diff --git a/dacapo/experiments/tasks/affinities_task.py b/dacapo/experiments/tasks/affinities_task.py
index a355288d2..1a5b4d7ce 100644
--- a/dacapo/experiments/tasks/affinities_task.py
+++ b/dacapo/experiments/tasks/affinities_task.py
@@ -25,14 +25,10 @@ class AffinitiesTask(Task):
 
     def __init__(self, task_config):
         """
-        Create a `DummyTask` from a `DummyTaskConfig`.
+        Create an AffinitiesTask object from a given AffinitiesTaskConfig.
 
         Args:
-            task_config: The configuration for the task.
-        Returns:
-            A `DummyTask` object.
-        Raises:
-            NotImplementedError: This method is not implemented.
+            task_config (AffinitiesTaskConfig): The configuration for the affinities task
         Examples:
             >>> task = AffinitiesTask(task_config)
         """
@@ -40,6 +36,8 @@ def __init__(self, task_config):
         self.predictor = AffinitiesPredictor(
             neighborhood=task_config.neighborhood,
             lsds=task_config.lsds,
+            num_voxels=task_config.num_lsd_voxels,
+            downsample_lsds=task_config.downsample_lsds,
             affs_weight_clipmin=task_config.affs_weight_clipmin,
             affs_weight_clipmax=task_config.affs_weight_clipmax,
             lsd_weight_clipmin=task_config.lsd_weight_clipmin,
diff --git a/dacapo/experiments/tasks/affinities_task_config.py b/dacapo/experiments/tasks/affinities_task_config.py
index 5e22f2a0d..0aeb72763 100644
--- a/dacapo/experiments/tasks/affinities_task_config.py
+++ b/dacapo/experiments/tasks/affinities_task_config.py
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ class AffinitiesTaskConfig(TaskConfig):
     Attributes:
         neighborhood: A list of Coordinate objects.
         lsds: Whether or not to train lsds along with your affinities.
+        num_lsd_voxels: The number of voxels to use for the lsd center of mass calculation.
+        downsample_lsds: The factor by which to downsample the lsds.
         lsds_to_affs_weight_ratio: If training with lsds, set how much they should be weighted compared to affs.
         affs_weight_clipmin: The minimum value for affinities weights.
         affs_weight_clipmax: The maximum value for affinities weights.
@@ -45,6 +47,19 @@ class AffinitiesTaskConfig(TaskConfig):
             "It has been shown that lsds as an auxiliary task can help affinity predictions."
         },
     )
+    num_lsd_voxels: int = attr.ib(
+        default=10,
+        metadata={
+            "help_text": "The number of voxels to use for the lsd center of mass calculation."
+        },
+    )
+    downsample_lsds: int = attr.ib(
+        default=1,
+        metadata={
+            "help_text": "The factor by which to downsample the lsds. "
+            "This can be useful to reduce the computational cost of training."
+        },
+    )
     lsds_to_affs_weight_ratio: float = attr.ib(
         default=1,
         metadata={
diff --git a/dacapo/experiments/tasks/predictors/affinities_predictor.py b/dacapo/experiments/tasks/predictors/affinities_predictor.py
index 59f0cfa60..e4084270a 100644
--- a/dacapo/experiments/tasks/predictors/affinities_predictor.py
+++ b/dacapo/experiments/tasks/predictors/affinities_predictor.py
@@ -4,22 +4,6 @@
 from dacapo.experiments.datasplits.datasets.arrays import NumpyArray
 from dacapo.utils.affinities import seg_to_affgraph, padding as aff_padding
 from dacapo.utils.balance_weights import balance_weights
-
-from funlib.geometry import Coordinate
-from lsd.train import LsdExtractor
-
-from scipy import ndimage
-import numpy as np
-import torch
-import itertools
-
-from typing import List
-from .predictor import Predictor
-from dacapo.experiments import Model
-from dacapo.experiments.arraytypes import EmbeddingArray
-from dacapo.experiments.datasplits.datasets.arrays import NumpyArray
-from dacapo.utils.affinities import seg_to_affgraph, padding as aff_padding
-from dacapo.utils.balance_weights import balance_weights
 from funlib.geometry import Coordinate
 from lsd.train import LsdExtractor
 from scipy import ndimage