diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b795257029..064d324674 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@
         "llm-blender>=0.0.2",
     ],
     "peft": ["peft>=0.8.0"],
+    "liger": ["liger-kernel-nightly==0.1.1.dev20240828063745"],
     "diffusers": ["diffusers>=0.18.0"],
     "deepspeed": ["deepspeed>=0.14.4"],
     "benchmark": ["wandb", "ghapi", "openrlbenchmark==0.2.1a5", "requests", "deepspeed"],
diff --git a/trl/import_utils.py b/trl/import_utils.py
index b0810d12ef..4530e9f65c 100644
--- a/trl/import_utils.py
+++ b/trl/import_utils.py
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ def is_peft_available() -> bool:
     return find_spec("peft") is not None
 
 
+def is_liger_available() -> bool:
+    return find_spec("liger_kernel") is not None
+
+
 def is_unsloth_available() -> bool:
     return find_spec("unsloth") is not None
 
diff --git a/trl/trainer/sft_config.py b/trl/trainer/sft_config.py
index 64e2b405a3..132a0c69d9 100644
--- a/trl/trainer/sft_config.py
+++ b/trl/trainer/sft_config.py
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ class SFTConfig(TrainingArguments):
             The number of characters per token to use for the `ConstantLengthDataset`. Defaults to `3.6`. You can check how this is computed in the
             stack-llama example:
             [chars_token_ratio](https://github.com/huggingface/trl/blob/08f550674c553c36c51d1027613c29f14f3676a5/examples/stack_llama/scripts/supervised_finetuning.py#L53).
+        use_liger (`Optional[bool]`):
+            Monkey patch the model with Liger kernels to increase throughput and reduce memory usage.
     """
 
     dataset_text_field: Optional[str] = None
@@ -64,3 +66,4 @@ class SFTConfig(TrainingArguments):
     eval_packing: Optional[bool] = None
     num_of_sequences: Optional[int] = 1024
     chars_per_token: Optional[float] = 3.6
+    use_liger: Optional[bool] = False
diff --git a/trl/trainer/sft_trainer.py b/trl/trainer/sft_trainer.py
index 054d20aeb5..b06e463c64 100644
--- a/trl/trainer/sft_trainer.py
+++ b/trl/trainer/sft_trainer.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 from transformers.trainer_utils import EvalPrediction
 
 from ..extras.dataset_formatting import get_formatting_func_from_dataset
-from ..import_utils import is_peft_available
+from ..import_utils import is_liger_available, is_peft_available
 from .callbacks import RichProgressCallback
 from .sft_config import SFTConfig
 from .utils import (
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@
 if is_peft_available():
     from peft import PeftConfig, PeftModel, get_peft_model, prepare_model_for_kbit_training
 
+if is_liger_available():
+    from liger_kernel.transformers import AutoLigerKernelForCausalLM
+
 
 class SFTTrainer(Trainer):
     r"""
@@ -183,7 +186,10 @@ def __init__(
                 "You passed a model_id to the SFTTrainer. This will automatically create an "
                 "`AutoModelForCausalLM` or a `PeftModel` (if you passed a `peft_config`) for you."
             )
-            model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model, **model_init_kwargs)
+            if args.use_liger:
+                model = AutoLigerKernelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model, **model_init_kwargs)
+            else:
+                model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model, **model_init_kwargs)
 
         if packing:
             warnings.warn(