diff --git a/uuparser/parser.py b/uuparser/parser.py
index e206d34..7af638f 100644
--- a/uuparser/parser.py
+++ b/uuparser/parser.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from optparse import OptionParser, OptionGroup
 from uuparser.options_manager import OptionsManager
 import pickle, os, time, sys, copy, itertools, re, random
+import dynet_config
 from shutil import copyfile
 
 from uuparser import utils
@@ -272,6 +273,7 @@ def main():
 
     # really important to do this before anything else to make experiments reproducible
     utils.set_seeds(options)
+    dynet_config.set(mem=options.dynet_mem, random_seed=options.dynet_seed)
 
     om = OptionsManager(options)
     experiments = om.create_experiment_list(options) # list of namedtuples