diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 557c5293f..b5114bbf6 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ s3fs
 gcsfs
 # adlfs
 
-trl==0.8.6
+trl @ git+https://github.com/huggingface/trl.git@f18253bf2d747f68acc9cd89da95c85ebf59dbb9
 zstandard==0.22.0
 fastcore
diff --git a/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py b/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py
index 0551ddbc0..b88cc4221 100755
--- a/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ from transformers import (
 )
 from transformers.trainer_utils import seed_worker
 from transformers.utils import is_sagemaker_mp_enabled
-from trl import DPOTrainer, KTOConfig, KTOTrainer, ORPOConfig, ORPOTrainer
+from trl import DPOConfig, DPOTrainer, KTOConfig, KTOTrainer, ORPOConfig, ORPOTrainer
 from trl.trainer.utils import pad_to_length
 
 from axolotl.loraplus import create_loraplus_optimizer
@@ -238,6 +238,13 @@ class AxolotlTrainingArguments(AxolotlTrainingMixins, TrainingArguments):
     """
 
 
+@dataclass
+class AxolotlDPOConfig(AxolotlTrainingMixins, DPOConfig):
+    """
+    DPO config for DPO training
+    """
+
+
 @dataclass
 class AxolotlORPOConfig(AxolotlTrainingMixins, ORPOConfig):
     """
@@ -1608,7 +1615,9 @@ class HFRLTrainerBuilder(TrainerBuilderBase):
             # trl does some odd mapping of alpha to beta to reuse the beta parameter ???
             training_args_kwargs["beta"] = self.cfg.orpo_alpha
 
-        training_args_cls = AxolotlTrainingArguments
+        training_args_cls = AxolotlDPOConfig
+        if self.cfg.rpo_alpha is not None:
+            training_args_kwargs["rpo_alpha"] = self.cfg.rpo_alpha
         if self.cfg.rl == "orpo":
             training_args_cls = AxolotlORPOConfig
             training_args_kwargs["dataset_num_proc"] = self.cfg.dataset_processes
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/config/models/input/v0_4_1/__init__.py b/src/axolotl/utils/config/models/input/v0_4_1/__init__.py
index f363ebfdc..240a816ed 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/config/models/input/v0_4_1/__init__.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/config/models/input/v0_4_1/__init__.py
@@ -619,6 +619,7 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
     neftune_noise_alpha: Optional[float] = None
 
     orpo_alpha: Optional[float] = None
+    rpo_alpha: Optional[float] = None
 
     kto_desirable_weight: Optional[float] = None
     kto_undesirable_weight: Optional[float] = None
diff --git a/tests/e2e/test_dpo.py b/tests/e2e/test_dpo.py
index 5d2522bdf..5f03e6bc1 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/test_dpo.py
+++ b/tests/e2e/test_dpo.py
@@ -70,6 +70,51 @@ class TestDPOLlamaLora(unittest.TestCase):
         train(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args, dataset_meta=dataset_meta)
         assert (Path(temp_dir) / "checkpoint-20/adapter_model.safetensors").exists()
 
+    @with_temp_dir
+    def test_dpo_nll_lora(self, temp_dir):
+        # pylint: disable=duplicate-code
+        cfg = DictDefault(
+            {
+                "base_model": "JackFram/llama-68m",
+                "tokenizer_type": "LlamaTokenizer",
+                "sequence_len": 1024,
+                "load_in_8bit": True,
+                "adapter": "lora",
+                "lora_r": 64,
+                "lora_alpha": 32,
+                "lora_dropout": 0.1,
+                "lora_target_linear": True,
+                "special_tokens": {},
+                "rl": "dpo",
+                "rpo_alpha": 0.5,
+                "datasets": [
+                    {
+                        "path": "arcee-ai/distilabel-intel-orca-dpo-pairs-binarized",
+                        "type": "chatml.ultra",
+                        "split": "train",
+                    },
+                ],
+                "num_epochs": 1,
+                "micro_batch_size": 4,
+                "gradient_accumulation_steps": 1,
+                "output_dir": temp_dir,
+                "learning_rate": 0.00001,
+                "optimizer": "paged_adamw_8bit",
+                "lr_scheduler": "cosine",
+                "max_steps": 20,
+                "save_steps": 10,
+                "warmup_steps": 5,
+                "gradient_checkpointing": True,
+                "gradient_checkpointing_kwargs": {"use_reentrant": True},
+            }
+        )
+        normalize_config(cfg)
+        cli_args = TrainerCliArgs()
+        dataset_meta = load_rl_datasets(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args)
+
+        train(cfg=cfg, cli_args=cli_args, dataset_meta=dataset_meta)
+        assert (Path(temp_dir) / "checkpoint-20/adapter_model.safetensors").exists()
+
     @with_temp_dir
     def test_kto_pair_lora(self, temp_dir):
         # pylint: disable=duplicate-code