diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/config/__init__.py b/src/axolotl/utils/config/__init__.py
index 5ac7af567..d980822b2 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/config/__init__.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/config/__init__.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ def normalize_config(cfg):
 
     cfg.is_multimodal = (
         hasattr(model_config, "model_type")
-        and model_config.model_type in ["llava", "mllama", "qwen2_vl"]
+        and model_config.model_type in ["llava", "mllama", "qwen2_vl", "qwen2_5_vl"]
         or any(
             multimodal_name in cfg.base_model.lower()
             for multimodal_name in [