diff --git a/src/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/base.py b/src/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/base.py
index fa8e434d4..94e6673d7 100644
--- a/src/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/base.py
+++ b/src/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/base.py
@@ -180,10 +180,11 @@ def load_dataset(self):
 
         logger.debug(f"Loading dataset {self.data_args.dataset}")
         return get_raw_dataset(
-            self.data_args,
-            None,
+            self.data_args.dataset,
+            name=self.data_args.dataset_config_name,
             split=self.split,
             streaming=self.data_args.streaming,
+            trust_remove_code=self.data_args.trust_remote_code_data,
             **self.data_args.raw_kwargs,
         )
 
diff --git a/src/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/data_helpers.py b/src/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/data_helpers.py
index 23c70e561..3b4a93cfd 100644
--- a/src/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/data_helpers.py
+++ b/src/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/data_helpers.py
@@ -67,9 +67,7 @@ def format_calibration_data(
 
 
 def get_raw_dataset(
-    data_args,
-    cache_dir: Optional[str] = None,
-    streaming: Optional[bool] = False,
+    path: str,
     **kwargs,
 ) -> Dataset:
     """
@@ -80,15 +78,10 @@ def get_raw_dataset(
     :return: the requested dataset
 
     """
-    raw_datasets = load_dataset(
-        data_args.dataset,
-        data_args.dataset_config_name,
-        cache_dir=cache_dir,
-        streaming=streaming,
-        trust_remote_code=data_args.trust_remote_code_data,
+    return load_dataset(
+        path,
         **kwargs,
     )
-    return raw_datasets
 
 
 def make_dataset_splits(
diff --git a/tests/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/test_dataset_helpers.py b/tests/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/test_dataset_helpers.py
index 812b26a56..37f7b8821 100644
--- a/tests/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/test_dataset_helpers.py
+++ b/tests/llmcompressor/transformers/finetune/data/test_dataset_helpers.py
@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@ def test_combined_datasets():
     data_args = DataTrainingArguments(
         dataset="wikitext", dataset_config_name="wikitext-2-raw-v1"
     )
-    raw_wikitext2 = get_raw_dataset(data_args)
+    raw_wikitext2 = get_raw_dataset(
+        data_args.dataset,
+        name=data_args.dataset_config_name,
+        splits=data_args.splits,
+        streaming=data_args.streaming,
+    )
     datasets = {"all": raw_wikitext2}
 
     split_datasets = make_dataset_splits(
@@ -37,8 +42,13 @@ def test_separate_datasets():
         dataset="wikitext", dataset_config_name="wikitext-2-raw-v1"
     )
     datasets = {}
-    for split_name, split_str in splits.items():
-        raw_wikitext2 = get_raw_dataset(data_args, split=split_str)
+    for split_name, _ in splits.items():
+        raw_wikitext2 = get_raw_dataset(
+            data_args.dataset,
+            name=data_args.dataset_config_name,
+            splits=data_args.splits,
+            streaming=data_args.streaming,
+        )
         datasets[split_name] = raw_wikitext2
 
     split_datasets = make_dataset_splits(