diff --git a/extensions_built_in/sd_trainer/SDTrainer.py b/extensions_built_in/sd_trainer/SDTrainer.py
index f1d4e829..3001ea3c 100644
--- a/extensions_built_in/sd_trainer/SDTrainer.py
+++ b/extensions_built_in/sd_trainer/SDTrainer.py
@@ -1154,6 +1154,11 @@ class SDTrainer(BaseSDTrainProcess):
                     has_clip_image_embeds = True  # we are caching embeds, handle that differently
                     has_clip_image = False
 
+            # do prior pred if prior regularization batch
+            do_reg_prior = False
+            if any([batch.file_items[idx].prior_reg for idx in range(len(batch.file_items))]):
+                do_reg_prior = True
+
             if self.adapter is not None and isinstance(self.adapter, IPAdapter) and not has_clip_image and has_adapter_img:
                 raise ValueError(
                     "IPAdapter control image is now 'clip_image_path' instead of 'control_path'. Please update your dataset config ")
@@ -1648,11 +1653,6 @@ class SDTrainer(BaseSDTrainProcess):
 
                 prior_pred = None
 
-                do_reg_prior = False
-                # if is_reg and (self.network is not None or self.adapter is not None):
-                #     # we are doing a reg image and we have a network or adapter
-                #     do_reg_prior = True
-
                 do_inverted_masked_prior = False
                 if self.train_config.inverted_mask_prior and batch.mask_tensor is not None:
                     do_inverted_masked_prior = True
diff --git a/toolkit/config_modules.py b/toolkit/config_modules.py
index d1247184..ca0b3bf2 100644
--- a/toolkit/config_modules.py
+++ b/toolkit/config_modules.py
@@ -813,6 +813,7 @@ class DatasetConfig:
         self.buckets: bool = kwargs.get('buckets', True)
         self.bucket_tolerance: int = kwargs.get('bucket_tolerance', 64)
         self.is_reg: bool = kwargs.get('is_reg', False)
+        self.prior_reg: bool = kwargs.get('prior_reg', False)
         self.network_weight: float = float(kwargs.get('network_weight', 1.0))
         self.token_dropout_rate: float = float(kwargs.get('token_dropout_rate', 0.0))
         self.shuffle_tokens: bool = kwargs.get('shuffle_tokens', False)
diff --git a/toolkit/data_transfer_object/data_loader.py b/toolkit/data_transfer_object/data_loader.py
index b6863663..a7ed3759 100644
--- a/toolkit/data_transfer_object/data_loader.py
+++ b/toolkit/data_transfer_object/data_loader.py
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ class FileItemDTO(
 
         self.network_weight: float = self.dataset_config.network_weight
         self.is_reg = self.dataset_config.is_reg
+        self.prior_reg = self.dataset_config.prior_reg
         self.tensor: Union[torch.Tensor, None] = None
 
     def cleanup(self):