diff --git a/flaml/automl/model.py b/flaml/automl/model.py
index 96ada5e158..ad939baad6 100644
--- a/flaml/automl/model.py
+++ b/flaml/automl/model.py
@@ -912,18 +912,24 @@ def search_space(cls, data_size, task, **params):
             If OOM, user should change the search space themselves
         """
 
-        search_space_dict["model_path"] = {
-            "domain": tune.choice(
-                [
-                    "google/electra-base-discriminator",
-                    "bert-base-uncased",
-                    "roberta-base",
-                    "facebook/muppet-roberta-base",
-                    "google/electra-small-discriminator",
-                ]
-            ),
-            "init_value": "facebook/muppet-roberta-base",
-        }
+        if task not in NLG_TASKS:
+            search_space_dict["model_path"] = {
+                "domain": tune.choice(
+                    [
+                        "google/electra-base-discriminator",
+                        "bert-base-uncased",
+                        "roberta-base",
+                        "facebook/muppet-roberta-base",
+                        "google/electra-small-discriminator",
+                    ]
+                ),
+                "init_value": "facebook/muppet-roberta-base",
+            }
+        else:
+            search_space_dict["model_path"] = {
+                "domain": tune.choice(["t5-small", "facebook/bart-base"]),
+                "init_value": "t5-small",
+            }
         return search_space_dict
 
 
diff --git a/flaml/model.py b/flaml/model.py
index b780a67d16..610d6942bc 100644
--- a/flaml/model.py
+++ b/flaml/model.py
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-import warnings
-
-from flaml.automl.model import *
-
-
-warnings.warn(
-    "Importing from `flaml.model` is deprecated. Please use `flaml.automl.model`.",
-    DeprecationWarning,
-)
+import warnings
+
+from flaml.automl.model import *
+
+
+warnings.warn(
+    "Importing from `flaml.model` is deprecated. Please use `flaml.automl.model`.",
+    DeprecationWarning,
+)
diff --git a/test/nlp/test_autohf_modelselection.py b/test/nlp/test_autohf_modelselection.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a08267c9fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/nlp/test_autohf_modelselection.py
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import sys
+import pytest
+import requests
+from utils import get_toy_data_summarization, get_automl_settings
+import os
+import shutil
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+    sys.platform == "darwin" or sys.version < "3.7",
+    reason="do not run on mac os or py<3.7",
+)
+def test_hf_ms():
+    from flaml import AutoML
+
+    X_train, y_train, X_val, y_val, X_test = get_toy_data_summarization()
+
+    automl = AutoML()
+
+    automl_settings = {
+        "gpu_per_trial": 0,
+        "max_iter": 3,
+        "time_budget": 20,
+        "task": "summarization",
+        "metric": "rouge1",
+        "log_file_name": "seqclass.log",
+        "use_ray": False,
+        "estimator_list": ["transformer_ms"],
+    }
+
+    try:
+        automl.fit(
+            X_train=X_train,
+            y_train=y_train,
+            X_val=X_val,
+            y_val=y_val,
+            **automl_settings
+        )
+        automl.score(X_val, y_val, **{"metric": "accuracy"})
+        automl.pickle("automl.pkl")
+    except requests.exceptions.HTTPError:
+        return
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_hf_ms()