diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index eef9fc1b39..1dacff454c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ We have a reference GRPO experiment config set up trained for math benchmarks us
 
 #### Single Node
 
-To run GRPO on a single GPU for `Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct`:
+To run GRPO on a single GPU for `Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B`:
 
 ```sh
 # Run the GRPO math example using a 1B parameter model
@@ -87,10 +87,10 @@ You can override any of the parameters listed in the yaml configuration file. Fo
 
 ```sh
 uv run python examples/run_grpo_math.py \
-  policy.model_name="Qwen/Qwen2-1.5B" \
-  checkpointing.checkpoint_dir="results/qwen1_5b_math" \
+  policy.model_name="Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct" \
+  checkpointing.checkpoint_dir="results/llama1b_math" \
   logger.wandb_enabled=True \
-  logger.wandb.name="grpo-qwen1_5b_math" \
+  logger.wandb.name="grpo-llama1b_math" \
   logger.num_val_samples_to_print=10 \
 ```
 
diff --git a/examples/configs/grpo_math_1B.yaml b/examples/configs/grpo_math_1B.yaml
index fe32b9691f..7823c8b64c 100644
--- a/examples/configs/grpo_math_1B.yaml
+++ b/examples/configs/grpo_math_1B.yaml
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ checkpointing:
   save_period: 10
 
 policy:
-  model_name: "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct"
+  # Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B has tied weights which are only supported with dtensor policy with tp size 1 (https://github.com/NVIDIA/reinforcer/issues/227)
+  model_name: "Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B"
   tokenizer:
     name: ${policy.model_name} ## specify if you'd like to use a tokenizer different from the model's default
   train_global_batch_size: 512
@@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ policy:
   refit_buffer_size_gb: 4 # used for refitting inference engine, the unit is GB
 
   dtensor_cfg:
-    enabled: false
+    enabled: true
     cpu_offload: False
     sequence_parallel: false
     activation_checkpointing: false
diff --git a/examples/configs/grpo_math_8B.yaml b/examples/configs/grpo_math_8B.yaml
index dcd68a9509..c867de6a28 100644
--- a/examples/configs/grpo_math_8B.yaml
+++ b/examples/configs/grpo_math_8B.yaml
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ policy:
   activation_checkpointing_enabled: false
   refit_buffer_size_gb: 4 # used for refitting inference engine, the unit is GB
 
+  dtensor_cfg:
+    enabled: False
+
   optimizer:
     name: "torch.optim.AdamW"
     kwargs:
diff --git a/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/dtensor_policy_worker.py b/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/dtensor_policy_worker.py
index 175eacfe98..cf0f06bbfa 100644
--- a/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/dtensor_policy_worker.py
+++ b/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/dtensor_policy_worker.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
+import os
 import gc
 
 from collections import defaultdict
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@
     FSDPModule,
 )
 from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+from transformers.modeling_utils import _get_tied_weight_keys
 from nemo_reinforcer.models.dtensor.parallelize import _parallelize_model
 
 from nemo_reinforcer.algorithms.interfaces import LossFunction
@@ -140,6 +142,7 @@ def __init__(
             device_map="cpu",  # load weights onto CPU initially
             torch_dtype=torch.float32,  # use full precision in sft until https://github.com/NVIDIA/reinforcer/issues/13 is fixed
         )
+
         self.tokenizer = tokenizer
         # ------------------------------------------------
         # 3) Move to GPU + Composable FSDP
@@ -253,6 +256,17 @@ def train(
         mbs: Optional[int] = None,
     ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         """Train the policy on a batch of data with a given loss function."""
+        num_tied_weights = len(_get_tied_weight_keys(self.model))
+        skip_tie_check = os.environ.get("NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK")
+        if (
+            num_tied_weights != 0
+            and self.cfg["dtensor_cfg"]["tensor_parallel_size"] > 1
+            and not skip_tie_check
+        ):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Using dtensor policy with tp size {self.cfg['dtensor_cfg']['tensor_parallel_size']} for model ({self.cfg['model_name']}) that has tied weights (num_tied_weights={num_tied_weights}) is not supported (https://github.com/NVIDIA/reinforcer/issues/227). Please use dtensor policy with tensor parallel == 1 instead."
+            )
+
         if gbs is None:
             gbs = self.cfg["train_global_batch_size"]
         if mbs is None:
diff --git a/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/fsdp1_policy_worker.py b/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/fsdp1_policy_worker.py
index 566d68b87f..89b46fd6ac 100644
--- a/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/fsdp1_policy_worker.py
+++ b/nemo_reinforcer/models/policy/fsdp1_policy_worker.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 from contextlib import contextmanager, nullcontext
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
+import os
 
 import ray
 import torch
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@
 )
 
 from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+from transformers.modeling_utils import _get_tied_weight_keys
 from nemo_reinforcer.models.policy import PolicyConfig
 from nemo_reinforcer.models.policy.utils import import_class_from_path
 from nemo_reinforcer.distributed.virtual_cluster import (
@@ -92,6 +94,7 @@ def __init__(
             device_map="cpu",  # load weights onto CPU initially
             torch_dtype=torch.float32,  # use full precision in sft until https://github.com/NVIDIA/reinforcer/issues/13 is fixed
         )
+
         if init_reference_model:
             self.reference_model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
                 model_name,
@@ -225,6 +228,14 @@ def train(
         mbs: Optional[int] = None,
     ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         """Train the policy on a batch of data with a given loss function."""
+        # Check if the model has tied weights
+        num_tied_weights = len(_get_tied_weight_keys(self.model))
+        skip_tie_check = os.environ.get("NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK")
+        if num_tied_weights != 0 and not skip_tie_check:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Using FSP1 with a model ({self.cfg['model_name']}) that has tied weights (num_tied_weights={num_tied_weights}) is not supported (https://github.com/NVIDIA/reinforcer/issues/227). Please use dtensor policy with tensor parallel == 1 instead."
+            )
+
         if gbs is None:
             gbs = self.cfg["train_global_batch_size"]
         if mbs is None:
diff --git a/tests/unit/models/generation/test_vllm_generation.py b/tests/unit/models/generation/test_vllm_generation.py
index 2232ea6499..d584de146d 100644
--- a/tests/unit/models/generation/test_vllm_generation.py
+++ b/tests/unit/models/generation/test_vllm_generation.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 import pytest
 import torch
 import ray
+import os
 
 from nemo_reinforcer.algorithms.grpo import refit_policy_generation
 from nemo_reinforcer.algorithms.utils import get_tokenizer
@@ -26,7 +27,6 @@
 from nemo_reinforcer.models.generation.vllm import VllmGeneration, VllmConfig
 from nemo_reinforcer.models.policy import PolicyConfig
 
-
 # Define basic vLLM test config
 basic_vllm_test_config: VllmConfig = {
     "backend": "vllm",
@@ -161,6 +161,17 @@ def test_input_data(tokenizer):
     )
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module", autouse=True)
+def skip_tied_weight_check_for_all():
+    """Automatically skip tied weight check for all tests in this module."""
+    os.environ["NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK"] = "1"
+
+    yield
+
+    # Restore the original value
+    os.environ.pop("NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK", None)
+
+
 def test_vllm_missing_required_config_key(cluster):
     """Test that an assertion error is raised when a required config key is missing."""
     # Create a config missing a required key by removing 'model_name'
diff --git a/tests/unit/models/policy/test_dtensor_worker.py b/tests/unit/models/policy/test_dtensor_worker.py
index ffa644b91f..50c8d146cc 100644
--- a/tests/unit/models/policy/test_dtensor_worker.py
+++ b/tests/unit/models/policy/test_dtensor_worker.py
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@
 import pprint
 import torch
 import os
-import unittest.mock
-import torch.distributed as dist
 
 # Define a custom marker for model configuration tests
 pytestmark = pytest.mark.modelconfig
@@ -88,6 +86,17 @@ def create_test_config(
     }
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module", autouse=True)
+def skip_tied_weight_check_for_all():
+    """Automatically skip tied weight check for all tests in this module."""
+    os.environ["NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK"] = "1"
+
+    yield
+
+    # Restore the original value
+    os.environ.pop("NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK", None)
+
+
 @pytest.fixture(scope="module")
 def two_gpu_virtual_cluster():
     cluster_name = "test"
diff --git a/tests/unit/models/policy/test_fsdp1_worker.py b/tests/unit/models/policy/test_fsdp1_worker.py
index 0ace3084dc..2d30c90612 100644
--- a/tests/unit/models/policy/test_fsdp1_worker.py
+++ b/tests/unit/models/policy/test_fsdp1_worker.py
@@ -11,10 +11,12 @@
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
+
 import ray
 import pytest
 import pprint
 import torch
+import os
 from copy import deepcopy
 
 from nemo_reinforcer.algorithms.interfaces import LossFunction
@@ -73,6 +75,17 @@
 }
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module", autouse=True)
+def skip_tied_weight_check_for_all():
+    """Automatically skip tied weight check for all tests in this module."""
+    os.environ["NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK"] = "1"
+
+    yield
+
+    # Restore the original value
+    os.environ.pop("NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK", None)
+
+
 @pytest.fixture(scope="function")
 def gc_collect():
     """Helper function to force garbage collection after a test"""
diff --git a/tests/unit/utils/test_native_checkpoint.py b/tests/unit/utils/test_native_checkpoint.py
index 18568fed0a..979d2786b8 100755
--- a/tests/unit/utils/test_native_checkpoint.py
+++ b/tests/unit/utils/test_native_checkpoint.py
@@ -119,6 +119,17 @@ def policy(cluster, tokenizer):
     policy.worker_group.shutdown()
 
 
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module", autouse=True)
+def skip_tied_weight_check_for_all():
+    """Automatically skip tied weight check for all tests in this module."""
+    os.environ["NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK"] = "1"
+
+    yield
+
+    # Restore the original value
+    os.environ.pop("NRL_SKIP_TIED_WEIGHT_CHECK", None)
+
+
 def get_dummy_state_dict(state_dict, dummy_dict={}):
     """Recursively get the dummy state dict
     by replacing tensors with random ones of the same shape.