diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a2fc8fe..a9c142e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-# SimCLR
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+# PyTorch implementation of SimCLR: A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations
+
diff --git a/config.yaml b/config.yaml
index 69e365e..11b9ca4 100644
--- a/config.yaml
+++ b/config.yaml
@@ -2,5 +2,6 @@ batch_size: 256
 out_dim: 64
 s: 1
 temperature: 0.5
+base_convnet: "resnet18" # one of: "resnet18 or resnet50"
 use_cosine_similarity: True
 epochs: 30
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diff --git a/model.py b/model.py
index 3cdfcc8..2a6cd7a 100644
--- a/model.py
+++ b/model.py
@@ -43,11 +43,14 @@ class Encoder(nn.Module):
         return h, x
 
 
-class ResNet18(nn.Module):
+class ResNetSimCLR(nn.Module):
 
-    def __init__(self, out_dim=64):
-        super(ResNet18, self).__init__()
-        resnet = models.resnet18(pretrained=False)
+    def __init__(self, base_model="resnet18", out_dim=64):
+        super(ResNetSimCLR, self).__init__()
+        self.resnet_dict = {"resnet18": models.resnet18(pretrained=False),
+                            "resnet50": models.resnet50(pretrained=False)}
+
+        resnet = self._get_basemodel(base_model)
         num_ftrs = resnet.fc.in_features
 
         self.features = nn.Sequential(*list(resnet.children())[:-1])
@@ -56,6 +59,12 @@ class ResNet18(nn.Module):
         self.l1 = nn.Linear(num_ftrs, num_ftrs)
         self.l2 = nn.Linear(num_ftrs, out_dim)
 
+    def _get_basemodel(self, model_name):
+        try:
+            return self.resnet_dict[model_name]
+        except:
+            raise ("Invalid model name. Check the config file and pass one of: resnet18 or resnet50")
+
     def forward(self, x):
         h = self.features(x)
         h = h.squeeze()
diff --git a/train.py b/train.py
index 8548522..5cd3372 100644
--- a/train.py
+++ b/train.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from torchvision import datasets
 from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 
-from model import ResNet18
+from model import ResNetSimCLR
 from utils import GaussianBlur
 
 torch.manual_seed(0)
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ train_dataset = datasets.STL10('data', split='train', download=True, transform=t
 train_loader = DataLoader(train_dataset, batch_size=batch_size, num_workers=1, drop_last=True, shuffle=True)
 
 # model = Encoder(out_dim=out_dim)
-model = ResNet18(out_dim=out_dim)
+model = ResNetSimCLR(base_model=config["base_convnet"], out_dim=out_dim)
 print(model)
 
 train_gpu = torch.cuda.is_available()