diff --git a/src/axolotl/cli/merge_lora.py b/src/axolotl/cli/merge_lora.py
index 611881ab1a..f3543be420 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/cli/merge_lora.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/cli/merge_lora.py
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ def do_cli(config: Path = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
         load_in_8bit=False,
         load_in_4bit=False,
         flash_attention=False,
+        deepspeed=None,
+        fsdp=None,
         **kwargs,
     )