diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index b47a1048..11aedeb8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - main
+    paths-ignore:
+      - "configs.example/**" # ignores all files in configs.example
+      - "**/README.md" # ignores all README files
 
 jobs:
   release:
diff --git a/configs.example/experiment/example_simple.yaml b/configs.example/experiment/example_simple.yaml
index 0cdcda08..4f35dbb7 100644
--- a/configs.example/experiment/example_simple.yaml
+++ b/configs.example/experiment/example_simple.yaml
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ trainer:
   max_epochs: 2
 
 datamodule:
-  batch_size: 32
+  batch_size: 16
 
 validate_only: "1" # by putting this key in the config file, the model does not get trained.