diff --git a/docs/user-guide/gpudeduplication.rst b/docs/user-guide/gpudeduplication.rst
index 990cb532..34759b5a 100644
--- a/docs/user-guide/gpudeduplication.rst
+++ b/docs/user-guide/gpudeduplication.rst
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ Python API
     from nemo_curator import FuzzyDuplicatesConfig
 
     config = FuzzyDuplicatesConfig(
-        cache_dir="/path/to/dedup_outputs",
+        cache_dir="/path/to/dedup_outputs", # must be cleared between runs
         id_field="my_id",
         text_field="text",
         seed=42,
diff --git a/examples/fuzzy_deduplication.py b/examples/fuzzy_deduplication.py
index 88fbb020..40f3fae2 100644
--- a/examples/fuzzy_deduplication.py
+++ b/examples/fuzzy_deduplication.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def main(args):
 
     dataset_dir = "/path/to/dataset"
     log_dir = "./"
-    cache_dir = "./fuzzy_cache"
+    cache_dir = "./fuzzy_cache"  # must be cleared between runs
     output_dir = "./output"
     dataset_id_field = "id"
     dataset_text_field = "text"