diff --git a/examples/veRL/README.md b/examples/veRL/README.md
index e2ec6e50..5904cc8a 100644
--- a/examples/veRL/README.md
+++ b/examples/veRL/README.md
@@ -1,19 +1,32 @@
 ### env setup
 
 ```
-conda create --name verl python=3.12 -y
+conda create --name verl python=3.11 -y
 conda activate verl
 
 pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
-pip install vllm==0.7.0 ray wandb
+pip install ray wandb
+# pip3 install vllm==0.7.0
+pip3 install vllm --pre --extra-index-url https://wheels.vllm.ai/nightly
 ```
 
+Regarding vllm>0.7 see: [docs](https://verl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README_vllm0.7.html)
+
+
 ### clone and install veRL
 
-tested with verl HEAD a65c9157bc0b85b64cd753de19f94e80a11bd871
+tested with verl HEAD 0dfcb7f99e299940e1792a386df13c7591df351a
 
 ```
 git clone https://github.com/volcengine/verl.git
 cd verl
 pip install -e .
 ```
+
+
+Optionally log in to huggingface hub and wandb with your keys:
+
+```
+huggingface-cli login
+wandb login
+```
diff --git a/examples/veRL/config/ppo_trainer.yaml b/examples/veRL/config/ppo_trainer.yaml
index b294a7cb..a3d167ea 100644
--- a/examples/veRL/config/ppo_trainer.yaml
+++ b/examples/veRL/config/ppo_trainer.yaml
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ actor_rollout_ref:
         # transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: None
         min_num_params: 0
       param_offload: False
-      grad_offload: False
       optimizer_offload: False
       fsdp_size: -1
   ref:
@@ -104,7 +103,6 @@ critic:
     use_remove_padding: False
     fsdp_config:
       param_offload: False
-      grad_offload: False
       optimizer_offload: False
       wrap_policy:
         # transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: None
@@ -158,10 +156,16 @@ trainer:
   project_name: verl_examples
   experiment_name: gsm8k
   logger: [ 'console', 'wandb' ]
+  val_generations_to_log_to_wandb: 0
   nnodes: 1
   n_gpus_per_node: 8
   save_freq: -1
+  # auto: find the last ckpt to resume. If can't find, start from scratch
+  resume_mode: auto # or auto or resume_path if
+  resume_from_path: False
   test_freq: -1
   critic_warmup: 0
-  default_hdfs_dir: ~/experiments/gsm8k/ppo/${trainer.experiment_name}
+  default_hdfs_dir: null
+  remove_previous_ckpt_in_save: False
+  del_local_ckpt_after_load: False
   default_local_dir: checkpoints/${trainer.project_name}/${trainer.experiment_name}