoder(texts).detach().permute(1, 0).contiguous().cpu()
-        print(f"saved embeddings for {vocabulary} to {cache_file_path}")
-        torch.save(emb, cache_file_path)
-        return emb
+def get_clip_embeddings(vocabulary, prompt='a ', clip_download_root=None):
+    from detic.modeling.text.text_encoder import build_text_encoder
+    text_encoder = build_text_encoder(pretrain=True,
+                                      clip_download_root=clip_download_root)
+    text_encoder.eval()
+    texts = [prompt + x for x in vocabulary]
+    emb = text_encoder(texts).detach().permute(1, 0).contiguous().cpu()
+    return emb
 
 BUILDIN_CLASSIFIER = {
     'lvis': 'datasets/metadata/lvis_v1_clip_a+cname.npy',
@@ -50,18 +40,22 @@ def get_clip_embeddings(vocabulary, prompt='a '):
 
 class VisualizationDemo(object):
     def __init__(self, cfg, args,
-        instance_mode=ColorMode.IMAGE, parallel=False):
+        instance_mode=ColorMode.IMAGE, parallel=False,
+        clip_download_root=None):
         """
         Args:
             cfg (CfgNode):
             instance_mode (ColorMode):
             parallel (bool): whether to run the model in different processes from visualization.
                 Useful since the visualization logic can be slow.
+            clip_download_root (str): Custom clip download root path
         """
+        self.clip_download_root = clip_download_root
         if args.vocabulary == 'custom':
             self.metadata = MetadataCatalog.get("__unused")
             self.metadata.thing_classes = args.custom_vocabulary.split(',')
-            classifier = get_clip_embeddings(self.metadata.thing_classes)
+            classifier = get_clip_embeddings(self.metadata.thing_classes,
+                                             clip_download_root=self.clip_download_root)
             self._default_vocabulary = None
         else:
             self.metadata = MetadataCatalog.get(
@@ -88,7 +82,8 @@ def change_vocabulary(self, vocab):
         """
         self.metadata = MetadataCatalog.get("__unused+"+str(random.random()))
         self.metadata.thing_classes = vocab.split(',')
-        classifier = get_clip_embeddings(self.metadata.thing_classes)
+        classifier = get_clip_embeddings(self.metadata.thing_classes,
+                                         clip_download_root=self.clip_download_root)
         num_classes = len(self.metadata.thing_classes)
         reset_cls_test(self.predictor.model, classifier, num_classes)