diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/config/training.ts b/studio/frontend/src/config/training.ts
index 8840b9363c..9ad09ba813 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/config/training.ts
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/config/training.ts
@@ -73,10 +73,20 @@ export const TARGET_MODULES = [
   "down_proj",
 ];
 
+export const OPTIMIZER_OPTIONS: ReadonlyArray<{ value: string; label: string }> = [
+  { value: "adamw_8bit", label: "AdamW 8-bit" },
+  { value: "paged_adamw_8bit", label: "Paged AdamW 8-bit" },
+  { value: "adamw_bnb_8bit", label: "AdamW BNB 8-bit" },
+  { value: "paged_adamw_32bit", label: "Paged AdamW 32-bit" },
+  { value: "adamw_torch", label: "AdamW (PyTorch)" },
+  { value: "adamw_torch_fused", label: "AdamW (PyTorch Fused)" },
+];
+
 export const DEFAULT_HYPERPARAMS = {
   epochs: 3,
   contextLength: 2048,
   learningRate: 2e-4,
+  optimizerType: "adamw_8bit",
   loraRank: 16,
   loraAlpha: 32,
   loraDropout: 0.05,
diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/features/studio/sections/params-section.tsx b/studio/frontend/src/features/studio/sections/params-section.tsx
index 2069da7a90..cf25d5ba54 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/features/studio/sections/params-section.tsx
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/features/studio/sections/params-section.tsx
@@ -20,7 +20,11 @@ import {
   TooltipContent,
   TooltipTrigger,
 } from "@/components/ui/tooltip";
-import { CONTEXT_LENGTHS, TARGET_MODULES } from "@/config/training";
+import {
+  CONTEXT_LENGTHS,
+  OPTIMIZER_OPTIONS,
+  TARGET_MODULES,
+} from "@/config/training";
 import { useTrainingConfigStore } from "@/features/training";
 import type { GradientCheckpointing } from "@/types/training";
 import {
@@ -508,6 +512,43 @@ export function ParamsSection(): ReactElement {
                 value="optimization"
                 className="mt-3 flex flex-col gap-3"
               >
+                <Row
+                  label="Optimizer"
+                  tooltip={
+                    <>
+                      Optimization algorithm. 8-bit variants reduce memory usage.
+                      Fused is recommended for vision models.{" "}
+                      <a
+                        href="https://unsloth.ai/docs/get-started/fine-tuning-llms-guide/lora-hyperparameters-guide"
+                        target="_blank"
+                        rel="noopener noreferrer"
+                        className="text-primary underline"
+                      >
+                        Read more
+                      </a>
+                    </>
+                  }
+                >
+                  <Select
+                    value={store.optimizerType}
+                    onValueChange={(v) => store.setOptimizerType(v)}
+                  >
+                    <SelectTrigger className="w-48 font-mono">
+                      <SelectValue />
+                    </SelectTrigger>
+                    <SelectContent>
+                      {OPTIMIZER_OPTIONS.map((opt) => (
+                        <SelectItem
+                          key={opt.value}
+                          value={opt.value}
+                          className="font-mono"
+                        >
+                          {opt.label}
+                        </SelectItem>
+                      ))}
+                    </SelectContent>
+                  </Select>
+                </Row>
                 <SliderRow
                   label="Batch Size"
                   tooltip={
diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/features/studio/sections/progress-section.tsx b/studio/frontend/src/features/studio/sections/progress-section.tsx
index 3752a0fb25..6e88c4c05a 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/features/studio/sections/progress-section.tsx
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/features/studio/sections/progress-section.tsx
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import { Link, useNavigate } from "@tanstack/react-router";
 import { useShallow } from "zustand/react/shallow";
 import { useGpuUtilization } from "@/hooks";
 import { setTrainingCompareHandoff } from "@/features/chat";
+import { OPTIMIZER_OPTIONS } from "@/config/training";
 import { formatDuration, formatNumber, phaseColors, phaseLabel } from "./progress-section-lib";
 
 export function ProgressSection(): ReactElement {
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ export function ProgressSection(): ReactElement {
       maxSteps: state.maxSteps,
       contextLength: state.contextLength,
       warmupSteps: state.warmupSteps,
+      optimizerType: state.optimizerType,
       loraRank: state.loraRank,
       loraAlpha: state.loraAlpha,
       loraDropout: state.loraDropout,
@@ -126,6 +128,10 @@ export function ProgressSection(): ReactElement {
     ? runtime.currentGradNorm
     : lastNonZeroValue(runtime.gradNormHistory) ?? runtime.currentGradNorm;
 
+  const optimizerLabel =
+    OPTIMIZER_OPTIONS.find((o) => o.value === config.optimizerType)?.label ??
+    config.optimizerType;
+
   const configItems = [
     {
       section: "Hyperparams",
@@ -133,6 +139,7 @@ export function ProgressSection(): ReactElement {
         ["Epochs", config.epochs],
         ["Batch size", config.batchSize],
         ["Learning rate", config.learningRate],
+        ["Optimizer", optimizerLabel],
         ["Max steps", config.maxSteps],
         ["Context length", config.contextLength],
         ["Warmup steps", config.warmupSteps],
diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/features/training/api/mappers.ts b/studio/frontend/src/features/training/api/mappers.ts
index 510cc542b8..78386f197b 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/features/training/api/mappers.ts
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/features/training/api/mappers.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ export function buildTrainingStartPayload(
     weight_decay: config.weightDecay,
     random_seed: config.randomSeed,
     packing: config.packing,
-    optim: "adamw_8bit",
+    optim: config.optimizerType,
     lr_scheduler_type: "linear",
     use_lora: adapterMethod,
     lora_r: config.loraRank,
diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/features/training/stores/training-config-store.ts b/studio/frontend/src/features/training/stores/training-config-store.ts
index 67317dbc09..62d4808b2c 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/features/training/stores/training-config-store.ts
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/features/training/stores/training-config-store.ts
@@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ export const useTrainingConfigStore = create<TrainingConfigStore>()(
         setEpochs: (epochs) => set({ epochs }),
         setContextLength: (contextLength) => set({ contextLength }),
         setLearningRate: (learningRate) => set({ learningRate }),
+        setOptimizerType: (optimizerType) => set({ optimizerType }),
         setLoraRank: (loraRank) => set({ loraRank }),
         setLoraAlpha: (loraAlpha) => set({ loraAlpha }),
         setLoraDropout: (loraDropout) => set({ loraDropout }),
@@ -346,7 +347,7 @@ export const useTrainingConfigStore = create<TrainingConfigStore>()(
     },
     {
       name: "unsloth_training_config_v1",
-      version: 3,
+      version: 4,
       migrate: (persisted, version) => {
         const s = persisted as Record<string, unknown>;
         if (version < 2 && s.datasetSubset == null && s.datasetConfig != null) {
@@ -356,6 +357,9 @@ export const useTrainingConfigStore = create<TrainingConfigStore>()(
         if (version < 3 && s.modelDefaultsAppliedFor == null) {
           s.modelDefaultsAppliedFor = null;
         }
+        if (version < 4 && s.optimizerType == null) {
+          s.optimizerType = DEFAULT_HYPERPARAMS.optimizerType;
+        }
         return s as unknown as TrainingConfigStore;
       },
       partialize: partializePersistedState,
diff --git a/studio/frontend/src/features/training/types/config.ts b/studio/frontend/src/features/training/types/config.ts
index 53beabd383..8557739b06 100644
--- a/studio/frontend/src/features/training/types/config.ts
+++ b/studio/frontend/src/features/training/types/config.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ export interface TrainingConfigState {
   epochs: number;
   contextLength: number;
   learningRate: number;
+  optimizerType: string;
   loraRank: number;
   loraAlpha: number;
   loraDropout: number;
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ export interface TrainingConfigActions {
   setEpochs: (epochs: number) => void;
   setContextLength: (length: number) => void;
   setLearningRate: (rate: number) => void;
+  setOptimizerType: (value: string) => void;
   setLoraRank: (rank: number) => void;
   setLoraAlpha: (alpha: number) => void;
   setLoraDropout: (dropout: number) => void;