diff --git a/llama_stack/apis/post_training/post_training.py b/llama_stack/apis/post_training/post_training.py
index ed15c6de4..134b6bc15 100644
--- a/llama_stack/apis/post_training/post_training.py
+++ b/llama_stack/apis/post_training/post_training.py
@@ -16,81 +16,49 @@ from llama_stack.apis.common.job_types import JobStatus
 from llama_stack.apis.common.training_types import Checkpoint
 from llama_stack.schema_utils import json_schema_type, register_schema, webmethod
 
-
 @json_schema_type
-class OptimizerType(Enum):
-    adam = "adam"
-    adamw = "adamw"
-    sgd = "sgd"
-
-
-@json_schema_type
-class DatasetFormat(Enum):
-    instruct = "instruct"
-    dialog = "dialog"
-
-
-@json_schema_type
-class DataConfig(BaseModel):
-    dataset_id: str
-    batch_size: int
-    shuffle: bool
-    data_format: DatasetFormat
-    validation_dataset_id: Optional[str] = None
-    packed: Optional[bool] = False
-    train_on_input: Optional[bool] = False
-
-
-@json_schema_type
-class OptimizerConfig(BaseModel):
-    optimizer_type: OptimizerType
-    lr: float
-    weight_decay: float
-    num_warmup_steps: int
-
-
-@json_schema_type
-class EfficiencyConfig(BaseModel):
-    enable_activation_checkpointing: Optional[bool] = False
-    enable_activation_offloading: Optional[bool] = False
-    memory_efficient_fsdp_wrap: Optional[bool] = False
-    fsdp_cpu_offload: Optional[bool] = False
-
-
-@json_schema_type
-class TrainingConfig(BaseModel):
-    n_epochs: int
-    max_steps_per_epoch: int
-    gradient_accumulation_steps: int
-    max_validation_steps: int
-    data_config: DataConfig
-    optimizer_config: OptimizerConfig
-    efficiency_config: Optional[EfficiencyConfig] = None
+class TrainingStrategy(BaseModel):
+    # params that control Optimizer
+    learning_rate: Optional[Union[float, Literal["auto"]]] = "auto" 
+    weight_decay: Optional[float] = 0.1
+    num_warmup_steps: Optional[Union[int, Literal["auto"]]] = "auto" 
+    
+    # paramas that control how data is fed for training
+    batch_size: Optional[Union[int, Literal["auto"]]] = "auto" 
+    shuffle: Optional[bool] = True
+    n_epochs: Optional[int] = 3
+    
+    # training loop control params
+    max_training_steps: Optional[int] = None
+    max_validation_steps: Optional[int] = None
+    gradient_accumulation_steps: Optional[Union[int, Literal["auto"]]] = "auto" 
+    
+    # precision for training
     dtype: Optional[str] = "bf16"
 
 
 @json_schema_type
-class LoraFinetuningConfig(BaseModel):
+class LoraFinetuningStrategy(BaseModel):
     type: Literal["LoRA"] = "LoRA"
-    lora_attn_modules: List[str]
-    apply_lora_to_mlp: bool
-    apply_lora_to_output: bool
-    rank: int
-    alpha: int
+    lora_attn_modules: Optional[List[str]] = ["q_proj", "v_proj", "output_proj"]
+    apply_lora_to_mlp: Optional[bool] = True
+    apply_lora_to_output: Optional[bool] = False
+    rank: Optional[int] = 8
+    alpha: Optional[int] = 16
     use_dora: Optional[bool] = False
     quantize_base: Optional[bool] = False
 
 
 @json_schema_type
-class QATFinetuningConfig(BaseModel):
+class QATFinetuningStrategy(BaseModel):
     type: Literal["QAT"] = "QAT"
     quantizer_name: str
     group_size: int
 
 
-AlgorithmConfig = register_schema(
-    Annotated[Union[LoraFinetuningConfig, QATFinetuningConfig], Field(discriminator="type")],
-    name="AlgorithmConfig",
+AlgorithmStrategy = register_schema(
+    Annotated[Union[LoraFinetuningStrategy, QATFinetuningStrategy], Field(discriminator="type")],
+    name="AlgorithmStrategy",
 )
 
 
@@ -108,35 +76,13 @@ class RLHFAlgorithm(Enum):
 
 
 @json_schema_type
-class DPOAlignmentConfig(BaseModel):
+class DPOAlignmentStrategy(BaseModel):
     reward_scale: float
     reward_clip: float
     epsilon: float
     gamma: float
 
 
-@json_schema_type
-class PostTrainingRLHFRequest(BaseModel):
-    """Request to finetune a model."""
-
-    job_uuid: str
-
-    finetuned_model: URL
-
-    dataset_id: str
-    validation_dataset_id: str
-
-    algorithm: RLHFAlgorithm
-    algorithm_config: DPOAlignmentConfig
-
-    optimizer_config: OptimizerConfig
-    training_config: TrainingConfig
-
-    # TODO: define these
-    hyperparam_search_config: Dict[str, Any]
-    logger_config: Dict[str, Any]
-
-
 class PostTrainingJob(BaseModel):
     job_uuid: str
 
@@ -176,26 +122,32 @@ class PostTraining(Protocol):
     async def supervised_fine_tune(
         self,
         job_uuid: str,
-        training_config: TrainingConfig,
-        hyperparam_search_config: Dict[str, Any],
-        logger_config: Dict[str, Any],
+        training_dataset_id: str,
         model: str = Field(
             default="Llama3.2-3B-Instruct",
             description="Model descriptor from `llama model list`",
         ),
-        checkpoint_dir: Optional[str] = None,
-        algorithm_config: Optional[AlgorithmConfig] = None,
+
+        # Optional
+        validation_dataset_id: Optional[str] = None,
+        training_strategy: Optional[TrainingStrategy] = TrainingStrategy(),
+        althorighm: Optional[AlgorithmStrategy] = LoraFinetuningStrategy(),
     ) -> PostTrainingJob: ...
 
     @webmethod(route="/post-training/preference-optimize", method="POST")
     async def preference_optimize(
         self,
         job_uuid: str,
-        finetuned_model: str,
-        algorithm_config: DPOAlignmentConfig,
-        training_config: TrainingConfig,
-        hyperparam_search_config: Dict[str, Any],
-        logger_config: Dict[str, Any],
+        training_dataset_id: str,
+        model: str = Field(
+            default="Llama3.2-3B-Instruct",
+            description="Model descriptor from `llama model list`",
+        ),
+
+        # Optional
+        validation_dataset_id: Optional[str] = None,
+        training_strategy: Optional[TrainingStrategy] = TrainingStrategy(),
+        althorighm: Optional[AlgorithmStrategy] = LoraFinetuningStrategy(),
     ) -> PostTrainingJob: ...
 
     @webmethod(route="/post-training/jobs", method="GET")