diff --git a/megatron/training.py b/megatron/training.py
index 5976ae6a7..ee5a339e4 100644
--- a/megatron/training.py
+++ b/megatron/training.py
@@ -406,6 +406,7 @@ def get_batch(neox_args, data_iterator):
             datatype=datatype,
         )
     elif neox_args.train_impl == "kto":
+        assert neox_args.train_micro_batch_size_per_gpu > 1, "For KTO training, the train_micro_batch_size_per_gpu must be greater than 1."
         tup = _get_batch(
             neox_args=neox_args,
             tokenizer=neox_args.tokenizer,
@@ -459,6 +460,9 @@ def get_batch(neox_args, data_iterator):
 
 def get_batch_pipe(data, neox_args, curr_scheduler=None):
     """A modification of get_batch() to work with the latest batch instead of an iterator."""
+
+    assert neox_args.train_impl not in ["kto", "dpo", "rm"], "Pipeline parallel is currently unsupported when using any of kto, dpo, rm. Set pipe_parallel_size to 0"
+
     # Items and their type.
     keys = ["text", "label"] if neox_args.train_label_data_paths else ["text"]
     datatype = torch.int64
diff --git a/post-training/README.md b/post-training/README.md
index 1ba5cde2f..930ad0e31 100644
--- a/post-training/README.md
+++ b/post-training/README.md
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ python tools/datasets/preprocess_data_with_chat_template.py --input data/pairwis
 
 ## SFT data
 ```bash
-python post-training/llama_dpo_data.py
 python tools/datasets/preprocess_data_with_chat_template.py --input data/sft/llama3_sft_train_filtered.jsonl --output-prefix data/sft/llama3_train --tokenizer-path checkpoints/neox_converted/llama3-8b-instruct/tokenizer --jsonl-keys messages
 python tools/datasets/preprocess_data_with_chat_template.py --input data/sft/llama3_sft_test_filtered.jsonl --output-prefix data/sft/llama3_test --tokenizer-path checkpoints/neox_converted/llama3-8b-instruct/tokenizer --jsonl-keys messages
 python tools/datasets/preprocess_data_with_chat_template.py --input data/sft/llama3_sft_train_filtered.jsonl --output-prefix data/sft/llama3_val --tokenizer-path checkpoints/neox_converted/llama3-8b-instruct/tokenizer --jsonl-keys messages
@@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ python tools/datasets/preprocess_data_with_chat_template.py --input data/sft/lla
 
 ## KTO data
 ```bash
-python post-training/llama_dpo_data.py
 python tools/datasets/preprocess_data_with_chat_template.py --input data/kto/llama3_sft_train_filtered.jsonl --output-prefix data/kto/llama3_train --tokenizer-path checkpoints/neox_converted/llama3-8b-instruct/tokenizer --jsonl-keys messages --reward-key reward
 python tools/datasets/preprocess_data_with_chat_template.py --input data/kto/llama3_sft_test_filtered.jsonl --output-prefix data/kto/llama3_test --tokenizer-path checkpoints/neox_converted/llama3-8b-instruct/tokenizer --jsonl-keys messages --reward-key reward
 python tools/datasets/preprocess_data_with_chat_template.py --input data/kto/llama3_sft_train_filtered.jsonl --output-prefix data/kto/llama3_val --tokenizer-path checkpoints/neox_converted/llama3-8b-instruct/tokenizer --jsonl-keys messages --reward-key reward