diff --git a/tools/models/scvi/scvi-config.yaml b/tools/models/scvi/scvi-config.yaml
index 656d45cd1..b8f017fc3 100644
--- a/tools/models/scvi/scvi-config.yaml
+++ b/tools/models/scvi/scvi-config.yaml
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ census:
     null
   obs_query_model: # Required when loading data for model training. Do not change.
     'is_primary_data == True and nnz >= 300'
+  version:
+    "2024-05-20"
 hvg:
   top_n_hvg: 
     8000
@@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ model:
   filename: "scvi.model"
   n_hidden: 512
   n_latent: 50
-  n_layers: 1
+  n_layers: 2
 train:
   max_epochs: 100
   batch_size: 1024
diff --git a/tools/models/scvi/scvi-create-latent-update.py b/tools/models/scvi/scvi-create-latent-update.py
index 5aeaa34b6..0a70e2596 100644
--- a/tools/models/scvi/scvi-create-latent-update.py
+++ b/tools/models/scvi/scvi-create-latent-update.py
@@ -14,12 +14,13 @@
     with open(file) as f:
         config = yaml.safe_load(f)
 
-    census = cellxgene_census.open_soma(census_version="2023-12-15")
-
     census_config = config.get("census")
     experiment_name = census_config.get("organism")
     obs_value_filter = census_config.get("obs_query")
 
+    version = census_config.get("version")
+    census = cellxgene_census.open_soma(census_version=version)
+
     hv = pd.read_pickle("hv_genes.pkl")
     hv_idx = hv[hv].index
 
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@
 
     adata.var.set_index("feature_id", inplace=True)
 
-    idx = query.obs(column_names=["soma_joinid"]).concat().to_pandas().index.to_numpy()
+    idx = query.obs(column_names=["soma_joinid"]).concat().to_pandas().to_numpy()
 
     del census, query, hv, hv_idx
     gc.collect()
diff --git a/tools/models/scvi/scvi-prepare.py b/tools/models/scvi/scvi-prepare.py
index 4c2214629..b66c05833 100644
--- a/tools/models/scvi/scvi-prepare.py
+++ b/tools/models/scvi/scvi-prepare.py
@@ -11,13 +11,14 @@
     with open(file) as f:
         config = yaml.safe_load(f)
 
-    census = cellxgene_census.open_soma(census_version="2023-12-15")
-
     census_config = config.get("census")
     experiment_name = census_config.get("organism")
     obs_query = census_config.get("obs_query")
     obs_query_model = census_config.get("obs_query_model")
 
+    version = census_config.get("version")
+    census = cellxgene_census.open_soma(census_version=version)
+
     if obs_query is None:
         obs_value_filter = obs_query_model
     else: