diff --git a/configs/experiment/im2im/segmentation_plugin.yaml b/configs/experiment/im2im/segmentation_plugin.yaml
index f5fd632b5..49b6ae0db 100644
--- a/configs/experiment/im2im/segmentation_plugin.yaml
+++ b/configs/experiment/im2im/segmentation_plugin.yaml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ data:
   cache_dir: ${paths.output_dir}/cache # string path to cache_dir (this speeds up data loading)
   num_workers: MUST_OVERRIDE # this should be set based on the number of available CPU cores
   split_column: null
-  batch_size: 1
+  batch_size: AUTO # this will use the automatic batch finder starting with batch_size=1
   _aux:
     patch_shape: [16, 32, 32]
 
diff --git a/cyto_dl/datamodules/dataframe/dataframe_datamodule.py b/cyto_dl/datamodules/dataframe/dataframe_datamodule.py
index 28850de0e..384aba2db 100644
--- a/cyto_dl/datamodules/dataframe/dataframe_datamodule.py
+++ b/cyto_dl/datamodules/dataframe/dataframe_datamodule.py
@@ -145,6 +145,10 @@ def __init__(
         self.subsample = subsample or {}
         self.refresh_subsample = refresh_subsample
 
+        self.batch_size = dataloader_kwargs.get("batch_size", 1)
+        # init size is used to check if the batch size has changed (used for Automatic batch size finder)
+        self._init_size = self.batch_size
+
         for key in list(self.subsample.keys()):
             self.subsample[get_canonical_split_name(key)] = self.subsample[key]
 
@@ -161,16 +165,25 @@ def get_dataset(self, split):
     def make_dataloader(self, split):
         kwargs = dict(**self.dataloader_kwargs)
         kwargs["shuffle"] = kwargs.get("shuffle", True) and split == "train"
+        kwargs["batch_size"] = self.batch_size
+
         subset = self.get_dataset(split)
         return DataLoader(dataset=subset, **kwargs)
 
     def get_dataloader(self, split):
         sample_size = self.subsample.get(split, -1)
 
-        if (split not in self.dataloaders) or (sample_size != -1 and self.refresh_subsample):
+        if (
+            (split not in self.dataloaders)
+            or (sample_size != -1 and self.refresh_subsample)
+            # check if batch size has changed (used for Automatic batch size finder)
+            or (self._init_size != self.batch_size)
+        ):
             # if we want to use a subsample per epoch, we need to remake the
             # dataloader, to refresh the sample
             self.dataloaders[split] = self.make_dataloader(split)
+            # reset the init size to the current batch size so dataloader isn't recreated every epoch
+            self._init_size = self.batch_size
 
         return self.dataloaders[split]
 
diff --git a/cyto_dl/train.py b/cyto_dl/train.py
index ee359a913..43ee9bb46 100644
--- a/cyto_dl/train.py
+++ b/cyto_dl/train.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 import torch
 from lightning import Callback, LightningDataModule, LightningModule, Trainer
 from lightning.pytorch.loggers.logger import Logger
+from lightning.pytorch.tuner import Tuner
 from omegaconf import DictConfig, OmegaConf
 
 from cyto_dl import utils
@@ -57,6 +58,12 @@ def train(cfg: DictConfig, data=None) -> Tuple[dict, dict]:
     utils.remove_aux_key(cfg)
 
     log.info(f"Instantiating data <{cfg.data.get('_target_', cfg.data)}>")
+
+    use_batch_tuner = False
+    if cfg.data.get("batch_size") == "AUTO":
+        use_batch_tuner = True
+        cfg.data.batch_size = 1
+
     data = utils.create_dataloader(cfg.data, data)
     if not isinstance(data, LightningDataModule):
         if not isinstance(data, MutableMapping) or "train_dataloaders" not in data:
@@ -93,6 +100,10 @@ def train(cfg: DictConfig, data=None) -> Tuple[dict, dict]:
         log.info("Logging hyperparameters!")
         utils.log_hyperparameters(object_dict)
 
+    if use_batch_tuner:
+        tuner = Tuner(trainer=trainer)
+        tuner.scale_batch_size(model, datamodule=data, mode="power")
+
     if cfg.get("train"):
         log.info("Starting training!")
         model, load_params = utils.load_checkpoint(model, cfg.get("checkpoint"))