diff --git a/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-1b-qlora.yml b/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-1b-qlora.yml
index f6fc6955c..4bcbf09f4 100644
--- a/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-1b-qlora.yml
+++ b/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-1b-qlora.yml
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ output_dir: ./outputs/out
 
 # Freeze vision tower
 unfrozen_parameters:
-  - ^model\.language_model\..*
-  - ^lm_head\..*
+  - ^model.language_model.*
+  - ^lm_head.*
 
 adapter: qlora
 lora_r: 32
diff --git a/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-270m-qlora.yml b/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-270m-qlora.yml
index 99202f29f..1f247ab05 100644
--- a/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-270m-qlora.yml
+++ b/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-270m-qlora.yml
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ output_dir: ./outputs/out
 
 # Freeze vision tower
 unfrozen_parameters:
-  - ^model\.language_model\..*
-  - ^lm_head\..*
+  - ^model.language_model.*
+  - ^lm_head.*
 
 adapter: qlora
 lora_r: 32
diff --git a/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-4b-qlora.yml b/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-4b-qlora.yml
index d11f2ea50..5d939da19 100644
--- a/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-4b-qlora.yml
+++ b/examples/gemma3/gemma-3-4b-qlora.yml
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ output_dir: ./outputs/out
 
 # Freeze vision tower
 unfrozen_parameters:
-  - ^model\.language_model\..*
-  - ^lm_head\..*
+  - ^model.language_model.*
+  - ^lm_head.*
 
 adapter: qlora
 lora_model_dir:
diff --git a/examples/qwen3.5/27b-fft.yaml b/examples/qwen3.5/27b-fft.yaml
index 6e61bc695..9f875ec26 100644
--- a/examples/qwen3.5/27b-fft.yaml
+++ b/examples/qwen3.5/27b-fft.yaml
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ sample_packing: true
 
 # Freeze vision encoder
 unfrozen_parameters:
-  - model\.language_model\..*
-  - lm_head\..*
+  - model.language_model.*
+  - lm_head.*
 
 wandb_project:
 wandb_entity: