diff --git a/configs/hotpot_qa.yaml b/configs/hotpot_qa.yaml
index 00b2ad8..a0c1416 100644
--- a/configs/hotpot_qa.yaml
+++ b/configs/hotpot_qa.yaml
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ label_names: ["labels"]
 # w/o this the trainer stores logits of all sample in memory...
 # batch_eval_metrics: true
 
-per_device_train_batch_size: 32
-per_device_eval_batch_size: 32
+per_device_train_batch_size: 16
+per_device_eval_batch_size: 16
 max_val_samples_per_ds: 1000
 # optim: schedule_free_adamw
 learning_rate: 0.00001
diff --git a/configs/pwc_hotpot_qa.yaml b/configs/pwc_hotpot_qa.yaml
index 0d458ef..13eddd8 100644
--- a/configs/pwc_hotpot_qa.yaml
+++ b/configs/pwc_hotpot_qa.yaml
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ label_names: ["labels"]
 # w/o this the trainer stores logits of all sample in memory...
 # batch_eval_metrics: true
 
-per_device_train_batch_size: 32
-per_device_eval_batch_size: 32
+per_device_train_batch_size: 16
+per_device_eval_batch_size: 16
 max_val_samples_per_ds: 1000
 # optim: schedule_free_adamw
 learning_rate: 0.00001