diff --git a/examples/tensorflow/language-modeling/run_clm.py b/examples/tensorflow/language-modeling/run_clm.py
index 92d74cfd6f..97ac093bb8 100755
--- a/examples/tensorflow/language-modeling/run_clm.py
+++ b/examples/tensorflow/language-modeling/run_clm.py
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ def main():
             f"Validation file not found: using {data_args.validation_split_percentage}% of the dataset as validation as provided in data_args"
         )
         train_indices, val_indices = train_test_split(
-            list(range(len(train_dataset))), test_size=data_args.validation_split_percentage
+            list(range(len(train_dataset))), test_size=data_args.validation_split_percentage / 100
         )
 
         eval_dataset = train_dataset.select(val_indices)
diff --git a/examples/tensorflow/language-modeling/run_mlm.py b/examples/tensorflow/language-modeling/run_mlm.py
index d862c4423e..ebfb165b7e 100755
--- a/examples/tensorflow/language-modeling/run_mlm.py
+++ b/examples/tensorflow/language-modeling/run_mlm.py
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ def main():
             f"Validation file not found: using {data_args.validation_split_percentage}% of the dataset as validation as provided in data_args"
         )
         train_indices, val_indices = train_test_split(
-            list(range(len(train_dataset))), test_size=data_args.validation_split_percentage
+            list(range(len(train_dataset))), test_size=data_args.validation_split_percentage / 100
         )
 
         eval_dataset = train_dataset.select(val_indices)