diff --git a/torchtitan/optimizer.py b/torchtitan/optimizer.py
index 8da56eb1..4f30f289 100644
--- a/torchtitan/optimizer.py
+++ b/torchtitan/optimizer.py
@@ -38,11 +38,6 @@ def __init__(
             else:
                 raise NotImplementedError(f"Optimizer {name} not added.")
             self.optimizers.append(optimizer)
-        self.plain_optim = (
-            [self.optimizers]
-            if isinstance(self.optimizers, torch.optim.Optimizer)
-            else self.optimizers
-        )
 
     def step(self) -> None:
         for optimizer in self.optimizers:
@@ -58,9 +53,7 @@ def state_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
             options=StateDictOptions(flatten_optimizer_state_dict=True),
         )
         return {
-            k: v
-            for sd in map(func, self.model, self.plain_optim)
-            for k, v in sd.items()
+            k: v for sd in map(func, self.model, self.optimizers) for k, v in sd.items()
         }
 
     def load_state_dict(self, state_dict: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
@@ -69,7 +62,7 @@ def load_state_dict(self, state_dict: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
             optim_state_dict=state_dict,
             options=StateDictOptions(flatten_optimizer_state_dict=True),
         )
-        list(map(func, self.model, self.plain_optim))
+        list(map(func, self.model, self.optimizers))
 
 
 class OptimizersInBackwardContainer(OptimizersContainer):
@@ -103,10 +96,7 @@ def optim_hook(param) -> None:
                 if param.requires_grad:
                     param.register_post_accumulate_grad_hook(optim_hook)
 
-            self.optimizers.append([optim_dict[param] for param in model.parameters()])
-        self.plain_optim = [
-            sub_optim for optim_group in self.optimizers for sub_optim in optim_group
-        ]
+            self.optimizers.extend([optim_dict[param] for param in model.parameters()])
 
     def step(self) -> None:
         pass
@@ -187,45 +177,9 @@ def get_lr_scheduler_state(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         return state_dict
 
 
-class SchedulersInBackwardContainer(SchedulersContainer):
-    """Util for calling step on multiple learning rate schedulers when optimizers are in backward"""
-
-    def __init__(self, optimizers, lr_lambda) -> None:
-        # all the schedulers for each optimizer group are the same, here we only store the first one
-        # to self.schedulers follow the same structure as SchedulersContainer, but store all of them
-        # to self.all_schedulers for container.step() to call
-        self.schedulers = []
-        for optim_group in optimizers:
-            scheduler_group = []
-            for sub_optim in optim_group:
-                scheduler_group.append(LambdaLR(sub_optim, lr_lambda=lr_lambda))
-            self.schedulers.append(scheduler_group)
-
-    def step(self) -> None:
-        for scheduler_group in self.schedulers:
-            for scheduler in scheduler_group:
-                scheduler.step()
-
-    def get_lr_scheduler_state(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        state_dict = {}
-        if len(self.schedulers) == 1:
-            state_dict["lr_scheduler"] = self.schedulers[0][0]
-        else:
-            # For now, pipeline-parallel with looped schedules does not support resharding for lr_scheduler.
-            # It should only support saving and loading a distributed checkpoint with the same number of pp ranks
-            for idx, lr_scheduler in enumerate(self.schedulers):
-                state_dict[f"lr_scheduler_{idx}"] = lr_scheduler[0]
-        return state_dict
-
-
 def build_lr_schedulers(optimizers, job_config: JobConfig) -> SchedulersContainer:
-    optim_in_bwd = job_config.optimizer.early_step_in_backward
     warmup_steps = int(job_config.training.warmup_steps)
     decay_steps = float(max(1, job_config.training.steps - warmup_steps))
     lr_lambda = functools.partial(linear_warmup_linear_decay, warmup_steps, decay_steps)
 
-    return (
-        SchedulersContainer(optimizers, lr_lambda)
-        if not optim_in_bwd
-        else SchedulersInBackwardContainer(optimizers, lr_lambda)
-    )
+    return SchedulersContainer(optimizers, lr_lambda)