diff --git a/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_conformer/workload.py b/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_conformer/workload.py
index dc7fb912b..b19593644 100644
--- a/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_conformer/workload.py
+++ b/algorithmic_efficiency/workloads/librispeech_conformer/workload.py
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ def num_test_examples(self) -> int:
 
   @property
   def eval_batch_size(self) -> int:
-    return 256
+    return 32
 
   @property
   def train_mean(self):