diff --git a/examples/extras/badam/llama3_lora_sft.yaml b/examples/extras/badam/llama3_lora_sft.yaml
index c8c00431..24322356 100644
--- a/examples/extras/badam/llama3_lora_sft.yaml
+++ b/examples/extras/badam/llama3_lora_sft.yaml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ stage: sft
 do_train: true
 finetuning_type: full
 use_badam: true
-badam_switch_mode: descending
+badam_switch_mode: ascending
 badam_switch_interval: 50
 badam_verbose: 2