diff --git a/tools/launcher/examples/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5/specdec_bench.yaml b/tools/launcher/examples/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5/specdec_bench.yaml
index a25a3fe3452..d333a606cc8 100644
--- a/tools/launcher/examples/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5/specdec_bench.yaml
+++ b/tools/launcher/examples/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5/specdec_bench.yaml
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ pipeline:
 
   global_vars:
     hf_model: /hf-local/nvidia/Kimi-K2.5-NVFP4
-    # Trained+exported DFLASH draft; override: pipeline.global_vars.draft_model_dir=<path>
-    draft_model_dir: /hf-local/nvidia/Kimi-K2.5-DFlash
+    # Trained+exported DFLASH draft; override: pipeline.global_vars.draft_model=<path>
+    draft_model: /hf-local/nvidia/Kimi-K2.5-DFlash
 
   task_0:
     script: common/specdec_bench/run.sh
     args:
-      - --draft_model_dir <<global_vars.draft_model_dir>>
+      - --draft_model_dir <<global_vars.draft_model>>
       - --speculative_algorithm DFLASH
       - --engine VLLM
       - --mtbench /hf-local/HuggingFaceH4/mt_bench_prompts/raw/question.jsonl
diff --git a/tools/launcher/examples/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/hf_streaming_dspark_warmstart.yaml b/tools/launcher/examples/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/hf_streaming_dspark_warmstart.yaml
index ddf17ba01f1..9b2334b2dc0 100644
--- a/tools/launcher/examples/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/hf_streaming_dspark_warmstart.yaml
+++ b/tools/launcher/examples/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/hf_streaming_dspark_warmstart.yaml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ pipeline:
     # config.json layer-type vocabulary already patched for tf5 (see header).
     hf_model: /hf-local/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16
     # The published drafter the warm start continues from.
-    drafter: /hf-local/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16-DSpark
+    draft_model: /hf-local/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16-DSpark
 
   # Build /scratchspace/data/train.jsonl. Point data.data_path at the full
   # Spec-Decoding-Dataset-v2 corpus to reproduce; eagle_utils also accepts a
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ pipeline:
       # causal attention and attention sink all come from this recipe — see header.
       - --config modules/Model-Optimizer/modelopt_recipes/huggingface/models/nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/speculative_decoding/dspark_warmstart.yaml
       - model.model_name_or_path=<<global_vars.hf_model>>
-      - dflash.dflash_init_checkpoint=<<global_vars.drafter>>
+      - dflash.dflash_init_checkpoint=<<global_vars.draft_model>>
       - data.data_path=/scratchspace/data/train.jsonl
       # The stock Nemotron template has no {% generation %} tags; without a tagged copy
       # answer_only_loss trains on an all-zero mask (see header).