diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2c1eda3edc..f9895fe2eb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -66,13 +66,17 @@ You can use the TRL Command Line Interface (CLI) to quickly get started with Sup
 **SFT:**
 
 ```bash
-trl sft --model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B --dataset_name trl-lib/Capybara --output_dir Qwen2.5-0.5B-SFT
+trl sft --model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B \
+    --dataset_name trl-lib/Capybara \
+    --output_dir Qwen2.5-0.5B-SFT
 ```
 
 **DPO:**
 
 ```bash
-trl dpo --model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct --dataset_name argilla/Capybara-Preferences --output_dir Qwen2.5-0.5B-DPO 
+trl dpo --model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct \
+    --dataset_name argilla/Capybara-Preferences \
+    --output_dir Qwen2.5-0.5B-DPO 
 ```
 
 **Chat:**
diff --git a/examples/scripts/sft.py b/examples/scripts/sft.py
index 91084cd7fe..b6c789b3d2 100644
--- a/examples/scripts/sft.py
+++ b/examples/scripts/sft.py
@@ -12,38 +12,40 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 """
-# regular:
+# Full training
 python examples/scripts/sft.py \
-    --dataset_name trl-lib/ultrafeedback_binarized \
-    --model_name_or_path="facebook/opt-350m" \
-    --report_to="wandb" \
-    --learning_rate=1.41e-5 \
-    --per_device_train_batch_size=64 \
-    --gradient_accumulation_steps=16 \
-    --output_dir="sft_openassistant-guanaco" \
-    --logging_steps=1 \
-    --num_train_epochs=3 \
-    --max_steps=-1 \
-    --push_to_hub \
-    --gradient_checkpointing
+    --model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B \
+    --dataset_name trl-lib/Capybara \
+    --learning_rate 2.0e-5 \
+    --num_train_epochs 1 \
+    --packing \
+    --per_device_train_batch_size 2 \
+    --gradient_accumulation_steps 8 \
+    --gradient_checkpointing \
+    --logging_steps 25 \
+    --eval_strategy steps \
+    --eval_steps 100 \
+    --output_dir Qwen2-0.5B-SFT \
+    --push_to_hub
 
-# peft:
+# LoRA
 python examples/scripts/sft.py \
-    --dataset_name trl-lib/ultrafeedback_binarized \
-    --model_name_or_path="facebook/opt-350m" \
-    --report_to="wandb" \
-    --learning_rate=1.41e-5 \
-    --per_device_train_batch_size=64 \
-    --gradient_accumulation_steps=16 \
-    --output_dir="sft_openassistant-guanaco" \
-    --logging_steps=1 \
-    --num_train_epochs=3 \
-    --max_steps=-1 \
-    --push_to_hub \
+    --model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B \
+    --dataset_name trl-lib/Capybara \
+    --learning_rate 2.0e-4 \
+    --num_train_epochs 1 \
+    --packing \
+    --per_device_train_batch_size 2 \
+    --gradient_accumulation_steps 8 \
     --gradient_checkpointing \
+    --logging_steps 25 \
+    --eval_strategy steps \
+    --eval_steps 100 \
     --use_peft \
-    --lora_r=64 \
-    --lora_alpha=16
+    --lora_r 32 \
+    --lora_alpha 16 \
+    --output_dir Qwen2-0.5B-SFT \
+    --push_to_hub
 """
 
 from datasets import load_dataset
diff --git a/trl/trainer/sft_config.py b/trl/trainer/sft_config.py
index fd9a31c467..a407a01ee6 100644
--- a/trl/trainer/sft_config.py
+++ b/trl/trainer/sft_config.py
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ class SFTConfig(TrainingArguments):
             [`ConstantLengthDataset`] based on `dataset_text_field`.
         packing (`bool`, *optional*, defaults to `False`):
             Controls whether the [`ConstantLengthDataset`] packs the sequences of the dataset.
+        learning_rate (`float`, *optional*, defaults to `2e-5`):
+            Initial learning rate for [`AdamW`] optimizer. The default value replaces that of [`~transformers.TrainingArguments`].
         max_seq_length (`Optional[int]`, *optional*, defaults to `None`):
             Maximum sequence length for the [`ConstantLengthDataset`] and for automatically creating the dataset. If
             `None`, it uses the smaller value between `tokenizer.model_max_length` and `1024`.
@@ -58,6 +60,7 @@ class SFTConfig(TrainingArguments):
 
     dataset_text_field: str = "text"
     packing: bool = False
+    learning_rate: float = 2.0e-5
     max_seq_length: Optional[int] = None
     dataset_num_proc: Optional[int] = None
     dataset_batch_size: int = 1000