diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/config/__init__.py b/src/axolotl/utils/config/__init__.py
index 20d84e165..4e956140d 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/config/__init__.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/config/__init__.py
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ def normalize_config(cfg):
             with open(ds_config_path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
                 cfg.deepspeed = json.load(f)
 
-    if cfg.sequence_parallel_size is None:
-        cfg.sequence_parallel_size = 1
+    if cfg.sequence_parallel_degree is None:
+        cfg.sequence_parallel_degree = 1
 
     if cfg.saves_per_epoch:
         save_steps = 1.0 / (cfg.saves_per_epoch * cfg.num_epochs)