diff --git a/examples/pixtral/lora-12b.yml b/examples/pixtral/lora-12b.yml
index 8e8373d59..a618faa67 100644
--- a/examples/pixtral/lora-12b.yml
+++ b/examples/pixtral/lora-12b.yml
@@ -61,3 +61,5 @@ deepspeed:
 weight_decay: 0.0
 fsdp:
 fsdp_config:
+special_tokens:
+  pad_token: <|end_of_text|>