diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8a2739c..a64473a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ which can be used to estimate microbe-metabolite conditional probabilities that
 
 ```
 mmvec paired-omics \
-	--microbe-file examples/cf/otus_nt.biom \
-	--metabolite-file examples/cf/lcms_nt.biom \
-	--summary-dir summary
+        --microbe-file examples/cf/otus_nt.biom \
+        --metabolite-file examples/cf/lcms_nt.biom \
+        --summary-dir summary
 ```
 
 While this is running, you can open up another session and run `tensorboard --logdir .` for diagnosis, see FAQs below for more details.
@@ -67,24 +67,24 @@ the qiime2 plugin, run the following commands to import an example dataset
 
 ```
 qiime tools import \
-	--input-path data/otus_nt.biom \
-	--output-path otus_nt.qza \
-	--type FeatureTable[Frequency]
+        --input-path data/otus_nt.biom \
+        --output-path otus_nt.qza \
+        --type FeatureTable[Frequency]
 
 qiime tools import \
-	--input-path data/lcms_nt.biom \
-	--output-path lcms_nt.qza \
-	--type FeatureTable[Frequency]
+        --input-path data/lcms_nt.biom \
+        --output-path lcms_nt.qza \
+        --type FeatureTable[Frequency]
 ```
 
 Then you can run mmvec
 ```
 qiime mmvec paired-omics \
-	--i-microbes otus_nt.qza \
-	--i-metabolites lcms_nt.qza \
-	--p-learning-rate 1e-3 \
-	--o-conditionals ranks.qza \
-	--o-conditional-biplot biplot.qza
+        --i-microbes otus_nt.qza \
+        --i-metabolites lcms_nt.qza \
+        --p-learning-rate 1e-3 \
+        --o-conditionals ranks.qza \
+        --o-conditional-biplot biplot.qza
 ```
 
 In the results, there are two files, namely `results/conditional_biplot.qza` and `results/conditionals.qza`. The conditional biplot is a biplot representation the
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ created as follows
 
 ```
 qiime metadata tabulate \
-	--m-input-file results/conditionals.qza \
-	--o-visualization conditionals-viz.qzv
+        --m-input-file results/conditionals.qza \
+        --o-visualization conditionals-viz.qzv
 ```
 
 
@@ -107,10 +107,10 @@ Then you can run the following to generate a emperor biplot.
 
 ```
 qiime emperor biplot \
-	--i-biplot conditional_biplot.qza \
-	--m-sample-metadata-file data/metabolite-metadata.txt \
-	--m-feature-metadata-file data/microbe-metadata.txt \
-	--o-visualization emperor.qzv
+        --i-biplot conditional_biplot.qza \
+        --m-sample-metadata-file data/metabolite-metadata.txt \
+        --m-feature-metadata-file data/microbe-metadata.txt \
+        --o-visualization emperor.qzv
 
 ```
 
@@ -293,6 +293,10 @@ qiime tools import --input-path conditionals.tsv --output-path ranks.qza --type
 qiime tools import --input-path ordination.txt --output-path biplot.qza --type "PCoAResults % Properties('biplot')"
 ```
 
+**Q** : Can MMvec handle small sample studies?
+
+**A** : We have ran MMvec with studies as few as 19 samples.  However running MMvec in these small sample regimes requires careful tuning of `--latent-dimension` in addition to the `--input-prior` and `--output-prior` commands.  The [desert biocrust experiment](https://github.com/biocore/mmvec/tree/master/examples/soils) maybe a good dataset to refer to when analyzing these sorts of datasets.
+
 Credits to Lisa Marotz ([@lisa55asil](https://github.com/lisa55asil)),  Yoshiki Vazquez-Baeza ([@ElDeveloper](https://github.com/ElDeveloper)), Julia Gauglitz ([@jgauglitz](https://github.com/jgauglitz)) and Nickolas Bokulich ([@nbokulich](https://github.com/nbokulich)) for their README contributions.
 
 # Citation
diff --git a/mmvec/q2/_method.py b/mmvec/q2/_method.py
index d9ec687..46236f3 100644
--- a/mmvec/q2/_method.py
+++ b/mmvec/q2/_method.py
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ def paired_omics(microbes: biom.Table,
         model = MMvec(
             latent_dim=latent_dim,
             u_scale=input_prior, v_scale=output_prior,
+            batch_size=batch_size,
             learning_rate=learning_rate)
         model(session,
               train_microbes_coo, train_metabolites_df.values,
diff --git a/scripts/mmvec b/scripts/mmvec
index 6e1ed2f..76a8c53 100644
--- a/scripts/mmvec
+++ b/scripts/mmvec
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ def paired_omics(microbe_file, metabolite_file,
             learning_rate = learning_rate,
             beta_1=beta1, beta_2=beta2,
             device_name=device_name,
+            batch_size=batch_size,
             clipnorm=clipnorm, save_path=sname)
 
         model(session,