diff --git a/server/text_generation_server/models/idefics.py b/server/text_generation_server/models/idefics.py
index c1fe03e4..f2955bd0 100644
--- a/server/text_generation_server/models/idefics.py
+++ b/server/text_generation_server/models/idefics.py
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ class IDEFICSSharded(IdeficsCausalLM):
 
         torch.distributed.barrier(group=self.process_group)
         super(IdeficsCausalLM, self).__init__(
+            model_id=model_id,
             model=model,
             tokenizer=tokenizer,
             requires_padding=True,