diff --git a/src/axolotl/integrations/kd/kernels/liger.py b/src/axolotl/integrations/kd/kernels/liger.py
index 75fe718f6..787740bcf 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/integrations/kd/kernels/liger.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/integrations/kd/kernels/liger.py
@@ -125,7 +125,6 @@ class LigerFusedLinearKLTopKLogprobFunction(LigerFusedLinearDistillationBase):
                 target_token_ids_chunk,
                 target_logprobs_chunk,
                 target_mask_chunk,
-                temperature=temperature,
             )
 
         loss = weight_hard_loss * ce_loss + weight_soft_loss * soft_loss