diff --git a/llm_on_ray/finetune/finetune.yaml b/llm_on_ray/finetune/finetune.yaml
index 1dee1ebf8..1f1cc46ca 100644
--- a/llm_on_ray/finetune/finetune.yaml
+++ b/llm_on_ray/finetune/finetune.yaml
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ General:
     lora_alpha: 32
     lora_dropout: 0.1
   enable_gradient_checkpointing: false
-  custom_chat_template: null
 Dataset:
   train_file: examples/data/sample_finetune_data_small.jsonl
   group: true