diff --git a/examples/llm_finetune/nemotron/customizer_nemotron_nano_full_sft_chat.yaml b/examples/llm_finetune/nemotron/customizer_nemotron_nano_full_sft_chat.yaml
index a0b34c4c10..0ef677a9b9 100644
--- a/examples/llm_finetune/nemotron/customizer_nemotron_nano_full_sft_chat.yaml
+++ b/examples/llm_finetune/nemotron/customizer_nemotron_nano_full_sft_chat.yaml
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ parallelizer:
 ci:
   time: "00:30:00"
   checkpoint_robustness:
-    hf_kl_threshold: 7e-2
+    hf_kl_threshold: 1e-1
     tokenizer_name: nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16
     no_check_resume: true
     experts_implementation: grouped_mm