diff --git a/cicd/cicd.sh b/cicd/cicd.sh
index 2f0af7e26..7fc4da556 100755
--- a/cicd/cicd.sh
+++ b/cicd/cicd.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ set -e
 
 python -c "import torch; assert '$PYTORCH_VERSION' in torch.__version__"
 
-curl --silent -L https://axolotl-ci.b-cdn.net/hf-cache.tar.zst | tar -xpf - -C "${HF_HOME}/hub/"  --use-compress-program unzstd --strip-components=1
+set -o pipefail
+curl --silent --show-error --fail --retry 3 --retry-delay 5 -L https://axolotl-ci.b-cdn.net/hf-cache.tar.zst | tar -xpf - -C "${HF_HOME}/hub/" --use-compress-program unzstd --strip-components=1
 # hf download "NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B"
 # hf download "NousResearch/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct"
 # hf download "microsoft/Phi-4-reasoning"
diff --git a/codecov.yml b/codecov.yml
index fa3ad3073..a876dd59d 100644
--- a/codecov.yml
+++ b/codecov.yml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ coverage:
         only_pulls: false
         flags: null
         paths: null
+        informational: true
 
 parsers:
   gcov:
diff --git a/tests/e2e/utils.py b/tests/e2e/utils.py
index 268311295..e1eaca050 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/utils.py
+++ b/tests/e2e/utils.py
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ def check_tensorboard(
     tag: str,
     lt_val: float,
     assertion_err: str,
-    rtol: float = 0.02,
+    rtol: float = 0.05,
     gt_zero: bool = True,
 ) -> None:
     """