diff --git a/tests/acceleration/test_acceleration_framework.py b/tests/acceleration/test_acceleration_framework.py
index 31243c0fd..6015cf8cd 100644
--- a/tests/acceleration/test_acceleration_framework.py
+++ b/tests/acceleration/test_acceleration_framework.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 from typing import Annotated
 from unittest.mock import patch
 import copy
+import os
 import tempfile
 
 # Third Party
@@ -24,7 +25,6 @@
 import torch
 
 # First Party
-from tests.data import TWITTER_COMPLAINTS_JSON_FORMAT, TWITTER_COMPLAINTS_TOKENIZED
 from tests.test_sft_trainer import DATA_ARGS, MODEL_ARGS, PEFT_LORA_ARGS, TRAIN_ARGS
 
 # Local
@@ -53,6 +53,16 @@
 )
 from tuning.utils.import_utils import is_fms_accelerate_available
 
+# for some reason the CI will raise an import error if we try to import
+# these from tests.data
+TWITTER_COMPLAINTS_JSON_FORMAT = os.path.join(
+    os.path.dirname(__file__), "../data/twitter_complaints_json.json"
+)
+TWITTER_COMPLAINTS_TOKENIZED = os.path.join(
+    os.path.dirname(__file__),
+    "../data/twitter_complaints_tokenized_with_maykeye_tinyllama_v0.json",
+)
+
 # pylint: disable=import-error
 if is_fms_accelerate_available():
 
@@ -491,7 +501,7 @@ def test_framework_initialize_and_trains_with_aadp():
         data_args.dataset_text_field = None
 
         # initialize a config
-        attention_and_distributed_packing_config = AttentionAndDistributedPackingConfig(
+        aadp_config = AttentionAndDistributedPackingConfig(
             padding_free=PaddingFree(method="huggingface")
         )
 
@@ -514,7 +524,7 @@ def test_framework_initialize_and_trains_with_aadp():
                     model_args,
                     data_args,
                     train_args,
-                    attention_and_distributed_packing_config=attention_and_distributed_packing_config,
+                    attention_and_distributed_packing_config=aadp_config,
                 )
 
         # spy inside the train to ensure that the ilab plugin is called
@@ -550,7 +560,7 @@ def test_padding_free_plugin_raises_error_with_untokenized_dataset():
         data_args.dataset_text_field = "output"
 
         # initialize a config
-        attention_and_distributed_packing_config = AttentionAndDistributedPackingConfig(
+        aadp_config = AttentionAndDistributedPackingConfig(
             padding_free=PaddingFree(method="huggingface")
         )
 
@@ -573,7 +583,7 @@ def test_padding_free_plugin_raises_error_with_untokenized_dataset():
                         model_args,
                         data_args,
                         train_args,
-                        attention_and_distributed_packing_config=attention_and_distributed_packing_config,
+                        attention_and_distributed_packing_config=aadp_config,
                     )