diff --git a/src/ves/Opt_BachAveragedSGD.cpp b/src/ves/Opt_BachAveragedSGD.cpp
index eeaffda49780fdf2609d7182265c98b23dd98465..28a4ae5de277668b9b8b08043660971c4047ad4f 100644
--- a/src/ves/Opt_BachAveragedSGD.cpp
+++ b/src/ves/Opt_BachAveragedSGD.cpp
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ void Opt_BachAveragedSGD::registerKeywords(Keywords& keys) {
   Optimizer::useHessianKeywords(keys);
   Optimizer::useMaskKeywords(keys);
   Optimizer::useRestartKeywords(keys);
-  // Optimizer::useMonitorAveragesKeywords(keys);
+  Optimizer::useMonitorAverageGradientKeywords(keys);
   Optimizer::useDynamicTargetDistributionKeywords(keys);
   keys.add("hidden","COMBINED_GRADIENT_FILE","the name of output file for the combined gradient (gradient + Hessian term)");
   keys.add("hidden","COMBINED_GRADIENT_OUTPUT","how often the combined gradient should be written to file. This parameter is given as the number of bias iterations. It is by default 100 if COMBINED_GRADIENT_FILE is specficed");
diff --git a/src/ves/Opt_Dummy.cpp b/src/ves/Opt_Dummy.cpp
index 35bd5ce261921209e2d9ce4a9213abab3a5a7f35..795b4502d874a668b2b05a191b26e88f5a4f9e3e 100644
--- a/src/ves/Opt_Dummy.cpp
+++ b/src/ves/Opt_Dummy.cpp
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ void Opt_Dummy::registerKeywords(Keywords& keys) {
   //
   Optimizer::useMultipleWalkersKeywords(keys);
   Optimizer::useHessianKeywords(keys);
+  Optimizer::useMonitorAverageGradientKeywords(keys);
   keys.addFlag("MONITOR_HESSIAN",false,"also monitor the Hessian");
 }
 
diff --git a/src/ves/Optimizer.cpp b/src/ves/Optimizer.cpp
index 04433f296c70798c752ff1779115c68d5dbb23b4..62240416a2262a49e4656c84015693b421d27bf4 100644
--- a/src/ves/Optimizer.cpp
+++ b/src/ves/Optimizer.cpp
@@ -849,7 +849,7 @@ void Optimizer::registerKeywords( Keywords& keys ) {
   keys.addFlag("MONITOR_INSTANTANEOUS_GRADIENT",false,"if the instantaneous gradient should be monitored.");
   //
   keys.reserveFlag("MONITOR_AVERAGE_GRADIENT",false,"if the averaged gradient should be monitored.");
-  keys.reserve("optional","MONITOR_AVERAGES_EXP_DECAY","use an exponentially decaying averaging with a given time constant when monitoring the averaged gradient");
+  keys.reserve("optional","MONITOR_AVERAGES_GRADIENT_EXP_DECAY","use an exponentially decaying averaging with a given time constant when monitoring the averaged gradient");
   //
   keys.reserve("optional","TARGETDIST_STRIDE","stride for updating a target distribution that is iteratively updated during the optimization. Note that the value is given in terms of coefficent iterations.");
   keys.reserve("optional","TARGETDIST_OUTPUT","how often the dynamic target distribution(s) should be written out to file. Note that the value is given in terms of coefficent iterations.");
@@ -913,9 +913,9 @@ void Optimizer::useRestartKeywords(Keywords& keys) {
 }
 
 
-void Optimizer::useMonitorAveragesKeywords(Keywords& keys) {
+void Optimizer::useMonitorAverageGradientKeywords(Keywords& keys) {
   keys.use("MONITOR_AVERAGE_GRADIENT");
-  keys.use("MONITOR_AVERAGES_EXP_DECAY");
+  keys.use("MONITOR_AVERAGES_GRADIENT_EXP_DECAY");
   keys.addOutputComponent("avergradrms","MONITOR_AVERAGE_GRADIENT","the root mean square value of the averaged coefficent gradient. For multiple biases this component is labeled using the number of the bias as gradrms-#.");
   keys.addOutputComponent("avergradmax","MONITOR_AVERAGE_GRADIENT","the largest absolute value of the averaged coefficent gradient. For multiple biases this component is labeled using the number of the bias as gradmax-#.");
 }
diff --git a/src/ves/Optimizer.h b/src/ves/Optimizer.h
index d10bc4a6f03248d1053076c31cc76644d6c3364d..c0209c214e47bd2d51071519396e921b7b3bbd11 100644
--- a/src/ves/Optimizer.h
+++ b/src/ves/Optimizer.h
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ public:
   static void useDynamicStepSizeKeywords(Keywords&);
   static void useMaskKeywords(Keywords&);
   static void useRestartKeywords(Keywords&);
-  static void useMonitorAveragesKeywords(Keywords&);
+  static void useMonitorAverageGradientKeywords(Keywords&);
   static void useDynamicTargetDistributionKeywords(Keywords&);
   static void useReweightFactorKeywords(Keywords&);
   //