diff --git a/examples/alpaca/train_alpaca_lora.py b/examples/alpaca/train_alpaca_lora.py
index 6872d4e..3f0d175 100644
--- a/examples/alpaca/train_alpaca_lora.py
+++ b/examples/alpaca/train_alpaca_lora.py
@@ -319,7 +319,6 @@ def train(load_in_8bit=False) -> None:
         )
 
     # Resize the tokenizer's vocabulary size to accommodate additional special tokens, if necessary
-    tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token
     special_tokens_dict = {}
     if tokenizer.pad_token is None:
         special_tokens_dict['pad_token'] = DEFAULT_PAD_TOKEN