diff --git a/dinov2/utils/config.py b/dinov2/utils/config.py
index c9de578..1e3535e 100644
--- a/dinov2/utils/config.py
+++ b/dinov2/utils/config.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def apply_scaling_rules_to_cfg(cfg):  # to fix
     if cfg.optim.scaling_rule == "sqrt_wrt_1024":
         base_lr = cfg.optim.base_lr
         cfg.optim.lr = base_lr
-        cfg.optim.lr *= math.sqrt(cfg.train.batch_size_per_gpu * distributed.get_global_size() / 1024.0)
+        cfg.optim.lr *= math.sqrt(cfg.train.batch_size_per_gpu * cfg.train.grad_accum_steps * distributed.get_global_size() / 1024.0)
         logger.info(f"sqrt scaling learning rate; base: {base_lr}, new: {cfg.optim.lr}")
     else:
         raise NotImplementedError
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ def get_cfg_from_args(args):
     default_cfg = OmegaConf.create(dinov2_default_config)
     cfg = OmegaConf.load(args.config_file)
     cfg = OmegaConf.merge(default_cfg, cfg, OmegaConf.from_cli(args.opts))
+    cfg.train.grad_accum_steps = max(1, getattr(cfg.train, "grad_accum_steps", 1))
     return cfg