diff --git a/monai/apps/auto3dseg/auto_runner.py b/monai/apps/auto3dseg/auto_runner.py
index e1352bc426..eeaf9f5570 100644
--- a/monai/apps/auto3dseg/auto_runner.py
+++ b/monai/apps/auto3dseg/auto_runner.py
@@ -292,6 +292,9 @@ def __init__(
         self.search_space: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {}
         self.hpo_tasks = 0
 
+        if "sigmoid" not in self.kwargs and "sigmoid" in self.data_src_cfg:
+            self.kwargs["sigmoid"] = self.data_src_cfg["sigmoid"]
+
     def read_cache(self):
         """
         Check if the intermediate result is cached after each step in the current working directory
diff --git a/monai/apps/auto3dseg/ensemble_builder.py b/monai/apps/auto3dseg/ensemble_builder.py
index 28644f8357..4163521af1 100644
--- a/monai/apps/auto3dseg/ensemble_builder.py
+++ b/monai/apps/auto3dseg/ensemble_builder.py
@@ -586,14 +586,10 @@ def ensemble(self):
             if len(infer_files) == 0:
                 logger.info("No testing files for inference is provided. Ensembler ending.")
                 return
-            infer_files = (
-                partition_dataset(data=infer_files, shuffle=False, num_partitions=len(infer_files))[self.rank]
-                if self.rank < len(infer_files)
-                else []
-            )
+            infer_files = [infer_files[self.rank]] if self.rank < len(infer_files) else []
         else:
             infer_files = partition_dataset(
-                data=infer_files, shuffle=False, num_partitions=self.world_size, even_divisible=True
+                data=infer_files, shuffle=False, num_partitions=self.world_size, even_divisible=False
             )[self.rank]
 
         # TO DO: Add some function in ensembler for infer_files update?