diff --git a/examples/pixtral/lora-12b.yaml b/examples/pixtral/lora-12b.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..88fb02be5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/pixtral/lora-12b.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+base_model: mistral-community/pixtral-12b
+processor_type: AutoProcessor
+strict: false
+
+# these 3 lines are needed for now to handle vision chat templates w images
+skip_prepare_dataset: true
+remove_unused_columns: false
+sample_packing: false
+
+chat_template: llama3_2_vision
+datasets:
+  - path: HuggingFaceH4/llava-instruct-mix-vsft
+    type: chat_template
+    split: train[:1%]
+    field_messages: messages
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.0
+output_dir: ./outputs/out
+
+adapter: lora
+lora_model_dir:
+
+sequence_len: 8192
+pad_to_sequence_len: false
+
+lora_r: 32
+lora_alpha: 16
+lora_dropout: 0.05
+lora_target_modules: 'language_model.model.layers.[\d]+.(mlp|cross_attn|self_attn).(up|down|gate|q|k|v|o)_proj'
+
+wandb_project:
+wandb_entity:
+wandb_watch:
+wandb_name:
+wandb_log_model:
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 4
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_bnb_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 0.0002
+
+train_on_inputs: false
+group_by_length: false
+bf16: true
+fp16:
+tf32: true
+
+gradient_checkpointing: true
+local_rank:
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+eager_attention:
+
+warmup_ratio: 0.1
+evals_per_epoch: 1
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+debug:
+deepspeed:
+weight_decay: 0.0
+fsdp:
+fsdp_config:
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
index c18af9760..b6e2a3e1d 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
@@ -1114,7 +1114,8 @@ def load_lora(model, cfg, inference=False, config_only=False):
         fan_in_fan_out=cfg.lora_fan_in_fan_out,
         modules_to_save=cfg.lora_modules_to_save if cfg.lora_modules_to_save else None,
         bias="none",
-        task_type="CAUSAL_LM",
+        # task_type="CAUSAL_LM",
+        task_type="CONDITIONAL_GENERATION" if cfg.is_multimodal else "CAUSAL_LM",
         **lora_config_kwargs,
     )