diff --git a/tests/test_optim.py b/tests/test_optim.py
index c12e33cc..a0fe994e 100644
--- a/tests/test_optim.py
+++ b/tests/test_optim.py
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ def test_sgd(optimizer):
         lambda weight, bias: create_optimizer_v2([weight, bias], optimizer, lr=1e-3, momentum=1)
     )
     _test_basic_cases(
-        lambda weight, bias: create_optimizer_v2([weight, bias], optimizer, lr=1e-3, momentum=1, weight_decay=1)
+        lambda weight, bias: create_optimizer_v2([weight, bias], optimizer, lr=1e-3, momentum=1, weight_decay=.1)
     )
     _test_rosenbrock(
         lambda params: create_optimizer_v2(params, optimizer, lr=1e-3)
diff --git a/timm/models/vision_transformer.py b/timm/models/vision_transformer.py
index e3bcb6fe..de8248fe 100644
--- a/timm/models/vision_transformer.py
+++ b/timm/models/vision_transformer.py
@@ -683,7 +683,8 @@ def vit_large_patch16_384(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
 def vit_base_patch16_sam_224(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
     """ ViT-Base (ViT-B/16) w/ SAM pretrained weights. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01548
     """
-    model_kwargs = dict(patch_size=16, embed_dim=768, depth=12, num_heads=12, representation_size=768, **kwargs)
+    # NOTE original SAM weights releaes worked with representation_size=768
+    model_kwargs = dict(patch_size=16, embed_dim=768, depth=12, num_heads=12, representation_size=0, **kwargs)
     model = _create_vision_transformer('vit_base_patch16_sam_224', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs)
     return model
 
@@ -692,7 +693,8 @@ def vit_base_patch16_sam_224(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
 def vit_base_patch32_sam_224(pretrained=False, **kwargs):
     """ ViT-Base (ViT-B/32) w/ SAM pretrained weights. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01548
     """
-    model_kwargs = dict(patch_size=32, embed_dim=768, depth=12, num_heads=12, representation_size=768, **kwargs)
+    # NOTE original SAM weights releaes worked with representation_size=768
+    model_kwargs = dict(patch_size=32, embed_dim=768, depth=12, num_heads=12, representation_size=0, **kwargs)
     model = _create_vision_transformer('vit_base_patch32_sam_224', pretrained=pretrained, **model_kwargs)
     return model