diff --git a/docs/experiments.md b/docs/experiments.md
index 3eb38eb..76dbdf6 100644
--- a/docs/experiments.md
+++ b/docs/experiments.md
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ read ``YAML`` configuration files to setup some experimental parameters.
 This can be extended to support more specific experiment helpers (see e.g.
 experimaestro-ir for an example).
 
+`ConfigurationBase` should be the parent class of any configuration.
+
+::: experimaestro.scheduler.services.ConfigurationBase
+
 ### Example
 
 An `experiment.py` file:
diff --git a/docs/tutorial.md b/docs/tutorial.md
index 5fa8e5c..4971fef 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial.md
+++ b/docs/tutorial.md
@@ -79,24 +79,6 @@ Taking the configuration class `Adam` defined above, we have:
 - `Adam(lr=1e-2).__identifier__()` returns `71848...` (different set of parameters)
 
 
-First, any value can be
-associated with a unique byte string: the byte string is obtained by outputting
-the type of the value (e.g. string, ir.adhoc.dataset) and the value itself as a
-binary string. A special handling of configurations and tasks (objects) is
-performed by sorting keys in ascending lexicographic order, thus ensuring the
-uniqueness of the representation.
-
- Moreover
-
-- Default values are removed (e.g. k1 when set to 0.9). This allows to
-  handle the situation where one adds a new experimental parameter
-  (e.g. a new loss component). In that case, using a default parameter
-  allows to add this parameter without invalidating all the previously
-  ran experiments.
-- Ignored values are removed (e.g. the number of threads when
-  indexing, the path where the index is stored)
-
-
 # Tasks
 
 When it comes to actually running code, Experimaestro allows to define
diff --git a/src/experimaestro/experiments/configuration.py b/src/experimaestro/experiments/configuration.py
index 043f8d8..273d351 100644
--- a/src/experimaestro/experiments/configuration.py
+++ b/src/experimaestro/experiments/configuration.py
@@ -28,5 +28,5 @@ class ConfigurationBase:
     file: str = "experiment"
     """qualified name (relative to the module) for the file containing a run function"""
 
-    parent: Optional[str]
+    parent: Optional[str] = None
     """Relative path of a YAML file that should be merged"""