diff --git a/inference/core/entities/requests/groundingdino.py b/inference/core/entities/requests/groundingdino.py
index d2d7f0af9..02941e439 100644
--- a/inference/core/entities/requests/groundingdino.py
+++ b/inference/core/entities/requests/groundingdino.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 from inference.core.entities.requests.dynamic_class_base import (
     DynamicClassBaseInferenceRequest,
 )
+from inference.core.env import CLASS_AGNOSTIC_NMS
 
 
 class GroundingDINOInferenceRequest(DynamicClassBaseInferenceRequest):
@@ -15,3 +16,4 @@ class GroundingDINOInferenceRequest(DynamicClassBaseInferenceRequest):
     box_threshold: Optional[float] = 0.5
     grounding_dino_version_id: Optional[str] = "default"
     text_threshold: Optional[float] = 0.5
+    class_agnostic_nms: Optional[bool] = CLASS_AGNOSTIC_NMS
diff --git a/inference/core/models/classification_base.py b/inference/core/models/classification_base.py
index ca5ba0cda..3d4c47019 100644
--- a/inference/core/models/classification_base.py
+++ b/inference/core/models/classification_base.py
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ def infer(
 
         Args:
             image (Any): The image or list of images to be processed.
+                - can be a BGR numpy array, filepath, InferenceRequestImage, PIL Image, byte-string, etc.
             disable_preproc_auto_orient (bool, optional): If true, the auto orient preprocessing step is disabled for this call. Default is False.
             disable_preproc_contrast (bool, optional): If true, the auto contrast preprocessing step is disabled for this call. Default is False.
             disable_preproc_grayscale (bool, optional): If true, the grayscale preprocessing step is disabled for this call. Default is False.
diff --git a/inference/models/grounding_dino/grounding_dino.py b/inference/models/grounding_dino/grounding_dino.py
index 7447feb9e..b35c9539c 100644
--- a/inference/models/grounding_dino/grounding_dino.py
+++ b/inference/models/grounding_dino/grounding_dino.py
@@ -42,9 +42,6 @@ def __init__(
         GROUNDING_DINO_CONFIG_PATH = os.path.join(
             GROUNDING_DINO_CACHE_DIR, "GroundingDINO_SwinT_OGC.py"
         )
-        # GROUNDING_DINO_CHECKPOINT_PATH = os.path.join(
-        #     GROUDNING_DINO_CACHE_DIR, "groundingdino_swint_ogc.pth"
-        # )
 
         if not os.path.exists(GROUNDING_DINO_CACHE_DIR):
             os.makedirs(GROUNDING_DINO_CACHE_DIR)
@@ -53,10 +50,6 @@ def __init__(
             url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roboflow/GroundingDINO/main/groundingdino/config/GroundingDINO_SwinT_OGC.py"
             urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, GROUNDING_DINO_CONFIG_PATH)
 
-        # if not os.path.exists(GROUNDING_DINO_CHECKPOINT_PATH):
-        #     url = "https://github.com/IDEA-Research/GroundingDINO/releases/download/v0.1.0-alpha/groundingdino_swint_ogc.pth"
-        #     urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, GROUNDING_DINO_CHECKPOINT_PATH)
-
         self.model = Model(
             model_config_path=GROUNDING_DINO_CONFIG_PATH,
             model_checkpoint_path=os.path.join(
@@ -95,6 +88,7 @@ def infer(
         class_filter: list = None,
         box_threshold=0.5,
         text_threshold=0.5,
+        class_agnostic_nms=CLASS_AGNOSTIC_NMS,
         **kwargs
     ):
         """
@@ -121,7 +115,7 @@ def infer(
 
         self.class_names = text
 
-        if CLASS_AGNOSTIC_NMS:
+        if class_agnostic_nms:
             detections = detections.with_nms(class_agnostic=True)
         else:
             detections = detections.with_nms()