diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/dep_parser.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/dep_parser.pyx
index eedb4cba9..bdef332cc 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/dep_parser.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/dep_parser.pyx
@@ -126,13 +126,13 @@ cdef class DependencyParser(Parser):
     def add_multitask_objective(self, mt_component):
         self._multitasks.append(mt_component)
 
-    def init_multitask_objectives(self, get_examples, pipeline, sgd=None, **cfg):
+    def init_multitask_objectives(self, get_examples, nlp=None, **cfg):
         # TODO: transfer self.model.get_ref("tok2vec") to the multitask's model ?
         for labeller in self._multitasks:
             labeller.model.set_dim("nO", len(self.labels))
             if labeller.model.has_ref("output_layer"):
                 labeller.model.get_ref("output_layer").set_dim("nO", len(self.labels))
-            labeller.initialize(get_examples, pipeline=pipeline)
+            labeller.initialize(get_examples, nlp=nlp)
 
     @property
     def labels(self):
diff --git a/spacy/pipeline/ner.pyx b/spacy/pipeline/ner.pyx
index effcef2e3..6482d6125 100644
--- a/spacy/pipeline/ner.pyx
+++ b/spacy/pipeline/ner.pyx
@@ -96,14 +96,14 @@ cdef class EntityRecognizer(Parser):
         """Register another component as a multi-task objective. Experimental."""
         self._multitasks.append(mt_component)
 
-    def init_multitask_objectives(self, get_examples, pipeline, sgd=None, **cfg):
+    def init_multitask_objectives(self, get_examples, nlp=None, **cfg):
         """Setup multi-task objective components. Experimental and internal."""
         # TODO: transfer self.model.get_ref("tok2vec") to the multitask's model ?
         for labeller in self._multitasks:
             labeller.model.set_dim("nO", len(self.labels))
             if labeller.model.has_ref("output_layer"):
                 labeller.model.get_ref("output_layer").set_dim("nO", len(self.labels))
-            labeller.initialize(get_examples, pipeline=pipeline)
+            labeller.initialize(get_examples, nlp=nlp)
 
     @property
     def labels(self):