diff --git a/tests/helpers.py b/tests/helpers.py
index a88ae3ef8..59695826f 100644
--- a/tests/helpers.py
+++ b/tests/helpers.py
@@ -37,11 +37,9 @@ def causal_lm_train_kwargs(train_kwargs):
         lora_config,
         prompt_tuning_config,
     ) = parser.parse_dict(train_kwargs, allow_extra_keys=True)
-    return (
-        model_args,
-        data_args,
-        training_args,
-        lora_config
-        if train_kwargs.get("peft_method") == "lora"
-        else prompt_tuning_config,
-    )
+    tuning_config = None
+    if train_kwargs.get("peft_method") == "lora":
+        tuning_config = lora_config
+    elif train_kwargs.get("peft_method") == "pt":
+        tuning_config = prompt_tuning_config
+    return (model_args, data_args, training_args, tuning_config)
diff --git a/tests/test_sft_trainer.py b/tests/test_sft_trainer.py
index c23c7e2c5..a55f7d25b 100644
--- a/tests/test_sft_trainer.py
+++ b/tests/test_sft_trainer.py
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 
 # Local
 from tuning import sft_trainer
+from tuning.config import peft_config
 
 MODEL_NAME = "Maykeye/TinyLLama-v0"
 BASE_PEFT_KWARGS = {
@@ -68,9 +69,9 @@
 BASE_LORA_KWARGS["peft_method"] = "lora"
 
 BASE_FT_KWARGS = copy.deepcopy(BASE_PEFT_KWARGS)
-BASE_FT_KWARGS["peft_method"] = ""
-BASE_FT_KWARGS["prompt_tuning_init"] = ""
-BASE_FT_KWARGS["prompt_tuning_init_text"] = ""
+BASE_FT_KWARGS["peft_method"] = None
+del BASE_FT_KWARGS["prompt_tuning_init"]
+del BASE_FT_KWARGS["prompt_tuning_init_text"]
 
 
 def test_helper_causal_lm_train_kwargs():
@@ -96,6 +97,15 @@ def test_helper_causal_lm_train_kwargs():
     assert tune_config.tokenizer_name_or_path == MODEL_NAME
     assert tune_config.num_virtual_tokens == 8
 
+    model_args, data_args, training_args, tune_config = causal_lm_train_kwargs(
+        BASE_FT_KWARGS
+    )
+    assert tune_config is None
+    model_args, data_args, training_args, tune_config = causal_lm_train_kwargs(
+        BASE_LORA_KWARGS
+    )
+    assert isinstance(tune_config, peft_config.LoraConfig)
+
 
 def test_run_train_requires_output_dir():
     """Check fails when output dir not provided."""
@@ -277,13 +287,14 @@ def test_run_causallm_ft_and_inference():
         model_args, data_args, training_args, tune_config = causal_lm_train_kwargs(
             BASE_FT_KWARGS
         )
+        # Just assuring no tuning config is passed for PT or LoRA
+        assert tune_config is None
+
         sft_trainer.train(model_args, data_args, training_args, tune_config)
 
         # validate ft tuning configs
         _validate_training(tempdir)
         checkpoint_path = _get_checkpoint_path(tempdir)
-        adapter_config = _get_adapter_config(checkpoint_path)
-        _validate_adapter_config(adapter_config, "PROMPT_TUNING", BASE_FT_KWARGS)
 
         # Load the model
         loaded_model = TunedCausalLM.load(checkpoint_path)
@@ -296,6 +307,7 @@ def test_run_causallm_ft_and_inference():
         assert "### Text: @NortonSupport Thanks much.\n\n### Label:" in output_inference
 
 
+############################# Helper functions #############################
 def _validate_training(tempdir, check_eval=False):
     assert any(x.startswith("checkpoint-") for x in os.listdir(tempdir))
     train_logs_file_path = "{}/training_logs.jsonl".format(tempdir)
@@ -333,6 +345,7 @@ def _validate_adapter_config(adapter_config, peft_type, base_kwargs):
     )
 
 
+############################# Other Tests #############################
 ### Tests for a variety of edge cases and potentially problematic cases;
 # some of these test directly test validation within external dependencies
 # and validate errors that we expect to get from them which might be unintuitive.