diff --git a/llm-ai-systems/fine-tuning/llama_fine_tune_runtime_env.yaml b/llm-ai-systems/fine-tuning/llama_fine_tune_runtime_env.yaml
index b9d6de6b..b8773859 100644
--- a/llm-ai-systems/fine-tuning/llama_fine_tune_runtime_env.yaml
+++ b/llm-ai-systems/fine-tuning/llama_fine_tune_runtime_env.yaml
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ pip:
   - peft==0.11.1
   - deepspeed==0.16.2
 env_vars:
-  TRAINING_DATA_DIR: "${PROJECT_DIR}/Resources/llama_finetuning/datasets" # hopsfs path to training data files
-  TRAINING_CONFIGURATION_DIR: "${PROJECT_DIR}/Resources/llama_finetuning/configs" # hopsfs path to training config files
-  TRAINING_CHECKPOINTS_DIR: "${PROJECT_DIR}/Resources/llama_finetuning/checkpoints" # hopsfs path to torch trainer checkpoints
+  TRAINING_DATA_DIR: "/hopsfs/Resources/llama_finetuning/datasets" # hopsfs path to training data files
+  TRAINING_CONFIGURATION_DIR: "/hopsfs/Resources/llama_finetuning/configs" # hopsfs path to training config files
+  TRAINING_CHECKPOINTS_DIR: "/hopsfs/Resources/llama_finetuning/checkpoints" # hopsfs path to torch trainer checkpoints