diff --git a/ultralytics/yolo/cfg/default.yaml b/ultralytics/yolo/cfg/default.yaml
index 960b2faf..6064d169 100644
--- a/ultralytics/yolo/cfg/default.yaml
+++ b/ultralytics/yolo/cfg/default.yaml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ deterministic: True  # (bool) whether to enable deterministic mode
 single_cls: False  # (bool) train multi-class data as single-class
 rect: False  # (bool) rectangular training if mode='train' or rectangular validation if mode='val'
 cos_lr: False  # (bool) use cosine learning rate scheduler
-close_mosaic: 0  # (int) disable mosaic augmentation for final epochs
+close_mosaic: 10  # (int) disable mosaic augmentation for final epochs
 resume: False  # (bool) resume training from last checkpoint
 amp: True  # (bool) Automatic Mixed Precision (AMP) training, choices=[True, False], True runs AMP check
 fraction: 1.0  # (float) dataset fraction to train on (default is 1.0, all images in train set)