diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 32db2ee5..bf40030c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -156,6 +156,13 @@ if((FLASHRT_ENABLE_COSMOS3_EDGE OR FLASHRT_ENABLE_COSMOS3_REASONER) AND
     "for non-Thor builds.")
 endif()
 
+# Chameleon-7B model kernels: QK Norm/RoPE, SM87 INT8/INT4 GEMM + FHT/QuaRot,
+# FA2 FP16 causal instances, and SM100/110 causal FMHA libraries. Off by
+# default so unrelated builds pay no compile/link/symbol cost. Model-neutral
+# fp16 norm/quant/activation helpers stay in the common layer.
+option(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+       "Build Chameleon-7B model kernels and bindings" OFF)
+
 # Motus beta integration. Motus-specific kernels are additive and must keep
 # their symbols prefixed with ``motus_``. Keeping a build tag lets the public
 # package compile without Motus kernels when debugging unrelated model paths.
@@ -483,6 +490,71 @@ if(ENABLE_SM100_CUTLASS)
   )
   target_link_libraries(fmha_fp16_strided PRIVATE CUDA::cudart)
   message(STATUS "libfmha_fp16_strided.so: building for sm_${GPU_ARCH} (Thor FMHA for SigLIP)")
+
+  if(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+  # ── libfmha_fp16_causal.so — CUTLASS SM100 FP16 causal FMHA for Chameleon ──
+  # Same as fmha_fp16_strided but with CausalMask<true>/<false> and
+  # CausalIndividualTileScheduler. Used by Chameleon-7B LLM self-attention
+  # (is_causal=True). Loaded at runtime via ctypes in
+  # hardware/thor/attn_backend_chameleon.py.
+  add_library(fmha_fp16_causal SHARED csrc/attention/fmha_fp16_causal.cu)
+  set_target_properties(fmha_fp16_causal PROPERTIES
+    LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/flash_rt
+    RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/flash_rt
+    CUDA_STANDARD 17
+    POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON
+    CUDA_ARCHITECTURES "${GPU_ARCH}a"
+    CUDA_RESOLVE_DEVICE_SYMBOLS ON
+    PREFIX "lib"
+    OUTPUT_NAME "fmha_fp16_causal"
+  )
+  target_include_directories(fmha_fp16_causal PRIVATE
+    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/csrc/attention
+    ${CUTLASS_DIR}/examples/77_blackwell_fmha
+    ${CUTLASS_INCLUDE}
+    ${CUTLASS_DIR}/tools/util/include
+  )
+  target_compile_options(fmha_fp16_causal PRIVATE
+    $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CUDA>:
+      --expt-relaxed-constexpr --expt-extended-lambda -O3
+      ${GPU_GENCODE}
+    >
+  )
+  target_link_libraries(fmha_fp16_causal PRIVATE CUDA::cudart)
+  message(STATUS "libfmha_fp16_causal.so: building for sm_${GPU_ARCH} (Thor causal FMHA for Chameleon)")
+
+  # ── libfmha_fp8_causal.so — CUTLASS SM100 FP8 causal FMHA ──
+  # FP8 (E4M3) input variant of fmha_fp16_causal for Chameleon-7B. Inputs
+  # Q/K/V are FP8, outputs O FP16, accumulators FP32. CUTLASS Sm100 FMHA
+  # mainloop has FP8-aware kPRescale logic that triggers when
+  # ``Element == cutlass::float_e4m3_t``. Loaded via dlopen at runtime
+  # alongside libfmha_fp16_causal.so as a drop-in alternative.
+  add_library(fmha_fp8_causal SHARED csrc/attention/fmha_fp8_causal.cu)
+  set_target_properties(fmha_fp8_causal PROPERTIES
+    LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/flash_rt
+    RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/flash_rt
+    CUDA_STANDARD 17
+    POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON
+    CUDA_ARCHITECTURES "${GPU_ARCH}a"
+    CUDA_RESOLVE_DEVICE_SYMBOLS ON
+    PREFIX "lib"
+    OUTPUT_NAME "fmha_fp8_causal"
+  )
+  target_include_directories(fmha_fp8_causal PRIVATE
+    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/csrc/attention
+    ${CUTLASS_DIR}/examples/77_blackwell_fmha
+    ${CUTLASS_INCLUDE}
+    ${CUTLASS_DIR}/tools/util/include
+  )
+  target_compile_options(fmha_fp8_causal PRIVATE
+    $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CUDA>:
+      --expt-relaxed-constexpr --expt-extended-lambda -O3
+      ${GPU_GENCODE}
+    >
+  )
+  target_link_libraries(fmha_fp8_causal PRIVATE CUDA::cudart)
+  message(STATUS "libfmha_fp8_causal.so: building for sm_${GPU_ARCH} (Thor FP8 causal FMHA for Chameleon)")
+  endif()  # FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
 endif()
 
 # ── CUTLASS SM120a block-128 FP8 GEMM (Path B for Qwen3.6) ──
@@ -869,11 +941,18 @@ if(ENABLE_FA2 AND
       csrc/attention/fa2_causal_inst/flash_fwd_split_hdim256_bf16_sm80_causal.cu
     )
   endif()
+  # fp16 hdim=128 serves Chameleon-7B causal prefill/decode on Orin SM87.
+  if(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON AND "128" IN_LIST FA2_HDIMS AND "fp16" IN_LIST FA2_DTYPES)
+    list(APPEND FA2_SRCS
+      csrc/attention/fa2_causal_inst/flash_fwd_hdim128_fp16_sm80_causal.cu
+      csrc/attention/fa2_causal_inst/flash_fwd_split_hdim128_fp16_sm80_causal.cu
+    )
+  endif()
   if(FLASHRT_ENABLE_NATIVE_CPP)
     # The native C boundary has a stable five-symbol surface. Its causal
     # wrapper contains native-only fail-fast dispatch for a slim matrix.
     list(APPEND FA2_SRCS csrc/attention/fa2_wrapper_causal.cu)
-  elseif("bf16" IN_LIST FA2_DTYPES AND
+  elseif(("bf16" IN_LIST FA2_DTYPES OR "fp16" IN_LIST FA2_DTYPES) AND
          ("128" IN_LIST FA2_HDIMS OR "256" IN_LIST FA2_HDIMS))
     # Preserve the existing Python-only source matrix exactly by default.
     list(APPEND FA2_SRCS csrc/attention/fa2_wrapper_causal.cu)
@@ -1582,6 +1661,26 @@ if(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS)
   target_compile_definitions(flash_rt_kernels PRIVATE ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS=1)
 endif()
 
+# ── Chameleon-7B model kernels (opt-in, see FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON) ──
+# QK Norm/RoPE fused, AWQ FP16 quant, SM80 INT8/INT4 rowwise GEMM fp16-out +
+# FHT/QuaRot rotation. Everything here is Chameleon-specific; model-neutral
+# fp16 norm/quant/activation helpers live in the common layer.
+if(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+  target_sources(flash_rt_kernels PRIVATE
+    csrc/kernels/qk_norm_rope_fused.cu
+    csrc/quantize/awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16.cu)
+  if(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS)
+    target_sources(flash_rt_kernels PRIVATE
+      csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out.cu
+      csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t64x128.cu
+      csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t256x128.cu
+      csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int4_rowwise.cu
+      csrc/kernels/fht_int4.cu)
+  endif()
+  target_compile_definitions(flash_rt_kernels PRIVATE FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON=1)
+  message(STATUS "Chameleon-7B model kernels: ENABLED")
+endif()
+
 # SM120a CUTLASS block-128 FP8 GEMM (Path B for Qwen3.6).
 if(GPU_ARCH STREQUAL "120")
   target_sources(flash_rt_kernels PRIVATE
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8b3abd1d..c9aec8c1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1072,6 +1072,7 @@ examples/
 - **Cosmos3-Nano text-to-video** (`config="cosmos3_video"`) — RTX 5090 BF16/FP8 denoise and complete benchmark workflow; [usage and performance](docs/cosmos3_video_usage.md)
 - **Cosmos3-Edge AV inverse dynamics and Reasoner** (`config="cosmos3_edge"`) — Jetson AGX Thor official baseline, 6.60x no-cache AV denoise, and NVFP4 multimodal chat decode; [complete usage and performance](docs/cosmos3_edge_thor.md)
 - **Qwen3-VL-8B** — RTX 5090 NVFP4/FP8 multimodal path, RTX 4090 official-FP8 path, and Jetson BF16 paths for Thor and Orin; [RTX 5090 usage](docs/qwen3_vl_nvfp4.md), [RTX 4090 usage](docs/qwen3_vl_fp8_sm89.md), [Jetson Thor usage](docs/qwen3_vl_thor.md), [Jetson Orin usage](docs/qwen3_vl_rtx_bf16.md)
+- **Chameleon-7B** — Jetson Thor dynamic-FP8 prefill (~120 ms E2E, ~30 tok/s decode) and Jetson Orin INT8/QuaRot-INT4 path; [usage](docs/chameleon_usage.md), [Thor notes](docs/chameleon_thor_sm110.md), [Orin SM87 notes](docs/chameleon7b_rtx_sm87.md)
 - **MiniMax-Remover** — FP8 transformer + NVFP4 VAE video inpainting; [usage and performance](docs/minimax_remover_usage.md)
 - **MelBandRoformer** — kernelized FP8 audio source separation; [usage and performance](docs/melband_roformer_usage.md)
 - **OmniVoice TTS** — BF16/FP4 acceleration and HTTP serving; [serving quickstart](serving/omnivoice_agent/README.md)
diff --git a/USAGE.md b/USAGE.md
index cf1c0ca6..b43dfdbc 100644
--- a/USAGE.md
+++ b/USAGE.md
@@ -681,6 +681,39 @@ once and reused, so per-chunk cost is just the infer row.
 This path does not change CMake targets, C++ bindings, or existing
 Pi0/Pi0.5/GROOT N1.6 runtime dispatch.
 
+### Chameleon-7B (Thor)
+
+Standalone Chameleon-7B (text + image) is a direct-instantiation Thor
+frontend — it is registered in `_PIPELINE_MAP` but is **not** dispatched by
+`flash_rt.load_model` (same pattern as Qwen3-VL). The VQGAN image
+tokenizer defaults to the generic eager Chameleon path; if compatible
+TensorRT engines exist in the deployment, it is recommended to opt in
+explicitly (`use_trt_vqgan=True`). A Jetson Orin (SM87) INT8/QuaRot
+frontend is also available; see [`docs/chameleon_usage.md`](docs/chameleon_usage.md),
+[`docs/chameleon_thor_sm110.md`](docs/chameleon_thor_sm110.md) and
+[`docs/chameleon7b_rtx_sm87.md`](docs/chameleon7b_rtx_sm87.md).
+
+```python
+from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor import ChameleonTorchFrontendThor
+
+fe = ChameleonTorchFrontendThor(
+    "/path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT",
+    use_fp8=True,            # dynamic per-tensor FP8 (recommended default)
+    use_cuda_graph=True,
+    use_trt_vqgan=False,     # generic default = eager VQGAN; set True when engines exist
+    target_size=512,
+)
+
+out = fe.prefill("Describe the image.", [pil_image])
+# out["logits"]: (65536,) fp32 with mask_image_logits applied
+```
+
+FA4 attention is an explicit opt-in fast path
+(`use_fa4_attn=True` / `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FA4_ATTN=1`, needs the
+`thor-fa4` pip extra); measured transformer-prefill-only ≈ **104 ms** at
+Se≈1056 vs ≈111 ms with CUTLASS FMHA. E2E (TRT VQGAN + FA4) ≈ **120 ms**
+vs HF BF16 ≈ 403 ms transformer-only (~3.4×).
+
 ### Wan2.2 TI2V-5B
 
 Wan2.2 TI2V-5B is exposed as an RTX SM120 official-pipeline baseline:
diff --git a/benchmarks/chameleon_thor_latency.py b/benchmarks/chameleon_thor_latency.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c72521c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/chameleon_thor_latency.py
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Chameleon-7B (Thor sm_110) latency benchmark.
+
+Measures standalone Chameleon-7B prefill latency on real images with clean
+stage separation:
+
+- ``--reuse-input-ids``: build real-image input ids once, then time only
+  embed + backbone + lm_head (transformer-prefill-only, HF-comparable).
+- Default: full ``prefill()`` E2E including VQGAN tokenization.
+- ``--use-trt-vqgan``: explicit TensorRT VQGAN opt-in (recommended when
+  compatible engines exist; the generic default stays eager).
+- FA4 attention: enable with ``FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FA4_ATTN=1`` (needs the
+  ``thor-fa4`` pip extra; prints whether it is active).
+
+Latency is wall-clock P50 (per CONTRIBUTING.md: quickstart --benchmark
+style; CUDA-graph replayed latency is what the pipeline measures inside the
+graph). Every result row records device, VQGAN backend, FA4 state, Se,
+fp8/fp16 and graph settings for reproducible reporting.
+
+Usage:
+
+    python benchmarks/chameleon_thor_latency.py \
+        --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \
+        --image-dir /path/to/images \
+        --iters 20 --warmup 5
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import pathlib
+import time
+from typing import Dict, List
+
+import torch
+
+
+def _stats(xs: List[float]) -> Dict[str, float]:
+    a = sorted(xs)
+    n = len(a)
+    return {"mean": sum(a) / n, "p50": a[n // 2], "min": a[0], "max": a[-1]}
+
+
+def _load_images(image_dir: pathlib.Path, max_images: int):
+    from PIL import Image
+
+    paths = sorted(
+        p for p in image_dir.iterdir()
+        if p.suffix.lower() in (".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".bmp"))
+    if not paths:
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"No real images under {image_dir}")
+    paths = paths[:max_images]
+    return [Image.open(p).convert("RGB") for p in paths], [str(p) for p in paths]
+
+
+def _pad_ids(input_ids: List[int], pad_id: int = 1):
+    real_len = len(input_ids)
+    padded = list(input_ids)
+    rem = len(padded) % 16
+    if rem:
+        padded.extend([pad_id] * (16 - rem))
+    return padded, real_len
+
+
+def _prefill_once(fe, prompt, images, cached_ids, use_graph: bool) -> Dict[str, float]:
+    """One timed prefill; returns stage latencies in ms."""
+    times: Dict[str, float] = {}
+    t0 = time.perf_counter()
+    ids = fe.encode_prompt(prompt, images) if cached_ids is None else cached_ids
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    times["encode_ms"] = (time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0
+
+    padded, real_len = _pad_ids(ids)
+    fe._real_len = real_len
+    fe.Se = len(padded)
+    fe._last_input_ids = padded
+    if fe._use_autotune:
+        fe._autotune_gemms(fe.Se)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    t1 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    fe._embed_ids(padded)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    t2 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    if use_graph:
+        fe._capture_graph(fe.Se)
+        fe._infer_graph.replay()
+    else:
+        fe._run_backbone(fe.Se)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    t3 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    fe._project_last()
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    t4 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    times["prepare_ms"] = (t1 - t0) * 1000.0 - times["encode_ms"]
+    times["embed_ms"] = (t2 - t1) * 1000.0
+    times["backbone_ms"] = (t3 - t2) * 1000.0
+    times["lm_head_ms"] = (t4 - t3) * 1000.0
+    times["transformer_ms"] = times["embed_ms"] + times["backbone_ms"] + times["lm_head_ms"]
+    times["total_ms"] = (t4 - t0) * 1000.0
+    return times
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    ap.add_argument("--checkpoint", required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--image-dir", required=True,
+                    help="Directory of real input images")
+    ap.add_argument("--prompt", default="Describe the image.")
+    ap.add_argument("--max-images", type=int, default=1)
+    ap.add_argument("--target-size", type=int, default=512)
+    ap.add_argument("--use-trt-vqgan", action="store_true",
+                    help="Use TensorRT VQGAN if compatible engines exist "
+                         "(recommended when engines are available; default is eager VQGAN)")
+    ap.add_argument("--reuse-input-ids", action="store_true",
+                    help="time transformer prefill only (VQGAN excluded)")
+    ap.add_argument("--no-graph", action="store_true")
+    ap.add_argument("--use-fp16", action="store_true",
+                    help="FP16 reference path instead of dynamic FP8")
+    ap.add_argument("--iters", type=int, default=20)
+    ap.add_argument("--warmup", type=int, default=5)
+    ap.add_argument("--output", default=None, help="JSON output path")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor import ChameleonTorchFrontendThor
+    from flash_rt.hardware.thor import fa4_backend
+
+    images, image_paths = _load_images(pathlib.Path(args.image_dir), args.max_images)
+    use_graph = not args.no_graph
+    fp8 = not args.use_fp16
+
+    fe = ChameleonTorchFrontendThor(
+        args.checkpoint, use_fp8=fp8, use_cuda_graph=use_graph,
+        target_size=args.target_size, use_trt_vqgan=args.use_trt_vqgan)
+
+    cached_ids = None
+    if args.reuse_input_ids:
+        cached_ids = fe.encode_prompt(args.prompt, images)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    for _ in range(args.warmup):
+        _prefill_once(fe, args.prompt, images, cached_ids, use_graph)
+
+    rows: Dict[str, List[float]] = {}
+    for _ in range(args.iters):
+        t = _prefill_once(fe, args.prompt, images, cached_ids, use_graph)
+        for k, v in t.items():
+            rows.setdefault(k, []).append(v)
+
+    result = {
+        "model": "chameleon-7b",
+        "device": torch.cuda.get_device_name(0),
+        "sm_count": torch.cuda.get_device_properties(0).multi_processor_count,
+        "checkpoint": args.checkpoint,
+        "image_paths": image_paths,
+        "prompt": args.prompt,
+        "target_size": args.target_size,
+        "fp8": fp8,
+        "cuda_graph": use_graph,
+        "vqgan_backend": fe.vqgan_backend,
+        "fa4_attn": fe.fa4_attn_active,
+        "fa4_status": fa4_backend.status(),
+        "reuse_input_ids": bool(args.reuse_input_ids),
+        "Se": int(fe.Se),
+        "latency_ms": {k: _stats(v) for k, v in rows.items()},
+    }
+    for k, v in result["latency_ms"].items():
+        print(f"[chameleon] {k:14s} p50={v['p50']:8.1f} ms  mean={v['mean']:8.1f}")
+    print(f"[chameleon] device={result['device']} vqgan={fe.vqgan_backend} "
+          f"fa4={fe.fa4_attn_active} fp8={fp8} graph={use_graph} Se={fe.Se}")
+
+    if args.output:
+        pathlib.Path(args.output).write_text(json.dumps(result, indent=2))
+        print(f"[chameleon] wrote {args.output}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/benchmarks/fp4_chameleon_layer16.py b/benchmarks/fp4_chameleon_layer16.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54bc0745
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/fp4_chameleon_layer16.py
@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Verify FP4 Gate+Up substitution at Chameleon layer-16 FFN shape.
+
+Compares three paths driven by identical fp16 weights/activation:
+
+    REF : pure fp16 matmul + silu*mul + matmul                (fp32 accumulate)
+    FP8 : full FP8 path (used by current chameleon_forward)
+    MIX : FP4 Gate+Up + (existing) silu_mul_split_fp8_fp16 + FP8 Down
+    ALL4: FP4 Gate+Up + fp16 silu*mul + FP4 Down              (upper bound)
+
+For each path: cosine similarity vs REF + microbenchmark latency.
+"""
+import pytest
+
+torch = pytest.importorskip("torch")
+fp4 = pytest.importorskip(
+    "flash_rt.flash_rt_fp4",
+    reason="flash_rt_fp4 requires an NVFP4 (sm_120+) build")
+import numpy as np
+import flash_rt.flash_rt_kernels as fvk
+from flash_rt.executors.fp4_utils import (
+    quant_weight_nvfp4, FP4ActScratch, quant_act_nvfp4, fp4_gemm, pick_variant,
+)
+
+
+def fp16_t(*shape, scale=1.0):
+    return (torch.randn(*shape, dtype=torch.float16, device='cuda') * scale).contiguous()
+
+
+def cuda_time(fn, iters=100, warmup=20):
+    s = torch.cuda.current_stream()
+    for _ in range(warmup): fn()
+    s.synchronize()
+    e0 = torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True); e1 = torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True)
+    e0.record()
+    for _ in range(iters): fn()
+    e1.record(); s.synchronize()
+    return e0.elapsed_time(e1) / iters * 1000   # μs
+
+
+def amax_scale(t: torch.Tensor) -> float:
+    return max(t.abs().max().item() / 448.0, 1e-9)
+
+
+def make_scale_buf(scale: float) -> torch.Tensor:
+    return torch.tensor([scale], dtype=torch.float32, device='cuda')
+
+
+def quant_fp8(W: torch.Tensor, scale: float):
+    out = torch.empty_like(W, dtype=torch.uint8)
+    sb = make_scale_buf(scale)
+    fvk.quantize_fp8_static_fp16(W.data_ptr(), out.data_ptr(),
+                                  sb.data_ptr(), W.numel(), 0)
+    return out, sb
+
+
+def cos_vs(a, b):
+    return torch.nn.functional.cosine_similarity(
+        a.flatten().float().unsqueeze(0),
+        b.flatten().float().unsqueeze(0)).item()
+
+
+def main():
+    print(f"FP4 enabled: {fp4.has_nvfp4()}; variants: {fp4.cutlass_fp4_gemm_num_variants()}")
+
+    Se, D, Dff = 1216, 4096, 11008
+
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    W_g = fp16_t(Dff, D, scale=0.02)
+    W_u = fp16_t(Dff, D, scale=0.02)
+    W_d = fp16_t(D,   Dff, scale=0.02)
+    X   = fp16_t(Se, D, scale=1.0)
+
+    # ---- REF ----
+    gate_ref = (X.float() @ W_g.float().T).half()
+    up_ref   = (X.float() @ W_u.float().T).half()
+    h_ref    = (torch.nn.functional.silu(gate_ref.float()) * up_ref.float()).half()
+    out_ref  = (h_ref.float() @ W_d.float().T).half()
+    print(f"REF: |gate|max={gate_ref.abs().max():.2f}  |up|max={up_ref.abs().max():.2f}"
+          f"  |h|max={h_ref.abs().max():.2f}  |out|max={out_ref.abs().max():.2f}")
+
+    # ---- Pre-compute calibrated scales (per-tensor amax/448) ----
+    s_x   = amax_scale(X)
+    s_wg  = amax_scale(W_g)
+    s_wu  = amax_scale(W_u)
+    s_wd  = amax_scale(W_d)
+    s_h   = amax_scale(h_ref)        # post-silu*up → fp8 input to Down
+    print(f"scales:  x={s_x:.3e}  w_g={s_wg:.3e}  w_u={s_wu:.3e}  w_d={s_wd:.3e}  h={s_h:.3e}")
+
+    gemm = fvk.GemmRunner()
+
+    # FP8 weights + activation
+    # NB: fp8_nn_dev is NN (no transpose), so B must be [K, N] row-major.
+    # We store HF-style W as [N, K]; transpose before fp8 quant.
+    Wg_fp8, sg = quant_fp8(W_g.t().contiguous(), s_wg)   # [D, Dff]
+    Wu_fp8, su = quant_fp8(W_u.t().contiguous(), s_wu)   # [D, Dff]
+    Wd_fp8, sd = quant_fp8(W_d.t().contiguous(), s_wd)   # [Dff, D]
+    sx_buf = make_scale_buf(s_x);  sh_buf = make_scale_buf(s_h)
+    X_fp8 = torch.empty(Se, D, dtype=torch.uint8, device='cuda')
+    fvk.quantize_fp8_static_fp16(X.data_ptr(), X_fp8.data_ptr(),
+                                  sx_buf.data_ptr(), Se*D, 0)
+
+    gate_out = torch.empty(Se, Dff, dtype=torch.float16, device='cuda')
+    up_out   = torch.empty(Se, Dff, dtype=torch.float16, device='cuda')
+    gu_fp8   = torch.empty(Se, Dff, dtype=torch.uint8,   device='cuda')
+    out_fp8  = torch.empty(Se, D,   dtype=torch.float16, device='cuda')
+
+    def run_fp8():
+        gemm.fp8_nn_dev(X_fp8.data_ptr(), Wg_fp8.data_ptr(), gate_out.data_ptr(),
+                        Se, Dff, D, sx_buf.data_ptr(), sg.data_ptr(), 0)
+        gemm.fp8_nn_dev(X_fp8.data_ptr(), Wu_fp8.data_ptr(), up_out.data_ptr(),
+                        Se, Dff, D, sx_buf.data_ptr(), su.data_ptr(), 0)
+        fvk.silu_mul_split_fp8_fp16(gate_out.data_ptr(), up_out.data_ptr(),
+                                     gu_fp8.data_ptr(), Se*Dff,
+                                     sh_buf.data_ptr(), 0)
+        gemm.fp8_nn_dev(gu_fp8.data_ptr(), Wd_fp8.data_ptr(), out_fp8.data_ptr(),
+                        Se, D, Dff, sh_buf.data_ptr(), sd.data_ptr(), 0)
+
+    run_fp8(); torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    cos_fp8 = cos_vs(out_fp8, out_ref)
+    fp8_us = cuda_time(run_fp8)
+
+    # ---- MIX (FP4 Gate+Up, FP8 Down) ----
+    qg = quant_weight_nvfp4(W_g)
+    qu = quant_weight_nvfp4(W_u)
+    sc_x = FP4ActScratch(max_M=Se, K=D)
+    var_gu = pick_variant(Dff, D)
+    out_mix = torch.empty(Se, D, dtype=torch.float16, device='cuda')
+
+    def run_mix():
+        quant_act_nvfp4(X, sc_x, Se, stream=0)
+        fp4_gemm(sc_x, qg, gate_out, Se, Dff, D, variant_idx=var_gu, stream=0)
+        fp4_gemm(sc_x, qu, up_out,   Se, Dff, D, variant_idx=var_gu, stream=0)
+        fvk.silu_mul_split_fp8_fp16(gate_out.data_ptr(), up_out.data_ptr(),
+                                     gu_fp8.data_ptr(), Se*Dff,
+                                     sh_buf.data_ptr(), 0)
+        gemm.fp8_nn_dev(gu_fp8.data_ptr(), Wd_fp8.data_ptr(), out_mix.data_ptr(),
+                        Se, D, Dff, sh_buf.data_ptr(), sd.data_ptr(), 0)
+
+    run_mix(); torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    cos_mix = cos_vs(out_mix, out_ref)
+    mix_us = cuda_time(run_mix)
+
+    # ---- ALL-FP4 (Gate+Up+Down all FP4, fp16 silu*mul) ----
+    qd = quant_weight_nvfp4(W_d)
+    sc_h = FP4ActScratch(max_M=Se, K=Dff)
+    var_dn = pick_variant(D, Dff)
+    h_buf = torch.empty(Se, Dff, dtype=torch.float16, device='cuda')
+    out_all4 = torch.empty(Se, D, dtype=torch.float16, device='cuda')
+
+    def run_all4():
+        quant_act_nvfp4(X, sc_x, Se, stream=0)
+        fp4_gemm(sc_x, qg, gate_out, Se, Dff, D, variant_idx=var_gu, stream=0)
+        fp4_gemm(sc_x, qu, up_out,   Se, Dff, D, variant_idx=var_gu, stream=0)
+        # fp16 silu*up via torch (bench-only)
+        torch.mul(torch.nn.functional.silu(gate_out), up_out, out=h_buf)
+        quant_act_nvfp4(h_buf, sc_h, Se, stream=0)
+        fp4_gemm(sc_h, qd, out_all4, Se, D, Dff, variant_idx=var_dn, stream=0)
+
+    run_all4(); torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    cos_all4 = cos_vs(out_all4, out_ref)
+    all4_us = cuda_time(run_all4)
+
+    print()
+    print("="*72)
+    print("Chameleon layer-16 FFN block (Se=1216, D=4096, Dff=11008)")
+    print("="*72)
+    fmt = "  {:14s}  cos_vs_ref = {:.6f}    {:7.1f} μs    speedup={}"
+    print(fmt.format("FP8 baseline",   cos_fp8,  fp8_us,  "1.00x"))
+    print(fmt.format("MIX (FP4 GU)",   cos_mix,  mix_us,  f"{fp8_us/mix_us:.2f}x"))
+    print(fmt.format("ALL-FP4",        cos_all4, all4_us, f"{fp8_us/all4_us:.2f}x"))
+    delta = fp8_us - mix_us
+    print(f"\n  Per-layer MIX saves {delta:6.1f} μs → 32 layers ≈ {delta*32/1000:5.2f} ms")
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/csrc/attention/fa2_causal_inst/flash_fwd_hdim128_fp16_sm80_causal.cu b/csrc/attention/fa2_causal_inst/flash_fwd_hdim128_fp16_sm80_causal.cu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2b731195
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csrc/attention/fa2_causal_inst/flash_fwd_hdim128_fp16_sm80_causal.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+// FlashRT — FA2 causal instantiation for (fp16, head_dim=128).
+//
+// Sibling of flash_fwd_hdim128_bf16_sm80_causal.cu — adds the fp16
+// specialization needed by the Chameleon-7B (Orin SM87) causal
+// attention path. The vendored launch template already supports
+// Is_causal=true; this file just provides the matching fp16 spec.
+#include "namespace_config.h"
+#include "flash_fwd_launch_template.h"
+
+namespace FLASH_NAMESPACE {
+
+template<>
+void run_mha_fwd_<cutlass::half_t, 128, true>(Flash_fwd_params &params, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    run_mha_fwd_hdim128<cutlass::half_t, true>(params, stream);
+}
+
+}  // namespace FLASH_NAMESPACE
diff --git a/csrc/attention/fa2_causal_inst/flash_fwd_split_hdim128_fp16_sm80_causal.cu b/csrc/attention/fa2_causal_inst/flash_fwd_split_hdim128_fp16_sm80_causal.cu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e8bde309
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csrc/attention/fa2_causal_inst/flash_fwd_split_hdim128_fp16_sm80_causal.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// FlashRT — FA2 causal splitkv instantiation for (fp16, head_dim=128).
+//
+// Sibling of flash_fwd_split_hdim128_bf16_sm80_causal.cu — provides
+// the fp16 splitkv dispatch for causal attention. Used by the
+// Chameleon-7B (Orin SM87) path when the splitkv heuristic kicks in.
+#include "namespace_config.h"
+#include "flash_fwd_launch_template.h"
+
+namespace FLASH_NAMESPACE {
+
+template void run_mha_fwd_splitkv_dispatch<cutlass::half_t, 128, true>(Flash_fwd_params &params, cudaStream_t stream);
+
+}  // namespace FLASH_NAMESPACE
diff --git a/csrc/attention/fa2_wrapper.h b/csrc/attention/fa2_wrapper.h
index 0351aede..e2c3cdab 100644
--- a/csrc/attention/fa2_wrapper.h
+++ b/csrc/attention/fa2_wrapper.h
@@ -80,6 +80,18 @@ FLASHRT_FA2_NATIVE_API void fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal(
     int o_batch_stride, int o_row_stride, int o_head_stride,
     float softmax_scale, int num_sms, cudaStream_t stream);
 
+FLASHRT_FA2_NATIVE_API void fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_fp16_causal(
+    const void* q_ptr, const void* k_ptr, const void* v_ptr,
+    void* o_ptr, void* softmax_lse_ptr,
+    void* softmax_lse_accum_ptr, void* o_accum_ptr,
+    int batch, int seqlen_q, int seqlen_k,
+    int num_heads_q, int num_heads_kv, int head_dim,
+    int q_batch_stride, int q_row_stride, int q_head_stride,
+    int k_batch_stride, int k_row_stride, int k_head_stride,
+    int v_batch_stride, int v_row_stride, int v_head_stride,
+    int o_batch_stride, int o_row_stride, int o_head_stride,
+    float softmax_scale, int num_sms, cudaStream_t stream);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/csrc/attention/fa2_wrapper_causal.cu b/csrc/attention/fa2_wrapper_causal.cu
index b089ba85..c382fc0a 100644
--- a/csrc/attention/fa2_wrapper_causal.cu
+++ b/csrc/attention/fa2_wrapper_causal.cu
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@
 // and is exposed to Python as `flash_rt_fa2.fwd_bf16_causal`
 // (binding added in csrc/fa2_bindings.cpp).
 //
-// Build set is intentionally small: bf16 hdim=128 for Qwen3-8B and
-// bf16 hdim=256 for Qwen3.6 full-attention chunked prefill.
+// Build set: bf16 hdim=128 for Qwen3-8B, bf16 hdim=256 for Qwen3.6
+// full-attention chunked prefill, and fp16 hdim=128 for Chameleon-7B
+// causal attention on Orin SM87.
 //
 // The non-causal wrapper's helpers (fill_params, splitkv heuristic)
 // are duplicated here intentionally to keep this file standalone
@@ -22,6 +23,8 @@
 #include <cstdint>
 #include <cstdio>
 #include <algorithm>
+#include <stdexcept>
+#include <string>
 
 #include "flash_attn_2_src/flash_attn/namespace_config.h"
 #include "flash_attn_2_src/flash_attn/flash.h"
@@ -169,6 +172,7 @@ static int setup_splitkv_causal(FLASH_NAMESPACE::Flash_fwd_params& params,
     return num_splits;
 }
 
+#ifdef FA2_HAS_BF16
 extern "C" void fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal(
     const void* q_ptr, const void* k_ptr, const void* v_ptr,
     void* o_ptr, void* softmax_lse_ptr,
@@ -190,10 +194,9 @@ extern "C" void fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal(
     supported = supported || head_dim == 256;
 #endif
     if (!supported) {
-        fprintf(stderr,
-            "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal: head_dim=%d not built. "
-            "Enable its FA2_HDIMS entry and rebuild.\n", head_dim);
-        std::abort();
+        throw std::runtime_error(
+            "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal: head_dim=" + std::to_string(head_dim) +
+            " not built. Enable its FA2_HDIMS entry and rebuild.");
     }
 #else
     if ((head_dim != 128)
@@ -202,15 +205,14 @@ extern "C" void fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal(
 #endif
         ) {
 #ifdef FA2_HAS_HDIM_256
-        fprintf(stderr,
-            "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal: head_dim=%d not built. "
-            "Only head_dim=128 and 256 are currently instantiated.\n", head_dim);
+        throw std::runtime_error(
+            "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal: head_dim=" + std::to_string(head_dim) +
+            " not built. Only head_dim=128 and 256 are currently instantiated.");
 #else
-        fprintf(stderr,
-            "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal: head_dim=%d not built. "
-            "Only head_dim=128 is currently instantiated.\n", head_dim);
+        throw std::runtime_error(
+            "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal: head_dim=" + std::to_string(head_dim) +
+            " not built. Only head_dim=128 is currently instantiated.");
 #endif
-        std::abort();
     }
 #endif
 
@@ -253,10 +255,9 @@ extern "C" void fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal(
             return;
 #endif
         default:
-            fprintf(stderr,
-                "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal: head_dim=%d not built "
-                "in this FA2 matrix.\n", head_dim);
-            std::abort();
+            throw std::runtime_error(
+                "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal: head_dim=" + std::to_string(head_dim) +
+                " not built in this FA2 matrix.");
     }
 #else
     if (head_dim == 128 && num_splits > 1) {
@@ -272,11 +273,87 @@ extern "C" void fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal(
     }
 #else
     else {
-        fprintf(stderr,
-            "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal: head_dim=%d not built "
-            "(hdim=256 disabled at compile time).\n", head_dim);
-        std::abort();
+        throw std::runtime_error(
+            "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal: head_dim=" + std::to_string(head_dim) +
+            " not built (hdim=256 disabled at compile time).");
     }
 #endif
 #endif
 }
+#else  // !FA2_HAS_BF16
+extern "C" void fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal(
+    const void*, const void*, const void*, void*, void*,
+    void*, void*,
+    int, int, int, int, int, int,
+    int, int, int, int, int, int,
+    int, int, int, int, int, int,
+    float, int, cudaStream_t)
+{
+    throw std::runtime_error(
+        "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal: bf16 entry was not compiled. "
+        "Rebuild with -DFA2_DTYPES=\"fp16;bf16\" to enable it.");
+}
+#endif  // FA2_HAS_BF16
+
+// FP16 causal sibling. Only head_dim=128 is instantiated (Chameleon-7B
+// on Orin SM87 is the consumer; bf16 covers the head_dim=256 shapes
+// used by Qwen3.6 chunked prefill).
+#if defined(FA2_HAS_FP16) && defined(FA2_HAS_HDIM_128)
+extern "C" void fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_fp16_causal(
+    const void* q_ptr, const void* k_ptr, const void* v_ptr,
+    void* o_ptr, void* softmax_lse_ptr,
+    void* softmax_lse_accum_ptr, void* o_accum_ptr,
+    int batch, int seqlen_q, int seqlen_k,
+    int num_heads_q, int num_heads_kv, int head_dim,
+    int q_batch_stride, int q_row_stride, int q_head_stride,
+    int k_batch_stride, int k_row_stride, int k_head_stride,
+    int v_batch_stride, int v_row_stride, int v_head_stride,
+    int o_batch_stride, int o_row_stride, int o_head_stride,
+    float softmax_scale, int num_sms, cudaStream_t stream)
+{
+    if (head_dim != 128) {
+        throw std::runtime_error(
+            "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_fp16_causal: head_dim=" + std::to_string(head_dim) +
+            " not built. Only head_dim=128 is currently instantiated for the "
+            "fp16 causal path. Add a new file under csrc/attention/fa2_causal_inst/ "
+            "and extend the dispatch in fa2_wrapper_causal.cu to support "
+            "additional shapes.");
+    }
+
+    FLASH_NAMESPACE::Flash_fwd_params params;
+    fill_params_causal(params,
+                       q_ptr, k_ptr, v_ptr, o_ptr, softmax_lse_ptr,
+                       batch, seqlen_q, seqlen_k,
+                       num_heads_q, num_heads_kv, head_dim,
+                       q_batch_stride, q_row_stride, q_head_stride,
+                       k_batch_stride, k_row_stride, k_head_stride,
+                       v_batch_stride, v_row_stride, v_head_stride,
+                       o_batch_stride, o_row_stride, o_head_stride,
+                       softmax_scale);
+    // fill_params_causal hardcodes is_bf16=true; flip it for the fp16 path.
+    params.is_bf16 = false;
+
+    int num_splits = setup_splitkv_causal(params, softmax_lse_accum_ptr, o_accum_ptr,
+                                          num_sms, seqlen_q, seqlen_k,
+                                          head_dim, batch, num_heads_q);
+    if (num_splits > 1) {
+        FLASH_NAMESPACE::run_mha_fwd_splitkv_dispatch<cutlass::half_t, 128, true>(params, stream);
+    } else {
+        FLASH_NAMESPACE::run_mha_fwd_<cutlass::half_t, 128, true>(params, stream);
+    }
+}
+#else  // !(FA2_HAS_FP16 && FA2_HAS_HDIM_128)
+extern "C" void fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_fp16_causal(
+    const void*, const void*, const void*, void*, void*,
+    void*, void*,
+    int, int, int, int, int, int,
+    int, int, int, int, int, int,
+    int, int, int, int, int, int,
+    float, int, cudaStream_t)
+{
+    throw std::runtime_error(
+        "fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_fp16_causal: fp16 hdim=128 entry was not "
+        "compiled. Rebuild with -DFA2_DTYPES=\"fp16;bf16\" and "
+        "-DFA2_HDIMS including 128 (and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON=ON) to enable it.");
+}
+#endif  // FA2_HAS_FP16 && FA2_HAS_HDIM_128
diff --git a/csrc/attention/fmha_fp16_causal.cu b/csrc/attention/fmha_fp16_causal.cu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b190fb04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csrc/attention/fmha_fp16_causal.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+/**
+ * fmha_fp16_causal.cu — FP16 FMHA with CAUSAL MASK, both alignments.
+ *
+ * Identical to fmha_fp16_strided.cu but instantiates CausalMask instead of
+ * NoMask.  Used by Chameleon-7B LLM self-attention which requires
+ * is_causal=True (state-token must NOT attend to future positions).
+ *
+ * Two alignments, matching PyTorch SDPA semantics:
+ *   * fmha_fp16_causal    — CausalMask<true>  (top-left,  IsQBegin). Correct
+ *                           for prefill where SQ == SK.
+ *   * fmha_fp16_causal_br — CausalMask<false> (bottom-right, offset = SK-SQ).
+ *                           Correct for incremental decode where SQ=1 < SK.
+ *
+ * Exposes:
+ *   extern "C" int fmha_fp16_causal   (Q, K, V, O, B, SQ, SK, NQ, NKV, HD, stream)
+ *   extern "C" int fmha_fp16_causal_br(Q, K, V, O, B, SQ, SK, NQ, NKV, HD, stream)
+ *
+ * Built as a standalone .so loaded via dlopen at runtime.
+ */
+#include <cuda_runtime.h>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <cstdio>
+#include "cutlass/cutlass.h"
+#include "cutlass/numeric_types.h"
+#include "cute/tensor.hpp"
+#include "cutlass/util/packed_stride.hpp"
+#include "device/fmha.hpp"
+#include "kernel/sm100_fmha_fwd_kernel_tma_warpspecialized.hpp"
+#include "collective/sm100_fmha_fwd_mainloop_tma_warpspecialized.hpp"
+#include "collective/sm100_fmha_fwd_epilogue_tma_warpspecialized.hpp"
+#include "collective/sm100_fmha_load_tma_warpspecialized.hpp"
+#include "collective/fmha_fusion.hpp"
+
+using namespace cute;
+using Element = cutlass::half_t;
+using ElementAccQK = float;
+using ElementAccPV = float;
+using ElementOut = cutlass::half_t;
+using TileShape = Shape<_256, _128, _128>;
+
+using StrideQ   = cute::tuple<int, _1, cute::tuple<cute::tuple<int, int>, int>>;
+using StrideK   = cute::tuple<int, _1, cute::tuple<cute::tuple<_0, int>, int>>;
+using StrideV   = StrideK;
+using StrideO   = StrideQ;
+using StrideLSE = cute::tuple<_1, cute::tuple<cute::tuple<int, int>, int>>;
+using ProblemShape = cute::tuple<int, int, int, cute::tuple<cute::tuple<int, int>, int>>;
+
+template <bool IsQBegin>
+struct FmhaCausalTraits {
+    using Mainloop = cutlass::fmha::collective::Sm100FmhaFwdMainloopTmaWarpspecialized<
+        Element, ElementAccQK, ElementAccPV, TileShape,
+        StrideQ, StrideK, StrideV,
+        cutlass::fmha::collective::CausalMask<IsQBegin>>;
+    using Epilogue = cutlass::fmha::collective::Sm100FmhaFwdEpilogueTmaWarpspecialized<
+        ElementOut, ElementAccPV, typename Mainloop::TileShapePV, StrideO, StrideLSE>;
+    using Kernel = cutlass::fmha::kernel::Sm100FmhaFwdKernelTmaWarpspecialized<
+        ProblemShape, Mainloop, Epilogue,
+        cutlass::fmha::kernel::CausalIndividualTileScheduler>;
+    using FmhaOp = cutlass::fmha::device::FMHA<Kernel>;
+};
+
+static void* g_ws = nullptr; static size_t g_ws_sz = 0;
+static float* g_lse = nullptr; static size_t g_lse_sz = 0;
+
+// ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+// Causal FMHA: Q/K/V contiguous [S, NH, HD]
+// ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+template <bool IsQBegin>
+static int fmha_fp16_causal_impl(
+    const void* Q, const void* K, const void* V, void* O,
+    int B, int SQ, int SK, int NQ, int NKV, int HD,
+    cudaStream_t stream)
+{
+    using FmhaOp = typename FmhaCausalTraits<IsQBegin>::FmhaOp;
+
+    int H_Q = NQ/NKV, H_K = NKV, H = H_Q*H_K;
+    int D = cutlass::round_up(HD, 8);
+    auto ps = cute::make_tuple(SQ, SK, D, cute::make_tuple(cute::make_tuple(H_Q, H_K), B));
+
+    // Contiguous layout: Q[S, NH, HD] → stride = (NH*HD, 1, ...)
+    StrideQ sQ = make_stride(H*D, _1{}, make_stride(make_stride(D, H_Q*D), H*D*SQ));
+    StrideO sO = sQ;
+    StrideK sK = make_stride(H_K*D, _1{}, make_stride(make_stride(_0{}, D), H_K*D*SK));
+    int SQ_r = ((SQ+127)/128)*128;
+    StrideLSE sL = make_stride(_1{}, make_stride(make_stride(SQ_r, SQ_r*H_Q), SQ_r*H));
+
+    size_t lsz = (size_t)B*H*SQ_r*sizeof(float);
+    if (lsz > g_lse_sz) { if(g_lse) cudaFree(g_lse); cudaMalloc(&g_lse,lsz); g_lse_sz=lsz; }
+    int sm = 0; cudaDeviceGetAttribute(&sm, cudaDevAttrMultiProcessorCount, 0);
+
+    typename FmhaOp::Arguments args{ps,
+        {{(Element const*)Q, sQ, (Element const*)K, sK, (Element const*)V, sK},
+         0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f},
+        {(ElementOut*)O, sO, g_lse, sL}, {0, sm}};
+
+    FmhaOp op;
+    auto st = op.can_implement(args);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) {
+        printf("[FMHA causal%s] can_implement FAILED (%d) SQ=%d SK=%d NQ=%d HD=%d\n",
+               IsQBegin ? "" : "_br", (int)st, SQ, SK, NQ, HD);
+        return -1;
+    }
+    size_t wsz = FmhaOp::get_workspace_size(args);
+    if (wsz > g_ws_sz) { if(g_ws) cudaFree(g_ws); cudaMalloc(&g_ws,wsz); g_ws_sz=wsz; }
+    if (op.initialize(args, g_ws, stream) != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) return -2;
+    return (op.run(stream) == cutlass::Status::kSuccess) ? 0 : -3;
+}
+
+extern "C" int fmha_fp16_causal(
+    const void* Q, const void* K, const void* V, void* O,
+    int B, int SQ, int SK, int NQ, int NKV, int HD,
+    cudaStream_t stream)
+{
+    return fmha_fp16_causal_impl<true>(Q, K, V, O, B, SQ, SK, NQ, NKV, HD, stream);
+}
+
+// Bottom-right aligned causal mask (offset_q = SK - SQ) for incremental
+// decode (SQ=1 < SK). Identical to fmha_fp16_causal when SQ == SK.
+extern "C" int fmha_fp16_causal_br(
+    const void* Q, const void* K, const void* V, void* O,
+    int B, int SQ, int SK, int NQ, int NKV, int HD,
+    cudaStream_t stream)
+{
+    return fmha_fp16_causal_impl<false>(Q, K, V, O, B, SQ, SK, NQ, NKV, HD, stream);
+}
diff --git a/csrc/attention/fmha_fp8_causal.cu b/csrc/attention/fmha_fp8_causal.cu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e5adb24d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csrc/attention/fmha_fp8_causal.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+/**
+ * fmha_fp8_causal.cu — FP8 (E4M3) causal FMHA for Chameleon-7B
+ *
+ * FP8 drop-in alternative to libfmha_fp16_causal.so for the Chameleon-7B
+ * LLM path. Inputs Q/K/V are FP8 E4M3 (already quantized by
+ * the caller via per-tensor static scales); softmax/PV accumulators stay
+ * FP32; output O is written back as FP16 (so the rest of the residual
+ * stream remains FP16 and the existing ``residual_add_rms_norm_fp8_fp16``
+ * fused epilogue is unchanged).
+ *
+ * Built as a standalone .so loaded via dlopen at runtime. The CUTLASS
+ * Sm100FmhaFwdMainloopTmaWarpspecialized has FP8-aware code paths
+ * (kPRescale-compensated softmax, FP8 denorm-protection scaling) that
+ * activate automatically when ``Element == cutlass::float_e4m3_t``.
+ *
+ * Exposes:
+ *   extern "C" int fmha_fp8_causal(Q, K, V, O,
+ *                                  B, SQ, SK, NQ, NKV, HD,
+ *                                  scale_q, scale_k, scale_v, inv_scale_o,
+ *                                  stream);
+ *
+ *   - Q, K, V : const void* — FP8 E4M3, [B, S, NH, HD]
+ *   - O       : void*       — FP16,    [B, SQ, NQ, HD]
+ *   - scale_q, scale_k, scale_v, inv_scale_o : float dequantization /
+ *     output-quantization scales (forwarded to the mainloop Arguments).
+ *     For our use case where O stays FP16, ``inv_scale_o = 1.0f``.
+ */
+#include <cuda_runtime.h>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <cstdio>
+#include "cutlass/cutlass.h"
+#include "cutlass/numeric_types.h"
+#include "cute/tensor.hpp"
+#include "cutlass/util/packed_stride.hpp"
+#include "device/fmha.hpp"
+#include "kernel/sm100_fmha_fwd_kernel_tma_warpspecialized.hpp"
+#include "collective/sm100_fmha_fwd_mainloop_tma_warpspecialized.hpp"
+#include "collective/sm100_fmha_fwd_epilogue_tma_warpspecialized.hpp"
+#include "collective/sm100_fmha_load_tma_warpspecialized.hpp"
+#include "collective/fmha_fusion.hpp"
+
+using namespace cute;
+
+// ── FP8 input, FP16 output (matches the Chameleon residual stream dtype) ──
+using Element = cutlass::float_e4m3_t;
+using ElementAccQK = float;
+using ElementAccPV = float;
+using ElementOut = cutlass::half_t;
+// FP8 halves smem footprint vs FP16, so the original 256x128x128 tile
+// shape from the FP16 paths still fits comfortably.
+using TileShape = Shape<_256, _128, _128>;
+
+using StrideQ   = cute::tuple<int, _1, cute::tuple<cute::tuple<int, int>, int>>;
+using StrideK   = cute::tuple<int, _1, cute::tuple<cute::tuple<_0, int>, int>>;
+using StrideV   = StrideK;
+using StrideO   = StrideQ;
+using StrideLSE = cute::tuple<_1, cute::tuple<cute::tuple<int, int>, int>>;
+using ProblemShape = cute::tuple<int, int, int, cute::tuple<cute::tuple<int, int>, int>>;
+
+// CausalMask<true> + CausalIndividualTileScheduler: same as fmha_fp16_causal
+// (Chameleon LLM self-attention is causal).
+using Mainloop = cutlass::fmha::collective::Sm100FmhaFwdMainloopTmaWarpspecialized<
+    Element, ElementAccQK, ElementAccPV, TileShape,
+    StrideQ, StrideK, StrideV, cutlass::fmha::collective::CausalMask<true>>;
+using Epilogue = cutlass::fmha::collective::Sm100FmhaFwdEpilogueTmaWarpspecialized<
+    ElementOut, ElementAccPV, typename Mainloop::TileShapePV, StrideO, StrideLSE>;
+using Kernel = cutlass::fmha::kernel::Sm100FmhaFwdKernelTmaWarpspecialized<
+    ProblemShape, Mainloop, Epilogue,
+    cutlass::fmha::kernel::CausalIndividualTileScheduler>;
+using FmhaOp = cutlass::fmha::device::FMHA<Kernel>;
+
+// One workspace + LSE buffer per process (lazy-allocated, grows as needed).
+static void* g_ws = nullptr; static size_t g_ws_sz = 0;
+static float* g_lse = nullptr; static size_t g_lse_sz = 0;
+
+// ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+// Causal FP8 FMHA: Q/K/V contiguous [B, S, NH, HD] in FP8, O FP16.
+//
+// scale_q/k/v: per-tensor dequantize scales for Q/K/V (e.g. amax/448).
+// inv_scale_o: per-tensor output quantize scale (1.0 when O stays FP16).
+// ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+extern "C" int fmha_fp8_causal(
+    const void* Q, const void* K, const void* V, void* O,
+    int B, int SQ, int SK, int NQ, int NKV, int HD,
+    float scale_q, float scale_k, float scale_v, float inv_scale_o,
+    cudaStream_t stream)
+{
+    int H_Q = NQ/NKV, H_K = NKV, H = H_Q*H_K;
+    int D = cutlass::round_up(HD, 8);
+    auto ps = cute::make_tuple(SQ, SK, D, cute::make_tuple(cute::make_tuple(H_Q, H_K), B));
+
+    // Contiguous layout: same as the FP16 path. The FP8 element size is
+    // 1 byte, so the underlying memory layout halves vs FP16 — but the
+    // logical strides (in elements, not bytes) stay identical to the
+    // FP16 case at the API level.
+    StrideQ sQ = make_stride(H*D, _1{}, make_stride(make_stride(D, H_Q*D), H*D*SQ));
+    StrideO sO = sQ;
+    StrideK sK = make_stride(H_K*D, _1{}, make_stride(make_stride(_0{}, D), H_K*D*SK));
+    int SQ_r = ((SQ+127)/128)*128;
+    StrideLSE sL = make_stride(_1{}, make_stride(make_stride(SQ_r, SQ_r*H_Q), SQ_r*H));
+
+    size_t lsz = (size_t)B*H*SQ_r*sizeof(float);
+    if (lsz > g_lse_sz) { if(g_lse) cudaFree(g_lse); cudaMalloc(&g_lse,lsz); g_lse_sz=lsz; }
+    int sm = 0; cudaDeviceGetAttribute(&sm, cudaDevAttrMultiProcessorCount, 0);
+
+    // Build the FMHA Arguments with the FP8 scale fields populated.
+    // - scale_softmax = 0 → mainloop defaults to 1/sqrt(D)
+    // - scale_q/k/v   = caller-provided dequantize factors (ax/448)
+    // - inv_scale_o   = 1.0 (output stays FP16; no output quant)
+    typename FmhaOp::Arguments args{ps,
+        {{(Element const*)Q, sQ, (Element const*)K, sK, (Element const*)V, sK},
+         0.0f, scale_q, scale_k, scale_v, inv_scale_o},
+        {(ElementOut*)O, sO, g_lse, sL}, {0, sm}};
+
+    FmhaOp op;
+    auto st = op.can_implement(args);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) {
+        printf("[FMHA fp8 causal] can_implement FAILED (%d) SQ=%d SK=%d NQ=%d HD=%d\n",
+               (int)st, SQ, SK, NQ, HD);
+        return -1;
+    }
+    size_t wsz = FmhaOp::get_workspace_size(args);
+    if (wsz > g_ws_sz) { if(g_ws) cudaFree(g_ws); cudaMalloc(&g_ws,wsz); g_ws_sz=wsz; }
+    if (op.initialize(args, g_ws, stream) != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) return -2;
+    return (op.run(stream) == cutlass::Status::kSuccess) ? 0 : -3;
+}
diff --git a/csrc/bindings.cpp b/csrc/bindings.cpp
index 54d3c25a..9794f217 100644
--- a/csrc/bindings.cpp
+++ b/csrc/bindings.cpp
@@ -144,7 +144,70 @@ extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_bf16out(
 extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_bf16out_t64x128(
     void const*, void const*, void const*, void const*, void*,
     int, int, int, cudaStream_t);
-#endif
+#ifdef FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out(
+    void const*, void const*, void const*, void const*, void*,
+    int, int, int, cudaStream_t);
+extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_bias(
+    void const*, void const*, void const*, void const*, void const*, void*,
+    int, int, int, cudaStream_t);
+// INT4 W4A4 (QuaRot rotated) rowwise family — Orin SM87.
+extern "C" int cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out(
+    void const*, void const*, void const*, void const*, void*,
+    int, int, int, cudaStream_t);
+extern "C" int cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out_bias(
+    void const*, void const*, void const*, void const*, void const*, void*,
+    int, int, int, cudaStream_t);
+extern "C" int cutlass_int4_rowwise_bf16out(
+    void const*, void const*, void const*, void const*, void*,
+    int, int, int, cudaStream_t);
+extern "C" int cutlass_int4_silu_gated_bf16out(
+    void const*, void const*, void const*, void const*, void const*, void*,
+    int, int, int, cudaStream_t);
+extern "C" void residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16(
+    __half*, const __half*, const __half*, uint8_t*, float*,
+    int, int, float, cudaStream_t);
+extern "C" void rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16(
+    const __half*, const __half*, uint8_t*, float*,
+    int, int, float, cudaStream_t);
+extern "C" void fht_int4_quant_fp16(
+    const __half*, uint8_t*, float*, int, int, cudaStream_t);
+extern "C" void residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16(
+    __half*, const __half*, const __half*, int8_t*, float*,
+    int, int, float, cudaStream_t);
+extern "C" void rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16(
+    const __half*, const __half*, int8_t*, float*,
+    int, int, float, cudaStream_t);
+extern "C" void fht_int8_quant_fp16(
+    const __half*, int8_t*, float*, int, int, cudaStream_t);
+extern "C" void fht128_int4_quant_bf16(
+    const __nv_bfloat16*, uint8_t*, float*, int, int, cudaStream_t);
+#endif  // FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+#endif  // ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS
+
+#ifdef FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+// Fused QK-LayerNorm + rotate_half RoPE kernel.
+// Implementation: csrc/kernels/qk_norm_rope_fused.cu
+extern "C" void flash_rt_qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+    const __half* q,    const __half* k,
+    const __half* q_w,  const __half* q_b,
+    const __half* k_w,  const __half* k_b,
+    const __half* cos_t, const __half* sin_t,
+    __half* q_out, __half* k_out,
+    int seq_len, int num_heads, int dim, float eps,
+    cudaStream_t stream);
+
+// Fused per-K AWQ inv_s mul + per-tensor static FP8 quantize for FP16
+// inputs. Implementation: csrc/quantize/awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16.cu
+extern "C" void flash_rt_awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16(
+    const void*  in_fp16,
+    const void*  inv_s_fp16,
+    void*        out_fp8,
+    const float* act_scale,
+    long long M, int K,
+    cudaStream_t stream);
+#endif  // FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+
 #include "kernels/kernels.h"
 #include "kernels/fusion.cuh"
 #ifdef FLASHRT_HAVE_MELBAND_ROFORMER
@@ -636,6 +699,18 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(flash_rt_kernels, m) {
         }, py::arg("A"), py::arg("B"), py::arg("D"),
            py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"),
            py::arg("d_scale_a"), py::arg("d_scale_b"), py::arg("stream") = 0)
+        // FP8 no-transpose with FP16 output (row-major, device scale ptrs)
+        .def("fp8_nn_dev_fp16", [](GemmRunner& self,
+                                    uintptr_t A, uintptr_t B, uintptr_t D,
+                                    int M, int N, int K,
+                                    uintptr_t d_scale_a, uintptr_t d_scale_b,
+                                    uintptr_t stream) {
+            self.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(to_ptr(A), to_ptr(B), to_ptr(D), M, N, K,
+                                 reinterpret_cast<float*>(d_scale_a),
+                                 reinterpret_cast<float*>(d_scale_b), to_stream(stream));
+        }, py::arg("A"), py::arg("B"), py::arg("D"),
+           py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"),
+           py::arg("d_scale_a"), py::arg("d_scale_b"), py::arg("stream") = 0)
         // FP8 with device descale → FP16 (GemmRunner handle, matching pi05)
         .def("fp8_descale_fp16", [](GemmRunner& self,
                                      uintptr_t A, uintptr_t B, uintptr_t D,
@@ -711,6 +786,26 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(flash_rt_kernels, m) {
         }, py::arg("A"), py::arg("B"), py::arg("D"),
            py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"),
            py::arg("d_scale_a"), py::arg("d_scale_b"), py::arg("num_algos") = 16)
+        .def("autotune_fp8_nn_dev_fp16", [](GemmRunner& self,
+                                             uintptr_t A, uintptr_t B, uintptr_t D,
+                                             int M, int N, int K,
+                                             uintptr_t d_scale_a, uintptr_t d_scale_b,
+                                             int num_algos) {
+            self.autotune_fp8_nn_dev_fp16(to_ptr(A), to_ptr(B), to_ptr(D), M, N, K,
+                                           reinterpret_cast<float*>(d_scale_a),
+                                           reinterpret_cast<float*>(d_scale_b), num_algos);
+        }, py::arg("A"), py::arg("B"), py::arg("D"),
+           py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"),
+           py::arg("d_scale_a"), py::arg("d_scale_b"), py::arg("num_algos") = 16)
+        .def("autotune_fp8_nn_bias", [](GemmRunner& self,
+                                         uintptr_t A, uintptr_t B, uintptr_t D, uintptr_t bias,
+                                         int M, int N, int K, float alpha,
+                                         int num_algos) {
+            self.autotune_fp8_nn_bias(to_ptr(A), to_ptr(B), to_ptr(D), to_ptr(bias),
+                                       M, N, K, alpha, num_algos);
+        }, py::arg("A"), py::arg("B"), py::arg("D"), py::arg("bias"),
+           py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"),
+           py::arg("alpha") = 1.0f, py::arg("num_algos") = 16)
 #ifdef ENABLE_NVFP4
         .def("fp4_nn_dev", [](GemmRunner& self,
                                uintptr_t A_fp4, uintptr_t SFA,
@@ -833,6 +928,19 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(flash_rt_kernels, m) {
     }, py::arg("residual"), py::arg("x"), py::arg("weight"), py::arg("out"),
        py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"), py::arg("eps") = 1e-6f, py::arg("stream") = 0);
 
+    // Fused: residual_add + rms_norm with FP16 output (no quantize).
+    m.def("residual_add_rms_norm_fp16", [](uintptr_t residual, uintptr_t x,
+                                            uintptr_t weight, uintptr_t out,
+                                            int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+                                            uintptr_t stream) {
+        residual_add_rms_norm_fp16(reinterpret_cast<__half*>(residual),
+                                    reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(x),
+                                    reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(weight),
+                                    reinterpret_cast<__half*>(out),
+                                    seq_len, dim, eps, to_stream(stream));
+    }, py::arg("residual"), py::arg("x"), py::arg("weight"), py::arg("out"),
+       py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"), py::arg("eps") = 1e-6f, py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
     // Activation — GEGLU (tanh-approx GELU(gate) * up), not SiLU.
     m.def("gate_geglu", [](uintptr_t gate, uintptr_t up, uintptr_t out, int n, uintptr_t stream) {
         gate_silu_mul(typed_ptr<__nv_bfloat16>(gate), typed_ptr<__nv_bfloat16>(up),
@@ -1093,6 +1201,44 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(flash_rt_kernels, m) {
                                   reinterpret_cast<float*>(d_scale), n, to_stream(stream));
     }, py::arg("input"), py::arg("output"), py::arg("d_scale"), py::arg("n"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
 
+    // Fused RMSNorm + dynamic per-tensor FP8 quantize (FP16 backbone).
+    m.def("rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16", [](uintptr_t x, uintptr_t weight,
+                                                     uintptr_t xn_out, uintptr_t fp8_out,
+                                                     uintptr_t d_scale, int seq_len, int dim,
+                                                     float eps, uintptr_t stream) {
+        rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+            reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(x), reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(weight),
+            reinterpret_cast<__half*>(xn_out), typed_ptr<__nv_fp8_e4m3>(fp8_out),
+            reinterpret_cast<float*>(d_scale), seq_len, dim, eps, to_stream(stream));
+    }, py::arg("x"), py::arg("weight"), py::arg("xn_out"), py::arg("fp8_out"),
+       py::arg("d_scale"), py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"), py::arg("eps") = 1e-5f,
+       py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    // Fused GEGLU (tanh-approx GELU(gate)*up) + dynamic per-tensor FP8 quantize.
+    m.def("gate_geglu_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16", [](uintptr_t gate, uintptr_t up,
+                                                      uintptr_t h_out, uintptr_t fp8_out,
+                                                      uintptr_t d_scale, int n, uintptr_t stream) {
+        gate_geglu_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+            reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(gate), reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(up),
+            reinterpret_cast<__half*>(h_out), typed_ptr<__nv_fp8_e4m3>(fp8_out),
+            reinterpret_cast<float*>(d_scale), n, to_stream(stream));
+    }, py::arg("gate"), py::arg("up"), py::arg("h_out"), py::arg("fp8_out"),
+       py::arg("d_scale"), py::arg("n"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    // Fused residual add (in-place) + RMSNorm + dynamic per-tensor FP8 quantize.
+    m.def("residual_add_rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16",
+          [](uintptr_t residual, uintptr_t x, uintptr_t weight,
+             uintptr_t xn_out, uintptr_t fp8_out, uintptr_t d_scale,
+             int seq_len, int dim, float eps, uintptr_t stream) {
+        residual_add_rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+            reinterpret_cast<__half*>(residual), reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(x),
+            reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(weight), reinterpret_cast<__half*>(xn_out),
+            typed_ptr<__nv_fp8_e4m3>(fp8_out), reinterpret_cast<float*>(d_scale),
+            seq_len, dim, eps, to_stream(stream));
+    }, py::arg("residual"), py::arg("x"), py::arg("weight"), py::arg("xn_out"),
+       py::arg("fp8_out"), py::arg("d_scale"), py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"),
+       py::arg("eps") = 1e-5f, py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
 // Bindings below cover the BF16->NVFP4 quantize / norm-fused-quantize
 // family. The kernels themselves live in csrc/kernels/quantize.cu and
 // are compiled into flash_rt_kernels unconditionally for every Blackwell
@@ -1561,6 +1707,52 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(flash_rt_kernels, m) {
                            n, to_stream(stream));
     }, py::arg("residual"), py::arg("x"), py::arg("n"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
 
+    m.def("clamp_inplace_fp16", [](uintptr_t x, float limit, int n, uintptr_t stream) {
+        clamp_inplace_fp16(reinterpret_cast<__half*>(x), limit, n, to_stream(stream));
+    }, py::arg("x"), py::arg("limit"), py::arg("n"), py::arg("stream") = 0,
+       "In-place symmetric clamp: x = min(max(x, -limit), +limit). "
+       "CUDA-Graph safe. Generic fp16 activation-range guard.");
+
+#ifdef FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+    // Fused QK-LayerNorm + rotate_half RoPE, FP16, in-place on q/k.
+    //   q, k       : [Se, NH*HD] FP16 (head-interleaved, in-place)
+    //   q_w/q_b    : [HD] FP16 (per-head LayerNorm params, shared across heads)
+    //   cos/sin    : [Se, HD] FP16 (rotate_half-tiled)
+    //   dim        : HD — the RoPE writeback currently covers exactly the
+    //                Chameleon production shape dim=128; other dimensions are
+    //                rejected until the kernel genuinely supports them.
+    m.def("qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16", [](uintptr_t q, uintptr_t k,
+                                         uintptr_t q_weight, uintptr_t q_bias,
+                                         uintptr_t k_weight, uintptr_t k_bias,
+                                         uintptr_t cos_table, uintptr_t sin_table,
+                                         int seq_len, int num_heads, int dim,
+                                         float eps, uintptr_t stream) {
+        if (dim != 128)
+            throw py::value_error(
+                "qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16 currently supports dim==128 only, got "
+                + std::to_string(dim));
+        if (seq_len <= 0 || num_heads <= 0)
+            throw py::value_error(
+                "qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16 requires seq_len>0 and num_heads>0, got "
+                + std::to_string(seq_len) + ", " + std::to_string(num_heads));
+        if (!(eps > 0.f))
+            throw py::value_error("qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16 requires eps>0");
+        flash_rt_qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+            reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(q),       reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(k),
+            reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(q_weight), reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(q_bias),
+            reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(k_weight), reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(k_bias),
+            reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(cos_table),
+            reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(sin_table),
+            reinterpret_cast<__half*>(q), reinterpret_cast<__half*>(k),
+            seq_len, num_heads, dim, eps, to_stream(stream));
+    }, py::arg("q"), py::arg("k"),
+       py::arg("q_weight"), py::arg("q_bias"),
+       py::arg("k_weight"), py::arg("k_bias"),
+       py::arg("cos_table"), py::arg("sin_table"),
+       py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("num_heads"), py::arg("dim"),
+       py::arg("eps") = 1e-5f, py::arg("stream") = 0);
+#endif  // FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+
     m.def("gate_mul_residual_fp16",
           [](uintptr_t residual, uintptr_t x, uintptr_t gate,
              int n, uintptr_t stream) {
@@ -3349,6 +3541,26 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(flash_rt_kernels, m) {
         py::arg("out_fp8"), py::arg("act_scale"),
         py::arg("M"), py::arg("K"),
         py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    // FP16 variant of awq_quant_fp8_static for FP16-backbone models
+    // (Chameleon-7B residual stream). Requires both the Motus FP8 gate
+    // and the Chameleon build option.
+#ifdef FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+    m.def("awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16",
+        [](uintptr_t in_fp16, uintptr_t inv_s_fp16, uintptr_t out_fp8,
+           uintptr_t act_scale, long long M, int K, uintptr_t stream) {
+            flash_rt_awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16(
+                to_ptr(in_fp16),
+                to_ptr(inv_s_fp16),
+                to_ptr(out_fp8),
+                reinterpret_cast<const float*>(act_scale),
+                M, K, to_stream(stream));
+        },
+        py::arg("in_fp16"), py::arg("inv_s_fp16"),
+        py::arg("out_fp8"), py::arg("act_scale"),
+        py::arg("M"), py::arg("K"),
+        py::arg("stream") = 0);
+#endif  // FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
 #endif  // FLASHRT_HAVE_MOTUS_VAE_FP8
 
     // Motus 205ms path bindings. These are the production fused kernels
@@ -7880,6 +8092,35 @@ graph-replay safe) to fill the SMs on long K. M in 1..16; N%8==0; K%64==0;
        py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"), py::arg("eps") = 1e-6f,
        py::arg("stream") = 0);
 
+#ifdef FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+    // Chameleon-7B INT8 rowwise-per-token quantize with FP16 backbone.
+    m.def("rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16", [](uintptr_t x, uintptr_t weight,
+                                            uintptr_t out, uintptr_t scales,
+                                            int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+                                            uintptr_t stream) {
+        rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16(
+            typed_ptr<__half>(x), typed_ptr<__half>(weight),
+            typed_ptr<int8_t>(out), reinterpret_cast<float*>(scales),
+            seq_len, dim, eps, to_stream(stream));
+    }, py::arg("x"), py::arg("weight"), py::arg("out"), py::arg("scales"),
+       py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"), py::arg("eps") = 1e-6f,
+       py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("residual_add_rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16",
+          [](uintptr_t residual, uintptr_t x, uintptr_t weight,
+             uintptr_t out, uintptr_t scales,
+             int seq_len, int dim, float eps, uintptr_t stream) {
+        residual_add_rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16(
+            typed_ptr<__half>(residual), typed_ptr<__half>(x),
+            typed_ptr<__half>(weight),
+            typed_ptr<int8_t>(out), reinterpret_cast<float*>(scales),
+            seq_len, dim, eps, to_stream(stream));
+    }, py::arg("residual"), py::arg("x"), py::arg("weight"),
+       py::arg("out"), py::arg("scales"),
+       py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"), py::arg("eps") = 1e-6f,
+       py::arg("stream") = 0);
+#endif  // FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+
     m.def("bias_residual_layer_norm_bf16", [](uintptr_t residual, uintptr_t x,
                                                 uintptr_t bias_pre,
                                                 uintptr_t ln_weight, uintptr_t ln_bias,
@@ -7950,6 +8191,15 @@ graph-replay safe) to fill the SMs on long K. M in 1..16; N%8==0; K%64==0;
                               reinterpret_cast<float*>(d_scales), rows, cols, to_stream(stream));
     }, py::arg("input"), py::arg("output"), py::arg("d_scales"), py::arg("rows"), py::arg("cols"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
 
+#ifdef FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+    m.def("quantize_int8_rowwise_fp16", [](uintptr_t input, uintptr_t output,
+                                            uintptr_t d_scales, int rows, int cols,
+                                            uintptr_t stream) {
+        quantize_int8_rowwise_fp16(typed_ptr<__half>(input), typed_ptr<int8_t>(output),
+                                    reinterpret_cast<float*>(d_scales), rows, cols, to_stream(stream));
+    }, py::arg("input"), py::arg("output"), py::arg("d_scales"), py::arg("rows"), py::arg("cols"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
+#endif  // FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+
     m.def("quantize_int8_rowwise_static", [](uintptr_t input, uintptr_t output,
                                               uintptr_t d_scales, int rows, int cols,
                                               uintptr_t stream) {
@@ -8002,6 +8252,208 @@ graph-replay safe) to fill the SMs on long K. M in 1..16; N%8==0; K%64==0;
           }, py::arg("A"), py::arg("B"), py::arg("act_scale"), py::arg("weight_scale"),
           py::arg("D"), py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
 
+#ifdef FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+    // Chameleon-7B SM80/SM87 INT8/INT4 rowwise GEMM (fp16-out) + FHT/QuaRot
+    // rotation bindings. Gated on FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON (outer guard) in
+    // addition to ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS (inner guards below).
+    m.def("cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out",
+          [](uintptr_t A, uintptr_t B, uintptr_t act_scale, uintptr_t weight_scale,
+             uintptr_t D, int M, int N, int K, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              return cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out(to_ptr(A), to_ptr(B), to_ptr(act_scale),
+                  to_ptr(weight_scale), to_ptr(D), M, N, K, to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("A"), py::arg("B"), py::arg("act_scale"), py::arg("weight_scale"),
+          py::arg("D"), py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_bias",
+          [](uintptr_t A, uintptr_t B, uintptr_t act_scale, uintptr_t weight_scale,
+             uintptr_t bias, uintptr_t D, int M, int N, int K, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              return cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_bias(to_ptr(A), to_ptr(B), to_ptr(act_scale),
+                  to_ptr(weight_scale), to_ptr(bias), to_ptr(D), M, N, K, to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_bias was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("A"), py::arg("B"), py::arg("act_scale"), py::arg("weight_scale"),
+          py::arg("bias"), py::arg("D"), py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"),
+          py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out",
+          [](uintptr_t A, uintptr_t B, uintptr_t act_scale, uintptr_t weight_scale,
+             uintptr_t D, int M, int N, int K, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              return cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out(to_ptr(A), to_ptr(B), to_ptr(act_scale),
+                  to_ptr(weight_scale), to_ptr(D), M, N, K, to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("A"), py::arg("B"), py::arg("act_scale"), py::arg("weight_scale"),
+          py::arg("D"), py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out_bias",
+          [](uintptr_t A, uintptr_t B, uintptr_t act_scale, uintptr_t weight_scale,
+             uintptr_t bias, uintptr_t D, int M, int N, int K, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              return cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out_bias(to_ptr(A), to_ptr(B), to_ptr(act_scale),
+                  to_ptr(weight_scale), to_ptr(bias), to_ptr(D), M, N, K, to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out_bias was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("A"), py::arg("B"), py::arg("act_scale"), py::arg("weight_scale"),
+          py::arg("bias"), py::arg("D"), py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"),
+          py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("cutlass_int4_rowwise_bf16out",
+          [](uintptr_t A, uintptr_t B, uintptr_t act_scale, uintptr_t weight_scale,
+             uintptr_t D, int M, int N, int K, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              return cutlass_int4_rowwise_bf16out(to_ptr(A), to_ptr(B), to_ptr(act_scale),
+                  to_ptr(weight_scale), to_ptr(D), M, N, K, to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("cutlass_int4_rowwise_bf16out was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("A"), py::arg("B"), py::arg("act_scale"), py::arg("weight_scale"),
+          py::arg("D"), py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("cutlass_int4_silu_gated_bf16out",
+          [](uintptr_t act, uintptr_t up_w, uintptr_t act_s, uintptr_t wt_s,
+             uintptr_t gate, uintptr_t D, int M, int N, int K, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              return cutlass_int4_silu_gated_bf16out(to_ptr(act), to_ptr(up_w), to_ptr(act_s),
+                  to_ptr(wt_s), to_ptr(gate), to_ptr(D), M, N, K, to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("cutlass_int4_silu_gated_bf16out was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("act"), py::arg("up_w"), py::arg("act_scale"), py::arg("wt_scale"),
+             py::arg("gate_buf"), py::arg("D"), py::arg("M"), py::arg("N"), py::arg("K"),
+             py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16",
+          [](uintptr_t residual, uintptr_t x, uintptr_t weight, uintptr_t out,
+             uintptr_t scales, int seq_len, int dim, float eps, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16(
+                  typed_ptr<__half>(residual), typed_ptr<__half>(x),
+                  typed_ptr<__half>(weight), typed_ptr<uint8_t>(out),
+                  reinterpret_cast<float*>(scales), seq_len, dim, eps,
+                  to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16 was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("residual"), py::arg("x"), py::arg("weight"), py::arg("out"),
+          py::arg("scales"), py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"),
+          py::arg("eps") = 1e-5f, py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16",
+          [](uintptr_t x, uintptr_t weight, uintptr_t out, uintptr_t scales,
+             int seq_len, int dim, float eps, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16(
+                  typed_ptr<__half>(x), typed_ptr<__half>(weight),
+                  typed_ptr<uint8_t>(out), reinterpret_cast<float*>(scales),
+                  seq_len, dim, eps, to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16 was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("x"), py::arg("weight"), py::arg("out"), py::arg("scales"),
+          py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"), py::arg("eps") = 1e-5f,
+          py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("fht_int4_quant_fp16",
+          [](uintptr_t x, uintptr_t out, uintptr_t scales,
+             int seq_len, int dim, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              fht_int4_quant_fp16(
+                  typed_ptr<__half>(x), typed_ptr<uint8_t>(out),
+                  reinterpret_cast<float*>(scales), seq_len, dim,
+                  to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("fht_int4_quant_fp16 was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("x"), py::arg("out"), py::arg("scales"),
+          py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    // W8A8 + Hadamard: same rotation as the int4 entries, int8 output, so
+    // the unmodified cutlass_int8_rowwise_* GEMMs consume it. Conditions
+    // massive-activation channels at 8-bit resolution.
+    //   out    : int8 [seq_len, dim]  (NOT nibble-packed)
+    //   scales : fp32 [seq_len], with 1/sqrt(dim) already folded in
+    m.def("residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16",
+          [](uintptr_t residual, uintptr_t x, uintptr_t weight, uintptr_t out,
+             uintptr_t scales, int seq_len, int dim, float eps, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16(
+                  typed_ptr<__half>(residual), typed_ptr<__half>(x),
+                  typed_ptr<__half>(weight), typed_ptr<int8_t>(out),
+                  reinterpret_cast<float*>(scales), seq_len, dim, eps,
+                  to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16 was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("residual"), py::arg("x"), py::arg("weight"), py::arg("out"),
+          py::arg("scales"), py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"),
+          py::arg("eps") = 1e-5f, py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16",
+          [](uintptr_t x, uintptr_t weight, uintptr_t out, uintptr_t scales,
+             int seq_len, int dim, float eps, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16(
+                  typed_ptr<__half>(x), typed_ptr<__half>(weight),
+                  typed_ptr<int8_t>(out), reinterpret_cast<float*>(scales),
+                  seq_len, dim, eps, to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16 was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("x"), py::arg("weight"), py::arg("out"), py::arg("scales"),
+          py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"), py::arg("eps") = 1e-5f,
+          py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("fht_int8_quant_fp16",
+          [](uintptr_t x, uintptr_t out, uintptr_t scales,
+             int seq_len, int dim, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              fht_int8_quant_fp16(
+                  typed_ptr<__half>(x), typed_ptr<int8_t>(out),
+                  reinterpret_cast<float*>(scales), seq_len, dim,
+                  to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("fht_int8_quant_fp16 was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("x"), py::arg("out"), py::arg("scales"),
+          py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
+
+    m.def("fht128_int4_quant_bf16",
+          [](uintptr_t x, uintptr_t out, uintptr_t scales,
+             int seq_len, int dim, uintptr_t stream) {
+#if defined(ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS) && defined(FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)
+              fht128_int4_quant_bf16(
+                  typed_ptr<__nv_bfloat16>(x), typed_ptr<uint8_t>(out),
+                  reinterpret_cast<float*>(scales), seq_len, dim,
+                  to_stream(stream));
+#else
+              throw std::runtime_error("fht128_int4_quant_bf16 was not built "
+                  "(requires ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS and FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON)");
+#endif
+          }, py::arg("x"), py::arg("out"), py::arg("scales"),
+          py::arg("seq_len"), py::arg("dim"), py::arg("stream") = 0);
+#endif  // FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+
 
 #ifdef ENABLE_MOTUS
     m.def("motus_fp4_conv3d_v19sf_ndhwc_bf16out",
diff --git a/csrc/fa2_bindings.cpp b/csrc/fa2_bindings.cpp
index 75360388..3f033f18 100644
--- a/csrc/fa2_bindings.cpp
+++ b/csrc/fa2_bindings.cpp
@@ -184,8 +184,9 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(flash_rt_fa2, m) {
 
     // Causal sibling. Same signature as fwd_bf16 but applies a causal
     // mask inside FA2 (template Is_causal=true). Currently only
-    // head_dim=128 is built; calls with other head_dim abort with a
-    // clear message. Used by Qwen3-8B prefill (S=N causal self-attn).
+    // head_dim=128 is built; calls with other head_dim raise a
+    // RuntimeError with a clear message. Used by Qwen3-8B prefill
+    // (S=N causal self-attn).
     m.def("fwd_bf16_causal", make_fwd(&fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_bf16_causal),
         py::arg("Q"), py::arg("K"), py::arg("V"), py::arg("O"), py::arg("softmax_lse"),
         py::arg("softmax_lse_accum") = 0, py::arg("o_accum") = 0,
@@ -197,4 +198,18 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(flash_rt_fa2, m) {
         py::arg("num_sms") = 0,
         py::arg("stream") = 0,
         kDocstring);
+
+    // FP16 causal sibling — head_dim=128 only. Used by Chameleon-7B
+    // causal self-attention (32 layers MHA 32x128) on Orin SM87.
+    m.def("fwd_fp16_causal", make_fwd(&fvk_attention_fa2_fwd_fp16_causal),
+        py::arg("Q"), py::arg("K"), py::arg("V"), py::arg("O"), py::arg("softmax_lse"),
+        py::arg("softmax_lse_accum") = 0, py::arg("o_accum") = 0,
+        py::arg("batch"), py::arg("seqlen_q"), py::arg("seqlen_k"),
+        py::arg("num_heads_q"), py::arg("num_heads_kv"), py::arg("head_dim"),
+        py::arg("q_strides"), py::arg("k_strides"),
+        py::arg("v_strides"), py::arg("o_strides"),
+        py::arg("softmax_scale") = 1.0f,
+        py::arg("num_sms") = 0,
+        py::arg("stream") = 0,
+        kDocstring);
 }
diff --git a/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int4_rowwise.cu b/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int4_rowwise.cu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3fa4404c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int4_rowwise.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,280 @@
+// ================================================================
+// FlashRT — CUTLASS SM8x INT4 (s4 W4A4) rowwise GEMM family for
+// Jetson Orin SM87 (QuaRot rotated-GEMM path).
+//
+// Same EVT structure as the INT8 rowwise kernels (per-row act scale ×
+// per-row weight scale), with s4 operands and the m16n8k64 instruction.
+// Precision contract: inputs are Hadamard-rotated per GEMM (activation
+// side online FHT, weight side offline H·W), which flattens the
+// Chameleon massive-activation channels so plain per-row symmetric
+// int4 survives (measured worst L0-31 cosine 0.9914 vs 0.9722 for the
+// production W8A8).
+// Measured speed on Orin (M=1214): QKVO 0.34 ms (2.0x int8), gate/up
+// 0.87 ms (1.9x), tile 128x128x128 w64x64x128 s5 Id4 = 120-144 TOPS.
+//
+// Variants:
+//   cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out       (O-proj / down if rotated)
+//   cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out_bias  (Q/K/V with fused per-N bias)
+//   cutlass_int4_rowwise_bf16out       (FFN gate -> BF16 for silu_gated)
+//   cutlass_int4_silu_gated_bf16out    (FFN up x SiLU(gate) -> BF16)
+//
+// A: [M, K/2] packed s4 row-major (elem 2i low nibble), 32-elem aligned.
+// B: [N, K/2] packed s4 (ColumnMajor K-major), i.e. weight [N, K] rotated
+//    + quantized per output row.
+// ================================================================
+
+#include <cuda_runtime.h>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <cstdio>
+
+#include "cutlass/cutlass.h"
+#include "cutlass/numeric_types.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/gemm.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/device/gemm_universal_adapter.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/kernel/default_gemm_universal_with_visitor.h"
+#include "cutlass/epilogue/threadblock/fusion/visitors.hpp"
+#include "cutlass/epilogue/threadblock/epilogue_with_visitor_callbacks.h"
+
+#include "cute/tensor.hpp"
+
+namespace flash_rt {
+namespace gemm {
+namespace cutlass_int4_sm8x {
+
+using namespace cute;
+
+using ElementA = cutlass::int4b_t;
+using LayoutA = cutlass::layout::RowMajor;
+using ElementB = cutlass::int4b_t;
+using LayoutB = cutlass::layout::ColumnMajor;
+using ElementAccumulator = int32_t;
+using ElementCompute = float;
+using LayoutC = cutlass::layout::RowMajor;
+
+constexpr int AlignmentA = 32;
+constexpr int AlignmentB = 32;
+constexpr int AlignmentC = 8;
+
+using ArchTag = cutlass::arch::Sm80;
+using OperatorClass = cutlass::arch::OpClassTensorOp;
+using ThreadblockShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<128, 128, 128>;
+using WarpShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<64, 64, 128>;
+using InstructionShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<16, 8, 64>;
+constexpr int NumStages = 5;
+constexpr int EVTEpilogueStages = 1;
+
+template <typename ElementOutput>
+struct Chains {
+    using OutputTileThreadMap =
+        cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::OutputTileThreadLayout<
+            ThreadblockShape, WarpShape, ElementOutput, AlignmentC,
+            EVTEpilogueStages>;
+    using AccFetch = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorAccFetch;
+    using ActScaleLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorColBroadcast<
+        OutputTileThreadMap, float, Stride<_1, _0, _0>>;
+    using WtScaleLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorRowBroadcast<
+        OutputTileThreadMap, float, Stride<_0, _1, int32_t>>;
+    using Mul = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorCompute<
+        cutlass::multiplies, float, float,
+        cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest>;
+    using BiasLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorRowBroadcast<
+        OutputTileThreadMap, cutlass::half_t, Stride<_0, _1, int32_t>>;
+    using AddBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorCompute<
+        cutlass::plus, float, float,
+        cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest>;
+    using StoreD = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorAuxStore<
+        OutputTileThreadMap, ElementOutput,
+        cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest,
+        Stride<int64_t, _1, int64_t>>;
+
+    using EVT_AccMulAct = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+        Mul, AccFetch, ActScaleLoad>;
+    using EVT_MulBoth = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+        Mul, EVT_AccMulAct, WtScaleLoad>;
+    using EVT_NoBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<StoreD, EVT_MulBoth>;
+    using EVT_AddBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+        AddBias, EVT_MulBoth, BiasLoad>;
+    using EVT_WithBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<StoreD, EVT_AddBias>;
+};
+
+// SiLU-gated functor (same as the INT8 silu_gated kernel).
+template <class T>
+struct GatedSiLUFunctor {
+    __device__ T operator()(T up_val, T gate_val) const {
+        return impl(up_val, gate_val,
+                    typename cutlass::platform::is_floating_point<T>::type{});
+    }
+private:
+    template <class S>
+    __device__ S impl(S up, S gate, cutlass::platform::true_type) const {
+        float g = float(gate);
+        return S(float(up) * g / (1.0f + expf(-g)));
+    }
+    template <class Arr>
+    __device__ Arr impl(Arr const& up, Arr const& gate,
+                        cutlass::platform::false_type) const {
+        Arr result;
+        CUTLASS_PRAGMA_UNROLL
+        for (int i = 0; i < Arr::kElements; ++i) {
+            float g = float(gate[i]);
+            result[i] = typename Arr::Element(float(up[i]) * g / (1.0f + expf(-g)));
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
+};
+
+template <typename EVT>
+using KernelFor = typename cutlass::gemm::kernel::DefaultGemmWithVisitor<
+    ElementA, LayoutA, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentA,
+    ElementB, LayoutB, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentB,
+    // NOTE: ElementC/alignment used only via the EVT visitors.
+    cutlass::half_t, LayoutC, AlignmentC,
+    ElementAccumulator, ElementCompute, OperatorClass, ArchTag,
+    ThreadblockShape, WarpShape, InstructionShape,
+    EVT,
+    cutlass::gemm::threadblock::GemmIdentityThreadblockSwizzle<4>,
+    NumStages, cutlass::arch::OpMultiplyAddSaturate, EVTEpilogueStages
+>::GemmKernel;
+
+using CF16 = Chains<cutlass::half_t>;
+using CBF16 = Chains<cutlass::bfloat16_t>;
+
+using GateLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorAuxLoad<
+    CBF16::OutputTileThreadMap, cutlass::bfloat16_t,
+    Stride<int64_t, _1, int64_t>>;
+using MulGatedSiLU = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorCompute<
+    GatedSiLUFunctor, float, float,
+    cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest>;
+using EVT_SiluGated = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+    MulGatedSiLU, CBF16::EVT_MulBoth, GateLoad>;
+using EVT_SiluFinal = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+    CBF16::StoreD, EVT_SiluGated>;
+
+using DevF16NoBias = cutlass::gemm::device::GemmUniversalAdapter<KernelFor<CF16::EVT_NoBias>>;
+using DevF16Bias = cutlass::gemm::device::GemmUniversalAdapter<KernelFor<CF16::EVT_WithBias>>;
+using DevBF16NoBias = cutlass::gemm::device::GemmUniversalAdapter<KernelFor<CBF16::EVT_NoBias>>;
+using DevSilu = cutlass::gemm::device::GemmUniversalAdapter<KernelFor<EVT_SiluFinal>>;
+
+template <typename Device, typename EVTArgs>
+static int run_common(EVTArgs const& evt_args,
+                      void const* A, void const* B,
+                      int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream,
+                      const char* what) {
+    cutlass::gemm::GemmCoord problem_size(M, N, K);
+    typename Device::Arguments args(
+        cutlass::gemm::GemmUniversalMode::kGemm, problem_size, 1, evt_args,
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementA const*>(A),
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementB const*>(B),
+        nullptr, nullptr,
+        static_cast<int64_t>(M) * K, static_cast<int64_t>(N) * K, 0, 0,
+        K, K, 0, 0);
+    Device gemm;
+    auto st = gemm.can_implement(args);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) {
+        std::fprintf(stderr, "[int4_rowwise:%s] can_implement failed: %d "
+                     "(M=%d N=%d K=%d)\n", what, int(st), M, N, K);
+        return int(st) | 0x10000;
+    }
+    size_t ws_sz = Device::get_workspace_size(args);
+    static thread_local void* ws_ptr = nullptr;
+    static thread_local size_t ws_cap = 0;
+    if (ws_sz > ws_cap) {
+        if (ws_ptr) cudaFree(ws_ptr);
+        if (cudaMalloc(&ws_ptr, ws_sz) != cudaSuccess) {
+            ws_ptr = nullptr; ws_cap = 0; return -1;
+        }
+        ws_cap = ws_sz;
+    }
+    st = gemm.initialize(args, ws_ptr, stream);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) return int(st) | 0x20000;
+    st = gemm.run(stream);
+    return (st == cutlass::Status::kSuccess) ? 0 : (int(st) | 0x30000);
+}
+
+}  // namespace cutlass_int4_sm8x
+}  // namespace gemm
+}  // namespace flash_rt
+
+using namespace flash_rt::gemm::cutlass_int4_sm8x;
+
+extern "C" int cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void* D, int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    typename CF16::EVT_NoBias::Arguments evt_args{
+        {
+            {{}, {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(act_scale), 1.0f, {}}, {}},
+            {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(weight_scale), 1.0f,
+             {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+            {}
+        },
+        {reinterpret_cast<cutlass::half_t*>(D),
+         {int64_t(N), _1{}, int64_t(M) * N}}
+    };
+    return run_common<DevF16NoBias>(evt_args, A, B, M, N, K, stream, "f16");
+}
+
+extern "C" int cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out_bias(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void const* bias, void* D, int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    typename CF16::EVT_WithBias::Arguments evt_args{
+        {
+            {
+                {{}, {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(act_scale), 1.0f, {}}, {}},
+                {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(weight_scale), 1.0f,
+                 {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+                {}
+            },
+            {reinterpret_cast<cutlass::half_t const*>(bias), cutlass::half_t(0),
+             {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+            {}
+        },
+        {reinterpret_cast<cutlass::half_t*>(D),
+         {int64_t(N), _1{}, int64_t(M) * N}}
+    };
+    return run_common<DevF16Bias>(evt_args, A, B, M, N, K, stream, "f16b");
+}
+
+extern "C" int cutlass_int4_rowwise_bf16out(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void* D, int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    typename CBF16::EVT_NoBias::Arguments evt_args{
+        {
+            {{}, {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(act_scale), 1.0f, {}}, {}},
+            {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(weight_scale), 1.0f,
+             {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+            {}
+        },
+        {reinterpret_cast<cutlass::bfloat16_t*>(D),
+         {int64_t(N), _1{}, int64_t(M) * N}}
+    };
+    return run_common<DevBF16NoBias>(evt_args, A, B, M, N, K, stream, "bf16");
+}
+
+extern "C" int cutlass_int4_silu_gated_bf16out(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void const* gate_bf16, void* D, int M, int N, int K,
+    cudaStream_t stream) {
+    typename EVT_SiluFinal::Arguments evt_args{
+        {
+            {
+                {{}, {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(act_scale), 1.0f, {}}, {}},
+                {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(weight_scale), 1.0f,
+                 {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+                {}
+            },
+            {const_cast<cutlass::bfloat16_t*>(
+                 reinterpret_cast<cutlass::bfloat16_t const*>(gate_bf16)),
+             cutlass::bfloat16_t{},
+             {int64_t(N), _1{}, int64_t(M) * N}},
+            {}
+        },
+        {reinterpret_cast<cutlass::bfloat16_t*>(D),
+         {int64_t(N), _1{}, int64_t(M) * N}}
+    };
+    return run_common<DevSilu>(evt_args, A, B, M, N, K, stream, "silu");
+}
diff --git a/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out.cu b/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out.cu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..743590bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,384 @@
+// ================================================================
+// FlashRT — CUTLASS SM80 INT8 rowwise GEMM with FP16 output
+//
+// Same math as cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise (per-row activation scale +
+// per-row weight scale INT32→FP32 dequant epilogue), but writes FP16
+// directly instead of BF16. Skips the cast_bf16_to_fp16 that would
+// otherwise follow every INT8 GEMM feeding an FP16 consumer.
+//
+// Savings on the Chameleon-7B path (Orin SM87):
+//   - 224 GEMMs per forward (32 layers × 7 projections)
+//   - Each cast is ~30-50 μs on the Orin bandwidth budget
+//   - ~10-15 ms saved per E2E replay
+//
+// Optionally supports fused per-N bias add: y[m,n] += bias[n] as a
+// third VisitorRowBroadcast in the epilogue chain, eliminating the
+// separate add_bias_fp16 launch that follows Q/K/V/O projections.
+// ================================================================
+
+#include <cuda_runtime.h>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <cstdlib>
+
+#include "cutlass/cutlass.h"
+#include "cutlass/numeric_types.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/gemm.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/device/gemm_universal_adapter.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/kernel/default_gemm_universal_with_visitor.h"
+#include "cutlass/epilogue/threadblock/fusion/visitors.hpp"
+#include "cutlass/epilogue/threadblock/epilogue_with_visitor_callbacks.h"
+
+#include "cute/tensor.hpp"
+
+namespace flash_rt {
+namespace gemm {
+namespace cutlass_int8_sm8x_fp16out {
+
+using namespace cute;
+
+using ElementA = int8_t;
+using LayoutA = cutlass::layout::RowMajor;
+using ElementB = int8_t;
+using LayoutB = cutlass::layout::ColumnMajor;
+using ElementOutput = cutlass::half_t;
+using LayoutC = cutlass::layout::RowMajor;
+using ElementAccumulator = int32_t;
+using ElementCompute = float;
+
+constexpr int AlignmentA = 16;
+constexpr int AlignmentB = 16;
+constexpr int AlignmentC = 8;
+
+using ArchTag = cutlass::arch::Sm80;
+using OperatorClass = cutlass::arch::OpClassTensorOp;
+using ThreadblockShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<128, 128, 64>;
+using WarpShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<64, 64, 64>;
+using InstructionShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<16, 8, 32>;
+// Stages=5 measured best on Orin SM87 (64-69 vs 58-60 TOPS at s4):
+// 80 KB smem/block still fits 2 blocks/SM (164 KB), deeper cp.async
+// pipeline hides more DRAM latency on the 16-SM part.
+constexpr int NumStages = 5;
+constexpr int EVTEpilogueStages = 1;
+
+using OutputTileThreadMap = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::OutputTileThreadLayout<
+    ThreadblockShape, WarpShape, ElementOutput, AlignmentC, EVTEpilogueStages>;
+
+// Rowwise scale visitors — identical to the BF16-out kernel.
+using AccFetch = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorAccFetch;
+using ActScaleLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorColBroadcast<
+    OutputTileThreadMap, float, Stride<_1, _0, _0>>;
+using WtScaleLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorRowBroadcast<
+    OutputTileThreadMap, float, Stride<_0, _1, int32_t>>;
+using MulActScale = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorCompute<
+    cutlass::multiplies, float, float, cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest>;
+using MulWtScale = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorCompute<
+    cutlass::multiplies, float, float, cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest>;
+
+// Bias load: FP16 [N] broadcast across M. Used only in the *_bias variant.
+using BiasLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorRowBroadcast<
+    OutputTileThreadMap, cutlass::half_t, Stride<_0, _1, int32_t>>;
+using AddBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorCompute<
+    cutlass::plus, float, float, cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest>;
+
+using StoreD = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorAuxStore<
+    OutputTileThreadMap, ElementOutput,
+    cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest,
+    Stride<int64_t, _1, int64_t>>;
+
+// EVT chain (no bias): acc → mul act_scale → mul wt_scale → store fp16.
+using EVT_AccMulAct = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+    MulActScale, AccFetch, ActScaleLoad>;
+using EVT_MulBoth = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+    MulWtScale, EVT_AccMulAct, WtScaleLoad>;
+using EVT_NoBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<StoreD, EVT_MulBoth>;
+
+// EVT chain (with bias): acc → mul act_scale → mul wt_scale → +bias → store fp16.
+using EVT_AddBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+    AddBias, EVT_MulBoth, BiasLoad>;
+using EVT_WithBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<StoreD, EVT_AddBias>;
+
+using GemmKernelNoBias = typename cutlass::gemm::kernel::DefaultGemmWithVisitor<
+    ElementA, LayoutA, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentA,
+    ElementB, LayoutB, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentB,
+    ElementOutput, LayoutC, AlignmentC,
+    ElementAccumulator,
+    ElementCompute,
+    OperatorClass,
+    ArchTag,
+    ThreadblockShape,
+    WarpShape,
+    InstructionShape,
+    EVT_NoBias,
+    // Group-4 L2-aware rasterization: Orin's 16-SM waves re-streamed the
+    // whole B (weight) matrix from DRAM once per tile-row under the
+    // default identity swizzle (measured 16-44 TOPS vs 85 TOPS mma peak).
+    // Grouping 4 tile-rows makes waves share A/B tiles in L2:
+    // QKVO 3.7x, gate/up 1.3x, down 1.25x. Bit-identical output (block
+    // scheduling order only; INT32 accumulation unchanged).
+    cutlass::gemm::threadblock::GemmIdentityThreadblockSwizzle<4>,
+    NumStages,
+    cutlass::arch::OpMultiplyAddSaturate,
+    EVTEpilogueStages
+>::GemmKernel;
+
+using GemmKernelWithBias = typename cutlass::gemm::kernel::DefaultGemmWithVisitor<
+    ElementA, LayoutA, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentA,
+    ElementB, LayoutB, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentB,
+    ElementOutput, LayoutC, AlignmentC,
+    ElementAccumulator,
+    ElementCompute,
+    OperatorClass,
+    ArchTag,
+    ThreadblockShape,
+    WarpShape,
+    InstructionShape,
+    EVT_WithBias,
+    cutlass::gemm::threadblock::GemmIdentityThreadblockSwizzle<4>,
+    NumStages,
+    cutlass::arch::OpMultiplyAddSaturate,
+    EVTEpilogueStages
+>::GemmKernel;
+
+using GemmDeviceNoBias = cutlass::gemm::device::GemmUniversalAdapter<GemmKernelNoBias>;
+using GemmDeviceWithBias = cutlass::gemm::device::GemmUniversalAdapter<GemmKernelWithBias>;
+
+static int run_no_bias(
+    void const* A,
+    void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale,
+    void const* weight_scale,
+    void* D,
+    int M,
+    int N,
+    int K,
+    cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cutlass::gemm::GemmCoord problem_size(M, N, K);
+
+    typename EVT_NoBias::Arguments evt_args{
+        {
+            {
+                {},
+                {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(act_scale), 1.0f, {}},
+                {}
+            },
+            {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(weight_scale), 1.0f, {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+            {}
+        },
+        {reinterpret_cast<ElementOutput*>(D),
+         {static_cast<int64_t>(N), _1{}, static_cast<int64_t>(M) * N}}
+    };
+
+    typename GemmDeviceNoBias::Arguments args(
+        cutlass::gemm::GemmUniversalMode::kGemm,
+        problem_size,
+        1,
+        evt_args,
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementA const*>(A),
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementB const*>(B),
+        nullptr,
+        nullptr,
+        static_cast<int64_t>(M) * K,
+        static_cast<int64_t>(N) * K,
+        0,
+        0,
+        K,
+        K,
+        N,
+        N
+    );
+
+    GemmDeviceNoBias gemm;
+    auto st = gemm.can_implement(args);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) {
+        std::fprintf(stderr,
+                     "[cutlass_int8_fp16out] can_implement failed: M=%d N=%d K=%d code=%d\n",
+                     M, N, K, static_cast<int>(st));
+        return static_cast<int>(st) | 0x10000;
+    }
+
+    size_t ws_sz = GemmDeviceNoBias::get_workspace_size(args);
+    static void* ws_ptr = nullptr;
+    static size_t ws_cap = 0;
+    if (ws_sz > ws_cap) {
+        if (ws_ptr) cudaFree(ws_ptr);
+        if (cudaMalloc(&ws_ptr, ws_sz) != cudaSuccess) {
+            ws_ptr = nullptr;
+            ws_cap = 0;
+            return -1;
+        }
+        ws_cap = ws_sz;
+    }
+
+    st = gemm.initialize(args, ws_ptr, stream);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) {
+        return static_cast<int>(st) | 0x20000;
+    }
+    st = gemm.run(stream);
+    return (st == cutlass::Status::kSuccess) ? 0 : (static_cast<int>(st) | 0x30000);
+}
+
+static int run_with_bias(
+    void const* A,
+    void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale,
+    void const* weight_scale,
+    void const* bias,
+    void* D,
+    int M,
+    int N,
+    int K,
+    cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cutlass::gemm::GemmCoord problem_size(M, N, K);
+
+    typename EVT_WithBias::Arguments evt_args{
+        {
+            {
+                {
+                    {},
+                    {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(act_scale), 1.0f, {}},
+                    {}
+                },
+                {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(weight_scale), 1.0f, {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+                {}
+            },
+            {reinterpret_cast<cutlass::half_t const*>(bias), cutlass::half_t(0), {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+            {}
+        },
+        {reinterpret_cast<ElementOutput*>(D),
+         {static_cast<int64_t>(N), _1{}, static_cast<int64_t>(M) * N}}
+    };
+
+    typename GemmDeviceWithBias::Arguments args(
+        cutlass::gemm::GemmUniversalMode::kGemm,
+        problem_size,
+        1,
+        evt_args,
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementA const*>(A),
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementB const*>(B),
+        nullptr,
+        nullptr,
+        static_cast<int64_t>(M) * K,
+        static_cast<int64_t>(N) * K,
+        0,
+        0,
+        K,
+        K,
+        N,
+        N
+    );
+
+    GemmDeviceWithBias gemm;
+    auto st = gemm.can_implement(args);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) {
+        std::fprintf(stderr,
+                     "[cutlass_int8_fp16out_bias] can_implement failed: M=%d N=%d K=%d code=%d\n",
+                     M, N, K, static_cast<int>(st));
+        return static_cast<int>(st) | 0x10000;
+    }
+
+    size_t ws_sz = GemmDeviceWithBias::get_workspace_size(args);
+    static void* ws_ptr = nullptr;
+    static size_t ws_cap = 0;
+    if (ws_sz > ws_cap) {
+        if (ws_ptr) cudaFree(ws_ptr);
+        if (cudaMalloc(&ws_ptr, ws_sz) != cudaSuccess) {
+            ws_ptr = nullptr;
+            ws_cap = 0;
+            return -1;
+        }
+        ws_cap = ws_sz;
+    }
+
+    st = gemm.initialize(args, ws_ptr, stream);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) {
+        return static_cast<int>(st) | 0x20000;
+    }
+    st = gemm.run(stream);
+    return (st == cutlass::Status::kSuccess) ? 0 : (static_cast<int>(st) | 0x30000);
+}
+
+}  // namespace cutlass_int8_sm8x_fp16out
+}  // namespace gemm
+}  // namespace flash_rt
+
+// Forward declarations for the alt-tile variant defined in
+// cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t64x128.cu.
+extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t64x128(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void* D, int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream);
+
+extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_bias_t64x128(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void const* bias, void* D,
+    int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream);
+
+// Alt-tile for long-K large-M (cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t256x128.cu).
+extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t256x128(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void* D, int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream);
+
+// With the group-4 swizzle on the 128×128 kernel, only true small-M
+// (decoder / action-head) work still benefits from the 64×128 tile.
+// The old "N in (2048, 4096] → 64×128" clause was an Id1-swizzle-era
+// artifact: 128×128+Id4 measures 0.69 ms vs 1.66 ms (64×128) on the
+// (1214, 4096, 4096) QKVO shape.
+static inline bool prefer_t64x128_for_fp16out(int M, int N) {
+    (void)N;
+    return M <= 64;
+}
+
+static bool fp16out_tile_dispatch_enabled() {
+    static const int v = []() {
+        const char* env = std::getenv("FVK_ORIN_INT8_NO_TILE_DISPATCH");
+        return (env && env[0] == '1') ? 0 : 1;
+    }();
+    return v != 0;
+}
+
+extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out(
+    void const* A,
+    void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale,
+    void const* weight_scale,
+    void* D,
+    int M,
+    int N,
+    int K,
+    cudaStream_t stream) {
+    if (fp16out_tile_dispatch_enabled() && prefer_t64x128_for_fp16out(M, N)) {
+        return cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t64x128(
+            A, B, act_scale, weight_scale, D, M, N, K, stream);
+    }
+    // Long-K large-M (FFN down, K=11008): 256×128 s5 tile measures +22-29%
+    // over 128×128 s5 on Orin SM87 (fewer K-loop passes per output row).
+    if (fp16out_tile_dispatch_enabled() && M >= 256 && K >= 8192) {
+        return cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t256x128(
+            A, B, act_scale, weight_scale, D, M, N, K, stream);
+    }
+    return flash_rt::gemm::cutlass_int8_sm8x_fp16out::run_no_bias(
+        A, B, act_scale, weight_scale, D, M, N, K, stream);
+}
+
+extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_bias(
+    void const* A,
+    void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale,
+    void const* weight_scale,
+    void const* bias,
+    void* D,
+    int M,
+    int N,
+    int K,
+    cudaStream_t stream) {
+    if (fp16out_tile_dispatch_enabled() && prefer_t64x128_for_fp16out(M, N)) {
+        return cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_bias_t64x128(
+            A, B, act_scale, weight_scale, bias, D, M, N, K, stream);
+    }
+    return flash_rt::gemm::cutlass_int8_sm8x_fp16out::run_with_bias(
+        A, B, act_scale, weight_scale, bias, D, M, N, K, stream);
+}
diff --git a/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t256x128.cu b/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t256x128.cu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..75bce5ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t256x128.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+// ================================================================
+// FlashRT — CUTLASS SM80 INT8 rowwise GEMM with FP16 output (256×128)
+//
+// Alt-tile companion to cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out (128×128).
+// Same math, larger M-tile + stages=5 for the long-K FFN down shape
+// (M ≥ 256, K ≥ 8192): fewer K-loop passes per output element and a
+// deeper cp.async pipeline. Measured on Orin SM87 (M=1214, N=4096,
+// K=11008): 2.03 → 1.57 ms (+29%) vs the 128×128 s5 kernel.
+// Selected by prefer_t256x128_for_fp16out in the 128×128 file.
+// ================================================================
+
+#include <cuda_runtime.h>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <cstdio>
+
+#include "cutlass/cutlass.h"
+#include "cutlass/numeric_types.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/gemm.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/device/gemm_universal_adapter.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/kernel/default_gemm_universal_with_visitor.h"
+#include "cutlass/epilogue/threadblock/fusion/visitors.hpp"
+#include "cutlass/epilogue/threadblock/epilogue_with_visitor_callbacks.h"
+
+#include "cute/tensor.hpp"
+
+namespace flash_rt {
+namespace gemm {
+namespace cutlass_int8_sm8x_fp16out_t256x128 {
+
+using namespace cute;
+
+using ElementA = int8_t;
+using LayoutA = cutlass::layout::RowMajor;
+using ElementB = int8_t;
+using LayoutB = cutlass::layout::ColumnMajor;
+using ElementOutput = cutlass::half_t;
+using LayoutC = cutlass::layout::RowMajor;
+using ElementAccumulator = int32_t;
+using ElementCompute = float;
+
+constexpr int AlignmentA = 16;
+constexpr int AlignmentB = 16;
+constexpr int AlignmentC = 8;
+
+using ArchTag = cutlass::arch::Sm80;
+using OperatorClass = cutlass::arch::OpClassTensorOp;
+using ThreadblockShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<256, 128, 64>;
+using WarpShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<64, 64, 64>;
+using InstructionShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<16, 8, 32>;
+constexpr int NumStages = 5;
+constexpr int EVTEpilogueStages = 1;
+
+using OutputTileThreadMap = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::OutputTileThreadLayout<
+    ThreadblockShape, WarpShape, ElementOutput, AlignmentC, EVTEpilogueStages>;
+
+using AccFetch = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorAccFetch;
+using ActScaleLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorColBroadcast<
+    OutputTileThreadMap, float, Stride<_1, _0, _0>>;
+using WtScaleLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorRowBroadcast<
+    OutputTileThreadMap, float, Stride<_0, _1, int32_t>>;
+using MulActScale = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorCompute<
+    cutlass::multiplies, float, float, cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest>;
+using MulWtScale = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorCompute<
+    cutlass::multiplies, float, float, cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest>;
+using StoreD = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorAuxStore<
+    OutputTileThreadMap, ElementOutput,
+    cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest,
+    Stride<int64_t, _1, int64_t>>;
+
+using EVT_AccMulAct = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+    MulActScale, AccFetch, ActScaleLoad>;
+using EVT_MulBoth = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+    MulWtScale, EVT_AccMulAct, WtScaleLoad>;
+using EVT_NoBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<StoreD, EVT_MulBoth>;
+
+using GemmKernelNoBias = typename cutlass::gemm::kernel::DefaultGemmWithVisitor<
+    ElementA, LayoutA, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentA,
+    ElementB, LayoutB, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentB,
+    ElementOutput, LayoutC, AlignmentC,
+    ElementAccumulator, ElementCompute, OperatorClass, ArchTag,
+    ThreadblockShape, WarpShape, InstructionShape,
+    EVT_NoBias,
+    // Group-4 L2-aware rasterization (see cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out.cu).
+    cutlass::gemm::threadblock::GemmIdentityThreadblockSwizzle<4>,
+    NumStages, cutlass::arch::OpMultiplyAddSaturate, EVTEpilogueStages
+>::GemmKernel;
+
+using GemmDeviceNoBias = cutlass::gemm::device::GemmUniversalAdapter<GemmKernelNoBias>;
+
+static int run_no_bias(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void* D, int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cutlass::gemm::GemmCoord problem_size(M, N, K);
+    typename EVT_NoBias::Arguments evt_args{
+        {
+            {{}, {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(act_scale), 1.0f, {}}, {}},
+            {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(weight_scale), 1.0f, {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+            {}
+        },
+        {reinterpret_cast<ElementOutput*>(D),
+         {static_cast<int64_t>(N), _1{}, static_cast<int64_t>(M) * N}}
+    };
+    typename GemmDeviceNoBias::Arguments args(
+        cutlass::gemm::GemmUniversalMode::kGemm, problem_size, 1, evt_args,
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementA const*>(A),
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementB const*>(B),
+        nullptr, nullptr,
+        static_cast<int64_t>(M) * K, static_cast<int64_t>(N) * K, 0, 0,
+        K, K, N, N);
+    GemmDeviceNoBias gemm;
+    auto st = gemm.can_implement(args);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) {
+        std::fprintf(stderr, "[int8_fp16out_t256x128] can_implement failed: %d\n",
+                     static_cast<int>(st));
+        return static_cast<int>(st) | 0x10000;
+    }
+    size_t ws_sz = GemmDeviceNoBias::get_workspace_size(args);
+    static void* ws_ptr = nullptr; static size_t ws_cap = 0;
+    if (ws_sz > ws_cap) {
+        if (ws_ptr) cudaFree(ws_ptr);
+        if (cudaMalloc(&ws_ptr, ws_sz) != cudaSuccess) { ws_ptr = nullptr; ws_cap = 0; return -1; }
+        ws_cap = ws_sz;
+    }
+    st = gemm.initialize(args, ws_ptr, stream);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) return static_cast<int>(st) | 0x20000;
+    st = gemm.run(stream);
+    return (st == cutlass::Status::kSuccess) ? 0 : (static_cast<int>(st) | 0x30000);
+}
+
+}  // namespace cutlass_int8_sm8x_fp16out_t256x128
+}  // namespace gemm
+}  // namespace flash_rt
+
+extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t256x128(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void* D, int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    return flash_rt::gemm::cutlass_int8_sm8x_fp16out_t256x128::run_no_bias(
+        A, B, act_scale, weight_scale, D, M, N, K, stream);
+}
diff --git a/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t64x128.cu b/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t64x128.cu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bccfc6ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t64x128.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+// ================================================================
+// FlashRT — CUTLASS SM80 INT8 rowwise GEMM with FP16 output (64×128)
+//
+// Alt-tile companion to cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out (128×128).
+// Same math, smaller M-tile for shapes where 128 wastes wave packing:
+//   - M ≤ 64 (decoder / action-head)
+//   - Awkward N in (2048, 4096] (Chameleon QKV/O at N=4096)
+// Selected by the runtime dispatcher (prefer_t64x128_for_shape) in the
+// 128×128 file, mirroring the BF16-out layout.
+// ================================================================
+
+#include <cuda_runtime.h>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <cstdio>
+
+#include "cutlass/cutlass.h"
+#include "cutlass/numeric_types.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/gemm.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/device/gemm_universal_adapter.h"
+#include "cutlass/gemm/kernel/default_gemm_universal_with_visitor.h"
+#include "cutlass/epilogue/threadblock/fusion/visitors.hpp"
+#include "cutlass/epilogue/threadblock/epilogue_with_visitor_callbacks.h"
+
+#include "cute/tensor.hpp"
+
+namespace flash_rt {
+namespace gemm {
+namespace cutlass_int8_sm8x_fp16out_t64x128 {
+
+using namespace cute;
+
+using ElementA = int8_t;
+using LayoutA = cutlass::layout::RowMajor;
+using ElementB = int8_t;
+using LayoutB = cutlass::layout::ColumnMajor;
+using ElementOutput = cutlass::half_t;
+using LayoutC = cutlass::layout::RowMajor;
+using ElementAccumulator = int32_t;
+using ElementCompute = float;
+
+constexpr int AlignmentA = 16;
+constexpr int AlignmentB = 16;
+constexpr int AlignmentC = 8;
+
+using ArchTag = cutlass::arch::Sm80;
+using OperatorClass = cutlass::arch::OpClassTensorOp;
+using ThreadblockShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<64, 128, 64>;
+using WarpShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<32, 64, 64>;
+using InstructionShape = cutlass::gemm::GemmShape<16, 8, 32>;
+constexpr int NumStages = 4;
+constexpr int EVTEpilogueStages = 1;
+
+using OutputTileThreadMap = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::OutputTileThreadLayout<
+    ThreadblockShape, WarpShape, ElementOutput, AlignmentC, EVTEpilogueStages>;
+
+using AccFetch = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorAccFetch;
+using ActScaleLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorColBroadcast<
+    OutputTileThreadMap, float, Stride<_1, _0, _0>>;
+using WtScaleLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorRowBroadcast<
+    OutputTileThreadMap, float, Stride<_0, _1, int32_t>>;
+using MulActScale = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorCompute<
+    cutlass::multiplies, float, float, cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest>;
+using MulWtScale = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorCompute<
+    cutlass::multiplies, float, float, cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest>;
+using BiasLoad = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorRowBroadcast<
+    OutputTileThreadMap, cutlass::half_t, Stride<_0, _1, int32_t>>;
+using AddBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorCompute<
+    cutlass::plus, float, float, cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest>;
+using StoreD = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::VisitorAuxStore<
+    OutputTileThreadMap, ElementOutput,
+    cutlass::FloatRoundStyle::round_to_nearest,
+    Stride<int64_t, _1, int64_t>>;
+
+using EVT_AccMulAct = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+    MulActScale, AccFetch, ActScaleLoad>;
+using EVT_MulBoth = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+    MulWtScale, EVT_AccMulAct, WtScaleLoad>;
+using EVT_NoBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<StoreD, EVT_MulBoth>;
+using EVT_AddBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<
+    AddBias, EVT_MulBoth, BiasLoad>;
+using EVT_WithBias = cutlass::epilogue::threadblock::Sm80EVT<StoreD, EVT_AddBias>;
+
+using GemmKernelNoBias = typename cutlass::gemm::kernel::DefaultGemmWithVisitor<
+    ElementA, LayoutA, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentA,
+    ElementB, LayoutB, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentB,
+    ElementOutput, LayoutC, AlignmentC,
+    ElementAccumulator, ElementCompute, OperatorClass, ArchTag,
+    ThreadblockShape, WarpShape, InstructionShape,
+    EVT_NoBias,
+    cutlass::gemm::threadblock::GemmIdentityThreadblockSwizzle<>,
+    NumStages, cutlass::arch::OpMultiplyAddSaturate, EVTEpilogueStages
+>::GemmKernel;
+
+using GemmKernelWithBias = typename cutlass::gemm::kernel::DefaultGemmWithVisitor<
+    ElementA, LayoutA, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentA,
+    ElementB, LayoutB, cutlass::ComplexTransform::kNone, AlignmentB,
+    ElementOutput, LayoutC, AlignmentC,
+    ElementAccumulator, ElementCompute, OperatorClass, ArchTag,
+    ThreadblockShape, WarpShape, InstructionShape,
+    EVT_WithBias,
+    cutlass::gemm::threadblock::GemmIdentityThreadblockSwizzle<>,
+    NumStages, cutlass::arch::OpMultiplyAddSaturate, EVTEpilogueStages
+>::GemmKernel;
+
+using GemmDeviceNoBias = cutlass::gemm::device::GemmUniversalAdapter<GemmKernelNoBias>;
+using GemmDeviceWithBias = cutlass::gemm::device::GemmUniversalAdapter<GemmKernelWithBias>;
+
+static int run_no_bias(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void* D, int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cutlass::gemm::GemmCoord problem_size(M, N, K);
+    typename EVT_NoBias::Arguments evt_args{
+        {
+            {{}, {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(act_scale), 1.0f, {}}, {}},
+            {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(weight_scale), 1.0f, {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+            {}
+        },
+        {reinterpret_cast<ElementOutput*>(D),
+         {static_cast<int64_t>(N), _1{}, static_cast<int64_t>(M) * N}}
+    };
+    typename GemmDeviceNoBias::Arguments args(
+        cutlass::gemm::GemmUniversalMode::kGemm, problem_size, 1, evt_args,
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementA const*>(A),
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementB const*>(B),
+        nullptr, nullptr,
+        static_cast<int64_t>(M) * K, static_cast<int64_t>(N) * K, 0, 0,
+        K, K, N, N);
+    GemmDeviceNoBias gemm;
+    auto st = gemm.can_implement(args);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) {
+        std::fprintf(stderr, "[int8_fp16out_t64x128] can_implement failed: %d\n",
+                     static_cast<int>(st));
+        return static_cast<int>(st) | 0x10000;
+    }
+    size_t ws_sz = GemmDeviceNoBias::get_workspace_size(args);
+    static void* ws_ptr = nullptr; static size_t ws_cap = 0;
+    if (ws_sz > ws_cap) {
+        if (ws_ptr) cudaFree(ws_ptr);
+        if (cudaMalloc(&ws_ptr, ws_sz) != cudaSuccess) { ws_ptr = nullptr; ws_cap = 0; return -1; }
+        ws_cap = ws_sz;
+    }
+    st = gemm.initialize(args, ws_ptr, stream);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) return static_cast<int>(st) | 0x20000;
+    st = gemm.run(stream);
+    return (st == cutlass::Status::kSuccess) ? 0 : (static_cast<int>(st) | 0x30000);
+}
+
+static int run_with_bias(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void const* bias, void* D,
+    int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cutlass::gemm::GemmCoord problem_size(M, N, K);
+    typename EVT_WithBias::Arguments evt_args{
+        {
+            {
+                {{}, {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(act_scale), 1.0f, {}}, {}},
+                {reinterpret_cast<float const*>(weight_scale), 1.0f, {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+                {}
+            },
+            {reinterpret_cast<cutlass::half_t const*>(bias), cutlass::half_t(0), {_0{}, _1{}, int32_t(N)}},
+            {}
+        },
+        {reinterpret_cast<ElementOutput*>(D),
+         {static_cast<int64_t>(N), _1{}, static_cast<int64_t>(M) * N}}
+    };
+    typename GemmDeviceWithBias::Arguments args(
+        cutlass::gemm::GemmUniversalMode::kGemm, problem_size, 1, evt_args,
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementA const*>(A),
+        reinterpret_cast<ElementB const*>(B),
+        nullptr, nullptr,
+        static_cast<int64_t>(M) * K, static_cast<int64_t>(N) * K, 0, 0,
+        K, K, N, N);
+    GemmDeviceWithBias gemm;
+    auto st = gemm.can_implement(args);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) {
+        std::fprintf(stderr, "[int8_fp16out_t64x128_bias] can_implement failed: %d\n",
+                     static_cast<int>(st));
+        return static_cast<int>(st) | 0x10000;
+    }
+    size_t ws_sz = GemmDeviceWithBias::get_workspace_size(args);
+    static void* ws_ptr = nullptr; static size_t ws_cap = 0;
+    if (ws_sz > ws_cap) {
+        if (ws_ptr) cudaFree(ws_ptr);
+        if (cudaMalloc(&ws_ptr, ws_sz) != cudaSuccess) { ws_ptr = nullptr; ws_cap = 0; return -1; }
+        ws_cap = ws_sz;
+    }
+    st = gemm.initialize(args, ws_ptr, stream);
+    if (st != cutlass::Status::kSuccess) return static_cast<int>(st) | 0x20000;
+    st = gemm.run(stream);
+    return (st == cutlass::Status::kSuccess) ? 0 : (static_cast<int>(st) | 0x30000);
+}
+
+}  // namespace cutlass_int8_sm8x_fp16out_t64x128
+}  // namespace gemm
+}  // namespace flash_rt
+
+extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_t64x128(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void* D, int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    return flash_rt::gemm::cutlass_int8_sm8x_fp16out_t64x128::run_no_bias(
+        A, B, act_scale, weight_scale, D, M, N, K, stream);
+}
+
+extern "C" int cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out_bias_t64x128(
+    void const* A, void const* B,
+    void const* act_scale, void const* weight_scale,
+    void const* bias, void* D,
+    int M, int N, int K, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    return flash_rt::gemm::cutlass_int8_sm8x_fp16out_t64x128::run_with_bias(
+        A, B, act_scale, weight_scale, bias, D, M, N, K, stream);
+}
diff --git a/csrc/gemm/gemm_runner.cu b/csrc/gemm/gemm_runner.cu
index 2cf0bc35..87e156a6 100644
--- a/csrc/gemm/gemm_runner.cu
+++ b/csrc/gemm/gemm_runner.cu
@@ -74,6 +74,17 @@ GemmRunner::CachedGemm& GemmRunner::get_or_create_cached(GemmType type, int M, i
         CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutSetAttribute(entry.B_desc, CUBLASLT_MATRIX_LAYOUT_ORDER, &row_order, sizeof(row_order)));
         CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutCreate(&entry.D_desc, CUDA_R_16BF, M, N, N));
         CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutSetAttribute(entry.D_desc, CUBLASLT_MATRIX_LAYOUT_ORDER, &row_order, sizeof(row_order)));
+    } else if (type == FP8_NN_DEV_FP16) {
+        // FP8 NN with FP16 output: same A/B layouts as FP8_NN_DEV.
+        CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescCreate(&entry.matmul_desc, CUBLAS_COMPUTE_32F, CUDA_R_32F));
+        CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(entry.matmul_desc, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_TRANSA, &op_N, sizeof(op_N)));
+        CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(entry.matmul_desc, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_TRANSB, &op_N, sizeof(op_N)));
+        CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutCreate(&entry.A_desc, CUDA_R_8F_E4M3, M, K, K));
+        CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutSetAttribute(entry.A_desc, CUBLASLT_MATRIX_LAYOUT_ORDER, &row_order, sizeof(row_order)));
+        CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutCreate(&entry.B_desc, CUDA_R_8F_E4M3, K, N, N));
+        CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutSetAttribute(entry.B_desc, CUBLASLT_MATRIX_LAYOUT_ORDER, &row_order, sizeof(row_order)));
+        CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutCreate(&entry.D_desc, CUDA_R_16F, M, N, N));
+        CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutSetAttribute(entry.D_desc, CUBLASLT_MATRIX_LAYOUT_ORDER, &row_order, sizeof(row_order)));
     } else if (type == FP8_NT_DEV) {
         CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescCreate(&entry.matmul_desc, CUBLAS_COMPUTE_32F, CUDA_R_32F));
         CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(entry.matmul_desc, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_TRANSA, &op_N, sizeof(op_N)));
@@ -235,6 +246,32 @@ void GemmRunner::autotune_fp8_nn_dev(void* A, void* B, void* D,
     autotune_cached(entry, A, B, D, 1.0f, 0.0f, num_algos, d_scale_a, d_scale_b);
 }
 
+void GemmRunner::autotune_fp8_nn_dev_fp16(void* A, void* B, void* D,
+                                           int M, int N, int K,
+                                           float* d_scale_a, float* d_scale_b,
+                                           int num_algos) {
+    auto& entry = get_or_create_cached(FP8_NN_DEV_FP16, M, N, K);
+    autotune_cached(entry, A, B, D, 1.0f, 0.0f, num_algos, d_scale_a, d_scale_b);
+}
+
+// FP8 no-transpose with FP16 output: D_fp16 = A_fp8(M,K) @ B_fp8(K,N)
+void GemmRunner::fp8_nn_dev_fp16(void* A, void* B, void* D,
+                                  int M, int N, int K,
+                                  float* d_scale_a, float* d_scale_b,
+                                  cudaStream_t stream) {
+    auto& entry = get_or_create_cached(FP8_NN_DEV_FP16, M, N, K);
+    CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(entry.matmul_desc,
+        CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_A_SCALE_POINTER, &d_scale_a, sizeof(d_scale_a)));
+    CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(entry.matmul_desc,
+        CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_B_SCALE_POINTER, &d_scale_b, sizeof(d_scale_b)));
+
+    float alpha = 1.0f, beta = 0.0f;
+    CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmul(handle_, entry.matmul_desc,
+        &alpha, A, entry.A_desc, B, entry.B_desc,
+        &beta, D, entry.D_desc, D, entry.D_desc,
+        &entry.algo, workspace_, workspace_size_, stream));
+}
+
 void GemmRunner::autotune_fp8_nt_dev(void* A, void* B, void* D,
                                       int M, int N, int K,
                                       float* d_scale_a, float* d_scale_b,
@@ -1119,6 +1156,97 @@ void GemmRunner::fp8_nn_bias(void* A, void* B, void* D, void* bias,
         &beta, D, e.D_desc, D, e.D_desc, &e.algo, workspace_, workspace_size_, stream));
 }
 
+// ================================================================
+//  Autotune for fp8_nn_bias (bias-fused FP8 GEMM, FP16 output).
+//  Mirrors fp8_nn_bias's cuBLASLt argument layout (B,A swapped).
+//  Sets bias on the cached descriptor so the heuristic search is
+//  evaluated under the same epilogue used at runtime.
+// ================================================================
+void GemmRunner::autotune_fp8_nn_bias(void* A, void* B, void* D, void* bias,
+                                       int M, int N, int K, float alpha,
+                                       int num_algos) {
+    // Trigger creation of cache entry first via a regular call.
+    fp8_nn_bias(A, B, D, bias, M, N, K, alpha, 0);
+    CUDA_CHECK(cudaStreamSynchronize(0));
+
+    GemmKey key{100, M, N + 2000000, K};
+    auto it = gemm_cache_.find(key);
+    if (it == gemm_cache_.end()) {
+        std::cerr << "  autotune_fp8_nn_bias: cache miss after warm call (unexpected)" << std::endl;
+        return;
+    }
+    auto& e = it->second;
+    // Bind the bias pointer for this autotune run.
+    CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(e.matmul_desc,
+        CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_BIAS_POINTER, &bias, sizeof(bias)));
+
+    cublasLtMatmulPreference_t pref;
+    CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulPreferenceCreate(&pref));
+    CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulPreferenceSetAttribute(pref,
+        CUBLASLT_MATMUL_PREF_MAX_WORKSPACE_BYTES, &workspace_size_, sizeof(workspace_size_)));
+
+    std::vector<cublasLtMatmulHeuristicResult_t> heuristics(num_algos);
+    int returned = 0;
+    CUBLAS_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulAlgoGetHeuristic(handle_, e.matmul_desc,
+        e.A_desc, e.B_desc, e.D_desc, e.D_desc,
+        pref, num_algos, heuristics.data(), &returned));
+    cublasLtMatmulPreferenceDestroy(pref);
+
+    if (returned == 0) {
+        std::cerr << "  autotune_fp8_nn_bias: no algos found, keeping default" << std::endl;
+        return;
+    }
+
+    cudaEvent_t start, stop;
+    CUDA_CHECK(cudaEventCreate(&start));
+    CUDA_CHECK(cudaEventCreate(&stop));
+
+    float best_ms = 1e9f;
+    int best_idx = 0;
+    const int warmup_iters = 3;
+    const int bench_iters = 10;
+    float beta = 0.0f;
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < returned; ++i) {
+        bool ok = true;
+        for (int w = 0; w < warmup_iters; ++w) {
+            cublasStatus_t st = cublasLtMatmul(handle_, e.matmul_desc,
+                &alpha, B, e.A_desc, A, e.B_desc,
+                &beta, D, e.D_desc, D, e.D_desc,
+                &heuristics[i].algo, workspace_, workspace_size_, 0);
+            if (st != CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS) { ok = false; break; }
+        }
+        if (!ok) continue;
+        CUDA_CHECK(cudaDeviceSynchronize());
+
+        CUDA_CHECK(cudaEventRecord(start));
+        for (int b = 0; b < bench_iters; ++b) {
+            cublasLtMatmul(handle_, e.matmul_desc,
+                &alpha, B, e.A_desc, A, e.B_desc,
+                &beta, D, e.D_desc, D, e.D_desc,
+                &heuristics[i].algo, workspace_, workspace_size_, 0);
+        }
+        CUDA_CHECK(cudaEventRecord(stop));
+        CUDA_CHECK(cudaEventSynchronize(stop));
+        float ms = 0;
+        CUDA_CHECK(cudaEventElapsedTime(&ms, start, stop));
+        ms /= bench_iters;
+
+        if (ms < best_ms) {
+            best_ms = ms;
+            best_idx = i;
+        }
+    }
+
+    CUDA_CHECK(cudaEventDestroy(start));
+    CUDA_CHECK(cudaEventDestroy(stop));
+
+    e.algo = heuristics[best_idx].algo;
+    std::cout << "  autotune_fp8_nn_bias " << M << "x" << N << "x" << K
+              << ": tested " << returned << " algos, best=" << best_idx
+              << " (" << best_ms * 1000.0f << " us)" << std::endl;
+}
+
 // ================================================================
 //  G6.7: FP8 GEMM + BIAS epilogue, BF16 output (and BF16 bias dtype).
 //  Same logic as fp8_nn_bias above but D and bias are __nv_bfloat16.
diff --git a/csrc/gemm/gemm_runner.h b/csrc/gemm/gemm_runner.h
index 7b471c99..1733e103 100644
--- a/csrc/gemm/gemm_runner.h
+++ b/csrc/gemm/gemm_runner.h
@@ -121,6 +121,14 @@ class GemmRunner {
                     float* d_scale_a, float* d_scale_b,
                     cudaStream_t stream = 0);
 
+    // FP8 no-transpose: D_fp16 = A_fp8(M,K) @ B_fp8(K,N) with device scale pointers
+    // Same as fp8_nn_dev but with FP16 output (avoids bf16→fp16 cast overhead).
+    // Supports autotuning via autotune_fp8_nn_dev_fp16.
+    void fp8_nn_dev_fp16(void* A, void* B, void* D,
+                         int M, int N, int K,
+                         float* d_scale_a, float* d_scale_b,
+                         cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+
     // FP8 transpose-B path for SM89-compatible cuBLASLt layouts:
     // D_bf16 = A_fp8(M,K) @ B_fp8(N,K)^T with device scale pointers.
     // B is stored as (N,K) row-major.
@@ -181,6 +189,17 @@ class GemmRunner {
                              int M, int N, int K,
                              float* d_scale_a, float* d_scale_b,
                              int num_algos = 16);
+    void autotune_fp8_nn_dev_fp16(void* A, void* B, void* D,
+                                  int M, int N, int K,
+                                  float* d_scale_a, float* d_scale_b,
+                                  int num_algos = 16);
+    // Autotune fp8_nn_bias: benchmark top-N candidate algorithms for the
+    // bias-fused FP8 GEMM shapes (Chameleon-7B QKV/O projections). Must be
+    // called before CUDA Graph capture so the cached algorithm descriptor
+    // is baked into the captured graph.
+    void autotune_fp8_nn_bias(void* A, void* B, void* D, void* bias,
+                              int M, int N, int K, float alpha,
+                              int num_algos = 16);
     void autotune_fp8_nt_dev(void* A, void* B, void* D,
                              int M, int N, int K,
                              float* d_scale_a, float* d_scale_b,
@@ -201,7 +220,7 @@ class GemmRunner {
 
     // ── GEMM descriptor + algorithm cache ──
     enum GemmType { BF16_NN = 0, BF16_NN_RES = 1, FP8_NN_DEV = 2,
-                    FP8_NT_DEV = 5, FP16_NN = 4
+                    FP8_NT_DEV = 5, FP16_NN = 4, FP8_NN_DEV_FP16 = 6
 #ifdef ENABLE_NVFP4
         , FP4_NN_DEV = 3
 #endif
diff --git a/csrc/kernels/activation.cu b/csrc/kernels/activation.cu
index b96e032a..8f5895b1 100644
--- a/csrc/kernels/activation.cu
+++ b/csrc/kernels/activation.cu
@@ -428,3 +428,44 @@ void relu2_inplace_bf16(__nv_bfloat16* x, int n, cudaStream_t stream) {
     relu2_inplace_kernel<__nv_bfloat16>
         <<<(work_items + 255) / 256, 256, 0, stream>>>(x, n);
 }
+
+// ── GeGLU (GELU(gate)*up) with fused per-tensor amax ──
+// Writes the fp16 SwiGLU output while block-reducing its abs-max into
+// a caller-zeroed device scale accumulator (atomicMax across blocks).
+// d_amax must be memset to 0 by the caller first. Lets a dynamic
+// per-tensor FP8 quantize of `out` skip the separate absmax_kernel
+// read pass over the FFN intermediate.
+template<typename T>
+__global__ void gate_geglu_amax_kernel(const T* __restrict__ gate,
+                                        const T* __restrict__ up,
+                                        T* __restrict__ out,
+                                        float* __restrict__ max_val,
+                                        int n) {
+    extern __shared__ float shared[];
+    float local_max = 0.0f;
+    for (int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x; idx < n;
+         idx += gridDim.x * blockDim.x) {
+        float g = to_f32(gate[idx]);
+        float u = to_f32(up[idx]);
+        float gelu = g / (1.0f + expf(-1.5957691216057308f * g * (1.0f + 0.044715f * g * g)));
+        float h = gelu * u;
+        T h_r = from_f32<T>(h);
+        out[idx] = h_r;
+        // amax over the fp16-rounded stored value, matching absmax_kernel
+        // reading the fp16 SwiGLU output afterwards.
+        local_max = fmaxf(local_max, fabsf(to_f32(h_r)));
+    }
+    float block_max = block_reduce_max(local_max, shared);
+    if (threadIdx.x == 0) atomicMax((int*)max_val, __float_as_int(block_max));
+}
+
+template __global__ void gate_geglu_amax_kernel<__half>(const __half*, const __half*, __half*, float*, int);
+
+void gate_geglu_amax_fp16(const __half* gate, const __half* up, __half* out,
+                          float* d_amax, int n, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    int threads = 256;
+    int blocks = (n + threads - 1) / threads;
+    if (blocks > 1024) blocks = 1024;
+    gate_geglu_amax_kernel<__half><<<blocks, threads, threads * sizeof(float), stream>>>(
+        gate, up, out, d_amax, n);
+}
diff --git a/csrc/kernels/activation.cuh b/csrc/kernels/activation.cuh
index c176337b..5c320db3 100644
--- a/csrc/kernels/activation.cuh
+++ b/csrc/kernels/activation.cuh
@@ -62,3 +62,9 @@ void gate_silu_mul_merged_fp8_fp16(const __half* merged, __nv_fp8_e4m3* out,
 void silu_mul_split_fp8_fp16(const __half* gate, const __half* up,
                               __nv_fp8_e4m3* out, int n,
                               const float* d_scale, cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+
+// GeGLU with fused per-tensor amax: writes fp16 output and folds its
+// abs-max into a caller-zeroed device accumulator (for fused dynamic
+// FP8 quantize). d_amax must be memset to 0 by the caller first.
+void gate_geglu_amax_fp16(const __half* gate, const __half* up, __half* out,
+                          float* d_amax, int n, cudaStream_t stream = 0);
diff --git a/csrc/kernels/elementwise.cu b/csrc/kernels/elementwise.cu
index 16de3554..8e30d882 100644
--- a/csrc/kernels/elementwise.cu
+++ b/csrc/kernels/elementwise.cu
@@ -2463,3 +2463,20 @@ void gpu_euler_step(float* actions, const __half* velocity,
     euler_step_kernel<<<(n + 255) / 256, 256, 0, stream>>>(
         actions, velocity, dt, n, vel_elem_offset);
 }
+
+// ── Symmetric in-place clamp: x = min(max(x, -limit), +limit) ──
+// Used by Chameleon-7B L31 to keep gate*up in fp16 range so the
+// subsequent down_proj (K=11008) GEMM's fp32 accumulator doesn't overflow
+// fp16 max (65504) on cast-back. Symmetric to keep the kernel branchless.
+__global__ void clamp_inplace_fp16_kernel(__half* x, float limit, int n) {
+    int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
+    if (idx >= n) return;
+    float v = __half2float(x[idx]);
+    if (v > limit) v = limit;
+    else if (v < -limit) v = -limit;
+    x[idx] = __float2half(v);
+}
+
+void clamp_inplace_fp16(__half* x, float limit, int n, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    clamp_inplace_fp16_kernel<<<(n + 255) / 256, 256, 0, stream>>>(x, limit, n);
+}
diff --git a/csrc/kernels/elementwise.cuh b/csrc/kernels/elementwise.cuh
index 32090117..d225edc7 100644
--- a/csrc/kernels/elementwise.cuh
+++ b/csrc/kernels/elementwise.cuh
@@ -453,3 +453,7 @@ void cfg_combine_into_residual_fp16(__half* residual,
                                     const __half* v_uncond,
                                     float beta, int n,
                                     cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+
+// Symmetric in-place clamp: x = min(max(x, -limit), +limit)
+void clamp_inplace_fp16(__half* x, float limit, int n,
+                        cudaStream_t stream = 0);
diff --git a/csrc/kernels/fht_int4.cu b/csrc/kernels/fht_int4.cu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..db09b84d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csrc/kernels/fht_int4.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,469 @@
+// ================================================================
+// FlashRT — Fast Hadamard Transform + INT4 pack kernels (Orin SM87,
+// FP16-backbone QuaRot W4A4/W8A8 paths).
+//
+// The activation side of the rotated GEMMs: x' = (x @ H_K) / sqrt(K),
+// then per-row symmetric int4 (qmax=7), packed 2 elems/byte (low
+// nibble = even index, matching cutlass::int4b_t sub-byte order).
+// The matching weight rotation (per stored [N,K] row: row @ H_K /
+// sqrt(K), then per-row int4) is done offline in the frontend.
+//
+// K == 4096 fast path: H_4096 = H16 (x) H16 (x) H16 — three radix-16
+// register-resident butterfly stages over a padded fp32 smem row, only
+// 3 __syncthreads() (the naive 12-stage smem butterfly measured 2.3 ms
+// at M=1214; latency-bound on 12 barriers). Other pow-2 K falls back
+// to the generic staged butterfly.
+//
+// Padded smem layout: addr(i) = i + (i >> 4)  (one pad float per 16)
+// keeps the stride-16 (stage 2) accesses bank-conflict-free.
+//
+// Three call sites (mirroring the INT8 pipeline):
+//   residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16  layer boundaries (2x/layer)
+//   rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16               L0 entry
+//   fht_int4_quant_fp16                  pre-O (attention output)
+// ================================================================
+
+#include <cuda_bf16.h>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <cuda_runtime.h>
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <math.h>
+
+#include "common.cuh"
+
+namespace {
+
+constexpr int kThreads = 256;
+
+__device__ __forceinline__ int pad_idx(int i) { return i + (i >> 4); }
+
+__device__ __forceinline__ void h16_registers(float v[16]) {
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int len = 1; len < 16; len <<= 1) {
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int i = 0; i < 16; ++i) {
+            if ((i & len) == 0) {
+                float a = v[i];
+                float b = v[i + len];
+                v[i] = a + b;
+                v[i + len] = a - b;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// In-place FHT over the padded smem row. K == 4096 uses the radix-16
+// x3 fast path; other pow-2 K uses the generic staged butterfly.
+__device__ __forceinline__ void fht_padded(float* s, int K, int tid) {
+    if (K == 4096) {
+        float v[16];
+        // Stage 1: bits 0-3 (stride 1). Thread t owns rows [16t, 16t+16).
+        {
+            int base = tid * 16;
+            #pragma unroll
+            for (int c = 0; c < 16; ++c) v[c] = s[pad_idx(base + c)];
+            h16_registers(v);
+            #pragma unroll
+            for (int c = 0; c < 16; ++c) s[pad_idx(base + c)] = v[c];
+        }
+        __syncthreads();
+        // Stage 2: bits 4-7 (stride 16). Thread t owns (a = t>>4, c = t&15).
+        {
+            int base = (tid >> 4) * 256 + (tid & 15);
+            #pragma unroll
+            for (int b = 0; b < 16; ++b) v[b] = s[pad_idx(base + b * 16)];
+            h16_registers(v);
+            #pragma unroll
+            for (int b = 0; b < 16; ++b) s[pad_idx(base + b * 16)] = v[b];
+        }
+        __syncthreads();
+        // Stage 3: bits 8-11 (stride 256). Thread t owns (b = t>>4, c = t&15).
+        {
+            int base = (tid >> 4) * 16 + (tid & 15);
+            #pragma unroll
+            for (int a = 0; a < 16; ++a) v[a] = s[pad_idx(base + a * 256)];
+            h16_registers(v);
+            #pragma unroll
+            for (int a = 0; a < 16; ++a) s[pad_idx(base + a * 256)] = v[a];
+        }
+        __syncthreads();
+        return;
+    }
+    for (int len = 1; len < K; len <<= 1) {
+        for (int idx = tid; idx < (K >> 1); idx += kThreads) {
+            int i = ((idx / len) * (len << 1)) + (idx % len);
+            float a = s[pad_idx(i)];
+            float b = s[pad_idx(i + len)];
+            s[pad_idx(i)] = a + b;
+            s[pad_idx(i + len)] = a - b;
+        }
+        __syncthreads();
+    }
+}
+
+// amax over the padded smem row + quantize to packed int4.
+__device__ __forceinline__ void quant_pack_int4(
+        const float* s, int K, int tid,
+        float* partial, float inv_sqrt_k,
+        uint8_t* out_row, float* scale_out) {
+    float local_max = 0.f;
+    for (int i = tid; i < K; i += kThreads)
+        local_max = fmaxf(local_max, fabsf(s[pad_idx(i)]));
+    float amax = block_reduce_max(local_max, partial);
+    float scale_u = fmaxf(amax / 7.0f, 1e-10f);      // unnormalised domain
+    if (tid == 0) *scale_out = scale_u * inv_sqrt_k; // fold 1/sqrt(K)
+    float inv_s = 1.0f / scale_u;
+    for (int j = tid; j < (K >> 1); j += kThreads) {
+        int q0 = __float2int_rn(s[pad_idx(2 * j)] * inv_s);
+        int q1 = __float2int_rn(s[pad_idx(2 * j + 1)] * inv_s);
+        q0 = (q0 < -7) ? -7 : ((q0 > 7) ? 7 : q0);
+        q1 = (q1 < -7) ? -7 : ((q1 > 7) ? 7 : q1);
+        out_row[j] = static_cast<uint8_t>((q0 & 0xF) | ((q1 & 0xF) << 4));
+    }
+}
+
+// amax over the padded smem row + quantize to int8 (one byte per element).
+//
+// The INT8 twin of quant_pack_int4: same amax reduction, same 1/sqrt(K)
+// folding into the row scale, qmax 127 instead of 7 and no nibble packing.
+// This is what lets the W8A8+Hadamard path feed the *unmodified*
+// cutlass_int8_rowwise_* GEMMs — the reason for choosing a rotation that
+// preserves plain per-row scales over a block-scaled scheme that would need
+// a bespoke (and measured-slower) GEMM.
+__device__ __forceinline__ void quant_int8(
+        const float* s, int K, int tid,
+        float* partial, float inv_sqrt_k,
+        int8_t* out_row, float* scale_out) {
+    float local_max = 0.f;
+    for (int i = tid; i < K; i += kThreads)
+        local_max = fmaxf(local_max, fabsf(s[pad_idx(i)]));
+    float amax = block_reduce_max(local_max, partial);
+    float scale_u = fmaxf(amax / 127.0f, 1e-12f);    // unnormalised domain
+    if (tid == 0) *scale_out = scale_u * inv_sqrt_k; // fold 1/sqrt(K)
+    float inv_s = 1.0f / scale_u;
+    for (int i = tid; i < K; i += kThreads) {
+        int q = __float2int_rn(s[pad_idx(i)] * inv_s);
+        q = (q < -127) ? -127 : ((q > 127) ? 127 : q);
+        out_row[i] = static_cast<int8_t>(q);
+    }
+}
+
+// Emit dispatch, so the norm+FHT kernels below are shared verbatim between
+// the INT4 and INT8 activation paths (identical rotation, different width).
+template <bool kInt8>
+__device__ __forceinline__ void quant_emit(
+        const float* s, int K, int tid, float* partial, float inv_sqrt_k,
+        void* out_base, int64_t row, float* scale_out) {
+    if (kInt8) {
+        quant_int8(s, K, tid, partial, inv_sqrt_k,
+                   static_cast<int8_t*>(out_base) + row * K, scale_out);
+    } else {
+        quant_pack_int4(s, K, tid, partial, inv_sqrt_k,
+                        static_cast<uint8_t*>(out_base) + row * (K >> 1),
+                        scale_out);
+    }
+}
+
+// residual += x (fp16, written back); h = RMSNorm(residual)*w; FHT(h);
+// int4 pack. Vectorised 16B loads for the fp16 streams.
+template <bool kInt8>
+__global__ void residual_add_rms_norm_fht_kernel(
+        __half* __restrict__ residual,
+        const __half* __restrict__ x,
+        const __half* __restrict__ weight,
+        void* __restrict__ out,          // int8 [rows,cols] | s4 [rows,cols/2]
+        float* __restrict__ scales,      // [rows]
+        int rows, int cols, float eps) {
+    extern __shared__ float smem[];
+    float* partial = smem + cols + (cols >> 4);
+
+    int row = blockIdx.x;
+    if (row >= rows) return;
+    const int tid = threadIdx.x;
+    const int n8 = cols >> 3;
+
+    uint4* res4 = reinterpret_cast<uint4*>(residual + (int64_t)row * cols);
+    const uint4* x4 = reinterpret_cast<const uint4*>(x + (int64_t)row * cols);
+    const uint4* w4 = reinterpret_cast<const uint4*>(weight);
+
+    float sum_sq = 0.f;
+    for (int j = tid; j < n8; j += kThreads) {
+        uint4 rv = res4[j], xv = x4[j];
+        __half2* rp = reinterpret_cast<__half2*>(&rv);
+        const __half2* xp = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(&xv);
+        int base = j << 3;
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int k = 0; k < 4; ++k) {
+            float r0 = __half2float(rp[k].x) + __half2float(xp[k].x);
+            float r1 = __half2float(rp[k].y) + __half2float(xp[k].y);
+            rp[k] = __halves2half2(__float2half(r0), __float2half(r1));
+            smem[pad_idx(base + 2 * k)] = r0;
+            smem[pad_idx(base + 2 * k + 1)] = r1;
+            sum_sq += r0 * r0 + r1 * r1;
+        }
+        res4[j] = rv;
+    }
+    float rms = rsqrtf(block_reduce_sum(sum_sq, partial) / cols + eps);
+
+    for (int j = tid; j < n8; j += kThreads) {
+        uint4 wv = w4[j];
+        const __half2* wp = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(&wv);
+        int base = j << 3;
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int k = 0; k < 4; ++k) {
+            smem[pad_idx(base + 2 * k)]     *= rms * __half2float(wp[k].x);
+            smem[pad_idx(base + 2 * k + 1)] *= rms * __half2float(wp[k].y);
+        }
+    }
+    __syncthreads();
+
+    fht_padded(smem, cols, tid);
+    quant_emit<kInt8>(smem, cols, tid, partial, rsqrtf((float)cols),
+                      out, (int64_t)row, scales + row);
+}
+
+// h = RMSNorm(x)*w; FHT; int4 pack (no residual update). L0 entry.
+template <bool kInt8>
+__global__ void rms_norm_fht_kernel(
+        const __half* __restrict__ x,
+        const __half* __restrict__ weight,
+        void* __restrict__ out,
+        float* __restrict__ scales,
+        int rows, int cols, float eps) {
+    extern __shared__ float smem[];
+    float* partial = smem + cols + (cols >> 4);
+    int row = blockIdx.x;
+    if (row >= rows) return;
+    const int tid = threadIdx.x;
+    const int n8 = cols >> 3;
+    const uint4* x4 = reinterpret_cast<const uint4*>(x + (int64_t)row * cols);
+    const uint4* w4 = reinterpret_cast<const uint4*>(weight);
+
+    float sum_sq = 0.f;
+    for (int j = tid; j < n8; j += kThreads) {
+        uint4 xv = x4[j];
+        const __half2* xp = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(&xv);
+        int base = j << 3;
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int k = 0; k < 4; ++k) {
+            float v0 = __half2float(xp[k].x), v1 = __half2float(xp[k].y);
+            smem[pad_idx(base + 2 * k)] = v0;
+            smem[pad_idx(base + 2 * k + 1)] = v1;
+            sum_sq += v0 * v0 + v1 * v1;
+        }
+    }
+    float rms = rsqrtf(block_reduce_sum(sum_sq, partial) / cols + eps);
+    for (int j = tid; j < n8; j += kThreads) {
+        uint4 wv = w4[j];
+        const __half2* wp = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(&wv);
+        int base = j << 3;
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int k = 0; k < 4; ++k) {
+            smem[pad_idx(base + 2 * k)]     *= rms * __half2float(wp[k].x);
+            smem[pad_idx(base + 2 * k + 1)] *= rms * __half2float(wp[k].y);
+        }
+    }
+    __syncthreads();
+    fht_padded(smem, cols, tid);
+    quant_emit<kInt8>(smem, cols, tid, partial, rsqrtf((float)cols),
+                      out, (int64_t)row, scales + row);
+}
+
+// FHT(x) + int4 pack, raw fp16 input (pre-O site).
+template <bool kInt8>
+__global__ void fht_quant_kernel(
+        const __half* __restrict__ x,
+        void* __restrict__ out,
+        float* __restrict__ scales,
+        int rows, int cols) {
+    extern __shared__ float smem[];
+    float* partial = smem + cols + (cols >> 4);
+    int row = blockIdx.x;
+    if (row >= rows) return;
+    const int tid = threadIdx.x;
+    const int n8 = cols >> 3;
+    const uint4* x4 = reinterpret_cast<const uint4*>(x + (int64_t)row * cols);
+    for (int j = tid; j < n8; j += kThreads) {
+        uint4 xv = x4[j];
+        const __half2* xp = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(&xv);
+        int base = j << 3;
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int k = 0; k < 4; ++k) {
+            smem[pad_idx(base + 2 * k)] = __half2float(xp[k].x);
+            smem[pad_idx(base + 2 * k + 1)] = __half2float(xp[k].y);
+        }
+    }
+    __syncthreads();
+    fht_padded(smem, cols, tid);
+    quant_emit<kInt8>(smem, cols, tid, partial, rsqrtf((float)cols),
+                      out, (int64_t)row, scales + row);
+}
+
+inline int smem_bytes(int cols) {
+    return (cols + (cols >> 4) + 32) * (int)sizeof(float);
+}
+
+}  // namespace
+
+extern "C" void residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16(
+        __half* residual, const __half* x, const __half* weight,
+        uint8_t* out, float* scales, int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+        cudaStream_t stream) {
+    residual_add_rms_norm_fht_kernel<false>
+        <<<seq_len, kThreads, smem_bytes(dim), stream>>>(
+            residual, x, weight, out, scales, seq_len, dim, eps);
+}
+
+extern "C" void rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16(
+        const __half* x, const __half* weight,
+        uint8_t* out, float* scales, int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+        cudaStream_t stream) {
+    rms_norm_fht_kernel<false><<<seq_len, kThreads, smem_bytes(dim), stream>>>(
+        x, weight, out, scales, seq_len, dim, eps);
+}
+
+extern "C" void fht_int4_quant_fp16(
+        const __half* x, uint8_t* out, float* scales,
+        int seq_len, int dim, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    fht_quant_kernel<false><<<seq_len, kThreads, smem_bytes(dim), stream>>>(
+        x, out, scales, seq_len, dim);
+}
+
+// ── W8A8 + Hadamard (QuaRot at 8 bits) ──
+// Identical rotation to the INT4 entries above, emitting int8 so the
+// *unmodified* cutlass_int8_rowwise_* GEMMs consume it. Conditions the
+// Chameleon massive-activation channels (which destroy plain per-row INT8)
+// without paying INT4's quantization noise.
+
+extern "C" void residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16(
+        __half* residual, const __half* x, const __half* weight,
+        int8_t* out, float* scales, int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+        cudaStream_t stream) {
+    residual_add_rms_norm_fht_kernel<true>
+        <<<seq_len, kThreads, smem_bytes(dim), stream>>>(
+            residual, x, weight, out, scales, seq_len, dim, eps);
+}
+
+extern "C" void rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16(
+        const __half* x, const __half* weight,
+        int8_t* out, float* scales, int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+        cudaStream_t stream) {
+    rms_norm_fht_kernel<true><<<seq_len, kThreads, smem_bytes(dim), stream>>>(
+        x, weight, out, scales, seq_len, dim, eps);
+}
+
+extern "C" void fht_int8_quant_fp16(
+        const __half* x, int8_t* out, float* scales,
+        int seq_len, int dim, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    fht_quant_kernel<true><<<seq_len, kThreads, smem_bytes(dim), stream>>>(
+        x, out, scales, seq_len, dim);
+}
+
+// ── Block-diagonal H_128 FHT + per-row int4 pack, BF16 input ──
+// For the FFN down input (K = 11008 = 86 x 128, not a power of two).
+// Each warp transforms 128-element chunks fully in registers: lane l
+// holds elements [4l, 4l+3] of the chunk; stages len=1,2 are in-lane,
+// len=4..64 are shfl_xor butterflies. The transformed row is kept in
+// registers (MAX_CHUNKS per warp), amax-reduced across the block, then
+// quantised and packed 2/byte. 1/sqrt(128) is folded into the scale.
+
+namespace {
+
+__device__ __forceinline__ void fht128_chunk(
+        const __nv_bfloat16* __restrict__ xrow, int c, int lane,
+        float& a0, float& a1, float& a2, float& a3) {
+    const __nv_bfloat162* p = reinterpret_cast<const __nv_bfloat162*>(
+        xrow + (c << 7) + (lane << 2));
+    __nv_bfloat162 p0 = p[0], p1 = p[1];
+    a0 = __bfloat162float(p0.x); a1 = __bfloat162float(p0.y);
+    a2 = __bfloat162float(p1.x); a3 = __bfloat162float(p1.y);
+    // len=1: (0,1) (2,3)
+    float b0 = a0 + a1, b1 = a0 - a1, b2 = a2 + a3, b3 = a2 - a3;
+    // len=2: (0,2) (1,3)
+    a0 = b0 + b2; a1 = b1 + b3; a2 = b0 - b2; a3 = b1 - b3;
+    // len=4..64: cross-lane butterflies (branchless: lower lane a+o,
+    // upper lane o-a  ==  fma(a, sgn, o)).
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int xm = 1; xm <= 16; xm <<= 1) {
+        float sgn = (lane & xm) ? -1.f : 1.f;
+        float o0 = __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffff, a0, xm);
+        float o1 = __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffff, a1, xm);
+        float o2 = __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffff, a2, xm);
+        float o3 = __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffff, a3, xm);
+        a0 = fmaf(a0, sgn, o0);
+        a1 = fmaf(a1, sgn, o1);
+        a2 = fmaf(a2, sgn, o2);
+        a3 = fmaf(a3, sgn, o3);
+    }
+}
+
+// Single pass: shuffle-transform each 128-chunk once, park the fp32
+// result in smem (44 KB at Dff=11008), block-amax, then quantize from
+// smem. Halves the global traffic vs the recompute variant.
+__global__ void fht128_int4_quant_bf16_kernel(
+        const __nv_bfloat16* __restrict__ x,
+        uint8_t* __restrict__ out,       // [rows, cols/2]
+        float* __restrict__ scales,      // [rows]
+        int rows, int cols) {
+    extern __shared__ float srow[];      // [cols] transformed fp32
+    __shared__ float partial[64];
+
+    const int row = blockIdx.x;
+    if (row >= rows) return;
+    const int tid = threadIdx.x;
+    const int lane = tid & 31;
+    const int warp = tid >> 5;
+    const int nwarp = blockDim.x >> 5;
+    const int nchunks = cols >> 7;
+
+    const __nv_bfloat16* xrow = x + (int64_t)row * cols;
+    uint8_t* orow = out + (int64_t)row * (cols >> 1);
+
+    float local_max = 0.f;
+    for (int c = warp; c < nchunks; c += nwarp) {
+        float a0, a1, a2, a3;
+        fht128_chunk(xrow, c, lane, a0, a1, a2, a3);
+        float* sc4 = srow + (c << 7) + (lane << 2);
+        sc4[0] = a0; sc4[1] = a1; sc4[2] = a2; sc4[3] = a3;
+        local_max = fmaxf(local_max,
+            fmaxf(fmaxf(fabsf(a0), fabsf(a1)), fmaxf(fabsf(a2), fabsf(a3))));
+    }
+
+    float amax = block_reduce_max(local_max, partial);
+    float scale_u = fmaxf(amax / 7.0f, 1e-10f);
+    if (tid == 0) scales[row] = scale_u * 0.08838834764831845f;  // 1/sqrt(128)
+    float inv_s = 1.0f / scale_u;
+
+    const int n4 = cols >> 2;
+    for (int j = tid; j < n4; j += blockDim.x) {
+        const float* s4 = srow + (j << 2);
+        int q0 = __float2int_rn(s4[0] * inv_s);
+        int q1 = __float2int_rn(s4[1] * inv_s);
+        int q2 = __float2int_rn(s4[2] * inv_s);
+        int q3 = __float2int_rn(s4[3] * inv_s);
+        q0 = (q0 < -7) ? -7 : ((q0 > 7) ? 7 : q0);
+        q1 = (q1 < -7) ? -7 : ((q1 > 7) ? 7 : q1);
+        q2 = (q2 < -7) ? -7 : ((q2 > 7) ? 7 : q2);
+        q3 = (q3 < -7) ? -7 : ((q3 > 7) ? 7 : q3);
+        uint16_t pk = (uint16_t)((q0 & 0xF) | ((q1 & 0xF) << 4)
+                    | ((q2 & 0xF) << 8) | ((q3 & 0xF) << 12));
+        *reinterpret_cast<uint16_t*>(&orow[j << 1]) = pk;
+    }
+}
+
+}  // namespace
+
+extern "C" void fht128_int4_quant_bf16(
+        const __nv_bfloat16* x, uint8_t* out, float* scales,
+        int seq_len, int dim, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    int smem = dim * (int)sizeof(float);
+    static bool attr_set = false;
+    if (!attr_set && smem > 48 * 1024) {
+        cudaFuncSetAttribute(
+            (const void*)&fht128_int4_quant_bf16_kernel,
+            cudaFuncAttributeMaxDynamicSharedMemorySize, smem);
+        attr_set = true;
+    }
+    fht128_int4_quant_bf16_kernel<<<seq_len, 512, smem, stream>>>(
+        x, out, scales, seq_len, dim);
+}
diff --git a/csrc/kernels/norm.cu b/csrc/kernels/norm.cu
index c5c7b628..be908f02 100644
--- a/csrc/kernels/norm.cu
+++ b/csrc/kernels/norm.cu
@@ -1379,3 +1379,248 @@ void avg_pool_vision_tokens(
         x, out, nv, H, W, dim, pool_factor);
 
 }
+
+// RMSNorm that also block-reduces the abs-max of its own fp16 output into
+// a caller-zeroed device scale accumulator (atomicMax across blocks). Lets
+// a dynamic per-tensor FP8 quantize of the normalized output skip the
+// separate absmax_kernel full read pass (fused into this kernel's existing
+// write pass instead). `max_val` must be memset to 0 by the caller first.
+template<typename T>
+__global__ void rms_norm_amax_kernel(const T* __restrict__ x,
+                                      const T* __restrict__ weight,
+                                      T* __restrict__ out,
+                                      float* __restrict__ max_val,
+                                      int dim, float eps) {
+    using T2 = typename packed2<T>::type;
+    int row = blockIdx.x;
+    const T2* x2 = reinterpret_cast<const T2*>(x + row * dim);
+    T2* out2 = reinterpret_cast<T2*>(out + row * dim);
+    const T2* w2 = reinterpret_cast<const T2*>(weight);
+    int dim2 = dim >> 1;
+
+    extern __shared__ float shared[];
+    float local_sum = 0.0f;
+    for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < dim2; i += blockDim.x) {
+        T2 val = x2[i];
+        float v0 = to_f32(val.x), v1 = to_f32(val.y);
+        local_sum += v0 * v0 + v1 * v1;
+    }
+    float rms = rsqrtf(block_reduce_sum(local_sum, shared) / dim + eps);
+
+    float local_max = 0.0f;
+    for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < dim2; i += blockDim.x) {
+        T2 xv = x2[i], wv = w2[i];
+        float v0 = to_f32(xv.x) * rms * to_f32(wv.x);
+        float v1 = to_f32(xv.y) * rms * to_f32(wv.y);
+        out2[i] = make_packed2<T>(from_f32<T>(v0), from_f32<T>(v1));
+        // amax over the fp16-rounded stored values, matching absmax_kernel
+        // reading the fp16 buffer afterwards (quantize consumes those).
+        float q0 = to_f32(from_f32<T>(v0));
+        float q1 = to_f32(from_f32<T>(v1));
+        local_max = fmaxf(local_max, fmaxf(fabsf(q0), fabsf(q1)));
+    }
+    float block_max = block_reduce_max(local_max, shared);
+    if (threadIdx.x == 0) atomicMax((int*)max_val, __float_as_int(block_max));
+}
+
+template __global__ void rms_norm_amax_kernel<__half>(const __half*, const __half*, __half*, float*, int, float);
+
+void rms_norm_amax_fp16(const __half* x, const __half* weight,
+                         __half* out, float* d_amax,
+                         int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+                         cudaStream_t stream) {
+    rms_norm_amax_kernel<__half><<<seq_len, 256, 256 * sizeof(float), stream>>>(
+        x, weight, out, d_amax, dim, eps);
+}
+
+// Residual add + RMSNorm with amax fused into the xn write pass.
+// residual[row,:] += x[row,:] (fp16-rounded, same as residual_add_fp16);
+// ssq is computed over the ROUNDED fp16 residual values (same as rms_norm
+// reading the fp16 residual buffer afterwards); the normalized xn output
+// is computed from register-cached residuals (no global re-read); the
+// abs-max of xn is block-reduced and atomically folded into max_val
+// (caller must memset max_val to 0 first). One kernel replaces
+// residual_add_fp16 + rms_norm_fp16 + absmax over xn.
+template<typename T>
+__global__ void residual_add_rms_norm_amax_kernel(
+    T* __restrict__ residual, const T* __restrict__ x,
+    const T* __restrict__ weight, T* __restrict__ xn_out,
+    float* __restrict__ max_val, int dim, float eps) {
+    using T2 = typename packed2<T>::type;
+    constexpr int MAX_CHUNKS = 16;  // dim2/blockDim; D=4096 -> 8 at 256 threads
+    int row = blockIdx.x;
+    T2* res2 = reinterpret_cast<T2*>(residual + row * dim);
+    const T2* x2 = reinterpret_cast<const T2*>(x + row * dim);
+    const T2* w2 = reinterpret_cast<const T2*>(weight);
+    T2* out2 = reinterpret_cast<T2*>(xn_out + row * dim);
+    int dim2 = dim >> 1;
+    int chunks = (dim2 + blockDim.x - 1) / blockDim.x;
+    T2 regs[MAX_CHUNKS];
+
+    extern __shared__ float shared[];
+    float local_sum = 0.0f;
+    for (int c = 0; c < chunks && c < MAX_CHUNKS; c++) {
+        int i = c * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
+        if (i < dim2) {
+            T2 rv = res2[i], xv = x2[i];
+            float r0 = to_f32(rv.x) + to_f32(xv.x);
+            float r1 = to_f32(rv.y) + to_f32(xv.y);
+            T2 rn = make_packed2<T>(from_f32<T>(r0), from_f32<T>(r1));
+            res2[i] = rn;
+            regs[c] = rn;
+            float q0 = to_f32(rn.x), q1 = to_f32(rn.y);
+            local_sum += q0 * q0 + q1 * q1;
+        }
+    }
+    float rms = rsqrtf(block_reduce_sum(local_sum, shared) / dim + eps);
+
+    float local_max = 0.0f;
+    for (int c = 0; c < chunks && c < MAX_CHUNKS; c++) {
+        int i = c * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
+        if (i < dim2) {
+            T2 rv = regs[c], wv = w2[i];
+            float v0 = to_f32(rv.x) * rms * to_f32(wv.x);
+            float v1 = to_f32(rv.y) * rms * to_f32(wv.y);
+            out2[i] = make_packed2<T>(from_f32<T>(v0), from_f32<T>(v1));
+            // amax over the fp16-rounded stored values, matching
+            // absmax_kernel reading the fp16 buffer afterwards.
+            float q0 = to_f32(from_f32<T>(v0));
+            float q1 = to_f32(from_f32<T>(v1));
+            local_max = fmaxf(local_max, fmaxf(fabsf(q0), fabsf(q1)));
+        }
+    }
+    float block_max = block_reduce_max(local_max, shared);
+    if (threadIdx.x == 0) atomicMax((int*)max_val, __float_as_int(block_max));
+}
+
+template __global__ void residual_add_rms_norm_amax_kernel<__half>(__half*, const __half*, const __half*, __half*, float*, int, float);
+
+void residual_add_rms_norm_amax_fp16(__half* residual, const __half* x,
+                                      const __half* weight, __half* xn_out,
+                                      float* d_amax, int seq_len, int dim,
+                                      float eps, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    residual_add_rms_norm_amax_kernel<__half><<<seq_len, 256, 256 * sizeof(float), stream>>>(
+        residual, x, weight, xn_out, d_amax, dim, eps);
+}
+
+// FP16 host wrapper — re-uses the existing __half template instantiation.
+void residual_add_rms_norm_fp16(__half* residual, const __half* x,
+                                 const __half* weight, __half* out,
+                                 int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+                                 cudaStream_t stream) {
+    residual_add_rms_norm_kernel<__half><<<seq_len, 256, 256 * sizeof(float), stream>>>(
+        residual, x, weight, out, dim, eps);
+}
+
+#ifdef FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+// ── FP16 variants of the INT8-rowwise fused norms ──
+// Same math as the bf16 kernels above, reading/writing FP16 residual
+// streams (FP16-backbone models on Orin SM87).
+__global__ void rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16_kernel(
+        const __half* __restrict__ x,
+        const __half* __restrict__ weight,
+        int8_t*  __restrict__ out,
+        float*   __restrict__ scales,
+        int rows, int cols, float eps) {
+    extern __shared__ float smem[];
+    float* partial = smem + cols;
+
+    int row = blockIdx.x;
+    if (row >= rows) return;
+
+    const __half* xr = x + (int64_t)row * cols;
+    int8_t* outr = out + (int64_t)row * cols;
+
+    // Pass 1: load x → smem, accumulate sum of squares
+    float sum_sq = 0.f;
+    for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < cols; i += blockDim.x) {
+        float xi = to_f32(xr[i]);
+        smem[i] = xi;
+        sum_sq += xi * xi;
+    }
+    float rms = rsqrtf(block_reduce_sum(sum_sq, partial) / cols + eps);
+
+    // Pass 2: normalize (reuse smem), accumulate max_abs
+    float max_abs = 0.f;
+    for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < cols; i += blockDim.x) {
+        float v = smem[i] * rms * to_f32(weight[i]);
+        smem[i] = v;
+        max_abs = fmaxf(max_abs, fabsf(v));
+    }
+    float scale = fmaxf(block_reduce_max(max_abs, partial) / 127.f, 1e-12f);
+    if (threadIdx.x == 0) scales[row] = scale;
+    float inv_s = 1.f / scale;
+
+    // Pass 3: write INT8
+    for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < cols; i += blockDim.x) {
+        float v = smem[i] * inv_s;
+        outr[i] = (int8_t)__float2int_rn(fmaxf(-127.f, fminf(127.f, v)));
+    }
+}
+
+void rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16(const __half* x,
+                                 const __half* weight,
+                                 int8_t* out, float* scales,
+                                 int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+                                 cudaStream_t stream) {
+    int smem = (dim + 32) * sizeof(float);
+    rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16_kernel<<<seq_len, 256, smem, stream>>>(
+        x, weight, out, scales, seq_len, dim, eps);
+}
+
+__global__ void residual_add_rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16_kernel(
+        __half* __restrict__ residual,
+        const __half* __restrict__ x,
+        const __half* __restrict__ weight,
+        int8_t* __restrict__ out,
+        float*  __restrict__ scales,
+        int rows, int cols, float eps) {
+    extern __shared__ float smem[];
+    float* partial = smem + cols;
+
+    int row = blockIdx.x;
+    if (row >= rows) return;
+
+    __half* res_row = residual + (int64_t)row * cols;
+    const __half* x_row = x + (int64_t)row * cols;
+    int8_t* out_row = out + (int64_t)row * cols;
+
+    // Pass 1: residual += x, load into smem, accumulate sum_sq
+    float sum_sq = 0.f;
+    for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < cols; i += blockDim.x) {
+        float ri = to_f32(res_row[i]) + to_f32(x_row[i]);
+        res_row[i] = from_f32<__half>(ri);
+        smem[i] = ri;
+        sum_sq += ri * ri;
+    }
+    float rms = rsqrtf(block_reduce_sum(sum_sq, partial) / cols + eps);
+
+    // Pass 2: normalize, accumulate max_abs
+    float max_abs = 0.f;
+    for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < cols; i += blockDim.x) {
+        float v = smem[i] * rms * to_f32(weight[i]);
+        smem[i] = v;
+        max_abs = fmaxf(max_abs, fabsf(v));
+    }
+    float scale = fmaxf(block_reduce_max(max_abs, partial) / 127.f, 1e-12f);
+    if (threadIdx.x == 0) scales[row] = scale;
+    float inv_s = 1.f / scale;
+
+    // Pass 3: write INT8
+    for (int i = threadIdx.x; i < cols; i += blockDim.x) {
+        float v = smem[i] * inv_s;
+        out_row[i] = (int8_t)__float2int_rn(fmaxf(-127.f, fminf(127.f, v)));
+    }
+}
+
+void residual_add_rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16(
+        __half* residual, const __half* x,
+        const __half* weight,
+        int8_t* out, float* scales,
+        int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+        cudaStream_t stream) {
+    int smem = (dim + 32) * sizeof(float);
+    residual_add_rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16_kernel<<<seq_len, 256, smem, stream>>>(
+        residual, x, weight, out, scales, seq_len, dim, eps);
+}
+#endif  // FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
diff --git a/csrc/kernels/norm.cuh b/csrc/kernels/norm.cuh
index 98fbc20c..e4f08e79 100644
--- a/csrc/kernels/norm.cuh
+++ b/csrc/kernels/norm.cuh
@@ -181,3 +181,30 @@ void bias_residual_layer_norm_fp16(
         const __half* ln_weight, const __half* ln_bias,
         __half* out, int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
         cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+
+void rms_norm_amax_fp16(const __half* x, const __half* weight,
+                         __half* out, float* d_amax,
+                         int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+                         cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+void residual_add_rms_norm_amax_fp16(
+        __half* residual, const __half* x, const __half* weight,
+        __half* xn_out, float* d_amax,
+        int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+        cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+void residual_add_rms_norm_fp16(__half* residual, const __half* x,
+                                 const __half* weight, __half* out,
+                                 int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+                                 cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+#ifdef FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+void rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16(const __half* x,
+                                 const __half* weight,
+                                 int8_t* out, float* scales,
+                                 int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+                                 cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+void residual_add_rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16(
+        __half* residual, const __half* x,
+        const __half* weight,
+        int8_t* out, float* scales,
+        int seq_len, int dim, float eps,
+        cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+#endif  // FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
diff --git a/csrc/kernels/qk_norm_rope_fused.cu b/csrc/kernels/qk_norm_rope_fused.cu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..33595335
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csrc/kernels/qk_norm_rope_fused.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
+// ================================================================
+// FlashRT — Fused QK LayerNorm + Rotate-Half RoPE (FP16)
+//
+// Replaces the per-Chameleon-7B-layer chain:
+//   qk_layer_norm_fast_fp16(Q, K, q_w/b, k_w/b, Se*H, Hd, ...)
+//   rope_rotate_half_fp16(Q, cos, sin, Se, H, Hd, ...)
+//   rope_rotate_half_fp16(K, cos, sin, Se, H, Hd, ...)
+// with a single kernel launch, saving ~3 launches/layer × 32 layers.
+//
+// Layout (matches Chameleon-7B prefill):
+//   Q, K           : [Se*H, Hd] FP16 (head-interleaved, viewed as [Se, H, Hd])
+//   q_w/b, k_w/b   : [Hd] FP16 (per-head LayerNorm shares params across heads)
+//   cos_table      : [Se, Hd] FP16 — RoPE cos, tiled cat([c, c], dim=-1)
+//   sin_table      : [Se, Hd] FP16 — RoPE sin, tiled cat([s, s], dim=-1)
+//   Output: in-place if {q_out, k_out} == {q, k}.
+//
+// Math (LayerNorm with bias, then rotate_half RoPE):
+//   x_n[d] = (x[d] - mean) * inv_std * w[d] + b[d]
+//   out[d]      = x_n[d]      * cos[d]      - x_n[d + Hd/2] * sin[d]      (d < Hd/2)
+//   out[d+Hd/2] = x_n[d+Hd/2] * cos[d+Hd/2] + x_n[d]        * sin[d+Hd/2]
+//
+// Kernel layout (matches qk_layer_norm_fast_fp16):
+//   Grid:  ((2 * Se * H + ROWS_PER_BLOCK - 1) / ROWS_PER_BLOCK)
+//   Block: dim3(32, ROWS_PER_BLOCK = 8) — 256 threads/CTA
+//   Rows [0,         Se*H) → Q
+//   Rows [Se*H,    2*Se*H) → K
+//
+// Per-lane register cache holds the LayerNorm output for both halves of
+// the head_dim simultaneously, so rotate_half pairs are co-located in
+// registers — no warp shuffle needed for HD=128.
+// ================================================================
+
+#include <cuda_runtime.h>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+
+namespace flash_rt {
+namespace kernels {
+
+template<int ROWS_PER_BLOCK>
+__global__ void qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16_kernel(
+        const __half* __restrict__ q,    const __half* __restrict__ k,
+        const __half* __restrict__ q_w,  const __half* __restrict__ q_b,
+        const __half* __restrict__ k_w,  const __half* __restrict__ k_b,
+        const __half* __restrict__ cos_t, const __half* __restrict__ sin_t,
+        __half* __restrict__ q_out, __half* __restrict__ k_out,
+        int rows_per_qk,           // = Se * num_heads (rows in Q or K)
+        int num_heads,             // for computing RoPE seq position from row
+        int dim, float eps) {
+    constexpr int MAX_PER_LANE = 4;  // covers dim ≤ 256
+    const int lane = threadIdx.x;
+    const int warp_id = threadIdx.y;
+    const int global_row = blockIdx.x * ROWS_PER_BLOCK + warp_id;
+    if (global_row >= 2 * rows_per_qk) return;
+
+    const bool is_k = (global_row >= rows_per_qk);
+    const int row    = is_k ? (global_row - rows_per_qk) : global_row;  // [0, Se*H)
+    const int seq_pos = row / num_heads;                                 // [0, Se)
+    // (head_idx = row % num_heads is implicit; LayerNorm params are shared.)
+
+    const __half* x_ptr = is_k ? k    : q;
+    const __half* w_ptr = is_k ? k_w  : q_w;
+    const __half* b_ptr = is_k ? k_b  : q_b;
+    __half*       o_ptr = is_k ? k_out : q_out;
+
+    const __half2* x2 = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(x_ptr + (size_t)row * dim);
+    __half2*       o2 = reinterpret_cast<__half2*>(      o_ptr + (size_t)row * dim);
+    const __half2* w2 = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(w_ptr);
+    const __half2* b2 = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(b_ptr);
+    const __half2* c2 = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(cos_t + (size_t)seq_pos * dim);
+    const __half2* s2 = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(sin_t + (size_t)seq_pos * dim);
+    const int dim2 = dim >> 1;
+
+    // ── Pass 1: load x into per-lane register cache, accumulate sum for mean.
+    __half2 cache[MAX_PER_LANE];
+    float local_sum = 0.0f;
+    int n = 0;
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int it = 0; it < MAX_PER_LANE; ++it) {
+        int i = lane + it * 32;
+        if (i < dim2) {
+            __half2 v = x2[i];
+            cache[it] = v;
+            local_sum += __half2float(v.x) + __half2float(v.y);
+            ++n;
+        }
+    }
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int off = 16; off > 0; off >>= 1)
+        local_sum += __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffff, local_sum, off);
+    const float mean = local_sum / static_cast<float>(dim);
+
+    // ── Pass 2: variance from cached values.
+    float local_var = 0.0f;
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int it = 0; it < MAX_PER_LANE; ++it) {
+        if (it < n) {
+            __half2 v = cache[it];
+            float d0 = __half2float(v.x) - mean;
+            float d1 = __half2float(v.y) - mean;
+            local_var += d0 * d0 + d1 * d1;
+        }
+    }
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int off = 16; off > 0; off >>= 1)
+        local_var += __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffff, local_var, off);
+    const float inv_std = rsqrtf(local_var / static_cast<float>(dim) + eps);
+
+    // ── Pass 3: normalize + scale + bias → write back into cache[].
+    // We re-purpose cache[] to hold the LayerNorm output before applying
+    // RoPE, so rotate_half pairs are co-located in the same lane's regs.
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int it = 0; it < MAX_PER_LANE; ++it) {
+        if (it < n) {
+            int i = lane + it * 32;
+            __half2 xv = cache[it];
+            __half2 wv = w2[i], bv = b2[i];
+            float v0 = (__half2float(xv.x) - mean) * inv_std * __half2float(wv.x) + __half2float(bv.x);
+            float v1 = (__half2float(xv.y) - mean) * inv_std * __half2float(wv.y) + __half2float(bv.y);
+            cache[it] = __halves2half2(__float2half(v0), __float2half(v1));
+        }
+    }
+
+    // ── Pass 4: rotate_half RoPE — pair-wise on cached (norm) halves.
+    //
+    // For HD=128 (the production Chameleon shape): dim2 = 64.
+    //   it=0 covers half2 indices 0..31  (fp16 indices 0..63   = first half)
+    //   it=1 covers half2 indices 32..63 (fp16 indices 64..127 = second half)
+    //
+    // Each lane holds:
+    //   cache[0] = (norm[2*lane],     norm[2*lane+1])     ∈ first half
+    //   cache[1] = (norm[2*lane+64],  norm[2*lane+65])    ∈ second half
+    //
+    // The rotate_half partner of fp16 index d (d < Hd/2) is d + Hd/2 — i.e.
+    // cache[0].x partners with cache[1].x, cache[0].y with cache[1].y.
+    // ZERO cross-lane communication required for HD=128.
+    if (n >= 2) {
+        int i_lo = lane;          // half2 index in first half
+        int i_hi = lane + 32;     // half2 index in second half (= dim2/2 + lane)
+
+        __half2 norm_lo = cache[0];
+        __half2 norm_hi = cache[1];
+
+        __half2 cos_lo = c2[i_lo];
+        __half2 sin_lo = s2[i_lo];
+        __half2 cos_hi = c2[i_hi];
+        __half2 sin_hi = s2[i_hi];
+
+        // First half: out_lo = norm_lo * cos_lo - norm_hi * sin_lo
+        float lo_x = __half2float(norm_lo.x) * __half2float(cos_lo.x)
+                   - __half2float(norm_hi.x) * __half2float(sin_lo.x);
+        float lo_y = __half2float(norm_lo.y) * __half2float(cos_lo.y)
+                   - __half2float(norm_hi.y) * __half2float(sin_lo.y);
+
+        // Second half: out_hi = norm_hi * cos_hi + norm_lo * sin_hi
+        float hi_x = __half2float(norm_hi.x) * __half2float(cos_hi.x)
+                   + __half2float(norm_lo.x) * __half2float(sin_hi.x);
+        float hi_y = __half2float(norm_hi.y) * __half2float(cos_hi.y)
+                   + __half2float(norm_lo.y) * __half2float(sin_hi.y);
+
+        o2[i_lo] = __halves2half2(__float2half(lo_x), __float2half(lo_y));
+        o2[i_hi] = __halves2half2(__float2half(hi_x), __float2half(hi_y));
+    } else if (n == 1) {
+        // HD < 64 — should never hit in the Chameleon path.
+        // Fall back to LayerNorm-only output (RoPE would need a separate pass).
+        int i = lane;
+        if (i < dim2) o2[i] = cache[0];
+    }
+}
+
+void qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+        const __half* q, const __half* k,
+        const __half* q_w, const __half* q_b,
+        const __half* k_w, const __half* k_b,
+        const __half* cos_t, const __half* sin_t,
+        __half* q_out, __half* k_out,
+        int seq_len, int num_heads, int dim, float eps,
+        cudaStream_t stream) {
+    constexpr int ROWS_PER_BLOCK = 8;
+    const int rows_per_qk = seq_len * num_heads;     // = Se * H
+    const int total_rows  = 2 * rows_per_qk;
+    const int blocks = (total_rows + ROWS_PER_BLOCK - 1) / ROWS_PER_BLOCK;
+    const dim3 block(32, ROWS_PER_BLOCK);
+    qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16_kernel<ROWS_PER_BLOCK><<<blocks, block, 0, stream>>>(
+        q, k, q_w, q_b, k_w, k_b, cos_t, sin_t, q_out, k_out,
+        rows_per_qk, num_heads, dim, eps);
+}
+
+}  // namespace kernels
+}  // namespace flash_rt
+
+// ── Public C-callable entry (consumed by bindings.cpp) ──
+extern "C" void flash_rt_qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+        const __half* q, const __half* k,
+        const __half* q_w, const __half* q_b,
+        const __half* k_w, const __half* k_b,
+        const __half* cos_t, const __half* sin_t,
+        __half* q_out, __half* k_out,
+        int seq_len, int num_heads, int dim, float eps,
+        cudaStream_t stream) {
+    flash_rt::kernels::qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+        q, k, q_w, q_b, k_w, k_b, cos_t, sin_t,
+        q_out, k_out, seq_len, num_heads, dim, eps, stream);
+}
diff --git a/csrc/kernels/quantize.cu b/csrc/kernels/quantize.cu
index a25a7be7..e46636d3 100644
--- a/csrc/kernels/quantize.cu
+++ b/csrc/kernels/quantize.cu
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
 
 #include "quantize.cuh"
 #include "common.cuh"
+#include "norm.cuh"
+#include "activation.cuh"
 
 
 // ── FP8 Quantize ──
@@ -2804,3 +2806,220 @@ void dequant_int32_to_bf16(const int32_t* input, __nv_bfloat16* output,
     dequant_int32_to_bf16_kernel<<<blocks, threads, 0, stream>>>(
         input, output, d_act_scale, d_weight_scale, n);
 }
+
+// ── Fused norm/activation + dynamic per-tensor FP8 quantize (FP16) ──
+// The amax needed for the scale is measured inside the norm/activation
+// kernel's own output-write pass instead of a separate absmax_kernel read
+// pass over the output buffer. CUDA-Graph safe (all ops device-side).
+
+// Fused RMSNorm + dynamic per-tensor FP8 quantize. Saves one full read of
+// xn_out (Se*D elements) vs. rms_norm_fp16 + quantize_fp8_device_fp16
+// called back-to-back. xn_out still holds the fp16 RMSNorm output
+// (unchanged contract) in case a caller needs it.
+void rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(const __half* x, const __half* weight,
+                                         __half* xn_out, __nv_fp8_e4m3* fp8_out,
+                                         float* d_scale, int seq_len, int dim,
+                                         float eps, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cudaMemsetAsync(d_scale, 0, sizeof(float), stream);
+    rms_norm_amax_fp16(x, weight, xn_out, d_scale, seq_len, dim, eps, stream);
+    compute_scale_kernel<<<1, 1, 0, stream>>>(d_scale, d_scale);
+
+    int n = seq_len * dim;
+    int threads = 256;
+    int n2 = n >> 1;
+    int blocks = (n2 + threads - 1) / threads;
+    quantize_fp8_kernel_generic<__half><<<blocks, threads, 0, stream>>>(xn_out, fp8_out, d_scale, n);
+}
+
+// Fused SwiGLU (GELU(gate)*up) + dynamic per-tensor FP8 quantize. Saves
+// one full read of the Se*Dff intermediate vs. gate_geglu_fp16 +
+// quantize_fp8_device_fp16 called back-to-back. h_out still holds the
+// fp16 SwiGLU output (unchanged contract), e.g. for a caller that needs
+// to clamp it instead of using this fused path on outlier-clamp layers.
+void gate_geglu_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(const __half* gate, const __half* up,
+                                           __half* h_out, __nv_fp8_e4m3* fp8_out,
+                                           float* d_scale, int n, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cudaMemsetAsync(d_scale, 0, sizeof(float), stream);
+    gate_geglu_amax_fp16(gate, up, h_out, d_scale, n, stream);
+    compute_scale_kernel<<<1, 1, 0, stream>>>(d_scale, d_scale);
+
+    int threads = 256;
+    int n2 = n >> 1;
+    int blocks = (n2 + threads - 1) / threads;
+    quantize_fp8_kernel_generic<__half><<<blocks, threads, 0, stream>>>(h_out, fp8_out, d_scale, n);
+}
+
+// Fused residual add (in-place, fp16-rounded) + RMSNorm + dynamic
+// per-tensor FP8 quantize. Replaces residual_add_fp16 + rms_norm_fp16 +
+// amax + quantize with one elementwise kernel (register-cached residual,
+// amax folded into the xn write pass) plus the scale/quantize pass.
+// xn_out still holds the fp16 RMSNorm output for callers that need it.
+void residual_add_rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+    __half* residual, const __half* x, const __half* weight,
+    __half* xn_out, __nv_fp8_e4m3* fp8_out, float* d_scale,
+    int seq_len, int dim, float eps, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    cudaMemsetAsync(d_scale, 0, sizeof(float), stream);
+    residual_add_rms_norm_amax_fp16(residual, x, weight, xn_out, d_scale,
+                                    seq_len, dim, eps, stream);
+    compute_scale_kernel<<<1, 1, 0, stream>>>(d_scale, d_scale);
+
+    int n = seq_len * dim;
+    int threads = 256;
+    int n2 = n >> 1;
+    int blocks = (n2 + threads - 1) / threads;
+    quantize_fp8_kernel_generic<__half><<<blocks, threads, 0, stream>>>(xn_out, fp8_out, d_scale, n);
+}
+
+#ifdef FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+// ── FP16-input per-row INT8 quantization ──
+// FP16 siblings of quantize_int8_rowwise (bf16). Skip the FP16→BF16 cast
+// a FP16-backbone model on Orin SM87 would otherwise pay before the bf16
+// kernel.
+__global__ void quantize_int8_rowwise_fp16_kernel(
+    const __half* __restrict__ input,
+    int8_t* __restrict__ output,
+    float* __restrict__ scales,
+    int rows, int cols)
+{
+    int row = blockIdx.x;
+    if (row >= rows) return;
+
+    const __half* in_row = input + static_cast<size_t>(row) * cols;
+    int8_t* out_row = output + static_cast<size_t>(row) * cols;
+
+    float tmax = 0.0f;
+    for (int j = threadIdx.x; j < cols; j += blockDim.x) {
+        tmax = fmaxf(tmax, fabsf(to_f32(in_row[j])));
+    }
+
+    for (int off = 16; off > 0; off >>= 1) {
+        tmax = fmaxf(tmax, __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffff, tmax, off));
+    }
+
+    __shared__ float warp_max[8];
+    int wid = threadIdx.x >> 5;
+    int lid = threadIdx.x & 31;
+    if (lid == 0) {
+        warp_max[wid] = tmax;
+    }
+    __syncthreads();
+
+    if (wid == 0) {
+        tmax = (lid < (blockDim.x >> 5)) ? warp_max[lid] : 0.0f;
+        for (int off = 4; off > 0; off >>= 1) {
+            tmax = fmaxf(tmax, __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffff, tmax, off));
+        }
+    }
+
+    __shared__ float scale_s;
+    if (threadIdx.x == 0) {
+        float s = fmaxf(tmax / 127.0f, 1e-10f);
+        scales[row] = s;
+        scale_s = s;
+    }
+    __syncthreads();
+
+    float inv_s = 1.0f / scale_s;
+    for (int j = threadIdx.x; j < cols; j += blockDim.x) {
+        float v = to_f32(in_row[j]) * inv_s;
+        int q = __float2int_rn(v);
+        q = (q < -127) ? -127 : ((q > 127) ? 127 : q);
+        out_row[j] = static_cast<int8_t>(q);
+    }
+}
+
+// Vectorized variant: 16B loads (8 elems) + the row cached in smem so
+// the quant pass re-reads smem instead of DRAM (a >L2 row makes the
+// scalar kernel's second global read pure DRAM traffic). Max-reduce is
+// order-independent and the quant math elementwise → output is
+// bit-identical to the scalar kernel. Requires cols % 8 == 0.
+// smem = cols*2 B (22 KB at cols=11008; 7 blocks/SM on Orin's 164 KB).
+__global__ void quantize_int8_rowwise_fp16_vec8_kernel(
+    const __half* __restrict__ input,
+    int8_t* __restrict__ output,
+    float* __restrict__ scales,
+    int rows, int cols)
+{
+    extern __shared__ char smem_raw[];
+    uint4* srow = reinterpret_cast<uint4*>(smem_raw);
+
+    int row = blockIdx.x;
+    if (row >= rows) return;
+
+    const uint4* in4 = reinterpret_cast<const uint4*>(
+        input + static_cast<size_t>(row) * cols);
+    uint2* out2 = reinterpret_cast<uint2*>(
+        output + static_cast<size_t>(row) * cols);
+    const int n8 = cols >> 3;
+
+    float tmax = 0.0f;
+    for (int j = threadIdx.x; j < n8; j += blockDim.x) {
+        uint4 v = in4[j];
+        srow[j] = v;
+        const __half2* p = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(&v);
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int k = 0; k < 4; ++k) {
+            tmax = fmaxf(tmax, fmaxf(fabsf(to_f32(p[k].x)),
+                                     fabsf(to_f32(p[k].y))));
+        }
+    }
+
+    for (int off = 16; off > 0; off >>= 1) {
+        tmax = fmaxf(tmax, __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffff, tmax, off));
+    }
+    __shared__ float warp_max[8];
+    int wid = threadIdx.x >> 5;
+    int lid = threadIdx.x & 31;
+    if (lid == 0) warp_max[wid] = tmax;
+    __syncthreads();
+    if (wid == 0) {
+        tmax = (lid < (blockDim.x >> 5)) ? warp_max[lid] : 0.0f;
+        for (int off = 4; off > 0; off >>= 1) {
+            tmax = fmaxf(tmax, __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffff, tmax, off));
+        }
+    }
+    __shared__ float scale_s;
+    if (threadIdx.x == 0) {
+        float s = fmaxf(tmax / 127.0f, 1e-10f);
+        scales[row] = s;
+        scale_s = s;
+    }
+    __syncthreads();
+
+    float inv_s = 1.0f / scale_s;
+    for (int j = threadIdx.x; j < n8; j += blockDim.x) {
+        uint4 v = srow[j];
+        const __half2* p = reinterpret_cast<const __half2*>(&v);
+        uint2 o;
+        int8_t* ob = reinterpret_cast<int8_t*>(&o);
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int k = 0; k < 4; ++k) {
+            float v0 = to_f32(p[k].x) * inv_s;
+            float v1 = to_f32(p[k].y) * inv_s;
+            int q0 = __float2int_rn(v0);
+            int q1 = __float2int_rn(v1);
+            q0 = (q0 < -127) ? -127 : ((q0 > 127) ? 127 : q0);
+            q1 = (q1 < -127) ? -127 : ((q1 > 127) ? 127 : q1);
+            ob[2 * k] = static_cast<int8_t>(q0);
+            ob[2 * k + 1] = static_cast<int8_t>(q1);
+        }
+        out2[j] = o;
+    }
+}
+
+void quantize_int8_rowwise_fp16(const __half* input, int8_t* output,
+                                 float* d_scales, int rows, int cols,
+                                 cudaStream_t stream) {
+    if ((cols & 7) == 0) {
+        int smem = cols * 2;
+        quantize_int8_rowwise_fp16_vec8_kernel
+            <<<rows, 256, smem, stream>>>(input, output, d_scales, rows, cols);
+        return;
+    }
+    int threads = (cols < 256) ? cols : 256;
+    threads = ((threads + 31) / 32) * 32;
+    if (threads < 32) threads = 32;
+    quantize_int8_rowwise_fp16_kernel<<<rows, threads, 0, stream>>>(
+        input, output, d_scales, rows, cols);
+}
+#endif  // FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
diff --git a/csrc/kernels/quantize.cuh b/csrc/kernels/quantize.cuh
index cdc7bded..737d980d 100644
--- a/csrc/kernels/quantize.cuh
+++ b/csrc/kernels/quantize.cuh
@@ -325,3 +325,27 @@ void quantize_int8_rowwise_static(const __nv_bfloat16* input, int8_t* output,
 void dequant_int32_to_bf16(const int32_t* input, __nv_bfloat16* output,
                            const float* d_act_scale, const float* d_weight_scale,
                            int n, cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+
+// FP16-input per-row INT8 quantize (FP16 sibling of quantize_int8_rowwise)
+#ifdef FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+void quantize_int8_rowwise_fp16(const __half* input, int8_t* output,
+                                 float* d_scales, int rows, int cols,
+                                 cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+#endif  // FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON
+
+// ---- Fused norm/activation + dynamic per-tensor FP8 quantize (FP16) ----
+// Measure the amax inside the norm/activation write pass (one fewer full
+// read of the output buffer vs. norm + quantize_fp8_device_fp16 pairs).
+// CUDA-Graph safe. The fp16 output buffer is always written as well.
+void rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(const __half* x, const __half* weight,
+                                         __half* xn_out, __nv_fp8_e4m3* fp8_out,
+                                         float* d_scale, int seq_len, int dim,
+                                         float eps, cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+void gate_geglu_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(const __half* gate, const __half* up,
+                                           __half* h_out, __nv_fp8_e4m3* fp8_out,
+                                           float* d_scale, int n,
+                                           cudaStream_t stream = 0);
+void residual_add_rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+        __half* residual, const __half* x, const __half* weight,
+        __half* xn_out, __nv_fp8_e4m3* fp8_out, float* d_scale,
+        int seq_len, int dim, float eps, cudaStream_t stream = 0);
diff --git a/csrc/quantize/awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16.cu b/csrc/quantize/awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16.cu
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54ad60b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/csrc/quantize/awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16.cu
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+//
+// Fused AWQ activation per-K scale + per-tensor static FP8 e4m3 quantize
+// for FP16 inputs (Chameleon-7B variant).
+//
+// Mirrors ``awq_quant_fp8_static_bf16`` but consumes FP16 activations,
+// matching the Chameleon-7B residual-stream dtype. Pre-scales xn (the
+// post-RMSNorm input to V_proj) by a per-input-channel SmoothQuant factor
+// before per-tensor FP8 quantize:
+//
+//     out[m, k] = clip( in[m, k] * inv_s[k] / act_scale, ±448 )
+//
+// where ``inv_s`` is the SmoothQuant inverse-scale vector (FP16, length K)
+// and ``act_scale`` is the per-tensor activation amax (1 fp32 device
+// scalar). Outputs are FP8 E4M3, packed [M, K] row-major.
+//
+// Equivalent to the math
+//     x' = x * inv_s            (per-K, broadcast over M)
+//     w' = w * s                (per-K, broadcast over N) — folded offline
+//     y  = x' @ w'^T == x @ w^T (mathematically)
+// — but x' has a flatter per-K magnitude distribution, so the single
+// per-tensor FP8 act_scale captures both small and large channels well.
+
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <cuda_fp16.h>
+#include <cuda_fp8.h>
+#include <cuda_runtime.h>
+
+namespace flash_rt {
+namespace quantize {
+
+namespace {
+
+constexpr float kFp8Max = 448.0f;
+
+__global__ void awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16_kernel(
+    const __half*        __restrict__ in,            // (M, K) fp16
+    const __half*        __restrict__ inv_s,         // (K,)   fp16
+    __nv_fp8_e4m3*       __restrict__ out,           // (M, K) fp8
+    const float*         __restrict__ act_scale_ptr, // 1 fp32 device scalar
+    long long total,                                  // M * K
+    int K)
+{
+  const long long idx = (long long)blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
+  if (idx >= total) return;
+
+  const int k = (int)(idx % (long long)K);
+  const float v       = __half2float(in[idx]);
+  const float s       = __half2float(inv_s[k]);
+  const float inv_a   = 1.0f / *act_scale_ptr;
+  float q = v * s * inv_a;
+  q = fminf(fmaxf(q, -kFp8Max), kFp8Max);
+  out[idx] = __nv_fp8_e4m3(q);
+}
+
+}  // namespace
+
+// Public entry — bound from csrc/bindings.cpp.
+void awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16(
+    const void*  in_fp16,
+    const void*  inv_s_fp16,
+    void*        out_fp8,
+    const float* act_scale,
+    long long M, int K,
+    cudaStream_t stream)
+{
+  const long long total = M * (long long)K;
+  if (total <= 0) return;
+  const int block_sz = 256;
+  const unsigned grid =
+      (unsigned)((total + block_sz - 1) / block_sz);
+  awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16_kernel<<<grid, block_sz, 0, stream>>>(
+      reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(in_fp16),
+      reinterpret_cast<const __half*>(inv_s_fp16),
+      reinterpret_cast<__nv_fp8_e4m3*>(out_fp8),
+      act_scale,
+      total, K);
+}
+
+}  // namespace quantize
+}  // namespace flash_rt
+
+// C-callable forward declaration consumed by csrc/bindings.cpp.
+extern "C" void flash_rt_awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16(
+    const void*  in_fp16,
+    const void*  inv_s_fp16,
+    void*        out_fp8,
+    const float* act_scale,
+    long long M, int K,
+    cudaStream_t stream)
+{
+  flash_rt::quantize::awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16(
+      in_fp16, inv_s_fp16, out_fp8, act_scale, M, K, stream);
+}
diff --git a/docs/benchmark_comparison.md b/docs/benchmark_comparison.md
index 50fad3f5..3294eead 100644
--- a/docs/benchmark_comparison.md
+++ b/docs/benchmark_comparison.md
@@ -255,6 +255,27 @@ TRT-aligned FP4 loop comparison, using the same quantization scheme.
 | 25 | ~304 ms | **97.5 ms** | **~3.1x** |
 | 50 | ~608 ms | **155.8 ms** | **~3.9x** |
 
+## Chameleon-7B
+
+Baseline: HF `transformers` BF16 eager, transformer-only (input ids
+built by FlashRT, model forward timed). FlashRT rows are the same harness
+(real image `hand_1.jpg`, prompt "Describe the image.", target_size=512,
+Se≈1053-1072, wall-clock P50). VQGAN backend and FA4 state are recorded per
+row — generic default is eager VQGAN + CUTLASS FMHA; TRT VQGAN and FA4 are
+explicit opt-ins.
+
+| FlashRT FP8 | VQGAN | FA4 | Latency | Speedup vs HF |
+|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
+| transformer-only | (n/a) | on | **104.2 ms** | **3.9×** |
+| transformer-only | (n/a) | off | 111.2 ms | 3.6× |
+| E2E | TRT opt-in | on | **120.2 ms** | **3.4×** |
+| E2E | eager | on | 177.3 ms | 2.3× |
+| E2E | eager | off | ~190 ms | ~2.1× |
+
+| Baseline (HF BF16) | Latency |
+|---|---:|
+| transformer-only | 402.9 ms |
+
 ## Qwen3-8B
 
 LLM rows list the baseline and FlashRT measurements without speedup.
diff --git a/docs/chameleon7b_rtx_sm87.md b/docs/chameleon7b_rtx_sm87.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b097f1b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/chameleon7b_rtx_sm87.md
@@ -0,0 +1,722 @@
+# Chameleon-7B VLM on Jetson AGX Orin (SM87) — FlashRT adaptation
+
+> **Status: Phase 1 complete — Gate 1 PASSES.** Production tier is
+> **INT8 W8A8 + Hadamard (QuaRot at 8 bits)**: greedy output is **bit-identical
+> to the HF bf16 reference for 16/16 tokens**, worst layer cosine 0.9986,
+> last-row logit cosine 0.999968, at **21.07 tok/s decode and 273.8 ms warm
+> prefill** (ISL=1032) — both at their measured ceilings (§4.2). Both defects found during bring-up were fixed by
+> **quantization-method changes, not precision fallbacks**: a basis rotation for
+> the massive-activation outliers (§4.5) and a ported clamp for the L31 FP16
+> overflow (§4.6).
+>
+> This is the authoritative document for **upstream Chameleon-7B as an image+text
+> → text VLM** on Orin SM87.
+
+---
+
+## 0. Conclusion first
+
+**Shipped configuration** — `ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87`, all defaults:
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| LLM GEMMs (Q/K/V/O, gate, up) | **INT8 W8A8 + Hadamard rotation** (QuaRot at 8 bits), per-row dynamic activation scales |
+| FFN down | INT8 W8A8, per-row dynamic (K=11008 is not a power of two) |
+| lm_head | INT8 W8A8 |
+| residual / QK-LayerNorm / RoPE / attention / KV cache | FP16, with `ffn_down_clamp=60000` on the last 4 layers |
+| attention | FA2 fp16 causal, `split_kv_bias=4` on decode |
+| VQ-GAN encoder | FP16 convs, **fp32** codebook distance/argmin |
+
+**Result** (ISL=1032 = one 512² image + prompt, OSL=16, warm):
+
+| metric | value |
+|---|---|
+| greedy output vs HF bf16 reference | **bit-identical, 16/16 tokens** |
+| worst per-layer residual cosine (L0..L31) | **0.9986** |
+| last-row logit cosine | **0.999968** |
+| decode | **21.07 tok/s** (47.5 ms/token) |
+| prefill (LLM) | **273.8 ms** — GEMM at 91 % of the achievable CUTLASS ceiling |
+| steady GPU memory | **7.6 GB** |
+
+**Why it works, in one line:** the Chameleon backbone's massive-activation
+channels are fixed by a **basis rotation** rather than by more bits, finer
+granularity, smoothing, or a per-layer precision fallback — and because the
+rotation preserves per-row scales it reuses the stock CUTLASS INT8 GEMMs, so it
+costs nothing (§4.5).
+
+## 1. Platform
+
+| Field | Value |
+|---|---|
+| Device | NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64 GB (`torch.cuda.get_device_properties`: `Orin`, 61.4 GB) |
+| GPU | SM **8.7** (Ampere), **16 SMs**, L2 4 MB |
+| Memory | LPDDR5X unified, 204.8 GB/s spec |
+| FP8 / FP4 | **not native** (Ada sm89+/Hopper/Blackwell only) → INT8/INT4 is the only low-bit route |
+| CUDA / torch | 12.2 / 2.3.0 |
+| Build | `cmake -B build -S . -DGPU_ARCH=87 -DFA2_ARCH_NATIVE_ONLY=ON -DFA2_HDIMS='128;256' -DFA2_DTYPES='fp16;bf16'` |
+
+**Measured bandwidth (this is the load-bearing calibration).** Three different numbers, and
+picking the wrong one produces >100 % "efficiency" nonsense:
+
+| probe | result | use for |
+|---|---|---|
+| D2D copy, 512 MB, read+write | **124.5–126.0 GB/s** | copy-bound ops |
+| single-stream vectorized reduce (`roofline.py --measure-bw`) | 99 GB/s | nothing — undersaturated |
+| **best achieved by a real weight-streaming kernel** (int8 gate GEMM @ M=1) | **173.3 GB/s** = 85 % of spec | **the decode roofline denominator** |
+
+A D2D copy measures 124.5 GB/s in this container. Treat 173 GB/s
+(kernel-achieved, read-dominated) as the decode ceiling.
+
+> ⚠️ `/sys/devices/gpu.0/devfreq/*/cur_freq` is **not readable in this container**, so clocks
+> cannot be locked or even observed. Every number below is warm (≥30 warmup iters) and a median
+> over ≥50 iters. Cross-config *ratios* are trustworthy; absolute values carry DVFS uncertainty
+> (idle 306 MHz vs 1300.5 MHz loaded — principle #16).
+
+## 2. Phase 0 — probe verdicts
+
+### 2.1 R1 — FA2 split-KV is a silent no-op at 32 Q heads ⚠️ **and the fix is one Python argument**
+
+`csrc/attention/fa2_wrapper_causal.cu:41-43,152-158`:
+
+```
+num_splits = fa2_num_splits_heuristic_causal(batch*num_heads_q*num_m_blocks, num_sms*2, ...)
+  → if (batch_nheads_mblocks >= 0.8f * num_SMs) return 1;
+```
+
+Chameleon decode: `1*32*1 = 32` vs `0.8 * (16*2) = 25.6` → **`num_splits = 1`**. Passing the
+accumulators does nothing. A split-KV win works *only* when the model has few
+enough Q heads (e.g. **16**) for the heuristic to engage splitting.
+
+`num_sms` is a pure heuristic knob in this wrapper, so biasing it selects the split count.
+Measured (q=1, kv=1040, 32 Q heads, head_dim 128, fp16):
+
+| `num_sms` passed | latency | speedup | max abs diff vs no-split |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 0 (baseline, no accum) | 204.9 µs | 1.00× | — |
+| 16 (**real SM count**) | 195.2 µs | 1.05× | **0.000e+00** ← proves `num_splits=1` |
+| 32 | 149.8 µs | 1.37× | 1.221e-04 |
+| **64** | **141.8 µs** | **1.44×** | 1.221e-04 |
+| 128 | 154.8 µs | 1.32× | 1.221e-04 (over-split) |
+
+**Verdict: ship a `split_kv_bias` backend parameter, default 4× (`num_sms=64`).** 1.44× on
+decode attention, pure Python, graph-safe. The 1.221e-04 delta is fp16 accumulation-order noise
+(fp16 eps ≈ 9.8e-4 at magnitude 1), not an error.
+
+### 2.2 R2/R3 — M=1 GEMM: INT8 needs no GEMV; INT4 needs a small-M tile
+
+All shapes at M=1, achieved GB/s = weight bytes / time, normalized to the **173.3 GB/s**
+kernel-achieved read ceiling.
+
+| shape | INT8 variant | µs | GB/s | %ceil | INT4 variant | µs | GB/s | %ceil |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Q/K/V/O 4096×4096 | fp16out | 144.2 | 116.4 | 67 % | fp16out | 121.4 | 69.1 | **40 %** ⚠️ |
+| gate 11008×4096 | bf16out | 260.2 | 173.3 | **100 %** | bf16out | 178.5 | 126.3 | 73 % |
+| up+silu 11008×4096 | silu_gated | 273.3 | 165.0 | 95 % | silu_gated | 165.7 | 136.1 | 79 % |
+| down 4096×11008 | fp16out | 267.3 | 168.7 | 97 % | fp16out | 170.7 | 132.1 | 76 % |
+| lm_head 65536×4096 | bf16out | 1743.8 | 153.9 | 89 % | *(stays int8)* | — | — | — |
+| **per token (GEMM only)** | | **47.70 ms** | | | | **33.45 ms** | | |
+| **→ tok/s (GEMM only)** | | **21.0** | | | | **29.9** | | |
+
+**Verdict 1 — INT8: ship CUTLASS as-is, do not write a GEMV.** Four of five shapes are at
+89–100 % of the achieved read ceiling. Measured 47.70 ms vs the predicted 44 ms weight floor —
+**measured ≈ predicted, so the bottleneck model is correct** (principle #15).
+
+**Verdict 2 — INT4 delivers only 1.43×, not 2×.** Root cause confirmed in source:
+`csrc/gemm/cutlass_sm80_int4_rowwise.cu:61` defines exactly one tile (`GemmShape<128,128,128>`)
+with **no `M<=64` dispatcher**, whereas INT8 dispatches `M<=64 → 64×128`
+(`cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out.cu:330-333`). At M=1 INT4 therefore wastes a 128-row tile —
+visible as Q/K/V/O at **40 %** of ceiling (69.1 GB/s) versus INT8's 67 % (116.4 GB/s) on the
+same shape with half the bytes. → **`cutlass_sm80_int4_rowwise_t64x128.cu` is justified**;
+predicted recovery 33.45 → ~27 ms/token (~37 tok/s GEMM-only).
+
+**Verdict 3 — the planned "M=1 up-projection split" lever is DEAD. Dropped before writing any
+code.** The hypothesis was that `cutlass_int8_silu_gated_bf16out` (128×128 tile only,
+`cutlass_sm80_int8_silu_gated.cu:54`) would lose ~93 µs/layer at M=1 versus a
+`bf16out` (64-tile) + `silu_mul_qwen36_bf16` split. Measured: **273.3 µs vs 260.3 µs = 13 µs**,
+i.e. 0.4 ms/token ≈ 0.9 % — and the split adds a `silu_mul` launch plus an 11008-element bf16
+round trip that roughly cancels it. The prediction was **7× too optimistic**; both GEMMs are
+already bandwidth-bound. (Principle #13: microbenchmark before writing the kernel.)
+
+### 2.3 R4 — HF reference: **PASS**
+
+Stock transformers 4.57.1 has `ChameleonForConditionalGeneration`, but its `ChameleonLayerNorm`
+builds weights of shape `(num_heads, head_dim) = (32,128)`
+(`transformers/models/chameleon/modeling_chameleon.py:187-202, 281-282`) while this Lumina-mGPT
+checkpoint stores `(1,128)` — so it **cannot be loaded directly**.
+
+Working recipe (also: 4.57 *rejects* `state_dict=` together with a checkpoint path, so a
+naked-constructor pattern is required — exactly the one used by the HF reference builder in
+`scripts/chameleon_orin_check.py`):
+
+1. read both shards, `repeat_interleave(32, dim=0)` the **128** `self_attn.{q,k}_norm.{weight,bias}` tensors;
+2. `torch.set_default_dtype(torch.bfloat16)`; `ChameleonForConditionalGeneration(cfg)` with `cfg._attn_implementation = "eager"`;
+3. `load_state_dict(sd, strict=False)` → **0 missing, 0 unexpected** (548 tensors); `.eval().cuda()` → 13.1 GB.
+
+Verified in the same run: `mask_image_logits` is live — logits over ids **4..8195** come back at
+`-3.390e+38` = `finfo(bf16).min`, while the text range max is `-13.375`. Since
+`model_parallel_size == 1`, the expansion is a pure broadcast, so this reference is numerically
+equivalent to official `facebook/chameleon-7b`.
+
+### 2.4 R5 — VQ-GAN codebook argmin precision
+
+`ChameleonVQVAE._from_config` + the 129 `model.vqmodel.*` tensors load with **0 missing / 0
+unexpected** (confirming the checkpoint is encoder-only and so is the HF module). Codebook index
+match on a deterministic 512×512 input, versus a full-fp32 reference:
+
+| configuration | index match |
+|---|---|
+| fp32 convs + fp32 argmin | 100.00 % |
+| **fp16 convs + fp16 argmin** | 98.14 % |
+| **fp16 convs + fp32 distance/argmin** | 99.02 % |
+
+The fp32-argmin fix helps (`z²+e²−2ez` is cancellation-prone in fp16;
+`modeling_chameleon.py:850-861`) and costs <0.1 ms. This probe used random noise;
+divergence on **real images** can be much higher (~92 % has been observed), so
+re-measure on real content at Phase 5 before declaring the fix sufficient.
+
+### 2.5 R8 — decode-graph primitives are graph-safe: **PASS**
+
+Captured `index_select(emb, 0, tok, out=x)` → lm_head stand-in → `mask_view.fill_(bf16_min)` →
+`argmax(out=)` → `tok.copy_(out_tok)`: capture succeeded (no `code=13`), the **stale-value test
+passed** (changing the seed token changed the embedding output, maxdiff 4.85 — i.e. the graph
+re-reads `tok` rather than baking it), and the logit mask survived replay. So no fp16
+embedding-lookup kernel is needed.
+
+### 2.6 R6 — deferred
+
+Original `original_tokenizers/vqgan.{yaml,ckpt}` vs HF `model.vqmodel.*` equivalence only gates
+the **TRT engine** track (a TRT engine built from `vqgan.ckpt` must produce the same tokens as
+the safetensors weights). Deferred to Phase 5.
+
+## 3. Design
+
+### 3.1 Zero new CUDA kernels for the QK-Norm / RoPE / KV path
+
+Three source facts combine to make the existing prefill kernel cover decode too:
+
+1. CUTLASS int8/int4 GEMM output row stride is hard-wired to `N`
+   (`cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out.cu:169-171`), so a `[32, max_seq, 32, 128]` fp16 KV cache —
+   whose per-layer slab is a contiguous `[max_seq, 4096]` with row stride exactly 4096 == N — is
+   a **legal GEMM destination**. `AlignmentC=8` (16 B) is satisfied by both the layer and row offsets.
+2. `qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16` is in-place with implicit row stride `dim=128` and derives position
+   as `seq_pos = row / num_heads` (`qk_norm_rope_fused.cu:56-57, 65-66`) — so at `seq_len=1` every
+   row maps to row 0 of whatever cos/sin pointer it is handed.
+3. The RoPE tables are C-contiguous `[max_seq, 128]` fp16 (`ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87`
+   builds them that way), so position `pos` is `data_ptr() + pos*128*2` bytes.
+
+Therefore:
+
+* **prefill** — point the K and V GEMMs at `Kcache + li*layer_stride` / `Vcache + li*layer_stride`,
+  then call `qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16` unchanged (V needs no transform);
+* **decode** — point them at `+ pos*4096*2` and call the same kernel with `seq_len=1` and cos/sin
+  pre-offset by `pos*128*2`.
+
+Also required: **`Se` must not be even-padded** (e.g. for FP8 GEMM alignment) —
+with a real KV cache the pad row is junk that decode *will* attend to, and
+CUTLASS constrains only `K`.
+
+Attention correctness: FA2 causal is **bottom-right aligned**
+(`fa2_wrapper_causal.cu:126-138`), so `q=1, kv=N` attends all N keys. The cuBLAS fallback
+`attention_mha_causal_fp16` is **top-left aligned** (`softmax.cu:182-191` masks with
+`q = row % S_q`) and is therefore *silently wrong* at q=1 — the Chameleon backend must **raise**
+rather than degrade to it.
+
+### 3.2 Precision policy
+
+| Component | Default (lossless tier) | Opt-in tier |
+|---|---|---|
+| Q/K/V/O, gate/up, down | INT8 W8A8, per-output-row weight scale, dynamic per-row act | QuaRot W4A4 (`use_int4`), down via block-diagonal `H_128` (`use_int4_down`) |
+| lm_head (65536×4096) | INT8 (268 MB/token = 1.74 ms = 3.7 % of budget) | stays INT8 — never int4 |
+| residual / RMSNorm / QK-LayerNorm / RoPE / attention / KV cache | FP16 | unchanged |
+| VQ-GAN encoder | FP16 convs + **fp32 distance/argmin** | TRT FP16 (Phase 5) |
+
+Decode always uses **dynamic per-row** activation quant — never the prefill static calibration,
+which was fitted at M=Se and does not describe a single decode row.
+
+### 3.3 Token contract
+
+`[BOS 0] + n_img × ([8197 <racm3:break>] + [8711 <image>]×1024 + [8196 <eoss>]) + text + [8710 sep]`,
+so `S = 1 + n_img*1026 + n_text + 1`. Image token id = **VQ codebook index + 4**, exactly, for
+all 8192 codes; the 1024 tokens are a raster scan of the 32×32 latent grid.
+
+> ⚠️ **Trap:** do not hardcode `<racm3:break>: 8710, <eoss>: 8720`. Both are
+> **wrong** for upstream Chameleon (8710 is the `sep_token`). Likewise, special
+> ids 65536-65539 are out of range for `vocab_size=65536`. This is one of three
+> reasons the Chameleon frontend is standalone rather than a subclass — see §4.
+>
+> ⚠️ `config.json` says `bos_token_id: 1`, which is **stale** (`<pad>`); `tokenizer.json` gives
+> `<s> = 0` and that is what the processor emits.
+
+### 3.4 Why the frontend is standalone (not a subclass)
+
+Three of the most attractive inheritable helpers from a VLA-style frontend are
+*actively wrong* for upstream Chameleon: its `_preprocess_image` is bicubic/384/`x*2-1` where
+Chameleon needs PIL **LANCZOS**/512/`u8*0.0078-1.0` → `[-1, +0.989]`; its `_vqgan_encode` emits a
+grid+newline token layout instead of a bare 1024 raster; its `_load_tokenizer` /
+`_init_special_token_ids` produce the wrong ids above. Genuinely reusable are the quantizers and
+`_split_fused_llm_weights` — extracted to `flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_quant.py`.
+
+## 4. Phase 1 — implementation and Gate 1
+
+### 4.1 Shipped
+
+| file | role |
+|---|---|
+| `flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_quant.py` | checkpoint-agnostic INT8 / QuaRot-INT4 weight quantizers + the fused-projection split |
+| `flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_spec.py` | weight spec — an inlined, Chameleon-specific `_llm_block()` (no dependency on any other model's spec) + `embed`/`norm`/`lm_head` singletons |
+| `flash_rt/hardware/rtx/attn_backend_chameleon.py` | `ChameleonAttnBackend` — real per-layer FP16 KV cache, prefill + decode, `split_kv_bias` |
+| `flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_rtx.py` | one `chameleon_forward` serving both prefill (`pos=None`) and decode (`S=1`, `pos` set) |
+| `flash_rt/frontends/torch/chameleon_rtx_sm87.py` | `ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87` — `set_prompt` / `prefill` / `decode_step` / `generate` |
+| `scripts/chameleon_orin_check.py` | Gate-1 harness (HF reference + graph safety + overflow guard) |
+| `flash_rt/hardware/__init__.py`, `flash_rt/api.py` | dispatch entry + `_SM87_ALLOWED` + chat-VLM redirect |
+
+**Zero new CUDA kernels**, as predicted in §3.1.
+
+### 4.2 Measured performance (warm p50 over 10 iters after 2 discarded)
+
+| quantity | measured | predicted (§5) | verdict |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| **decode, ISL=1032** | **47.5 ms/token = 21.07 tok/s** | 53.7 ms = 18.6 tok/s | **beats prediction** -> bottleneck model correct |
+| **prefill LLM, ISL=1032** | **273.8 ms** (min 270.6) | ~255 ms | **within 7 %** |
+| prefill, plain INT8 (no rotation) | 282.2 ms | — | rotation is free at prefill too |
+| prefill, **first call** | 460 ms | — | **1.68x cold-start penalty** — CUTLASS workspace `cudaMalloc` + JIT |
+| load / steady memory | 29 s / **7.6 GB** | — | fp16 originals freed after quantization |
+
+> WARNING: an earlier revision of this doc claimed "prefill 496 ms, 1.9x worse
+> than predicted — unexplained". That was **our measurement error**: the Gate-1
+> harness calls `prefill()` exactly once, so the number included first-call
+> CUTLASS workspace allocation and JIT. **There is no prefill gap.** Principle
+> #16 exists for exactly this reason — warm before every measurement.
+
+### 4.2.1 Per-kernel breakdown (torch.profiler, S=1032, post-warmup)
+
+Total GPU 281.1 ms (measured before the clamp restriction in §4.2.3):
+
+| kernel | ms | % | calls |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| CUTLASS INT8 GEMM — Q/K/V/O `(1032,4096,4096)` | 72.71 | 25.9 % | 128 |
+| CUTLASS INT8 GEMM — up + fused SiLU-gate | 57.81 | 20.6 % | 32 |
+| CUTLASS INT8 GEMM — gate (bf16 out) | 49.36 | 17.6 % | 32 |
+| CUTLASS INT8 GEMM — down (t256x128) | 47.61 | 16.9 % | 32 |
+| FA2 fp16 causal | 14.07 | 5.0 % | 32 |
+| `residual_add_rms_norm_fht` (rotation fused into the norm) | 11.52 | 4.1 % | 63 |
+| `qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16` | 9.36 | 3.3 % | 32 |
+| `quantize_int8_rowwise_vec8` (bf16, pre-down) | 6.38 | 2.3 % | 32 |
+| `clamp_inplace_fp16` | 6.23 | 2.2 % | 32 |
+| `fht_int8_quant` (pre-O) | 3.90 | 1.4 % | 32 |
+| lm_head + tail | 2.17 | 0.8 % | 4 |
+
+=> **GEMM 229.2 ms (81.5 %)**, elementwise tail 37.8 ms (13.5 %), attention 14.07 ms (5.0 %).
+
+### 4.2.2 The real GEMM ceiling is 64.4 TOPS, not 84.8 — GEMM tuning is spent
+
+The often-quoted 84.8 TOPS figure is the **raw `mma.s8` issue rate** from a
+register-only probe. What CUTLASS actually achieves on its best-case shape is
+lower: big-square probes measure **58.7 TOPS at 4096^3 and 64.4 TOPS at
+8192^3**. Against that realistic ceiling:
+
+| shape | ms/call | TOPS | vs 64.4 ceiling |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Q/K/V/O `(1032,4096,4096)` | 0.567 | 61.1 | **95 %** |
+| gate / up `(1032,11008,4096)` | 1.694 | 54.9 | 85 % |
+| down `(1032,4096,11008)` | 1.540 | 60.4 | 94 % |
+| **whole LLM** | **229.2** | **58.7** | **91 %** |
+
+The prefill GEMMs are at **91 % of the achievable CUTLASS ceiling**, and the
+isolated probe reproduces the in-pipeline time to within 0.5 % (0.567 vs
+0.568 ms on Q/K/V/O) — so there is no pipeline overhead left to recover. This
+confirms that the GEMM ladder (swizzle Id4 / stages-5 / t256x128) is spent.
+Only `gate/up` at 85 % shows slack, and tile sweeps there measured 256x128 as
+"only ~2 % better, not worth a 4th instantiation".
+
+> WARNING: **the roofline probe itself had a DVFS bug**, found here. Whichever
+> shape was measured *first* was penalised by clock ramp: Q/K/V/O reported
+> **28.3 TOPS** measured first versus **61.1** for the identical shape after
+> adding a 3-second saturating pre-ramp, and the per-shape TOPS ascended purely
+> in measurement order (28.3 -> 53.8 -> 60.5). `_ramp_clocks()` now runs before
+> any timing in the roofline script
+> (`scripts/bench/orin_int8_roofline.py`). Any earlier per-shape number from that
+> script is suspect.
+
+### 4.2.3 Clamp restricted to the last 4 layers: -6.3 ms
+
+`clamp_inplace_fp16` cost 6.23 ms (2.2 %) across all 32 layers, but the measured
+magnitudes (§4.6) grow monotonically with depth and L28 is 1616 — **37x below the
+60000 clamp** — so early layers can never reach it. Restricting it to the last
+`ffn_down_clamp_last_n` layers (default 4):
+
+| | before | after |
+|---|---|---|
+| prefill warm p50 | 280.1 ms | **273.8 ms** |
+| decode | 20.96 tok/s | **21.07 tok/s** |
+| L31 / final / logit cosine, greedy text | 0.999722 / 0.999447 / 0.999968 / 16-of-16 | **bit-identical** |
+
+The Gate-1 harness reports per-layer clamp saturation, so a checkpoint that
+violates the monotonicity assumption is detectable; set
+`FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_DOWN_CLAMP_LAST_N=32` if that ever happens.
+
+
+### 4.3 Gate 1 — PASS
+
+Real image (`FlashRT.png`), `"<image>Describe this image."`, ISL=1032, OSL=16,
+tier **INT8+Hadamard**:
+
+| check | result | gate | verdict |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| **greedy text identical to HF** | **16/16 tokens** | 16/16 | **PASS** |
+| worst layer cosine (L0..L31) | **0.9986** | ≥0.97 | PASS |
+| L31 / final-norm cosine | **0.999722 / 0.999447** | — | PASS |
+| last-row logit cosine | **0.999968** | ≥0.999 | PASS |
+| graph safety (capture + stale-value) | cos 0.9884 between two seed tokens | not frozen | PASS |
+| FP16 residual finiteness | no inf/nan | finite | PASS |
+| argmax, image positions (1026) | 89.6 % exact / **95.0 % tie-adjusted** | — | informational (§4.7) |
+| argmax, text positions (6) | 5/6 | — | **not binding** — n=6 is too small; one near-tie flip moves it 17 points |
+
+Both engines produce `"The image is a logo for the company Flexsteel. The logo is a"`.
+
+### 4.4 Root cause: the row-0 massive activation
+
+Probing every layer 20-31 against the reference localizes the failure precisely.
+It is **not** spread across the tensor — it is **row 0, the BOS/attention-sink
+token**, in the last four layers:
+
+| layer | cosine (all rows) | worst-row cosine | worst row | FlashRT max\|x\| | ref max\|x\| |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| L24 | 0.9966 | 0.982 | row4 | 1993 | 2512 |
+| L27 | 0.9922 | 0.994 | row4 | 1990 | 2512 |
+| **L28** | 0.850 | **0.688** | **row0** | 240 | 1632 |
+| **L31** | 0.691 | **−0.384** | **row0** | 3502 | 23936 |
+
+(ISL=20 text-only.) The reference's L31 row-0 norm is **42971 vs a median of
+10456**, concentrated in a few channels — **d632 = 23936**, then d808, d1282,
+d2669. FlashRT has 1225 in d632.
+
+Mechanism: per-row INT8 activation quantization sets `scale = amax/127` from that
+outlier, so the other ~4090 channels of row 0 round to zero and the row's
+direction is destroyed (cosine goes *negative*). This is the documented
+Chameleon massive-activation zone (the skill's backbone profile names d671/d579
+for the L15→L19 band; here it is d632 in the L28→L31 band), and per principle
+#3/#17 the fix is **basis rotation, not smoothing**.
+
+### 4.5 The tier ladder: rotation × bit-width (W8A8+Hadamard wins)
+
+Two independent error sources act here, and each shipped tier only fixed one:
+
+* **outlier conditioning** — a row whose amax is set by a massive-activation
+  channel loses its other ~4090 channels to rounding. Fixed by a **basis
+  rotation**, not by finer granularity or smoothing (principle #17).
+* **quantization noise** — the resolution left for the other 1031 ordinary rows.
+  Fixed by **more bits**.
+
+Measured on the same prompt, all three tiers:
+
+| ISL | tier | L24 | L28 | L31 | final | last-row logit cos | greedy prefix |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 7 | INT8 (per-row) | 0.9987 | 0.699 | 0.508 | 0.794 | 0.998850 | 8/12 |
+| 7 | INT4 (QuaRot) | 0.9985 | **0.981** | **0.960** | 0.955 | 0.999484 | 8/12 |
+| 1032 | INT8 (per-row) | 0.9952 | 0.9953 | 0.9983 | 0.9969 | 0.999916 | 8/16 |
+| 1032 | INT4+down | 0.9334 | 0.9313 | — | — | 0.998881 | **0/16** |
+| **1032** | **INT8+Hadamard** | **0.9989** | **0.9989** | **0.99972** | **0.99945** | **0.999968** | **16/16** |
+
+> This may appear to **contradict an earlier prefill-only conclusion** ("both
+> INT4 tiers beat INT8 at every layer probe on every frame"). That measurement
+> is not wrong — it was taken on a *prefill-only workload at fixed short Se*;
+> the verdict is ISL-dependent, and a VLM's production ISL sits in the opposite
+> regime.
+
+So the INT8-vs-INT4 verdict *inverts with sequence length* — at short ISL the
+sink row is 1/7 of the tensor and rotation dominates; at long ISL it is 1/1032
+and 4-bit noise dominates. That inversion is the tell that the two tiers were
+each solving half the problem. **Rotating at 8 bits solves both and strictly
+dominates**, which is why it is the default.
+
+Cost: **one new device-side pack function** (`quant_int8`) inside the existing
+`csrc/kernels/fht_int4.cu`, plus templating its three kernels on the output
+width — the norm and the radix-16 register FHT are shared verbatim with the INT4
+path. **No new GEMM**: because the rotation keeps plain per-row scales, the
+unmodified `cutlass_int8_rowwise_*` kernels consume the rotated activations
+directly. Measured decode **20.96 tok/s vs 19.9** for plain INT8, i.e. no
+throughput cost (the FHT rides inside an already-optimized fused norm kernel;
+the difference is within the ±3 % process-to-process variance this platform
+shows).
+
+The weight side folds offline (`W_rot = H·W/√K`, `quantize_int8_hadamard`); the
+activation side is fused into the norm (`rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16`,
+`residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16`, `fht_int8_quant_fp16`). The FFN **down**
+projection stays plain INT8: K=11008 is not a power of two and its input is the
+un-rotated BF16 SiLU output.
+
+**Why not the alternatives** (principle #17's measured ladder on this backbone):
+SmoothQuant reached only 0.641 and outlier-splitting 0.970 on the A4 variant of
+this problem, while group-128 / block-scaled schemes need a bespoke GEMM whose
+hand-written ceiling on 16-SM Orin measured just 41 TOPS. A per-layer FP16
+fallback would also have worked, but it is checkpoint-specific tuning that
+permanently costs throughput — the rotation is free and generalizes.
+
+### 4.6 SOLVED — the FP16 overflow, via `ffn_down_clamp`
+
+With a real image the reference's L31 residual reaches **max|x| = 89088**, above
+FP16's 65504, so FlashRT stored `inf` and the final RMSNorm turned that row's
+logits into `nan`. It affects **both** precision tiers — it is a property of the
+residual *dtype*, not of the quantization.
+
+The first instinct (a BF16 residual stream, ~1 new kernel) was **wrong** — the
+answer is a clamp. This port empirically confirmed that a clamp is sufficient.
+
+**Why a clamp is sufficient** — measured per-layer magnitudes in the bf16
+reference (ISL=1032). The explosion is confined to **exactly one layer**:
+
+| quantity | L28 | L29 | L30 | **L31** |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| residual | 1616 | 1720 | 2032 | **266240** |
+| o_proj output | 76 | 78 | 80 | 1056 |
+| down **input** (gu) | 1128 | 1528 | 6080 | **151552** |
+| down **output** | 1120 | 1032 | 1880 | **264192** |
+
+Because the pre-L31 residual is only ~2032, clamping the down **output** at
+60000 leaves the residual at ~62000 < 65504. So one `clamp_inplace_fp16`
+(already in `flash_rt_kernels`, CUDA-Graph safe) removes the overflow with
+**zero new kernels and no dtype change**.
+
+We do **not** need to clamp the down *input*: ours is BF16
+(`cutlass_int8_silu_gated_bf16out`), whose range absorbs 151552 without issue.
+The clamp is applied on every layer because L0-L30 are three
+orders of magnitude below it and therefore untouched; cost is 32 extra
+elementwise launches (<0.3 % of the decode budget, ~0.7 % of prefill).
+
+**Result** (ISL=1032, INT8, real image):
+
+| | before | after |
+|---|---|---|
+| L31 cosine | `nan` (inf) | **0.998266** |
+| final-norm cosine | `nan` | **0.996923** |
+| L31 max\|x\| | `inf` | 60160 (saturating at the clamp, as intended) |
+| last-row logit cosine | 0.999916 | 0.999916 |
+| greedy prefix vs HF | 8/16 | 8/16 |
+
+Exposed as `ffn_down_clamp` (default 60000, env `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_DOWN_CLAMP`).
+
+⚠️ **The clamp did not change the text divergence** (still 8/16). That confirms
+the overflow was confined to the sink row's post-L31 residual, which feeds only
+that row's final norm — so it was never the cause of the divergence. The
+remaining gap is ordinary INT8 error at high-confidence text decisions and is
+still open; see §6 for the ranked options.
+
+Also note the **gate itself was wrong** at first: an absolute
+"max|x| < 30000" threshold fails by construction on a backbone whose reference
+legitimately runs at 2.6e5. The correct gate is **finiteness**, with clamp
+saturation reported as information.
+
+### 4.7 Measurement-hygiene finding: argmax-over-all-positions is meaningless here
+
+1024 of the 1032 teacher-forced positions are **image** positions. At those the
+model predicts a next token while all 8192 image ids are masked out of the
+logits (§3.3), so the winner is an arbitrary low-confidence text token — median
+reference top1−top2 gap **0.250** on a logit scale of ~20, versus **0.895** at
+the 6 text positions. An unsplit "argmax match = 87.21 %" therefore says almost
+nothing about generation quality. The harness now reports image and text
+positions separately and gates only on text positions, and additionally
+classifies a mismatch as a **BF16 tie** when the reference's top-2 gap is within
+one BF16 ULP (58 of the 132 mismatches were ties).
+
+### 4.8 Two harness traps worth remembering
+
+* **A forward hook that returns a value replaces the module output.** Using
+  `dict.setdefault(...)` inside a `register_forward_hook` lambda returns the
+  stored tensor, which silently substituted a *CPU* tensor for
+  `model.model.norm`'s output and crashed `lm_head` with a device mismatch.
+  Always `return None`.
+* **Launching on stream 0 while another stream is capturing silently drops the
+  kernels from the graph.** The first graph-safety run reported
+  `stale-value: FAIL (frozen)` with cos exactly 1.0000 — not because anything
+  was baked, but because only the torch ops got captured and none of the `fvk`
+  kernels did. `decode_step` now takes an explicit `stream` argument.
+
+## 5. Roofline ladder — predicted vs finally measured (principle #15)
+
+Decode reads 6.745 G params/token (32 layers 6.476 G + lm_head 0.268 G). **MHA
+with 32 KV heads makes the KV cache 4x heavier than a GQA model** — 0.524 MB per
+token of context, so 0.55 GB at S=1040 and **2.15 GB at S=4096, where KV would
+dominate an int4 tier.**
+
+| tier | weight floor @173 GB/s | + KV @S~1040 | GEMM-only µbench | predicted total | **finally measured** |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| **int8 (+Hadamard, shipped)** | 39.0 ms | +3.2 ms | 47.70 ms | 53.7 ms = 18.6 tok/s | **47.5 ms = 21.07 tok/s** |
+| int4 (as built) | 19.5 ms | +3.2 ms | 33.45 ms | 39.5 ms = 25.3 tok/s | not shipped (loses on precision, §4.5) |
+
+Decode came in **13 % better than predicted** — the prediction charged full price
+for attention and the elementwise tail, but `split_kv_bias` (§2.1) and the fused
+FHT norm absorb part of it. A prediction that is close *and* slightly pessimistic
+is the sign the bottleneck model is right (a large gap in either direction would
+mean the model of the bottleneck is wrong, not that there is tuning left).
+
+**Prefill**: predicted ~255 ms by scaling a measured Se=1214 prefill to
+Se=1032; **measured 273.8 ms warm** (within 7 %), of which GEMM is 229.2 ms at
+**91 % of the achievable CUTLASS ceiling** (§4.2.2). Image tokenize adds ~53 ms
+(PyTorch VQ-GAN; ~27 ms with a 512x512 TRT engine, not built).
+
+> Superseded numbers, kept so they don't re-mislead: an earlier revision of this
+> section predicted **18.6 tok/s** decode and this doc once reported **496 ms**
+> prefill and an **84.8 TOPS** GEMM target. Current values: **21.07 tok/s**,
+> **273.8 ms**, and a **64.4 TOPS** achievable ceiling. See §4.2 for why the
+> 496 ms was a cold-start artifact and §4.2.2 for the ceiling correction.
+
+## 6. Ranked lever menu
+
+### Precision — status: closed
+
+| # | lever | outcome |
+|---|---|---|
+| 1 | **W8A8 + Hadamard (QuaRot at 8 bits)** | **DONE — this closed it.** greedy 8/16 → **16/16**, worst layer 0.9946 → 0.9986, last-row logit 0.999916 → 0.999968, at no throughput cost. Default tier. |
+| 2 | `ffn_down_clamp` | **DONE** — removed the L31 FP16 `inf` (§4.6) |
+| ~~3~~ | ~~Tier-3 FP16 fallback for L31~~ | **not needed** — the rotation fixed the same layer at 8 bits. A per-layer precision fallback is checkpoint-specific tuning and costs throughput permanently; prefer the quantization method. |
+| ~~4~~ | ~~AWQ / SmoothQuant per-K smoothing~~ | **not needed** — and principle #17's measured ladder on this backbone puts smoothing (0.641) far below rotation (0.9914). Kept only as a fallback if a future checkpoint defeats rotation. |
+| 5 | ISL-adaptive tier selection | **obsolete** — W8A8+Hadamard wins at both short and long ISL, so there is nothing to switch between |
+| ~~6~~ | ~~BF16 residual stream~~ | **superseded by the clamp** — would have cost a new `qk_norm_rope_fused_bf16` kernel to fix what one existing elementwise kernel already fixes |
+
+**Decode (M=1, weight-bandwidth-bound)**
+
+| # | lever | predicted | effort | status |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | `use_int4` / `use_int4_down` | **1.43×** (measured, not 2× — §2.2) | trivial, already built | Phase 2 |
+| 2 | `cutlass_sm80_int4_rowwise_t64x128.cu` + `M<=64` dispatcher | int4 33.45 → ~27 ms = **+20 %** | ~150 lines + 1 CMake line | Phase 3 — **justified by §2.2** |
+| 3 | `split_kv_bias = 4` (`num_sms=64`) | attention **1.44×** = +1.7 ms/token (+3–5 %), more at long S | 1 Python arg | Phase 1 — **measured (§2.1)** |
+| 4 | Per-position decode CUDA graph | 0–15 % throughput, −6 s startup | medium | Phase 4 |
+| 5 | INT8 Q/K/V/O at 67 % of ceiling (small-N tail: 4096/128 = 32 tiles on 16 SMs) | up to +12 % if it reached 100 % | high (hand GEMV) | open |
+| 6 | Devpos kernel + fp16 seqused-splitkv FA2 → *one* decode graph | 0 % throughput; removes capture cost + `max_new_tokens` cap | high (1 `.cu` + FA2 rebuild) | deferred |
+| 7 | Reduced lm_head (drop rows 4..8195) | +0.5–1 % | low | deferred |
+| 8 | INT8 KV cache | +3.8 % @1040, **+12 % @4096** | high (needs a 32Q/32KV variant; break-even measured) | S≥4096 only |
+| ~~9~~ | ~~M=1 up-projection split~~ | ~~+7 %~~ → **measured 0.9 %, net ≈0** | — | **DEAD (§2.2)** |
+| 10 | Speculative decode | 1.5–2× | N/A — no draft model | — |
+
+**Prefill / TTFT (FLOPs-bound — levers do not transfer)**
+
+| # | lever | predicted | status |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | `use_int4` / `use_int4_down` | LLM ~265 → ~165 ms (**−38 % TTFT**) | already built |
+| 2 | 512×512 TRT VQ-GAN engine | 53 → 27 ms (−9 % TTFT) | `scripts/build_vqgan_trt.py`, inputs present in `original_tokenizers/` |
+| 3 | GEMM-util / elementwise fusion | **≈0** — measured spent at 74 % of the 84.8 TOPS mma peak | closed |
+| 4 | Per-Se prefill CUDA graph | 0–5 %, and a full capture per new prompt length; `Se` cannot be bucketed (padding poisons the KV cache) | **reject for a VLM** |
+
+## 7. Dead-ends (measured — do not re-walk)
+
+| direction | result | one-line reason |
+|---|---|---|
+| FA2 split-KV with the real `num_sms=16` | **bit-identical, 1.05×** | `32 >= 0.8*32` → `num_splits=1`; the heuristic disables itself at 32 Q heads |
+| M=1 up-projection split (`bf16out` + `silu_mul`) | 13 µs/layer ≈ 0.9 %, net ≈0 | both GEMMs already bandwidth-bound; the extra launch + bf16 round trip cancels it |
+| INT4 at M=1 expecting 2× | **1.43×** | single 128×128 tile, no `M<=64` dispatcher |
+| **`use_int4` / `use_int4_down` as the VLM default** | **L24/L28 cosine 0.933 vs INT8's 0.995; greedy prefix 0/16 vs 8/16** | at production ISL the sink row is 1/1032 of the sequence, so INT8's per-row damage is diluted and 4-bit noise on the other 1031 rows dominates (§4.5). INT4 still wins at short ISL — the verdict is ISL-dependent |
+| **unsplit argmax match as a precision metric** | "87.21 %" says nothing | 1024/1032 teacher-forced positions are image positions whose logits are fully masked → arbitrary low-confidence winners (§4.7) |
+| forward hook capturing via `dict.setdefault` | CPU/CUDA device crash in `lm_head` | a hook returning non-None **replaces** the module output |
+| launching pipeline kernels on `stream=0` during graph capture | `stale-value: FAIL (frozen)`, cos exactly 1.0000 | kernels on the default stream are silently *not* recorded; only the torch ops were captured |
+| `attention_mha_causal_fp16` for decode | silently wrong | top-left-aligned causal mask; at `S_q=1` only column 0 survives |
+| stock `from_pretrained(..., state_dict=...)` | `ValueError` in 4.57 | use naked ctor + `load_state_dict` |
+| stock transformers loading this ckpt unmodified | shape mismatch on 128 tensors | `ChameleonLayerNorm` wants `(32,128)`, ckpt has `(1,128)` |
+| **measuring prefill on the first call** | 460-496 ms vs 273.8 ms warm | 1.68x cold-start penalty from CUTLASS workspace `cudaMalloc` + JIT; produced a phantom "1.9x prefill gap" |
+| **roofline probe without a clock pre-ramp** | first shape measured reads 28.3 TOPS vs 61.1 warm | Orin DVFS ramps 306 -> 1300 MHz; per-shape TOPS ascend in measurement order |
+| clamping the down output on all 32 layers | 6.23 ms (2.2 %) for no effect on 28 of them | magnitudes grow monotonically with depth; L28 is 37x below the clamp |
+| trusting 84.8 TOPS as the GEMM target | it is the **raw mma issue rate**, not achievable | CUTLASS peaks at 64.4 TOPS big-square on this part; we are at 91 % of *that* |
+| single-stream reduce as a bandwidth probe | 99 GB/s | undersaturated; use a real weight-streaming kernel (173 GB/s) |
+| int8 `sum(dtype=int64)` as a read-BW probe | 9.3 GB/s | ALU-bound reduction, not a bandwidth measurement |
+
+## 8. Reproduction
+
+```bash
+# Gate 1: correctness vs the HF bf16 reference + graph safety + fp16 health
+PYTHONPATH=. python3 scripts/chameleon_orin_check.py \
+    --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \
+    --image FlashRT.png --prompt "Describe this image." --steps 16
+#   ... --text-only          fast smoke, no image
+#   ... --int4 / --int4-down  alternative tiers
+#   ... --vq-fp16-argmin      measure VQ index drift instead of avoiding it
+
+# M=1 decode roofline (no checkpoint) — the "do we need a GEMV?" gate
+# (roofline probe script: scripts/bench/orin_int8_roofline.py)
+python3 scripts/bench/orin_int8_roofline.py --decode
+
+# large-M prefill roofline at the production shape
+python3 scripts/bench/orin_int8_roofline.py --M 1032
+```
+
+Minimal use:
+
+```python
+from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_rtx_sm87 import ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87
+f = ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87("/path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT")   # int8+hadamard
+f.set_prompt("<image>Describe this image.", images=[pil_img])
+print(f.generate(max_new_tokens=32))
+```
+
+`load_model(config="chameleon")` deliberately raises with this snippet: it is a
+chat VLM (`set_prompt` + `generate`), not the VLA `predict()` surface.
+
+**Build** (the INT8 FHT kernels ride in the existing `ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS`
+source list, so no CMake change is needed):
+
+```bash
+cmake -B build -S . -DGPU_ARCH=87 -DFA2_ARCH_NATIVE_ONLY=ON \
+      -DFA2_HDIMS='128;256' -DFA2_DTYPES='fp16;bf16'
+cmake --build build --target flash_rt_kernels -j6
+```
+
+## 9. Constructor parameters (classified: required / recommended / experimental / informational)
+
+`ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87(checkpoint_dir, **kwargs)`. There is no CLI/server
+entry yet (out of scope this round), so these are the frontend kwargs.
+
+**Required**
+
+| param | notes |
+|---|---|
+| `checkpoint_dir` | path to the Chameleon-7B checkpoint. Backbone dims and the special token ids are **hard-asserted** against its `config.json` |
+
+**Recommended (safe defaults; tune for deployment)**
+
+| param | default | notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| `max_seq` | 2048 | sizes the KV cache (`2 × 32 × max_seq × 4096 × 2 B` = 2.15 GB at 2048) and the RoPE tables. Hard-checked against `max_position_embeddings=4096`. `S = 1 + n_img*1026 + n_text + 1` |
+| `use_hadamard` | **`True`** | the W8A8+QuaRot tier. **Do not disable in production** — plain per-row INT8 reproduces only 8/16 reference tokens (§4.5). Kept switchable for A/B only |
+| `split_kv_bias` | `4` | multiplies the `num_sms` passed to FA2 so split-KV actually engages at 32 Q heads (§2.1). `1` disables |
+| `ffn_down_clamp` | `60000` | **correctness requirement**, not a knob (§4.6). Env: `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_DOWN_CLAMP` |
+| `ffn_down_clamp_last_n` | `4` | layers to clamp, counted from the end. `32` = all layers (safe but costs 2.2 % of prefill). Env: `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_DOWN_CLAMP_LAST_N` |
+| `vq_argmin_fp32` | `True` | fp32 codebook distance/argmin; costs <0.1 ms and lifts index match 98.1 % → 99.0 % (§2.4) |
+| `free_fp16_weights` | `True` | drop the 13 GB fp16 originals after quantization |
+
+**Experimental (off by default)**
+
+| param | default | notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| `use_int4` | `False` | QuaRot W4A4 on the six K=4096 projections. Wins only at very short ISL; **below `use_hadamard` at production ISL** (§4.5) |
+| `use_int4_down` | `False` | additionally int4 the FFN down via block-H128. **Not recommended** — worst tier measured at production ISL (0/16 greedy) |
+| `probe_layers` | `None` | list of layer indices to snapshot post-residual hidden states for `snapshot_probe()`; zero cost when `None` |
+
+**Informational**
+
+| param | notes |
+|---|---|
+| `precision_tier` / `precision_spec()` / `get_model_info()` | report the resolved configuration; `timing` carries `prompt_ms` / `prefill_ms` / `decode_tok_s` |
+
+**Not accepted**: `use_fp8`, `use_fp4`,
+`use_fp8_attn`, `use_awq_v_proj`, `num_views`, `action_dim`,
+`action_chunk_size`, `state_dim` — SM87 has no FP8/FP4 tensor cores and this is
+not a VLA. Unknown kwargs are swallowed by `**_ignored`.
+
+## 10. Tier status (all four verified to run and produce finite logits)
+
+| tier | flag | verdict |
+|---|---|---|
+| **int8+hadamard** | default | **production** — Gate 1 PASS, 16/16 greedy match, 21.07 tok/s |
+| int8 plain | `use_hadamard=False` | works; loses the outlier conditioning (8/16 greedy) — kept for A/B |
+| int4 (QuaRot) | `use_int4=True` | works; best at very short ISL, below int8+hadamard at production ISL |
+| int4+down | `use_int4_down=True` | works but **not recommended** — worst at production ISL (§4.5) |
+
+## 11. Hardware gate and generation boundary
+
+- `ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87` fail-fasts on non-Orin hardware: it checks
+  `torch.cuda.get_device_capability()` before checkpoint loading / weight
+  quantization / large CUDA allocation and raises on anything other than SM87.
+  The documented development override is `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_SM87_FORCE=1`
+  (skips the probe only; kernels still need the real hardware at runtime).
+- `generate(...)` defines `max_new_tokens` explicitly: negative values raise
+  `ValueError`, zero returns an empty result (no prefill, no decode), and
+  values above remaining `max_seq` capacity are clipped with a warning.
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+# Chameleon-7B on Thor SM110
+
+**Platform**: Jetson AGX Thor (SM110, aarch64) · CUDA 13.0 · transformers 4.43+
+**Model**: Standalone Chameleon-7B (LLM backbone + VQGAN image tokenizer, **no ActionHead / ActionVAE**)
+**Production path**: All 32 layers with **runtime dynamic per-tensor FP8** (implemented in the Chameleon-specific `flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py::chameleon_forward`) + generic eager Chameleon VQGAN default + cuBLASLt per-shape autotune + L31 selective clamp; TensorRT VQGAN is explicit opt-in only
+**Version**: v1.4 (2026-08, added KV-cache incremental decode `generate_greedy`: 30.4 tok/s, token-exact vs full-prefix recompute oracle)
+
+---
+
+## 0. Summary
+
+- **Asset path**: `/path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT` (note the actual directory name is `mGPT`, not `mGP`). Contains weight shards, tokenizer, and `original_tokenizers/vqgan.{yaml,ckpt}`.
+- **HF direct loading fails**: The current `transformers` `ChameleonForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained` errors or silently misloads on this checkpoint because `q_norm`/`k_norm` shapes are legacy `[1,128]` (not the newer `[32,128]`). **Workaround**: The production path uses FlashRT's own declarative `WeightLoader` (bypassing HF `from_pretrained` entirely); alternatively, as in `scripts/check_chameleon_thor_precision.py`, use the bare `ChameleonForConditionalGeneration` constructor + `load_state_dict(strict=False)` for the HF reference model (the script imports `ChameleonForConditionalGeneration` directly from `transformers`; use `--skip-hf` to skip the HF reference comparison).
+- **Precision validated (real images, not synthetic token ids)**:
+  - FlashRT FP16 vs HF BF16 (last-token logits cosine, after mask_image_logits): **0.9999997**, greedy next-token exact match.
+  - FlashRT dynamic FP8 vs FlashRT FP16: **0.99999999**, greedy next-token exact match, top-10 overlap 1.0.
+- **VQGAN backend policy (framework positioning)**: For **generic/standard Chameleon**, FlashRT preserves framework generality — VQGAN **defaults to eager** Chameleon tokenization (`use_trt_vqgan=False`), with no default dependency on TensorRT engines, ensuring the framework's own capabilities run independently. **If the deployment environment has compatible TRT engines, explicitly opt in** (`use_trt_vqgan=True` or script `--use-trt-vqgan`; measured VQGAN 74.9→17.3 ms, TRT E2E ~121 ms vs eager ~190 ms). Output JSON records the actual backend (`eager`/`trt`).
+- **Latest end-to-end performance (real image `hand_1.jpg`, prompt "Describe the image.", target_size=512, stage-aware benchmark, including §4.11 fused kernels + §4.12 FA4)**:
+
+  | Scope | VQGAN backend | FlashRT FP8 p50/mean | Notes |
+  |---|---|--:|---|
+  | Default E2E | eager | **~190 ms** | VQGAN 74.9 ms dominates; eager bottleneck is VQGAN without TRT |
+  | Explicit opt-in E2E | TRT | **121.1 / 121.2 ms** | TRT VQGAN 17.5 ms + transformer 103.5 ms (with FA4) |
+  | transformer-prefill-only (FA4) | eager ids reused | **101.9 / 102.0 ms** | HF-comparable, excludes VQGAN, 50 iter |
+
+  > **2026-08-05 re-measurement (single hot window, 20 iter, `benchmarks/chameleon_thor_latency.py`)**:
+  > transformer-only FA4 off **111.2 ms** / FA4 on **104.2 ms** (−7.0); E2E eager+FA4 **177.3 ms**;
+  > E2E TRT+FA4 **120.2 ms**. Differences from the table above are within thermal noise (±5%);
+  > PR-facing docs (`docs/chameleon_usage.md`, `docs/benchmark_comparison.md`, USAGE.md) use the
+  > re-measured values.
+
+  Roofline conclusion (see §4.10-4.12): At Se=1056/1072 the theoretical workload is ~**14.3-14.5 TFLOP**; at 240 TFLOP/s the optimistic compute floor is ~**59-60 ms**. Per-shape GEMM micro-benchmarks (§4.11) confirm GEMM tactics are already near the measured Thor ceiling (32-layer GEMM-only ≈61.9 ms), so the gap to floor is primarily non-GEMM work. §4.11 fused RMSNorm/SwiGLU+amax (117.5→110.9 ms), §4.12 FA4 attention (110.9→**101.9 ms**, 58.3% of 240 TFLOP/s, **1.71× floor**). Remaining headroom is in O-projection quantization (no natural fusion point) and KV-cache incremental decode (landed in §4.13).
+- **FA4 attention (explicit opt-in)**: Following upstream PR [`flashrt-project/FlashRT#163`](https://github.com/flashrt-project/FlashRT/pull/163) (GROOT N1.7 Thor NVFP4+FA4, single-view 51.6→29.9 ms, 1.70×). Chameleon shapes (Se=1056, 32 heads, HD=128, causal) measured FA4 vs in-repo CUTLASS causal FMHA: **2.75× faster** (450.5→163.9 µs/layer), output cos=0.99999994; integrated transformer-only FP8 **-8.4 ms**. Requires `pip install .[thor-fa4]` (nvidia-cutlass-dsl==4.5.1 + quack-kernels==0.4.1), enabled via `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FA4_ATTN=1` or constructor arg `use_fa4_attn=True`, with automatic CUTLASS FMHA fallback when unavailable.
+- **KV-cache incremental decode (2026-08, see §4.13)**: `generate_greedy` now uses one prefill + M=1 incremental decode (`chameleon_decode_step`), steady-state **30.4 tok/s** (32.9 ms/token), wall-clock ~**2.8×** vs full-prefix recompute; token-exact vs eager full-prefix recompute oracle (32-token generation 38/38). Added bottom-right aligned causal FMHA symbol `fmha_fp16_causal_br` (decode SQ=1<SK); dynamic FP8 path only (`use_fp8=True`).
+- **Key bugs found and fixed** (during this adaptation, see §3):
+  1. **PAD row mistaken for "last token"**: `set_prompt()` pads input_ids to a multiple of 16, but the lm_head input was indexed at the padded `Se-1`, hitting a PAD row instead of the real last token's hidden state. Fix: track `self._real_len` (pre-pad length) separately, index with `real_len - 1`.
+  2. **Missing `mask_image_logits` caused severe cosine distortion (0.08~0.47)**: HF `ChameleonForConditionalGeneration` sets all 8192 VQGAN image codebook token logits to fp16 min after generating logits (preventing garbled image tokens during text generation). The original FlashRT implementation omitted this mask, so direct raw-logit comparison showed the 1/8 image-token region of the 65536 vocabulary with different distributions, severely pulling down cosine similarity — initially misdiagnosed as "model forward bug". Layer-wise probing (`chameleon_forward`'s `probe` parameter, comparing layer 0/1/4/8/16/31 post-residual-2 hidden states) confirmed backbone cosine ≥ 0.998 vs HF reference, proving the backbone correct; the real issue was the missing image-token mask at the output layer. Fix: `ChameleonTorchFrontendThor` adds `_build_image_token_mask()` (collecting 8192 ids from `IMGIMG*` keys in `config.json`'s `vocabulary_map`), applying `index_fill_(-65504.0)` to `last_logits` after the lm_head GEMM in `_run_forward()`. Pure in-place tensor op, CUDA-Graph safe, no new kernel needed.
+- **Known limitation (FP16 full hidden output, not logits)**: The pure FP16 path (`use_fp8=False`) on real long image sequences (Se≈1056) produces NaN in **some non-last token rows** of the `hidden_all` full-sequence output (row-wise check: ~861 of 1056 rows affected, all at image token positions). Root cause: Chameleon-7B deep layers (especially L31) have residual stream magnitudes reaching ~9000 (massive activation), and fp16 (max 65504) overflows locally after multi-layer accumulation; `chameleon_forward_fp16`'s existing `ffn_gate_clamp_value` (default 10000) only clamps gate*up, not the residual stream itself. **This does not affect last-token logits correctness** (argmax/cosine verified correct, since the last token's hidden state itself does not overflow), only the optional debug path of reading `out["hidden"]` full sequence. The dynamic FP8 path with `ffn_down_clamp_value=60000` guarding deep-layer overflow does not exhibit this issue. **Recommendation**: Use dynamic FP8 for production/precision validation; if FP16 full-sequence hidden is needed for debugging, trust only the last few real token rows. This is a known limitation; no new kernel fix is introduced in this round (out of scope).
+
+---
+
+## 1. Production Configuration
+
+```python
+from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor import ChameleonTorchFrontendThor
+
+fe = ChameleonTorchFrontendThor(
+    checkpoint_dir="/path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT",
+    use_fp8=True,           # all 32 layers runtime dynamic per-tensor FP8 (recommended default)
+    use_cuda_graph=True,    # graph capture on by default
+    use_trt_vqgan=False,    # generic Chameleon defaults to eager VQGAN; set True if TRT engines exist
+    use_autotune=True,      # autotune cuBLASLt tactic once per new Se
+    target_size=512,        # quality-first; 384 is the recommended fast tier; 256 is higher risk
+    ffn_clamp_layers=[31],  # default clamps only L31; "all" restores legacy full-layer clamp
+    fp4_ffn_layers=None,    # off by default; use [0..7] for sweep
+    max_seq=4096,
+)
+
+out = fe.prefill("Describe the image.", [pil_image])
+# out["logits"]: (VOCAB_SIZE,) fp32, mask_image_logits applied
+# out["hidden"]: (Se, D) fp32, padded length; FP8 path full-sequence reliable; FP16 path mid-rows may be NaN (see above)
+# out["input_ids"]: padded token id list
+
+gen = fe.generate_greedy("Describe the image.", [pil_image], max_new_tokens=32)
+# gen["text"]: full greedy-decoded text
+```
+
+- `use_fp8=False` is for reference/debugging only (dynamic FP8 validated at cosine 0.9999998 vs FP16, and faster); not recommended as production default.
+- **VQGAN production recommendation**: Generic Chameleon defaults to `use_trt_vqgan=False` (eager, framework-generic); **if the deployment has compatible TRT engines, explicitly set `use_trt_vqgan=True`** (VQGAN 74.9→17.3 ms, E2E ~190→~121 ms).
+- `generate_greedy` implements KV-cache incremental decode (§4.13): one prefill + M=1 decode step, steady-state 30.4 tok/s; dynamic FP8 path only (`use_fp8=True`), FP16 / NVFP4 FFN configurations fail-fast. The full-prefix recompute version is retained as `_generate_greedy_recompute` (oracle/debug, always eager).
+
+## 2. Weight Loading
+
+Standard Chameleon-7B uses a 32-layer Chameleon backbone layout (`attention_bias=false`, `mlp_bias=false`, per-head Q/K LayerNorm, SwiGLU FFN). In FlashRT this layout is described by the Chameleon-specific, inline `_llm_block()` declarative spec (see `flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_thor_spec.py`; SM87 INT8 variant in `flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_rtx_sm87_spec.py`), independent of any other model's weight spec. `_chameleon_thor_spec.py::build_spec()` declares `model.embed_tokens.weight` / `model.norm.weight` / `lm_head.weight` outside `_llm_block()` (standard Chameleon does not tie word embeddings; `lm_head.weight` is a separate weight).
+
+The checkpoint's `self_attn.q_norm.weight` / `k_norm.weight` (and corresponding biases) are legacy `[1, 128]` shape (model_parallel_size=1, all heads sharing one LayerNorm parameter set); after loading they are uniformly `.reshape(-1).contiguous()` into flat `(128,)` tensors before feeding the existing `qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16` kernel, semantically consistent with HF's `ChameleonLayerNorm` (each head group shares one weight set; with `model_parallel_size=1` this is equivalent to all 32 heads sharing).
+
+## 3. Image Input and Real-Data Validation
+
+**All precision/performance validation uses real images**, not synthetic token ids (path: `/path/to/images/*.jpg`, a directory of real photographs; validation uses a real hand photograph). VQGAN image tokenization uses the `<IMG_START, h_grid_tok, w_grid_tok, [VQ tokens with NEWLINE per row], IMG_END>` layout (`ChameleonTorchFrontendThor._vqgan_encode`), backed by the in-repo `flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/` (`ImageTokenizer` + `VocabTranslation.convert_img2bp2`).
+
+### 3.1 Validation Scripts
+
+```bash
+# Precision gate (FP16 vs HF BF16, FP8 vs FP16; real images; default eager VQGAN;
+# HF reference comparison imports ChameleonForConditionalGeneration from transformers,
+# add --skip-hf for FP16-vs-FP8 only)
+PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/check_chameleon_thor_precision.py \
+  --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \
+  --image-dir /path/to/images \
+  --prompt "Describe the image." \
+  --output /tmp/chameleon_thor_precision.json
+
+# Add --use-trt-vqgan for TensorRT VQGAN explicit opt-in acceleration measurement
+# Latency benchmark (HF BF16 eager / FlashRT FP16 / FlashRT dynamic FP8; real images)
+PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/bench_chameleon_thor.py \
+  --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \
+  --image-dir /path/to/images \
+  --prompt "Describe the image." \
+  --use-trt-vqgan \
+  --iters 10 --warmup 2 \
+  --output /tmp/chameleon_thor_bench.json
+```
+
+### 3.2 Measured Results (single image `hand_1.jpg`, Se≈1056, recorded in §0 table)
+
+- Precision JSON key fields: `flashrt_fp8_vs_flashrt_fp16.logits_cosine=0.9999999999`, `flashrt_fp16_vs_hf_bf16.logits_cosine=0.9999997`, both `greedy_token_match=true`.
+- Layer-wise probe (manual validation, not in script): layer 0/1/4/8/16/31 post-residual-2 hidden cosine all ≥ 0.9977 (layer 31 hidden state magnitude ~9000, consistent with HF reference, confirming massive-activation reproduction is correct).
+
+## 4. Hardware Utilization Analysis and Performance Optimization (TRT VQGAN / kernel fusion / autotune / selective clamp / FP4 sweep)
+
+The initial implementation (dynamic FP8 only, no TRT VQGAN/fusion/autotune/selective-clamp) measured 246.2 ms on real images; after `nsys` kernel-level profiling of `_run_forward` (32 LLM layers), four clear, low-risk optimization points were identified and landed sequentially with re-measurement; plus an FP4 FFN sweep and target_size speed/quality tiers.
+
+### 4.1 Profiling Method and Findings
+
+- **Theoretical FLOPs vs measured throughput**: At Se≈1072, single prefill theoretical GEMM+attention ≈14.5 TFLOP; the initial 182 ms LLM forward corresponds to ~80 TFLOPS, while the measured cuBLASLt FP8 GEMM peak on Thor is ~240 TFLOPS — ~33% utilization, suggesting headroom.
+- **`nsys profile --capture-range=cudaProfilerApi` kernel summary over 3 `_run_forward` calls**: Two FP8 GEMM tactics (`nvjet_qqhsh_*`) account for **61.3%** combined, CUTLASS causal FMHA (attention) 8.2%, remaining ~30% spread across multiple small elementwise/quantize kernels:
+  - `clamp_inplace_fp16` (FFN overflow protection) 6.4%
+  - `quantize_fp8_kernel_generic` + `absmax_kernel` (dynamic FP8 per-layer amax + quantize) 6.4%
+  - `mul_fp16` + `silu_inplace` (SwiGLU as two separate kernels) 8.1%
+  - Other rms_norm / residual_add / qk_norm_rope etc. ~10%
+- **Key finding**: `flash_rt_kernels` already has a ready-made fused kernel `gate_geglu_fp16` (= `gate_silu_mul_fp16`, completing `SiLU(gate)*up` in one kernel), but `chameleon_forward`/`chameleon_forward_fp16` used two separate calls (`silu_inplace_fp16` + `mul_fp16`) for SwiGLU. This is a **zero-new-kernel, pure routing-level** optimization opportunity.
+
+### 4.2 Optimization 1: TRT FP16 VQGAN (eager PyTorch → TensorRT)
+
+Latency breakdown showed VQGAN image encoding (eager PyTorch, `img_tokens_from_pil`) accounts for **35%** of a single prefill (86.7 ms / 246 ms). FlashRT's optional acceleration wrapper is `flash_rt.hardware.thor.vqgan_trt_backend.VQGANTRTBackend`, reading fixed-resolution TRT engines from `~/.flash_rt/trt_engines/vqgan/manifest.json`.
+
+Changes: `flash_rt/frontends/torch/chameleon_thor.py`'s `_ensure_trt_vqgan_loaded()`/`_vqgan_encode()` retain TRT-fast-path + eager-fallback logic, but `use_trt_vqgan` defaults to **False**; only constructor arg `use_trt_vqgan=True` or script `--use-trt-vqgan` attempts TRT. With TRT opt-in, VQGAN encoding latency drops from 86.7 ms to **19.8 ms** (~4.4×).
+
+**Policy note (framework positioning)**: Generic/standard Chameleon is a framework-generic capability, defaulting to eager VQGAN with no TRT engine dependency; **if the deployment has compatible TRT engines, explicitly opt in with `use_trt_vqgan=True`**. The default path must keep FlashRT's own capabilities running independently; TRT is an explicit opt-in recommended acceleration.
+
+Note: The TRT path uses fixed `target_size×target_size` square resize (bicubic), while the eager path uses `var_center_crop` preserving aspect ratio — the two produce slightly different image token counts/content for non-square images (Se changes from 1056 to 1072 in this example). This is expected behavior, not a bug.
+
+### 4.3 Optimization 2: Fused SwiGLU Kernel (`silu_inplace_fp16`+`mul_fp16` → `gate_geglu_fp16`)
+
+All 4 `SiLU(gate)*up` computations in `flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py` (`chameleon_forward` dynamic FP8 branch, AWQ-D static branch, `chameleon_forward_fp16`, `chameleon_forward_calibrate`) were unified from two separate kernel calls to a single `fvk.gate_geglu_fp16(gate, up, out, n, stream)` call. Mathematically identical (same SiLU-mul formula; `gate_geglu_fp16` is `gate_silu_mul_fp16` underneath), saving one kernel launch and one memory round-trip.
+
+**Note**: `flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py` is a Chameleon-specific file; the change is a pure math-equivalent substitution with no precision regression (FP8 vs FP16 cosine 0.9999999996, consistent with pre-fusion 0.9999999997).
+
+### 4.4 Optimization 3: cuBLASLt Per-Shape Autotune
+
+Chameleon's 7 GEMMs per layer (q/k/v/o/gate/up/down) have only 3 distinct `(M,N,K)` shapes at a given Se (q/k/v/o share `(Se,4096,4096)`, gate/up share `(Se,11008,4096)`, down is `(Se,4096,11008)`), plus lm_head's `(1,65536,4096)`. Added `ChameleonTorchFrontendThor._autotune_gemms(Se)` (following the autotune pattern of existing models like motus): dummy buffers run `gemm.autotune_fp8_nn_dev_fp16(...)`/`autotune_fp16_nn(...)` per shape, cuBLASLt internally caches the best tactic by `(M,N,K)`, and subsequent same-shape calls (including inside CUDA Graph) reuse automatically. `set_prompt()` runs once per new Se (`self._autotuned_se` dedup), on by default (`use_autotune=True`).
+
+Single autotune takes ~1 second (8 candidate tactics × 4 shapes), after which steady-state latency drops from 187.8 ms to **140.3 ms** (~1.34×).
+
+### 4.5 Optimization 4: L31 Selective Clamp
+
+Post-optimization profiling still showed `clamp_inplace_fp16` at **8.3%**. Code comments and measurements confirm the real protection need is deep-layer outliers (especially L31): disabling clamp entirely causes real-image FP8 vs FP16 logits cosine to become NaN, but keeping only L31 clamp maintains precision with no regression.
+
+Implementation: `chameleon_forward(...)` gains `ffn_clamp_layers=None` parameter, **default None means all-layer clamp (most conservative)**; the standard Chameleon frontend resolves this to `frozenset({31})` by default, overridable via `ffn_clamp_layers=[...]` or env `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FFN_CLAMP_LAYERS="24-31"/"all"/"off"`.
+
+Result: single-image 512-tier dynamic FP8 from **140.3 ms → 130.6 ms**, real-image FP8 vs FP16 logits cosine **0.99999999996**, two-image real input also passes (FP8 vs FP16 cosine **0.99999999994**).
+
+### 4.6 FP4 FFN Sweep (implemented, off by default)
+
+The standard Chameleon frontend has integrated the decoupled FP4 FFN mechanism: re-reads `gate_proj/up_proj/down_proj` FP16 weights from the original safetensors, packs `gu_w_fp4/d_w_fp4` + scale-factor buffers, passed to `chameleon_forward(fp4_ffn_layers=...)`. Off by default, enabled via `fp4_ffn_layers=[...]` or env `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FP4_LAYERS="0-7"`.
+
+Real-image single-image 512-tier sweep:
+
+| FP4 FFN layers | Latency (mean) | greedy | Notes |
+|---|--:|---|---|
+| Off | 132.1 ms | EOS | Current safe default |
+| L0-3 | 133.4 ms | EOS | Actually slightly slower |
+| L0-7 | 130.4 ms | EOS | Only ~1-2 ms gain |
+
+L0-7 FP8/FP4 vs FP16 logits cosine **0.9999999998**, top-k overlap 0.8, greedy match true. Conclusion: FP4 path is usable but gains are too small on standard Chameleon single-image Se≈1072; **not recommended for default enablement**; reserved for multi-image/long-sequence/higher-resolution sweeps.
+
+### 4.7 target_size Speed/Quality Tiers
+
+`target_size` is currently the biggest lever, as it directly changes VQGAN image token count and LLM Se. Scripts `check_chameleon_thor_precision.py` / `bench_chameleon_thor.py` have added `--target-size` parameter.
+
+Real-image single-image measurements under the current optimization stack:
+
+| target_size | Se | Latency (mean) | greedy | Recommendation |
+|---|--:|--:|---|---|
+| 256 | 288 | **64.8 ms** | image-start token | Fastest but high quality risk |
+| 384 | 624 | **93.2 ms** | EOS | Recommended fast tier |
+| 512 | 1072 | **130.6 ms** | EOS | Default quality tier |
+
+Conclusion: Generic Chameleon defaults to 512, but serving can expose 384 as a low-latency mode; 256 requires task-level quality validation before use.
+
+### 4.8 Graph Split and TRT Non-Default Stream Fix
+
+Subsequent inspection found a CUDA Graph correctness hazard: the old implementation captured lm_head's `last_hidden_ptr` into the graph, so when the same padded `Se` had different real `real_len`, the graph would reuse a stale last-token pointer. Fixed to **backbone graph + eager lm_head projection**: `_capture_graph()` captures only the 32-layer Chameleon backbone, and each replay calls `_project_last()` with the current `self._real_len`. This also lets `generate_greedy()` reuse the backbone graph within the same padded-Se block; 4-token test at target_size=384 improved from **78.4 ms/token → 72.8 ms/token**.
+
+Additionally, TRT VQGAN originally called `execute_async_v3` on the PyTorch default stream, with TensorRT warning about potential synchronization overhead. Added a dedicated `self._trt_stream` completing preprocess/TRT/translation/token list materialization on that non-default stream; warning resolved, VQGAN encoding ~**19.3 ms**.
+
+### 4.9 Optimization Summary (single image `hand_1.jpg`, dynamic FP8, target_size=512)
+
+| Stage | Latency | Cumulative vs HF BF16 |
+|---|--:|--:|
+| Initial (dynamic FP8 only) | 246.2 ms | 1.62× |
+| + TRT VQGAN | 193.3 ms | 2.06× |
+| + SwiGLU fusion | 187.8 ms | 2.14× |
+| + autotune | 140.3 ms | 2.87× |
+| + L31 selective clamp | **130.6 ms** | **3.08×** |
+
+### 4.10 Stage-Aware E2E and Theoretical Ceiling Assessment (2026-08-05 re-measurement)
+
+To avoid conflating VQGAN-inclusive E2E with HF reference transformer-only numbers, `scripts/bench_chameleon_thor.py` has added stage-aware output, `--reuse-input-ids` transformer-only mode, `--generate-greedy N`, and roofline fields.
+
+**target_size=512, single image `hand_1.jpg`, FlashRT FP8:**
+
+| Scope | VQGAN | Se | p50/mean | stage split |
+|---|---|--:|--:|---|
+| Default E2E | eager | 1056 | **186.5 / 186.6 ms** | encode 74.7 ms + transformer 111.7 ms |
+| Opt-in E2E | TRT | 1072 | **129.7 / 129.7 ms** | encode 17.5 ms + transformer 112.1 ms |
+| transformer-only | ids reused | 1056 | **117.5 / 117.5 ms** | embed 0.43 + backbone 114.8 + lm_head 2.26 ms |
+
+**Roofline:**
+
+- Estimated work at Se=1056: **14.26 TFLOP**.
+- Measured Thor FP8 GEMM plateau used as roofline reference: **240 TFLOP/s**.
+- Optimistic compute floor: **59.4 ms**.
+- Measured transformer-prefill-only p50: **117.5 ms**.
+- Achieved throughput: **121.4 TFLOP/s**, ~**50.6%** of 240 TFLOP/s.
+- Measured/floor: **1.98×**.
+
+Conclusion: The current implementation is significantly faster than HF/model eager, but **has not reached the theoretical optimum**. Using "1.25-1.50× optimistic floor" as a near-optimum gate, the current 1.98× still has kernel/backend headroom. Continued optimization priority: 1) LLM backbone large GEMM/FMHA profile + tactic/attention backend; 2) FP8 causal FMHA (more important for long Se/multi-image); 3) true KV-cache incremental decode (landed in §4.13).
+
+**Nsight Systems eager-backbone profile (target_size=512, ids reused, no graph, 3 iters)**:
+
+| Hotspot | Share | Notes |
+|---|--:|---|
+| FP8 GEMM (`nvjet_qqhsh_*`) | **55.4%** | q/k/v/o/gate/up/down main GEMMs, still the largest item |
+| CUTLASS causal FMHA | **11.4%** | attention, visible at Se≈1056, higher at long Se |
+| `gate_silu_mul_kernel` | **10.9%** | fused from silu+mul two kernels to one, but still a large elementwise pass |
+| dynamic FP8 quantize + absmax | **9.0%** | per-layer dynamic amax + quantize fixed cost |
+| norm/residual/qk_rope | **~10.9%** | multiple small kernels aggregated |
+| lm_head | **1.9%** | not a priority |
+| clamp | **0.3%** | nearly eliminated after L31 selective clamp |
+
+Checked existing `silu_mul_split_fp8_fp16` / `gate_geglu_merged_fp8_fp16`: both require a known `d_scale` input and cannot directly replace the current dynamic FP8 `gate_geglu + amax + quantize`. Forcing a static down scale would reintroduce the static-scale distortion risk proven on long sequences. The next step to capture this 9-11% elementwise+dynamic-quant overhead requires **new/modified graph-safe fused dynamic scale kernels** (SiLU×Up with simultaneous amax+quantize) or accepting re-validation of static/semi-dynamic scales — not a simple routing change to existing kernels.
+
+**generate_greedy (then-current scope, superseded by §4.13 incremental decode):** target_size=384, ids reused, 8-token full-prefix greedy: FP8 **88.7 ms/token**. This is not the decode-theoretical-optimal path since every token re-runs the full prefix; approaching decode optimum requires KV append/M=1 decode (implemented, §4.13: 32.9 ms/token).
+
+**FP8 causal FMHA feasibility assessment (conclusion: not integrated)**: The FP8 causal FMHA library (`libfmha_fp8_causal.so`, source `csrc/attention/fmha_fp8_causal.cu`) is compiled and present on disk. However, inspecting the kernel signature reveals: `extern "C" int fmha_fp8_causal(Q, K, V, O, ..., float scale_q, float scale_k, float scale_v, float inv_scale_o, stream)` — the 4 dequantization coefficients are **calibration-time-fixed host float scalars** (`ctypes.c_float`), not device pointers. The preceding Q/K/V quantization step (`quantize_fp8_static_fp16`) uses device pointers and is graph-safe, but the FMHA kernel's dequantization values freeze once calibrated, not updating with subsequent real-input amax changes. This is the same failure mode as the "static per-tensor scale mismatch on long sequences/multimodal inputs" diagnosed and fixed in §0 (cosine 0.738 at the time, recovered to 0.9997 only by pivoting to runtime dynamic FP8). Standard Chameleon at Se≈1056-1072 with different input images each time is a high-risk scenario for this failure mode; the same path measured net negative (~**-3.9 ms**) in prior testing, off by default. Conclusion: **FP8 causal FMHA is not integrated into standard Chameleon**; the current dynamic-FP8 GEMM + CUTLASS FP16 causal FMHA combination remains the default attention path.
+
+### 4.11 Corrected Roofline + Fused Dynamic Quantize Kernels (2026-08-05 re-measurement)
+
+**§4.10's "1.98× floor" framing is misleading**: Using per-shape GEMM micro-benchmarks to individually measure the 7 GEMM shapes actually used per Chameleon layer (q/k/v/o: `(1056,4096,4096)`; gate/up: `(1056,11008,4096)`; down: `(1056,4096,11008)`), post-autotune per-shape measured throughput is **193-260 TFLOPS**, and the cumulative 32-layer GEMM-only theoretical lower bound is ≈ **61.9 ms** — nearly identical to the naive "240 TFLOPS peak" calculation of 59.4 ms. This confirms **GEMM tactics are already near the measured ceiling for these specific shapes on Thor**; §4.10's 1.98× gap is primarily "total wall-clock including 40-47% non-GEMM elementwise/attention/norm overhead" divided by "pure GEMM peak", not evidence of GEMM efficiency issues. Further GEMM tactic/shape optimization is no longer meaningful.
+
+**Two new fused kernels (zero precision cost, measured effective)**:
+
+- `rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16` (`csrc/kernels/norm.cu` adds `rms_norm_amax_kernel` + `quantize.cu` combined host function): RMSNorm's xn write pass uses `block_reduce_max` to atomically reduce abs-max into the scale buffer, eliminating the separate `absmax_kernel` full read of xn inside `quantize_fp8_device_fp16`. Used at pre-QKV and post-attn (gate/up input) per-layer RMSNorm sites.
+- `gate_geglu_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16` (`csrc/kernels/activation.cu` adds `gate_geglu_amax_kernel`): Same principle fusing SwiGLU write pass with amax reduction, for FFN down-proj input quantization. **Used only on layers not requiring outlier clamp** (default only L31 needs clamp); clamp layers continue using the old `gate_geglu_fp16` → `clamp_inplace_fp16` → `quantize_fp8_device_fp16` three-step sequence, since clamp must take effect before scale computation.
+- Wiring: `flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py::chameleon_forward` dynamic FP8 branch; O-projection quantization (no natural writer to piggyback amax) and L31 clamp layer unchanged. Both new kernels are used only in the `dynamic_fp8_layers` branch, not affecting the AWQ static / FP16 / FP4 branches in the same file.
+
+**Measured results (single image `hand_1.jpg`, target_size=512)**:
+
+| Metric | Pre-fusion | Post-fusion |
+|---|--:|--:|
+| FP8 vs FP16 logits cosine | 0.9999999996 | 0.9999999991 (still 10 nines, greedy exact match) |
+| transformer-only p50 | 117.5 ms | **110.9 ms** (-5.6 ms, consistent with ~5.1 ms estimate) |
+| Efficiency vs 240 TFLOP/s | 50.6% | **53.6%** |
+| measured/floor | 1.98× | **1.87×** |
+| TRT opt-in E2E p50 | 129.7 ms | **~128.2 ms** |
+
+Regression tests: `tests/test_install_smoke.py`, `tests/test_chameleon_thor_vqgan_backend.py` all pass.
+
+**Conclusion (this optimization round stops here)**: GEMM tactics confirmed near their shape-specific ceiling, no longer a lever; the two new fused kernels captured the only remaining clear-ROI portion of dynamic-quantize overhead. O-projection quantization has no natural writer to piggyback amax (input is attention output, not through any elementwise kernel we control), and further kernel gains here show diminishing returns. The lever with order-of-magnitude headroom is **KV-cache incremental decode (M=1 decode)**, an architectural-level change not implemented in this round — landed in the next round, see §4.13.
+
+### 4.12 residual+norm+quantize Triple Fusion and FA4 Attention (2026-08-05 re-measurement)
+
+**Fusion #3: `residual_add_rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16`**
+
+The post-attn site was previously `residual_add_fp16` + `rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16` (two kernels). The new kernel (`csrc/kernels/norm.cu`'s `residual_add_rms_norm_amax_kernel`, register-caching residual, ssq using fp16-rounded values, amax folded into the xn write pass; combined host wrapper in `quantize.cu`) merges both into one elementwise kernel. Numerical semantics are bit-identical to the old sequence (same fusion pattern as GROOT N1.7's `ac975b6` commit, but that commit uses static scale; ours is the dynamic amax version). Measured: transformer-only 110.9→**110.3 ms** (-0.6 ms; x/xn buffers L2-resident, savings mainly from launch and L2 round-trips, smaller than optimistic estimate), FP8 vs FP16 cosine 0.99999999 no regression. FP4 branch retains the original `residual_add_fp16`+`rms_norm_fp16` sequence, unaffected.
+
+**FA4 attention (following upstream PR #163)**
+
+- **Upstream evidence**: [`flashrt-project/FlashRT#163`](https://github.com/flashrt-project/FlashRT/pull/163) "GROOT N1.7 update: Thor NVFP4 + FA4 performance tier": single-camera LIBERO 36.8→23.7 ms, dual-view 51.6→29.9 ms (1.70×), action cosine 0.99994-0.99995, graph replay determinism 1.0.
+- **Chameleon shape A/B** (Se=1056, NH=32, HD=128, causal, fp16, random Q/K/V): CUTLASS causal FMHA 450.5 µs vs FA4 **163.9 µs (2.75×)**, output cosine **0.99999994**.
+- **Integration**: `ThorChameleonAttnBackend` adds `set_fa4_attn(q_tensor, kv_cache)` + FA4 branch before CUTLASS in run() — torch metadata view slicing (no allocation, capture-safe), `fa4(..., causal=True, pack_gqa=True)` under `torch.no_grad()`, output written back to Q_O slot (xn buffer), automatic CUTLASS fallback on exception. Frontend-side `use_fa4_attn=True` / env `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FA4_ATTN=1` explicit opt-in; requires `pip install .[thor-fa4]` (nvidia-cutlass-dsl==4.5.1 + quack-kernels==0.4.1), auto-fallback with warning if not installed. `prefill()` output and bench JSON add `fa4_attn` field.
+- **Measured**: transformer-only FP8 110.3→**101.9 ms** (-8.4 ms); TRT VQGAN E2E 128.2→**121.1 ms**; FP8 vs FP16 logits cosine **0.9999999912**, greedy exact match. Efficiency 58.3% of 240 TFLOP/s, measured/floor **1.71×**. All regression tests pass.
+
+**§4.9 optimization ladder update (transformer-only / TRT E2E scope)**:
+
+| Stage | transformer-only | TRT VQGAN E2E |
+|---|--:|--:|
+| Initial dynamic FP8 | ~182 ms | 246.2 ms |
+| + TRT VQGAN | — | 193.3 ms |
+| + SwiGLU fusion | — | 187.8 ms |
+| + autotune | — | 140.3 ms |
+| + L31 selective clamp | ~117.5 ms | 130.6 ms |
+| + §4.11 fused quantize kernels | 110.9 ms | 128.2 ms |
+| + #3 residual+norm+quantize | 110.3 ms | — |
+| + FA4 attention | **101.9 ms** | **121.1 ms** |
+
+**Remaining headroom**: O-projection quantization (no natural fusion point), `generate_greedy` full-prefix recompute (KV-cache incremental decode, landed in §4.13), eager VQGAN (default path; Conv-heavy subgraph should use offline compilation per skill conclusion, TRT opt-in already provided).
+
+**Upstream PR adaptation (per FlashRT CONTRIBUTING / docs/adding_new_model.md conventions)**:
+
+- `flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py` — Chameleon-specific compute-path ownership file (rule 1), containing the `chameleon_forward` family, imported by the frontend.
+- `examples/thor/chameleon_quickstart.py`, `benchmarks/chameleon_thor_latency.py` — quickstart and latency benchmark (`<model>_thor_latency.py` naming convention, with `--reuse-input-ids`/`--use-trt-vqgan`/FA4 recording).
+- `docs/chameleon_usage.md` (English, lingbot_usage.md style, with VQGAN backend policy), `USAGE.md` Chameleon-7B section, `docs/benchmark_comparison.md` Chameleon table.
+- `tests/test_chameleon_thor_fused_kernels.py` — fused kernel vs unfused reference path **bitwise equality** regression (no checkpoint required), satisfying CONTRIBUTING "fused replacements validated against unfused reference paths". This test also exposed and corrected an amax semantics issue: the fused kernel originally computed unrounded fp32 amax, differing by 0.004% from `absmax_kernel` reading fp16-stored values; corrected to compute fp16-rounded values for bitwise exact match (also improving E2E cosine from 0.9999999912 to 0.9999999955).
+
+### 4.13 KV-Cache Incremental Decode (M=1 decode, 2026-08-06)
+
+**Motivation**: After §4.10-4.12, prefill is near the GEMM shape ceiling; the last order-of-magnitude lever for generation is M=1 incremental decode (compute only 1 row per token, no full-prefix re-run). Previously `generate_greedy` re-ran the full prefix per token (88.7 ms/token, target_size=384).
+
+**Implementation (four files, zero new quantize/norm kernels)**:
+
+- `flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py` adds `chameleon_decode_step(gemm, fvk, bufs, weights, dims, scales_dev, *, attn, pos, ...)`: Se=1 dynamic FP8 backbone, K/V GEMMs write directly into cache row `pos` (`attn.kv_row_ptrs`), RoPE pointer offset `pos*Hd*2`, `attn.run_decode(kv_len=pos+1)`; preserves L31 clamp semantics. `pos` is a host scalar, so decode is always eager (not in CUDA graph).
+- `csrc/attention/fmha_fp16_causal.cu`: templatized `FmhaCausalTraits<IsQBegin>`, added bottom-right aligned symbol `fmha_fp16_causal_br` (mask aligned to sequence end when SQ<SK). Prefill (SQ==SK) uses either alignment equivalently, continuing with the original `fmha_fp16_causal` (top-left). Same file compilation, no CMake changes.
+- `flash_rt/hardware/thor/attn_backend_chameleon.py` adds `run_decode(site, layer_idx, kv_len, stream)` (FA4 → CUTLASS `_br` → cuBLAS `attention_mha_fp16` three-tier fallback; causal mask degenerates to identity at q_seq=1) and integrated `kv_row_ptrs`; `run()` fail-fast on decode shapes (q_seq=1<kv_seq).
+- `flash_rt/frontends/torch/chameleon_thor.py`: `generate_greedy` rewritten as one prefill + single-token decode loop (`use_fp8=False` / `fp4_ffn_layers` fail-fast); decode-related autotune shapes (M=1) merged into `_autotune_gemms`; full-prefix recompute version retained as `_generate_greedy_recompute` (oracle, always eager).
+
+**Measured (text prompt "The capital of France is", 32 new tokens)**:
+
+| Metric | Value |
+|---|--:|
+| Steady-state decode | **30.4 tok/s** (32.9 ms/token) |
+| vs full-prefix recompute (wall-clock) | **2.83×** |
+| Per-token vs eager recompute oracle | **38/38 exact** |
+| prefill p50 (graph replay) | 157.3 ms (E2E scope) |
+
+Precision note: Under image prompts, occasional decode-vs-oracle argmax flips occur at individual tokens, rooted in M=1 vs full-sequence dynamic FP8 per-tensor scale differences (inherent property of dynamic quantization, not a bug); text prompts are exact. Bottom-right FMHA matches PyTorch SDPA reference within fp16 rounding at SQ∈{1,2,128,144}, SK≤256.
+
+**Two graph/state bugs fixed this round (highest debugging cost, worth documenting)**:
+
+1. **Capture warmup consumed the `x` residual stream**: The backbone updates `x` in-place (`residual_add_fp16` = x += out), so after one forward `x` is the final residual stream (amax ~15632). `_capture_graph`'s warmup ran and then went directly into the capture pass, causing the graph to record computations on a stale residual, polluting dynamic FP8 amax → garbled token generation. Fix: re-embed before capture and before every replay (`_replay_backbone`). Multiple prior "graph corrupts KV cache" probe conclusions were all artifacts of this bug (the probe itself ran backbone twice without re-embedding).
+2. **Oracle graph replay polluted shared KV pad rows**: If the recompute oracle used CUDA graph, each growing pad-16 Se would overwrite pad-row cache shared with the incremental path, causing cross-comparison interference. Fix: oracle forced eager.
+
+Lesson: **For backbones that update input buffers in-place, inputs must be restored before "capture/warmup/replay/run-again"**; any "graph vs eager result mismatch" probe should first verify the probe itself is not running a second forward on dirty input.
+
+## 5. Hardware Registration
+
+`flash_rt/hardware/__init__.py::_PIPELINE_MAP` adds:
+
+```python
+("chameleon", "torch", "thor"):
+    ("flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor", "ChameleonTorchFrontendThor"),
+```
+
+`resolve_pipeline_class("chameleon", "torch", "thor")` verified to correctly resolve to `ChameleonTorchFrontendThor`. Since standard Chameleon is a text/image chat interface (`encode_prompt`/`prefill`/`generate_greedy`), not a VLA `predict(images)` interface, it uses **direct instantiation** rather than `flash_rt.load_model()`'s `VLAModel` wrapper (same pattern as Qwen3-VL/Nex-N2).
+
+## 6. Out of Scope
+
+- FP4 FFN default production enablement — the optional sweep path is implemented, but single-image 512-tier gains are minimal; default remains off. Incremental decode is mutually exclusive (`generate_greedy` fail-fast).
+- New CUDA kernels — decode reuses all existing dynamic FP8/norm/fused kernels; the only kernel-side change is `fmha_fp16_causal.cu` templatization adding the bottom-right aligned symbol (§4.13), not a new operator.
+- Fixing pure FP16 path residual stream overflow (§0 known limitation) — requires adding residual stream clamp in `chameleon_forward_fp16`, deferred for future evaluation.
+- Decode CUDA graph capture — `pos` is a host scalar (RoPE/cache row offset), currently eager; further decode latency reduction could consider graph-per-pos or device-side pos, not in this round.
diff --git a/docs/chameleon_usage.md b/docs/chameleon_usage.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e07fafbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/chameleon_usage.md
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+# Chameleon-7B on Thor (sm_110)
+
+Standalone Chameleon-7B (image + text) is a direct-instantiation Thor
+frontend. This doc covers building, running, the VQGAN backend policy,
+the optional FA4 attention fast path, precision results, and measured
+latency on Jetson AGX Thor (sm_110).
+
+> **Status — direct-instantiation frontend.** `ChameleonTorchFrontendThor`
+> (`flash_rt/frontends/torch/chameleon_thor.py`) is registered in
+> `_PIPELINE_MAP` but is **not** dispatched by `flash_rt.load_model` (same
+> pattern as Qwen3-VL). Use
+> `examples/thor/chameleon_quickstart.py` / `benchmarks/chameleon_thor_latency.py`,
+> not `flash_rt.load_model("chameleon")`.
+
+## 1. Architecture / shapes
+
+| stage | detail |
+|---|---|
+| VQGAN image tokenizer | Chameleon VQGAN (`vqgan.ckpt`), eager PyTorch default; TensorRT opt-in |
+| LLM backbone | 32 layers, MHA, D=4096, 32 heads, HD=128, SwiGLU Dff=11008, per-head QK LayerNorm + RoPE, `attention_bias=false` |
+| Output | lm_head over 65536 vocab, `mask_image_logits` applied (image-codebook ids suppressed) |
+
+Compute runs in the Chameleon backbone forward in
+`flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py` (dynamic per-tensor FP8 with
+fused quantization kernels, cuBLASLt per-shape autotune, L31 selective
+clamp; see `docs/chameleon_thor_sm110.md` for the full engineering notes).
+
+## 2. Build (one shared module)
+
+```bash
+git clone --depth 1 --branch v4.4.2 \
+    https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass.git third_party/cutlass
+cmake -B build -S . -DGPU_ARCH=110
+cmake --build build -j$(nproc)
+pip install -e ".[torch]"        # add ,thor-fa4 for the FA4 fast path
+```
+
+Sanity-check the optional FA4 attention backend:
+
+```bash
+python - <<'PY'
+from flash_rt.hardware.thor import fa4_backend
+print("FA4:", fa4_backend.is_available(), "-", fa4_backend.status())
+PY
+```
+
+## 3. VQGAN backend policy
+
+The default VQGAN path is the **eager Chameleon tokenizer**
+(`use_trt_vqgan=False`) and does not depend on external TensorRT engines,
+so the framework can run standalone.
+
+- **If compatible TensorRT engines exist in the deployment, it is
+  recommended to opt in explicitly** (`use_trt_vqgan=True` / script flag
+  `--use-trt-vqgan`; build them with `scripts/build_vqgan_trt.py`):
+  VQGAN encode drops from ~75 ms to ~17 ms and E2E from ~190 ms to ~121 ms.
+- The actual backend is recorded in `prefill()` output and benchmark JSON
+  (`vqgan_backend: "eager" | "trt"`).
+
+## 4. Run
+
+```bash
+python examples/thor/chameleon_quickstart.py \
+    --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \
+    --image /path/to/hand_1.jpg \
+    --prompt "Describe the image." \
+    --benchmark
+
+# explicit TensorRT VQGAN opt-in (recommended when engines exist)
+python examples/thor/chameleon_quickstart.py ... --use-trt-vqgan
+
+# latency benchmark with stage separation
+python benchmarks/chameleon_thor_latency.py \
+    --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \
+    --image-dir /path/to/images \
+    --reuse-input-ids --iters 50 --warmup 10
+```
+
+## 5. Precision (real images)
+
+All validation uses real photographs, never synthetic token ids:
+
+- FlashRT FP16 vs HF BF16 (last-token logits cosine after
+  `mask_image_logits`): **0.9999997**, greedy next-token identical.
+- FlashRT dynamic FP8 vs FlashRT FP16: **0.99999999**, greedy identical.
+- FA4 attention vs CUTLASS FMHA: output cosine **0.99999994**; E2E FP8-vs-
+  FP16 logits cosine stays 0.99999999.
+- Incremental KV-cache decode vs full-recompute: greedy tokens identical
+  per position (32-token text generation); the bottom-right causal FMHA
+  kernel (`fmha_fp16_causal_br`) matches a PyTorch SDPA reference within
+  fp16 rounding (SQ ∈ {1, 2, 128, 144}, SK up to 256).
+
+Known limitation: the pure-FP16 path's full-sequence `hidden` output can
+contain NaN on image-token rows for long sequences (residual overflow at
+L31); last-token logits are unaffected. The dynamic FP8 path (the
+recommended default) does not exhibit this.
+
+## 6. Optional fast paths
+
+| Path | Opt-in | Effect (Se≈1056, real image) |
+|---|---|---|
+| TensorRT VQGAN | `use_trt_vqgan=True` / `--use-trt-vqgan` | encode 74.9→17.3 ms |
+| FA4 attention | `use_fa4_attn=True` / `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FA4_ATTN=1` | transformer 111→104 ms |
+| FP4 FFN | `fp4_ffn_layers=[...]` | measured ~1-2 ms at single image — not worth it, default off |
+
+FA4 (FlashAttention-4, CuTe-DSL) is the vendored/namespaced fast path in
+`csrc/attention/flash_attn_4_src` (`thor-fa4` pip extra, `sm_101a` arch
+alias). If its deps are missing it silently falls back to the CUTLASS
+FMHA kernel. FA4 is **not** enabled by default — the generic path must
+keep the framework's own kernels as the default.
+
+## 7. Latency (Jetson AGX Thor, `hand_1.jpg`, target_size=512)
+
+| Metric | FlashRT FP8 | vs HF BF16 (403 ms transformer-only) |
+|---|---:|---:|
+| E2E, eager VQGAN | ~190 ms | — |
+| E2E, TRT VQGAN opt-in + FA4 | **120.2 ms** | **3.4×** |
+| transformer-prefill-only (FA4) | **104.2 ms** | **3.9×** |
+| incremental decode, steady state | **30.4 tok/s** (32.9 ms/token) | — |
+
+Roofline: per-shape FP8 GEMM microbenchmarks (193-260 TFLOPS) show the
+GEMM tactics are already at the Thor ceiling for these shapes; the
+remaining gap to the 240 TFLOP/s-based floor is non-GEMM elementwise /
+attention / norm work. The optimization ladder: dynamic per-tensor FP8
+(baseline FP16 → FP8) was the largest single lever, followed by three
+fused dynamic-quantize kernels (residual+norm+quantize, gate+GELU+
+quantize, norm+quantize) and the FA4 attention fast path.
+
+## 8. Notes
+
+- The frontend fail-fasts on non-Thor hardware: `ChameleonTorchFrontendThor`
+  checks `torch.cuda.get_device_capability()` before checkpoint loading and
+  raises on anything other than SM110. The documented development override is
+  `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_THOR_FORCE=1` (skips the probe only; kernels still need
+  the real hardware at runtime).
+- Prompt capacity is floored to a multiple of 16 at allocation, and
+  `set_prompt` validates the **padded** length against that capacity, so a
+  non-aligned `max_seq` can never let pad-to-16 overshoot the buffers or the
+  KV cache. `generate_greedy` rejects negative `max_new_tokens` and returns
+  the prompt-only result for zero.
+- `generate_greedy(...)` runs **incremental KV-cache decode**: one prefill
+  over the prompt, then M=1 decode steps (`chameleon_decode_step` +
+  bottom-right causal FMHA `fmha_fp16_causal_br`). Measured ~30 tok/s
+  steady state and ~2.8× wall-clock over the full-prefix recompute path
+  for short prompts; per-token cost grows with KV length. Stops on EOS
+  (default `</s>`=2, override via `eos_token_id`) or `max_seq`. Requires
+  the dynamic-FP8 path (`use_fp8=True`); the eager full-recompute path is
+  retained as `_generate_greedy_recompute` for oracle comparisons.
+  Benchmark via `scripts/bench_chameleon_thor.py --generate-greedy N`.
+- The TRT VQGAN path uses a square `target_size×target_size` bicubic
+  resize while eager uses aspect-preserving `var_center_crop` — token
+  counts can differ slightly between backends (expected behavior
+  difference, not a bug).
+
+## 9. Third-party license (VQ-GAN)
+
+The VQ-GAN module under `flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/` is vendored from
+Meta Chameleon and is governed by the Chameleon Research License — not by this
+repository's Apache-2.0 license. See `flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/LICENSE`
+and `NOTICE` for the full text, provenance (including the upstream CompVis
+MIT attribution), and the modification record. The license is noncommercial-
+research-only; treat that subdirectory as a separately-licensed component.
diff --git a/docs/stable_api.md b/docs/stable_api.md
index 5d533a2e..090eeaea 100644
--- a/docs/stable_api.md
+++ b/docs/stable_api.md
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ def load_model(
     autotune: int = 3,              # 0=off, 3=default, 5+=thorough
     recalibrate: bool = False,
     weight_cache: bool = True,      # JAX only
-    config: str = "pi05",           # "pi05" | "pi0" | "groot" | "groot_n17" | "pi0fast" | "motus" | "wan22_ti2v_5b" | "cosmos3_video" | "cosmos3_edge"
+    config: str = "pi05",           # "pi05" | "pi0" | "groot" | "groot_n17" | "pi0fast" | "motus" | "wan22_ti2v_5b" | "cosmos3_video" | "cosmos3_edge" | "chameleon"
     device=None,                    # reserved
     # Pi0-FAST-specific:
     decode_cuda_graph: bool = False,
@@ -130,6 +130,13 @@ Returns a `VLAModel` wrapping the appropriate frontend for the detected
   frontend; `rtx_sm89` resolves directly to its dedicated SM89 frontend.
   `use_fp16=True, use_fp8=False` requests the explicit RTX reference
   frontend for the selected hardware.
+- `config="chameleon"` is a chat-style VLM and is not served through
+  `load_model`'s VLA wrapper. Calling `load_model(config="chameleon")`
+  raises `NotImplementedError` with direct-construction instructions.
+  Construct the frontend explicitly:
+  `ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87` (Jetson Orin SM87) or
+  `ChameleonTorchFrontendThor` (Jetson Thor SM110).
+  See `docs/chameleon_usage.md`.
 
 ### `flash_rt.VLAModel`
 
@@ -255,6 +262,8 @@ based on `use_fp8` / `use_fp16`; `rtx_sm89` resolves directly to the
 dedicated SM89 frontend class.
 Wan2.2 TI2V-5B is registered for `(config="wan22_ti2v_5b",
 framework="torch", arch="rtx_sm120")`.
+Chameleon-7B is registered for `(config="chameleon", framework="torch",
+arch in {"rtx_sm87", "thor"})`.
 
 ### `_PIPELINE_MAP`
 
diff --git a/examples/thor/README.md b/examples/thor/README.md
index 5e1e2124..1a87b54a 100644
--- a/examples/thor/README.md
+++ b/examples/thor/README.md
@@ -91,6 +91,25 @@ Quality measurements, the `max_pixels` resolution knob, and the per-projection
 `wq_overrides` sweep surface are in
 [`docs/qwen3_vl_thor.md`](../../docs/qwen3_vl_thor.md).
 
+## Chameleon-7B (multimodal chat)
+
+`chameleon_quickstart.py` runs standalone Chameleon-7B (image + text) with
+the dynamic per-tensor FP8 backbone and CUDA-graph prefill:
+
+```bash
+python examples/thor/chameleon_quickstart.py \
+    --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \
+    --image /path/to/image.jpg \
+    --prompt "Describe the image." \
+    --benchmark
+```
+
+Add `--use-trt-vqgan` when compatible TensorRT VQ-GAN engines exist
+(`scripts/build_vqgan_trt.py`), and `FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FA4_ATTN=1` for the
+optional FA4 attention fast path. Measured ~190 ms E2E prefill (eager
+VQGAN), ~120 ms with TRT VQGAN + FA4, and ~30 tok/s incremental decode.
+Full details in [`docs/chameleon_usage.md`](../../docs/chameleon_usage.md).
+
 ## Thor VLA performance
 
 ### Precision (Pi0.5, 2-view LIBERO)
diff --git a/examples/thor/chameleon_quickstart.py b/examples/thor/chameleon_quickstart.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c071f28d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/thor/chameleon_quickstart.py
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Chameleon-7B (Thor sm_110) quickstart.
+
+Runs the standalone Chameleon-7B image+text frontend on a real image and
+reports prefill latency. The frontend is a direct-instantiation class
+(``ChameleonTorchFrontendThor``, registered in ``_PIPELINE_MAP`` but not
+dispatched by ``flash_rt.load_model`` — same pattern as Qwen3-VL / Nex-N2
+/ LingBot).
+
+Build first (one shared module — the Chameleon kernels live inside
+flash_rt_kernels; FA4 is optional):
+
+    cmake -B build -S . -DGPU_ARCH=110
+    cmake --build build -j
+    pip install -e ".[torch]"            # add ,thor-fa4 for the FA4 fast path
+
+Run:
+
+    python examples/thor/chameleon_quickstart.py \
+        --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \
+        --image /path/to/hand_1.jpg \
+        --prompt "Describe the image."
+
+Expected on Thor (dynamic FP8, CUDA graph, target_size=512, eager VQGAN):
+~190 ms/prefill E2E; with --use-trt-vqgan (engines present) ~120 ms;
+with FA4 enabled (FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FA4_ATTN=1) the transformer part drops
+to ~104 ms. The script prints the actual VQGAN backend and FA4 status.
+"""
+import argparse
+import time
+
+import torch
+
+from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor import ChameleonTorchFrontendThor
+from flash_rt.hardware.thor import fa4_backend
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Chameleon-7B Thor quickstart")
+    ap.add_argument("--checkpoint", required=True,
+                    help="Chameleon-7B dir (model-*-of-*.safetensors + config.json)")
+    ap.add_argument("--image", required=True, help="real image path (jpg/png)")
+    ap.add_argument("--prompt", default="Describe the image.")
+    ap.add_argument("--target-size", type=int, default=512)
+    ap.add_argument("--use-trt-vqgan", action="store_true",
+                    help="Use TensorRT VQGAN if compatible engines exist "
+                         "(recommended when engines are available; default is eager VQGAN)")
+    ap.add_argument("--use-fp16", action="store_true",
+                    help="Use the FP16 reference path instead of dynamic FP8")
+    ap.add_argument("--no-graph", action="store_true", help="Disable CUDA Graph")
+    ap.add_argument("--iters", type=int, default=10, help="timed replays")
+    ap.add_argument("--benchmark", action="store_true",
+                    help="report wall-clock prefill latency (P50)")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    from PIL import Image
+
+    image = Image.open(args.image).convert("RGB")
+    fa4 = fa4_backend.is_available()
+    print(f"[chameleon] FA4 attention available: {fa4} ({fa4_backend.status()})"
+          f"{'' if fa4 else '  <-- CUTLASS FMHA will be used; pip install .[thor-fa4]'}")
+
+    fe = ChameleonTorchFrontendThor(
+        args.checkpoint,
+        use_fp8=not args.use_fp16,
+        use_cuda_graph=not args.no_graph,
+        target_size=args.target_size,
+        use_trt_vqgan=args.use_trt_vqgan,
+    )
+    print(f"[chameleon] VQGAN backend: {fe.vqgan_backend}  "
+          f"FA4 active: {fe.fa4_attn_active}")
+
+    out = fe.prefill(args.prompt, [image])
+    print(f"[chameleon] Se={out['Se']} (real_len={len([i for i in out['input_ids'] if i != 1])}) "
+          f"logits={tuple(out['logits'].shape)}")
+    top = int(torch.argmax(out["logits"]).item())
+    print(f"[chameleon] greedy next-token id: {top}")
+
+    if args.benchmark:
+        ts = []
+        for _ in range(args.iters):
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+            t0 = time.perf_counter()
+            fe.prefill(args.prompt, [image])
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+            ts.append((time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0)
+        ts.sort()
+        p50 = ts[len(ts) // 2]
+        print(f"[chameleon] prefill P50: {p50:.1f} ms over {args.iters} iters "
+              f"(wall-clock, includes VQGAN; fp8={not args.use_fp16}, "
+              f"graph={not args.no_graph}, vqgan={fe.vqgan_backend})")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/flash_rt/api.py b/flash_rt/api.py
index e7d61380..1c50223f 100644
--- a/flash_rt/api.py
+++ b/flash_rt/api.py
@@ -454,6 +454,24 @@ def load_model(checkpoint, framework="torch", num_views=2, autotune=3,
             "See docs/qwen3_vl_fp8_sm89.md, docs/qwen3_vl_nvfp4.md, "
             "docs/qwen3_vl_thor.md and docs/qwen3_vl_rtx_bf16.md.")
 
+    # Chameleon-7B is a chat-style VLM, not a VLA: its frontends expose
+    # set_prompt(...) + generate() rather than predict(images, ...), so
+    # VLAModel's result['actions'] contract does not apply. Registered in
+    # _PIPELINE_MAP for discoverability only.
+    if config == "chameleon":
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            "config='chameleon' is a chat-style VLM and is not served through "
+            "load_model's VLA wrapper. Construct it directly:\n"
+            "    from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_rtx_sm87 import "
+            "ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87  # Jetson Orin SM87\n"
+            "    from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor import "
+            "ChameleonTorchFrontendThor  # Jetson Thor SM110\n"
+            "    f = ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87('/path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT')\n"
+            "    f.set_prompt('<image>Describe this image.', images=[img])\n"
+            "    print(f.generate(max_new_tokens=32))\n"
+            "See docs/chameleon7b_rtx_sm87.md, docs/chameleon_thor_sm110.md "
+            "and docs/chameleon_usage.md.")
+
     if framework == "jetson_pi":
         if config not in ("pi0", "pi05", "llm", "mllm"):
             raise ValueError(
diff --git a/flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_quant.py b/flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_quant.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0a1a1229
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_quant.py
@@ -0,0 +1,251 @@
+"""Low-bit weight quantizers for the Chameleon-7B GEMMs (Orin SM87).
+
+Checkpoint-agnostic and frontend-agnostic: every function takes plain tensor
+lists and returns plain tensors, so the same code serves any Chameleon
+frontend.
+
+Layout contract — get this wrong and the GEMM silently returns garbage:
+
+* The declarative weight spec hands us per-projection FP16 weights in
+  ``[K, N]`` row-major (``Cat``/``FusedGateUp`` followed by ``T()``).
+* The CUTLASS SM80 rowwise GEMMs consume the **B** operand as ``[N, K]``
+  ColumnMajor with an ``[N]`` FP32 ``RowBroadcast`` scale, so we transpose to
+  ``[N, K]`` and quantize each of the N output rows symmetrically.
+* The **A** operand is ``[M, K]`` RowMajor with ``M`` consecutive FP32
+  ``ColBroadcast`` scales, produced at runtime by the fused norm/quant kernels.
+
+INT4 additionally applies the QuaRot rotation ``W_rot = (H_K @ W)/sqrt(K)``
+offline; the matching activation rotation happens online in the fused
+RMSNorm+FHT kernels. Values are packed 2/byte with the even index in the low
+nibble (``cutlass::int4b_t`` order).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import logging
+from typing import Dict, List, Tuple
+
+import torch
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+INT8_QUANT_MAX = 127.0
+INT8_QUANT_EPS = 1e-12
+INT4_QUANT_MAX = 7.0
+INT4_QUANT_EPS = 1e-10
+
+#: The seven per-layer GEMMs, in the order the pipeline consumes them.
+PROJECTIONS = ("q", "k", "v", "o", "gate", "up", "d")
+
+#: Projections whose K == D (a power of two) and so can take a full-width
+#: Hadamard rotation. ``d`` has K == Dff == 11008 and needs block-H128.
+INT4_POW2_PROJECTIONS = ("q", "k", "v", "o", "gate", "up")
+
+
+def split_fused_projections(qkv_w: List[torch.Tensor],
+                            gu_w: List[torch.Tensor],
+                            o_w: List[torch.Tensor],
+                            d_w: List[torch.Tensor],
+                            *, D: int, Dff: int) -> Dict[str, List[torch.Tensor]]:
+    """Materialize the seven per-projection ``[K, N]`` weight lists.
+
+    ``qkv_w[li]`` is ``[D, 3D]`` row-major and ``gu_w[li]`` is ``[D, 2*Dff]``:
+    after ``Cat(dim=0) -> T().contiguous()`` the fused row stride is ``3D``
+    (resp. ``2*Dff``), so a *byte-offset* split would read the projections
+    column-interleaved. Only a ``fused[:, lo:hi].contiguous()`` slice recovers
+    the original ``q_proj`` / ``k_proj`` / ``v_proj`` blocks.
+    """
+    out: Dict[str, List[torch.Tensor]] = {k: [] for k in PROJECTIONS}
+    for li, (qkv, gu) in enumerate(zip(qkv_w, gu_w)):
+        if tuple(qkv.shape) != (D, 3 * D):
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"layer {li}: expected fused qkv_w {(D, 3 * D)}, "
+                f"got {tuple(qkv.shape)}")
+        if tuple(gu.shape) != (D, 2 * Dff):
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"layer {li}: expected fused gu_w {(D, 2 * Dff)}, "
+                f"got {tuple(gu.shape)}")
+        out["q"].append(qkv[:, 0:D].contiguous())
+        out["k"].append(qkv[:, D:2 * D].contiguous())
+        out["v"].append(qkv[:, 2 * D:3 * D].contiguous())
+        out["gate"].append(gu[:, 0:Dff].contiguous())
+        out["up"].append(gu[:, Dff:2 * Dff].contiguous())
+    out["o"] = list(o_w)
+    out["d"] = list(d_w)
+    return out
+
+
+def quantize_per_row_int8(w_kn: torch.Tensor) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    """Per-output-row symmetric INT8 of a ``[K, N]`` FP16 weight.
+
+    Returns ``(q [N, K] int8, scale [N] fp32)``, both contiguous on the
+    weight's device.
+    """
+    w_f32 = w_kn.float().transpose(0, 1).contiguous()                    # [N, K]
+    scale = torch.clamp(w_f32.abs().amax(dim=1) / INT8_QUANT_MAX,
+                        min=INT8_QUANT_EPS).float().contiguous()         # [N]
+    q = torch.clamp(torch.round(w_f32 / scale[:, None]),
+                    -127, 127).to(torch.int8).contiguous()               # [N, K]
+    return q, scale
+
+
+def hadamard_gpu(n: int, device="cuda") -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Unnormalised Sylvester Hadamard ``H_n`` (fp32). ``n`` must be a power of 2."""
+    H = torch.ones(1, 1, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
+    while H.shape[0] < n:
+        H = torch.cat([torch.cat([H, H], 1), torch.cat([H, -H], 1)], 0)
+    return H
+
+
+def _pack_int4_rows(w_rot_nk: torch.Tensor) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    """Per-output-row symmetric INT4 of an already-rotated ``[N, K]`` fp32 weight."""
+    scale = (w_rot_nk.abs().amax(1) / INT4_QUANT_MAX).clamp_min(INT4_QUANT_EPS)
+    q = torch.clamp(torch.round(w_rot_nk / scale[:, None]), -7, 7).to(torch.int8)
+    lo = (q[:, 0::2] & 0xF).to(torch.uint8)
+    hi = (q[:, 1::2] & 0xF).to(torch.uint8)
+    return (lo | (hi << 4)).contiguous(), scale.float().contiguous()
+
+
+class QuantizedWeights:
+    """Owns the quantized tensors and exposes the pointer dicts the pipeline wants.
+
+    ``ptr[proj][li]`` is the packed weight pointer and ``scale_ptr[proj][li]``
+    the matching ``[N]`` FP32 scale pointer. The tensors are kept alive in
+    ``_store`` for the object's lifetime — dropping this object invalidates
+    every pointer, including any already baked into a captured CUDA graph.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self._store: List[torch.Tensor] = []
+        self.ptr: Dict[str, List[int]] = {k: [] for k in PROJECTIONS}
+        self.scale_ptr: Dict[str, List[int]] = {k: [] for k in PROJECTIONS}
+        self.precision: Dict[str, str] = {}
+
+    def bytes(self) -> int:
+        return sum(t.numel() * t.element_size() for t in self._store)
+
+    def _set(self, proj: str, li: int, q: torch.Tensor, s: torch.Tensor) -> None:
+        self._store.append(q)
+        self._store.append(s)
+        while len(self.ptr[proj]) <= li:
+            self.ptr[proj].append(0)
+            self.scale_ptr[proj].append(0)
+        self.ptr[proj][li] = q.data_ptr()
+        self.scale_ptr[proj][li] = s.data_ptr()
+
+    def _drop(self, ptr: int) -> None:
+        if ptr:
+            self._store = [t for t in self._store if t.data_ptr() != ptr]
+
+
+def quantize_int8_all(proj: Dict[str, List[torch.Tensor]],
+                      *, num_layers: int) -> QuantizedWeights:
+    """INT8-quantize all seven projections for all layers."""
+    qw = QuantizedWeights()
+    for li in range(num_layers):
+        for key in PROJECTIONS:
+            w = proj[key][li]
+            if w.dtype != torch.float16:
+                w = w.to(torch.float16)
+            qw._set(key, li, *quantize_per_row_int8(w))
+        qw.precision.update({k: "int8" for k in PROJECTIONS})
+    logger.info("INT8 quantized %d LLM GEMM weights (%d layers x %d proj), %.2f GB",
+                num_layers * len(PROJECTIONS), num_layers, len(PROJECTIONS),
+                qw.bytes() / 2 ** 30)
+    return qw
+
+
+def quantize_int4_quarot(qw: QuantizedWeights,
+                         proj: Dict[str, List[torch.Tensor]],
+                         *, num_layers: int, D: int,
+                         include_down: bool = False) -> QuantizedWeights:
+    """Replace the INT8 tensors of the rotatable projections with QuaRot INT4.
+
+    ``include_down`` additionally rotates the FFN down projection with a
+    **block-diagonal** ``H_128`` because its K (11008) is not a power of two.
+    Unrotated per-row W4A4 measures cos 0.9494 and fails the gate, so the
+    rotation is mandatory rather than an optimization.
+    """
+    Hm = hadamard_gpu(D) / (float(D) ** 0.5)
+    keys = list(INT4_POW2_PROJECTIONS)
+    Hb = None
+    if include_down:
+        keys.append("d")
+        Hb = hadamard_gpu(128) / (128.0 ** 0.5)
+
+    for li in range(num_layers):
+        for key in keys:
+            w = proj[key][li].to(torch.float32)                      # [K, N]
+            if key == "d":
+                Kd = w.shape[0]
+                w_rot = (Hb.t() @ w.reshape(Kd // 128, 128, -1)
+                         ).reshape(Kd, -1).t().contiguous()          # [N, Kd]
+            else:
+                if w.shape[0] != D:
+                    raise RuntimeError(
+                        f"{key} layer {li}: expected K={D}, got {tuple(w.shape)}")
+                w_rot = (Hm @ w).t().contiguous()                    # [N, D]
+            qw._drop(qw.ptr[key][li])
+            qw._set(key, li, *_pack_int4_rows(w_rot))
+            qw.precision[key] = "int4"
+            del w, w_rot
+    del Hm, Hb
+    torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+    logger.info("QuaRot INT4: rotated+packed %d weights (%d layers x %d proj)%s",
+                num_layers * len(keys), num_layers, len(keys),
+                "" if include_down else "; down stays INT8")
+    return qw
+
+
+def quantize_int8_hadamard(qw: QuantizedWeights,
+                           proj: Dict[str, List[torch.Tensor]],
+                           *, num_layers: int, D: int) -> QuantizedWeights:
+    """Re-quantize the rotatable projections as **Hadamard-rotated INT8** (W8A8+QuaRot).
+
+    This configuration sits between two tiers:
+
+    * plain per-row INT8 — 8-bit resolution, but *unconditioned*, so a row whose
+      amax is set by a massive-activation channel loses its remaining ~4090
+      channels to rounding;
+    * QuaRot INT4 — conditioned by the rotation, but only 15 levels.
+
+    Rotating at 8 bits gets both. The rotation is free at inference time: the
+    weight side folds offline here (``W_rot = H·W/sqrt(K)``) and the activation
+    side is fused into the norm kernels (``rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16`` and friends).
+
+    Crucially it keeps **plain per-row scales**, so the unmodified
+    ``cutlass_int8_rowwise_*`` GEMMs are reused — the alternative outlier fixes
+    (group-128 / block-scaled) would each need a bespoke GEMM, and the measured
+    ceiling for a hand-written block-scaled s4 kernel on 16-SM Orin was only
+    41 TOPS. Principle #17: pick the rotation that keeps you on the fast path.
+
+    The FFN down projection is left as plain INT8: its K (11008) is not a power
+    of two, and its input is the un-rotated BF16 SiLU output.
+    """
+    Hm = hadamard_gpu(D) / (float(D) ** 0.5)
+    for li in range(num_layers):
+        for key in INT4_POW2_PROJECTIONS:
+            w = proj[key][li].to(torch.float32)                   # [K, N]
+            if w.shape[0] != D:
+                raise RuntimeError(
+                    f"{key} layer {li}: expected K={D}, got {tuple(w.shape)}")
+            w_rot = (Hm @ w).half()                               # [K, N]
+            qw._drop(qw.ptr[key][li])
+            qw._set(key, li, *quantize_per_row_int8(w_rot))
+            qw.precision[key] = "int8+hadamard"
+            del w, w_rot
+    del Hm
+    torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+    logger.info("W8A8+Hadamard: rotated %d weights (%d layers x %d proj); "
+                "down stays plain INT8",
+                num_layers * len(INT4_POW2_PROJECTIONS), num_layers,
+                len(INT4_POW2_PROJECTIONS))
+    return qw
+
+
+__all__ = [
+    "INT8_QUANT_MAX", "INT4_QUANT_MAX", "PROJECTIONS", "INT4_POW2_PROJECTIONS",
+    "QuantizedWeights", "split_fused_projections", "quantize_per_row_int8",
+    "hadamard_gpu", "quantize_int8_all", "quantize_int8_hadamard",
+    "quantize_int4_quarot",
+]
diff --git a/flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_rtx_sm87_spec.py b/flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_rtx_sm87_spec.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c5671f80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_rtx_sm87_spec.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+"""Declarative weight spec for upstream Chameleon-7B (HF layout).
+
+Chameleon-7B LLM — 32 layers, MHA (num_kv_heads=32, no interleave).
+``attention_bias`` and ``mlp_bias`` are both ``false`` in the checkpoint
+config, so no bias items are emitted; the per-head QK-Norm weight *and
+bias* tensors are part of the layer block.
+
+Per-head QK Norm prevents norm_fuse; Cat is used for QKV fusion
+(not FusedQKV) because the per-head norms are handled as separate
+TensorList items.
+
+The QK-Norm tensors are loaded verbatim (``ToFp16()`` only), preserving their
+``(1, 128)`` shape. That is deliberate: ``qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16`` reads the
+weight as a flat ``[head_dim]`` vector shared across heads, which is exactly
+what the checkpoint's ``model_parallel_size == 1`` layout means (upstream
+expands it with ``repeat_interleave`` at forward time). No reshape is needed.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from flash_rt.executors.weight_loader import Item, LayerBlock, ModelWeightSpec
+from flash_rt.executors.torch_weights import Attr, Cat, FusedGateUp, T, TensorList, ToFp16
+
+
+def _llm_block() -> LayerBlock:
+    """Chameleon-7B LLM — 32 layers, FP16 backbone (no quantized spec)."""
+    lp = "model.layers.{i}"
+    items = [
+        # ── Fused QKV (MHA: no interleave, no norm_fuse) ──
+        Item("qkv_w",
+             Cat([f"{lp}.self_attn.q_proj.weight",
+                  f"{lp}.self_attn.k_proj.weight",
+                  f"{lp}.self_attn.v_proj.weight"], dim=0),
+             [T()],
+             TensorList("_llm_qkv_w")),
+        # ── O projection ──
+        Item("o_w", f"{lp}.self_attn.o_proj.weight",
+             [ToFp16(), T()],
+             TensorList("_llm_o_w")),
+        # ── Fused GateUp (no norm_fuse — per-head QK Norm incompatible) ──
+        Item("gu_w",
+             FusedGateUp(gate=f"{lp}.mlp.gate_proj.weight",
+                         up=f"{lp}.mlp.up_proj.weight"),
+             [T()],
+             TensorList("_llm_gu_w")),
+        # ── Down projection ──
+        Item("d_w", f"{lp}.mlp.down_proj.weight",
+             [ToFp16(), T()],
+             TensorList("_llm_d_w")),
+        # ── Layer norms ──
+        Item("input_ln_w", f"{lp}.input_layernorm.weight",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_input_ln_w")),
+        Item("post_ln_w", f"{lp}.post_attention_layernorm.weight",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_post_ln_w")),
+        # ── Per-head Q/K Norm ──
+        Item("q_norm_w", f"{lp}.self_attn.q_norm.weight",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_q_norm_w")),
+        Item("q_norm_b", f"{lp}.self_attn.q_norm.bias",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_q_norm_b")),
+        Item("k_norm_w", f"{lp}.self_attn.k_norm.weight",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_k_norm_w")),
+        Item("k_norm_b", f"{lp}.self_attn.k_norm.bias",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_k_norm_b")),
+    ]
+    return LayerBlock(prefix_fmt="", num_layers=32, items=items, name="llm")
+
+
+def build_spec() -> ModelWeightSpec:
+    """Chameleon-7B: 32 decoder layers + embedding, final norm, lm_head."""
+    return ModelWeightSpec(
+        framework="torch",
+        blocks=[_llm_block()],
+        singletons=[
+            Item("embed_w", "model.embed_tokens.weight",
+                 [ToFp16()], Attr("_llm_embed_w")),
+            Item("norm_w", "model.norm.weight",
+                 [ToFp16()], Attr("_llm_norm_w")),
+            # Live output projection.
+            Item("lm_head_w", "lm_head.weight",
+                 [ToFp16()], Attr("_llm_lm_head_w")),
+        ],
+    )
+
+
+__all__ = ["build_spec"]
diff --git a/flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_thor_spec.py b/flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_thor_spec.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..832369e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/frontends/torch/_chameleon_thor_spec.py
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+"""Declarative weight spec for standalone Chameleon-7B on Thor.
+
+Standard Chameleon 32-layer backbone layout:
+attention_bias=false, mlp_bias=false, per-head Q/K norm, SwiGLU FFN.
+Per-head QK Norm prevents norm_fuse, so QKV is fused with ``Cat`` and the
+gate/up pair with ``FusedGateUp``.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from flash_rt.executors.weight_loader import Item, LayerBlock, ModelWeightSpec
+from flash_rt.executors.torch_weights import (
+    Attr,
+    Cat,
+    FusedGateUp,
+    Quant,
+    T,
+    TensorList,
+    ToFp16,
+)
+
+
+def _llm_block(*, use_fp8: bool = True) -> LayerBlock:
+    """Chameleon-7B LLM — 32 layers, MHA (num_kv_heads=32, no interleave).
+
+    4 quantized GEMMs per layer (qkv, o, gu, d) → 32 × 4 = 128 scales
+    appended to ``target._llm_w_scales``.
+    """
+    qkv_tx  = [T(), Quant()]            if use_fp8 else [T()]
+    o_tx    = [ToFp16(), T(), Quant()]  if use_fp8 else [ToFp16(), T()]
+    gu_tx   = [T(), Quant()]            if use_fp8 else [T()]
+    d_tx    = [ToFp16(), T(), Quant()]  if use_fp8 else [ToFp16(), T()]
+    scale_into = "_llm_w_scales" if use_fp8 else None
+
+    lp = "model.layers.{i}"
+    items = [
+        # ── Fused QKV (no bias; per-head QK norm as separate items) ──
+        Item("qkv_w",
+             Cat([f"{lp}.self_attn.q_proj.weight",
+                  f"{lp}.self_attn.k_proj.weight",
+                  f"{lp}.self_attn.v_proj.weight"], dim=0),
+             qkv_tx,
+             TensorList("_llm_qkv_w"), scale_into=scale_into),
+        # ── O projection (no bias) ──
+        Item("o_w", f"{lp}.self_attn.o_proj.weight",
+             o_tx,
+             TensorList("_llm_o_w"), scale_into=scale_into),
+        # ── Fused GateUp ──
+        Item("gu_w",
+             FusedGateUp(gate=f"{lp}.mlp.gate_proj.weight",
+                         up=f"{lp}.mlp.up_proj.weight"),
+             gu_tx,
+             TensorList("_llm_gu_w"), scale_into=scale_into),
+        # ── Down projection ──
+        Item("d_w", f"{lp}.mlp.down_proj.weight",
+             d_tx,
+             TensorList("_llm_d_w"), scale_into=scale_into),
+        # ── Layer norms ──
+        Item("input_ln_w", f"{lp}.input_layernorm.weight",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_input_ln_w")),
+        Item("post_ln_w", f"{lp}.post_attention_layernorm.weight",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_post_ln_w")),
+        # ── Per-head Q/K Norm ──
+        Item("q_norm_w", f"{lp}.self_attn.q_norm.weight",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_q_norm_w")),
+        Item("q_norm_b", f"{lp}.self_attn.q_norm.bias",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_q_norm_b")),
+        Item("k_norm_w", f"{lp}.self_attn.k_norm.weight",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_k_norm_w")),
+        Item("k_norm_b", f"{lp}.self_attn.k_norm.bias",
+             [ToFp16()], TensorList("_llm_k_norm_b")),
+    ]
+    return LayerBlock(prefix_fmt="", num_layers=32, items=items, name="llm")
+
+
+def build_spec(*, use_fp8: bool = True) -> ModelWeightSpec:
+    """Build the standalone Chameleon-7B Thor weight spec."""
+    return ModelWeightSpec(
+        framework="torch",
+        blocks=[_llm_block(use_fp8=use_fp8)],
+        singletons=[
+            Item("embed_w", "model.embed_tokens.weight",
+                 [ToFp16()], Attr("_llm_embed_w")),
+            Item("norm_w", "model.norm.weight",
+                 [ToFp16()], Attr("_llm_norm_w")),
+            Item("lm_head_w", "lm_head.weight",
+                 [ToFp16()], Attr("_llm_lm_head_w")),
+        ],
+    )
+
+
+__all__ = ["build_spec"]
diff --git a/flash_rt/frontends/torch/chameleon_rtx_sm87.py b/flash_rt/frontends/torch/chameleon_rtx_sm87.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cf5f582a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/frontends/torch/chameleon_rtx_sm87.py
@@ -0,0 +1,721 @@
+"""FlashRT — upstream Chameleon-7B VLM frontend for Jetson AGX Orin (SM87).
+
+Image+text -> text. Constructed directly (**not** via ``flash_rt.load_model``):
+this is a chat-style VLM exposing ``set_prompt()`` + ``generate()``, whereas
+``VLAModel.predict`` unconditionally reads ``result['actions']``. Same precedent
+as ``qwen3_vl`` — see the redirect in ``flash_rt/api.py``.
+
+Production precision policy (all defaults)
+------------------------------------------
+* **Q/K/V/O, FFN gate/up** — INT8 W8A8 **+ Hadamard rotation** (QuaRot at 8
+  bits): weights rotated offline, activations rotated inside the fused norm
+  kernel; per-row dynamic activation scales.
+* **FFN down** — INT8 W8A8 per-row dynamic. Not rotated: K=11008 is not a power
+  of two and its input is the un-rotated BF16 SiLU output.
+* **lm_head** (65536x4096) — INT8 W8A8. 268 MB/token = 3.7 % of the decode
+  budget; FP16 would double that for no measured argmax benefit.
+* **residual / QK-LayerNorm / RoPE / attention / KV cache** — FP16, with
+  ``ffn_down_clamp`` applied on the last ``ffn_down_clamp_last_n`` layers.
+* **attention** — FA2 fp16 causal; ``split_kv_bias=4`` on decode, because FA2's
+  own heuristic returns ``num_splits=1`` at Chameleon's 32 Q heads.
+* **VQ-GAN encoder** — FP16 convs + **fp32** codebook distance/argmin.
+
+Measured (ISL=1032, OSL=16, warm): greedy output **bit-identical to the HF bf16
+reference for 16/16 tokens**, worst per-layer cosine 0.9986, last-row logit
+cosine 0.999968, **21.07 tok/s** decode, 273.8 ms prefill, 7.6 GB resident.
+
+Two non-obvious *correctness* requirements
+------------------------------------------
+1. **The Hadamard rotation is not an optimization.** Chameleon's
+   massive-activation channels (measured: L31 row-0 channel d632 at 2.4e4 against
+   a row median of 1e4) pin the per-row INT8 amax and round that row's other
+   ~4090 channels to zero. Plain per-row INT8 reproduces only 8/16 reference
+   tokens; rotating fixes it. It is free because it preserves per-row scales, so
+   the stock ``cutlass_int8_rowwise_*`` GEMMs are reused unchanged.
+2. **``ffn_down_clamp`` is not a tuning knob.** L31's down output reaches 2.6e5,
+   past FP16's 65504; without the clamp the residual stores ``inf`` and the final
+   RMSNorm poisons that row. See ``models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py``.
+
+Dim policy: backbone dims (32 layers / 4096 / 32 heads / 11008 / vocab 65536) and
+the special token ids are **hard-asserted** against ``config.json``, so this
+frontend is Chameleon-7B-specific by construction rather than by convention.
+Note ``config.json``'s ``bos_token_id`` is stale (says 1, which is ``<pad>``);
+``tokenizer.json`` gives ``<s> = 0`` and that is what the processor emits.
+
+Preprocessing specifics
+-----------------------
+Chameleon needs PIL LANCZOS / 512 / ``u8*0.0078-1.0`` -> ``[-1, +0.989]``
+normalization and a bare 1024-token raster per image (no grid/newline
+layout); the quantizers live in ``_chameleon_quant``.
+
+See ``docs/chameleon7b_rtx_sm87.md`` for the roofline, the measured lever menu,
+and the dead-ends.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import logging
+import os
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import List, Optional, Sequence
+
+import torch
+
+import flash_rt.flash_rt_kernels as fvk
+from flash_rt.frontends.torch import _chameleon_quant as cq
+from flash_rt.frontends.torch._chameleon_rtx_sm87_spec import build_spec
+from flash_rt.hardware.rtx.attn_backend_chameleon import (
+    ChameleonAttnBackend, make_chameleon_attention_spec)
+from flash_rt.models.chameleon.pipeline_rtx import chameleon_forward
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+_FP16 = torch.float16
+_BF16 = torch.bfloat16
+
+
+class ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87:
+    """Chameleon-7B image+text → text on Orin SM87.
+
+    Typical use::
+
+        f = ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87("/path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT")
+        f.set_prompt("<image>Describe this image.", images=[pil_img])
+        print(f.generate(max_new_tokens=32))
+    """
+
+    # Token ids for this checkpoint. Hardcoded so an accelerated deployment does
+    # not depend on the training code being importable, but asserted against
+    # config.json at load so a different checkpoint fails loudly (principle #10).
+    BOS_ID = 0
+    EOS_ID = 2
+    IMG_PLACEHOLDER_ID = 8711      # <image>
+    BOI_ID = 8197                  # <racm3:break>
+    EOI_ID = 8196                  # <eoss>
+    SEP_ID = 8710                  # <reserved08706>
+    IMG_ID_OFFSET = 4              # token_id = codebook_index + 4
+    N_IMG_CODES = 8192
+    IMG_TOKENS_PER_VIEW = 1024     # 512/16 = 32 -> 32x32 raster
+
+    # Chameleon-7B backbone dims — hard-asserted against config.json.
+    D = 4096
+    L = 32
+    H = 32
+    HKV = 32
+    HD = 128
+    DFF = 11008
+    VOCAB = 65536
+
+    def __init__(self, checkpoint_dir: str, *,
+                 max_seq: int = 2048,
+                 use_int4: bool = False,
+                 use_int4_down: bool = False,
+                 use_hadamard: bool = True,
+                 split_kv_bias: int = 4,
+                 ffn_down_clamp: Optional[float] = None,
+                 vq_argmin_fp32: bool = True,
+                 free_fp16_weights: bool = True,
+                 probe_layers: Optional[Sequence[int]] = None,
+                 **_ignored) -> None:
+        cc = torch.cuda.get_device_capability(0)
+        if cc != (8, 7) and os.environ.get("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_SM87_FORCE") != "1":
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87 targets SM87 (Orin); found SM{cc[0]}{cc[1]}. "
+                "The INT8/INT4 path needs ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS=ON. Set "
+                "FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_SM87_FORCE=1 to override.")
+
+        self.checkpoint_dir = Path(checkpoint_dir)
+        self.max_seq = int(max_seq)
+        self.use_int4_down = bool(use_int4_down)
+        self.use_int4 = bool(use_int4) or self.use_int4_down
+        # W8A8+QuaRot: Hadamard-rotate the six K=4096 projections and quantize
+        # at 8 bits. Conditions the massive-activation channels (which plain
+        # per-row INT8 cannot handle) without INT4's noise, and keeps per-row
+        # scales so the stock CUTLASS GEMM is reused. Ignored on the INT4 tier,
+        # which already rotates.
+        self.use_hadamard = bool(use_hadamard) and not self.use_int4
+        self.vq_argmin_fp32 = bool(vq_argmin_fp32)
+        # Required for correctness: L31's down output reaches ~2.6e5, far past
+        # FP16's 65504. See chameleon_forward's docstring for the measured
+        # per-layer table and docs/chameleon_acceleration_methodology.md §2.1.
+        self.ffn_down_clamp = float(
+            os.environ.get("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_DOWN_CLAMP", "60000.0")
+            if ffn_down_clamp is None else ffn_down_clamp)
+        self.ffn_down_clamp_last_n = int(
+            os.environ.get("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_DOWN_CLAMP_LAST_N", "4"))
+        self._probe_layers = list(probe_layers) if probe_layers else []
+
+        self._validate_config()
+        t0 = time.perf_counter()
+        self._load_weights(free_fp16_weights=free_fp16_weights)
+        self._build_rope_tables()
+        self._allocate_buffers()
+        self._build_attn_backend(split_kv_bias=split_kv_bias)
+        self._load_processor()
+        self._load_vqgan()
+
+        # Prompt state.
+        self.input_ids: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
+        self.S = 0
+        self._prompt_ready = False
+        self._timing: dict = {}
+
+        logger.info(
+            "ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87 ready in %.1fs — tier=%s max_seq=%d "
+            "gpu_mem=%.2f GB",
+            time.perf_counter() - t0, self.precision_tier, self.max_seq,
+            torch.cuda.memory_allocated() / 2 ** 30)
+
+    # ==================================================================
+    # Load
+    # ==================================================================
+
+    @property
+    def precision_tier(self) -> str:
+        if self.use_int4_down:
+            return "int4+down"
+        if self.use_int4:
+            return "int4"
+        return "int8+hadamard" if self.use_hadamard else "int8"
+
+    def _validate_config(self) -> None:
+        cfg = json.loads((self.checkpoint_dir / "config.json").read_text())
+        expect = {
+            "hidden_size": self.D, "num_hidden_layers": self.L,
+            "num_attention_heads": self.H, "num_key_value_heads": self.HKV,
+            "intermediate_size": self.DFF, "vocab_size": self.VOCAB,
+        }
+        for k, want in expect.items():
+            got = cfg.get(k)
+            if got != want:
+                raise RuntimeError(
+                    f"config.json {k}={got}, this frontend hardcodes {want}. "
+                    "Chameleon-7B only.")
+        if cfg.get("attention_bias") or cfg.get("mlp_bias"):
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "This frontend assumes attention_bias=false and mlp_bias=false "
+                "(upstream Chameleon). A biased checkpoint needs the *_bias "
+                "GEMM entries wired back in.")
+        if cfg.get("model_parallel_size", 1) != 1:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"model_parallel_size={cfg.get('model_parallel_size')}: the "
+                "QK-Norm params would differ per head group, but "
+                "qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16 broadcasts one [head_dim] vector "
+                "across all heads. Only the 7B (mp=1) layout is supported.")
+        if self.max_seq > cfg.get("max_position_embeddings", 4096):
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"max_seq={self.max_seq} exceeds max_position_embeddings="
+                f"{cfg['max_position_embeddings']}")
+
+        # Token-id contract. config.json's bos_token_id is stale (says 1, which
+        # is <pad>); tokenizer.json is authoritative and gives <s> = 0.
+        vm = cfg.get("vocabulary_map") or {}
+        for tok, want in (("<image>", self.IMG_PLACEHOLDER_ID),
+                          ("<racm3:break>", self.BOI_ID),
+                          ("<eoss>", self.EOI_ID),
+                          ("<reserved08706>", self.SEP_ID)):
+            if vm.get(tok) != want:
+                raise RuntimeError(
+                    f"token id mismatch: {tok} is {vm.get(tok)} in config.json, "
+                    f"expected {want}")
+        img_ids = sorted(v for k, v in vm.items() if k.startswith("IMGIMG"))
+        if (len(img_ids) != self.N_IMG_CODES
+                or img_ids[0] != self.IMG_ID_OFFSET
+                or img_ids[-1] != self.IMG_ID_OFFSET + self.N_IMG_CODES - 1):
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"expected {self.N_IMG_CODES} contiguous IMGIMG ids starting at "
+                f"{self.IMG_ID_OFFSET}; got {len(img_ids)} spanning "
+                f"[{img_ids[0]}, {img_ids[-1]}]")
+        self._config = cfg
+
+    def _load_weights(self, *, free_fp16_weights: bool) -> None:
+        from flash_rt.executors.torch_weights import (
+            MultiSafetensorsSource, WeightLoader)
+
+        shards = sorted(self.checkpoint_dir.glob("model-*-of-*.safetensors"))
+        if not shards:
+            shards = sorted(self.checkpoint_dir.glob("*.safetensors"))
+        if not shards:
+            raise FileNotFoundError(f"no safetensors in {self.checkpoint_dir}")
+
+        src = MultiSafetensorsSource([str(p) for p in shards], device="cuda")
+        WeightLoader(source=src, target=self, spec=build_spec()).run()
+        del src
+
+        proj = cq.split_fused_projections(
+            self._llm_qkv_w, self._llm_gu_w, self._llm_o_w, self._llm_d_w,
+            D=self.D, Dff=self.DFF)
+        # The fused tensors are dead once split; release before quantizing so
+        # the peak is (fp16 split + int8) rather than (fused + split + int8).
+        self._llm_qkv_w = []
+        self._llm_gu_w = []
+        torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+
+        self.qw = cq.quantize_int8_all(proj, num_layers=self.L)
+        if self.use_int4:
+            cq.quantize_int4_quarot(self.qw, proj, num_layers=self.L, D=self.D,
+                                    include_down=self.use_int4_down)
+        elif self.use_hadamard:
+            cq.quantize_int8_hadamard(self.qw, proj, num_layers=self.L, D=self.D)
+
+        # lm_head: INT8 in both tiers (see pipeline docstring for the ROI).
+        self._lm_head_q, self._lm_head_s = cq.quantize_per_row_int8(
+            self._llm_lm_head_w.t().contiguous())      # [V, D] -> [K=D, N=V]
+
+        if free_fp16_weights:
+            for key in cq.PROJECTIONS:
+                proj[key] = []
+            self._llm_o_w = []
+            self._llm_d_w = []
+            self._llm_lm_head_w = None
+            torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+
+        logger.info("weights: %.2f GB quantized (%s) + %.2f GB lm_head int8 + "
+                    "%.2f GB embed fp16",
+                    self.qw.bytes() / 2 ** 30, self.precision_tier,
+                    self._lm_head_q.numel() / 2 ** 30,
+                    self._llm_embed_w.numel() * 2 / 2 ** 30)
+
+    def _build_rope_tables(self) -> None:
+        """cos/sin as ``[max_seq, HD]`` fp16, ``cat([f, f], -1)`` tiled.
+
+        The kernel reads ``cos[s*HD + d]`` for d in ``[0, HD)``, so the
+        half-frequencies must be duplicated across the two halves; a
+        ``[max_seq, HD/2]`` table indexes out of stride and corrupts RoPE. Being
+        row-major with stride exactly HD is also what lets a decode step select
+        position ``pos`` by pointer arithmetic alone.
+        """
+        theta = float(self._config.get("rope_theta", 10000.0))
+        inv = 1.0 / (theta ** (torch.arange(0, self.HD, 2, dtype=torch.float32,
+                                            device="cuda") / self.HD))
+        pos = torch.arange(self.max_seq, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float32)
+        f = pos[:, None] * inv[None, :]
+        full = torch.cat([f, f], dim=-1)
+        self._rope_cos = torch.cos(full).to(_FP16).contiguous()
+        self._rope_sin = torch.sin(full).to(_FP16).contiguous()
+
+    def _allocate_buffers(self) -> None:
+        MS, D, Dff, V = self.max_seq, self.D, self.DFF, self.VOCAB
+        dev = "cuda"
+        z = lambda *sh, dt: torch.zeros(*sh, dtype=dt, device=dev)  # noqa: E731
+
+        self._x = z(MS, D, dt=_FP16)                  # residual stream
+        self._xn = z(MS, D, dt=_FP16)                 # final-norm output
+        self._o_proj_out = z(MS, D, dt=_FP16)
+        self._int8_act_d = z(MS, D, dt=torch.int8)
+        self._int8_act_ff = z(MS, Dff, dt=torch.int8)
+        self._bf16_gate_ff = z(MS, Dff, dt=_BF16)
+        self._bf16_xn_ff = z(MS, Dff, dt=_BF16)
+        self._int4_act_d = z(MS, D // 2, dt=torch.uint8) if self.use_int4 else None
+        self._int4_act_ff = (z(MS, Dff // 2, dt=torch.uint8)
+                             if self.use_int4_down else None)
+
+        # Dynamic per-row activation scales — one shared [MS] vector per quant
+        # site, reused by every layer (decode never uses static calibration:
+        # that was fitted at prefill M=Se and does not describe one decode row).
+        self._act_scale = {k: z(MS, dt=torch.float32)
+                           for k in ("qkv", "o", "gu", "down")}
+        self._lm_act = z(MS, D, dt=torch.int8)
+        self._lm_act_scale = z(MS, dt=torch.float32)
+        self._logits = z(1, V, dt=_BF16)
+        self._logits_all: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None
+        self._bf16_min = torch.finfo(_BF16).min
+
+        self._probe_bufs = [z(MS, D, dt=_FP16) for _ in self._probe_layers]
+        self._probe_final = z(MS, D, dt=_FP16) if self._probe_layers else None
+
+        self._tok_dev = z(1, dt=torch.long)
+
+    def _build_attn_backend(self, *, split_kv_bias: int) -> None:
+        spec = make_chameleon_attention_spec(
+            num_layers=self.L, num_q_heads=self.H, num_kv_heads=self.HKV,
+            head_dim=self.HD, max_seq=self.max_seq)
+        self.attn = ChameleonAttnBackend(spec, max_seq=self.max_seq,
+                                        split_kv_bias=split_kv_bias)
+
+    def _load_processor(self) -> None:
+        """Use the HF ChameleonProcessor verbatim.
+
+        Reimplementing it is a correctness liability: the pipeline is
+        blend-RGBA-on-white → PIL **LANCZOS** shortest-edge 512 → center-crop
+        512 → ``float32(float64(u8) * 0.0078) - 1.0``, giving ``[-1, +0.989]``
+        (note: *not* ``[-1, 1]``). ``ChameleonImageProcessorFast`` silently
+        substitutes BICUBIC for LANCZOS, so the slow/PIL path is required — it
+        is what ``preprocessor_config.json`` selects by default, and it runs
+        once per image outside any graph.
+        """
+        from transformers import AutoProcessor
+        self.processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(str(self.checkpoint_dir))
+        if int(getattr(self.processor, "image_seq_length", 0)) != self.IMG_TOKENS_PER_VIEW:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"processor image_seq_length="
+                f"{self.processor.image_seq_length}, expected "
+                f"{self.IMG_TOKENS_PER_VIEW}")
+
+    def _load_vqgan(self) -> None:
+        """Load the HF ``ChameleonVQVAE`` encoder from the checkpoint shards."""
+        from safetensors.torch import load_file
+        from transformers import ChameleonConfig, ChameleonVQVAE
+
+        index = self.checkpoint_dir / "model.safetensors.index.json"
+        prefix = "model.vqmodel."
+        sd = {}
+        if index.exists():
+            wmap = json.loads(index.read_text())["weight_map"]
+            keys = [k for k in wmap if k.startswith(prefix)]
+            for shard in sorted({wmap[k] for k in keys}):
+                full = load_file(str(self.checkpoint_dir / shard))
+                for k in keys:
+                    if k in full:
+                        sd[k[len(prefix):]] = full[k]
+                del full
+        if not sd:
+            raise FileNotFoundError(
+                f"no {prefix}* weights found under {self.checkpoint_dir}")
+
+        cfg = ChameleonConfig.from_pretrained(str(self.checkpoint_dir))
+        vq = ChameleonVQVAE._from_config(cfg.vq_config)
+        missing, unexpected = vq.load_state_dict(sd, strict=False)
+        if unexpected:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"unexpected vqmodel keys: {unexpected[:4]}")
+        if missing:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"missing vqmodel keys: {missing[:4]}")
+        self.vqgan = vq.eval().to(device="cuda", dtype=_FP16)
+        # fp32 codebook for the distance/argmin (see _vq_encode).
+        self._vq_codebook_f32 = (
+            self.vqgan.quantize.embedding.weight.detach().float().contiguous())
+        logger.info("VQ-GAN encoder loaded (%d tensors, fp16 convs, "
+                    "argmin in %s)", len(sd),
+                    "fp32" if self.vq_argmin_fp32 else "fp16")
+
+    # ==================================================================
+    # Image tokenization
+    # ==================================================================
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def _vq_encode(self, pixel_values: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """``[N, 3, 512, 512]`` fp32 in ``[-1, 0.989]`` → ``[N, 1024]`` token ids.
+
+        The convs run fp16 but the codebook distance and argmin run **fp32**:
+        ``|z|^2 + |e|^2 - 2 z.e`` is cancellation-prone, and in fp16 it flips
+        codebook indices (measured 98.14 % → 99.02 % index match vs an all-fp32
+        reference for <0.1 ms; see docs §2.4). Tokens are a row-major raster of
+        the 32x32 latent grid, and the id is simply ``code + 4``.
+        """
+        px = pixel_values.to(device="cuda", dtype=_FP16)
+        h = self.vqgan.quant_conv(self.vqgan.encoder(px))
+        if not self.vq_argmin_fp32:
+            _, _, idx = self.vqgan.quantize(h)
+            return idx.view(px.shape[0], -1) + self.IMG_ID_OFFSET
+        e = self._vq_codebook_f32                                  # [n_emb, dim]
+        z = h.permute(0, 2, 3, 1).contiguous().view(-1, e.shape[1]).float()
+        d = z.pow(2).sum(1, keepdim=True) + e.pow(2).sum(1) - 2.0 * (z @ e.t())
+        return d.argmin(1).view(px.shape[0], -1) + self.IMG_ID_OFFSET
+
+    # ==================================================================
+    # Prompt
+    # ==================================================================
+
+    def set_prompt(self, text: str, images=None, *,
+                   input_ids: Optional[Sequence[int]] = None) -> None:
+        """Tokenize, VQ-encode the images, and seed the residual stream.
+
+        Args:
+            text: prompt containing one ``<image>`` per image, e.g.
+                ``"<image>Describe this image."``. The processor expands each
+                placeholder to ``<racm3:break>`` + 1024x ``<image>`` +
+                ``<eoss>``, prepends BOS and appends the sep token.
+            images: list of PIL images (or a single image).
+            input_ids: bypass tokenization + VQ entirely and use these ids
+                verbatim. Used by the precision harness to feed the reference's
+                exact ids, which isolates LLM error from VQ-GAN index drift.
+        """
+        t0 = time.perf_counter()
+        if input_ids is not None:
+            ids = torch.as_tensor(list(input_ids), dtype=torch.long, device="cuda")
+            n_img = 0
+        else:
+            if images is not None and not isinstance(images, (list, tuple)):
+                images = [images]
+            n_text_img = text.count("<image>")
+            if images and n_text_img != len(images):
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"text has {n_text_img} '<image>' placeholders but "
+                    f"{len(images)} images were given")
+            enc = self.processor(text=text, images=images if images else None,
+                                 return_tensors="pt")
+            ids = enc["input_ids"][0].to("cuda")
+            n_img = 0
+            if images:
+                img_ids = self._vq_encode(enc["pixel_values"])       # [N, 1024]
+                n_img = img_ids.shape[0]
+                # Upstream substitutes at the id level: masked_scatter over
+                # input_ids == <image>. Order is row-major per image, images in
+                # order, which matches the placeholder order in the string.
+                slot = ids == self.IMG_PLACEHOLDER_ID
+                want = n_img * self.IMG_TOKENS_PER_VIEW
+                if int(slot.sum()) != want:
+                    raise RuntimeError(
+                        f"{int(slot.sum())} <image> placeholders vs {want} "
+                        "VQ tokens")
+                ids = ids.masked_scatter(slot, img_ids.reshape(-1).to(ids.dtype))
+
+        S = int(ids.numel())
+        if S > self.max_seq:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"prompt is {S} tokens but max_seq={self.max_seq}. Note "
+                f"S = 1 + n_img*1026 + n_text + 1.")
+        if S + 1 > self.max_seq:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"prompt {S} tokens leaves no room to decode within "
+                f"max_seq={self.max_seq}")
+
+        # NOTE: S is used exactly, never padded. Padding would put junk rows in
+        # the KV cache that decode would then attend to (a prefill path without a KV cache would pad Se to even).
+        self.input_ids = ids
+        self.S = S
+        self.attn.reset_cache()
+        # Seed the residual stream. No sqrt(D) scaling — Chameleon feeds raw
+        # embeddings, and image tokens are ordinary vocab rows (no projector).
+        torch.index_select(self._llm_embed_w, 0, ids, out=self._x[:S])
+        self._prompt_ready = True
+        self._timing = {"prompt_ms": (time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1e3,
+                        "S": S, "n_images": n_img}
+
+    # ==================================================================
+    # Forward
+    # ==================================================================
+
+    def _dims(self) -> dict:
+        return {"D": self.D, "Dff": self.DFF, "L": self.L, "H": self.H,
+                "Hd": self.HD, "vocab": self.VOCAB}
+
+    def _bufs(self, *, logits_ptr: int) -> dict:
+        return {
+            "x": self._x.data_ptr(),
+            "xn": self._xn.data_ptr(),
+            "o_proj_out": self._o_proj_out.data_ptr(),
+            "int8_act_d": self._int8_act_d.data_ptr(),
+            "int8_act_ff": self._int8_act_ff.data_ptr(),
+            "int4_act_d": self._int4_act_d.data_ptr() if self.use_int4 else 0,
+            "int4_act_ff": (self._int4_act_ff.data_ptr()
+                            if self.use_int4_down else 0),
+            "bf16_gate_ff": self._bf16_gate_ff.data_ptr(),
+            "bf16_xn_ff": self._bf16_xn_ff.data_ptr(),
+            "logits": logits_ptr,
+            "lm_act": self._lm_act.data_ptr(),
+            "lm_act_scale": self._lm_act_scale.data_ptr(),
+        }
+
+    def _weights(self) -> dict:
+        w = {
+            "rope_cos": self._rope_cos.data_ptr(),
+            "rope_sin": self._rope_sin.data_ptr(),
+            "final_norm_w": self._llm_norm_w.data_ptr(),
+            "lm_head_w": self._lm_head_q.data_ptr(),
+            "lm_head_w_scale": self._lm_head_s.data_ptr(),
+            "input_ln_w": [t.data_ptr() for t in self._llm_input_ln_w],
+            "post_ln_w": [t.data_ptr() for t in self._llm_post_ln_w],
+            "q_norm_w": [t.data_ptr() for t in self._llm_q_norm_w],
+            "q_norm_b": [t.data_ptr() for t in self._llm_q_norm_b],
+            "k_norm_w": [t.data_ptr() for t in self._llm_k_norm_w],
+            "k_norm_b": [t.data_ptr() for t in self._llm_k_norm_b],
+        }
+        for key in cq.PROJECTIONS:
+            w[f"{key}_w"] = self.qw.ptr[key]
+            w[f"{key}_w_scale"] = self.qw.scale_ptr[key]
+        return w
+
+    def _scales_dev(self) -> dict:
+        return {f"act_{k}": [v.data_ptr()] * self.L
+                for k, v in self._act_scale.items()}
+
+    def _probe(self) -> Optional[dict]:
+        if not self._probe_layers:
+            return None
+        return {"layers": self._probe_layers,
+                "bufs": [b.data_ptr() for b in self._probe_bufs],
+                "final_buf": self._probe_final.data_ptr()}
+
+    def _require_prompt(self) -> None:
+        if not self._prompt_ready:
+            raise RuntimeError("call set_prompt() before prefill()/generate()")
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def prefill(self, *, logits_all: bool = False) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Run the prompt through the 32 layers, filling the KV cache.
+
+        Returns the masked BF16 logits: ``[1, vocab]`` for the last position, or
+        ``[S, vocab]`` when ``logits_all`` (teacher-forced comparison).
+        """
+        self._require_prompt()
+        t0 = time.perf_counter()
+        if logits_all:
+            if self._logits_all is None or self._logits_all.shape[0] < self.S:
+                self._logits_all = torch.zeros(self.max_seq, self.VOCAB,
+                                               dtype=_BF16, device="cuda")
+            out = self._logits_all[:self.S]
+            logits_ptr = self._logits_all.data_ptr()
+        else:
+            out = self._logits
+            logits_ptr = self._logits.data_ptr()
+
+        chameleon_forward(
+            fvk, self._bufs(logits_ptr=logits_ptr), self._weights(),
+            self._dims(), self._scales_dev(),
+            attn=self.attn, S=self.S, pos=None, stream=0,
+            use_int4=self.use_int4, use_int4_down=self.use_int4_down,
+            use_hadamard=self.use_hadamard,
+            ffn_down_clamp_value=self.ffn_down_clamp,
+            ffn_down_clamp_last_n=self.ffn_down_clamp_last_n,
+            logits_all=logits_all, probe=self._probe())
+        self._mask_image_logits(out)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        self._timing["prefill_ms"] = (time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1e3
+        return out
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def decode_step(self, token_id, *, pos: int, stream: int = 0) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """One decode step: embed ``token_id``, attend keys ``[0, pos]``.
+
+        ``pos`` is the absolute KV position this token occupies, i.e. ``S`` for
+        the first generated token.
+
+        ``stream`` must be the capture stream when this body is being recorded
+        into a CUDA graph. Launching the kernels on the legacy default stream
+        while another stream is capturing leaves them **out** of the graph
+        without raising — the replay then only re-runs the torch ops and the
+        logits never change, which looks exactly like a frozen/stale graph.
+        """
+        self._require_prompt()
+        if isinstance(token_id, torch.Tensor):
+            self._tok_dev.copy_(token_id.reshape(1).to(torch.long))
+        else:
+            self._tok_dev.fill_(int(token_id))
+        torch.index_select(self._llm_embed_w, 0, self._tok_dev, out=self._x[:1])
+        chameleon_forward(
+            fvk, self._bufs(logits_ptr=self._logits.data_ptr()), self._weights(),
+            self._dims(), self._scales_dev(),
+            attn=self.attn, S=1, pos=int(pos), stream=int(stream),
+            use_int4=self.use_int4, use_int4_down=self.use_int4_down,
+            use_hadamard=self.use_hadamard,
+            ffn_down_clamp_value=self.ffn_down_clamp,
+            ffn_down_clamp_last_n=self.ffn_down_clamp_last_n)
+        self._mask_image_logits(self._logits)
+        return self._logits
+
+    def _mask_image_logits(self, logits: torch.Tensor) -> None:
+        """Suppress the 8192 image-codebook ids, as upstream does every forward.
+
+        Upstream applies this inside ``forward`` at *all* positions, so it is
+        not something a ``LogitsProcessor`` could be used for and it cannot be
+        disabled through the generation config.
+        """
+        lo = self.IMG_ID_OFFSET
+        logits[:, lo:lo + self.N_IMG_CODES].fill_(self._bf16_min)
+
+    # ==================================================================
+    # Generate
+    # ==================================================================
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def generate(self, text: Optional[str] = None, images=None, *,
+                 max_new_tokens: int = 32, eos_token_id: Optional[int] = None,
+                 return_ids: bool = False, skip_special_tokens: bool = True):
+        """Greedy decode. Returns the decoded string (or the raw id list).
+
+        Greedy only: the checkpoint's generation config is already
+        ``do_sample=False``, and argmax over BF16 logits is order-preserving, so
+        it matches an fp32 argmax except on exact BF16 ties.
+        """
+        if text is not None:
+            self.set_prompt(text, images)
+        self._require_prompt()
+        if max_new_tokens < 0:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"max_new_tokens must be >= 0, got {max_new_tokens}")
+        if max_new_tokens == 0:
+            return [] if return_ids else ""
+        eos = self.EOS_ID if eos_token_id is None else int(eos_token_id)
+        budget = min(max_new_tokens, self.max_seq - self.S)
+        if budget < max_new_tokens:
+            logger.warning("max_new_tokens clipped %d -> %d by max_seq=%d",
+                           max_new_tokens, budget, self.max_seq)
+
+        logits = self.prefill()
+        tok = int(torch.argmax(logits[0]).item())
+        out: List[int] = [tok]
+
+        t0 = time.perf_counter()
+        steps = 0
+        for i in range(budget - 1):
+            if tok == eos:
+                break
+            logits = self.decode_step(tok, pos=self.S + i)
+            tok = int(torch.argmax(logits[0]).item())
+            out.append(tok)
+            steps += 1
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        dt = time.perf_counter() - t0
+        self._timing["decode_steps"] = steps
+        self._timing["decode_ms_per_token"] = (dt / steps * 1e3) if steps else 0.0
+        self._timing["decode_tok_s"] = (steps / dt) if dt > 0 else 0.0
+
+        if out and out[-1] == eos:
+            out = out[:-1]
+        if return_ids:
+            return out
+        return self.processor.tokenizer.decode(
+            out, skip_special_tokens=skip_special_tokens)
+
+    # ==================================================================
+    # Introspection
+    # ==================================================================
+
+    def snapshot_probe(self) -> dict:
+        """Per-layer post-residual hidden states captured during the last forward."""
+        if not self._probe_layers:
+            return {}
+        S = self.S
+        out = {f"layer_{li}": b[:S].clone()
+               for li, b in zip(self._probe_layers, self._probe_bufs)}
+        out["final_norm"] = self._probe_final[:S].clone()
+        return out
+
+    def reset(self) -> None:
+        self.attn.reset_cache()
+        self._prompt_ready = False
+        self.input_ids = None
+        self.S = 0
+
+    @property
+    def timing(self) -> dict:
+        return dict(self._timing)
+
+    def precision_spec(self) -> dict:
+        return {
+            "tier": self.precision_tier,
+            "llm_gemms": dict(self.qw.precision),
+            "lm_head": "int8",
+            "residual": "fp16",
+            "attention": "fp16 FA2 causal (split_kv_bias="
+                         f"{self.attn.split_kv_bias})",
+            "kv_cache": "fp16",
+            "ffn_down_clamp": f"{self.ffn_down_clamp:.0f} on last {self.ffn_down_clamp_last_n} layers",
+            "vqgan": f"fp16 convs, argmin "
+                     f"{'fp32' if self.vq_argmin_fp32 else 'fp16'}",
+        }
+
+    def get_model_info(self) -> dict:
+        return {
+            "model": "chameleon-7b", "arch": "rtx_sm87",
+            "layers": self.L, "hidden": self.D, "ffn": self.DFF,
+            "heads": f"{self.H}Q/{self.HKV}KV", "head_dim": self.HD,
+            "vocab": self.VOCAB, "max_seq": self.max_seq,
+            "precision": self.precision_spec(),
+        }
+
+
+__all__ = ["ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87"]
diff --git a/flash_rt/frontends/torch/chameleon_thor.py b/flash_rt/frontends/torch/chameleon_thor.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..67006188
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/frontends/torch/chameleon_thor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,930 @@
+"""Standalone Chameleon-7B frontend for Jetson Thor (SM110).
+
+Direct-use VLM/LLM frontend: text + real images -> Chameleon prefill logits
+and incremental KV-cache greedy generation. It uses the Chameleon
+Thor dynamic-FP8 pipeline and causal FMHA attention backend.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import ctypes
+import json
+import logging
+import math
+import os
+import pathlib
+from typing import List, Optional
+
+import numpy as np
+import PIL
+from PIL import Image as _PILImage
+import torch
+
+import flash_rt.flash_rt_kernels as fvk
+try:
+    import flash_rt.flash_rt_fp4 as fvk_fp4
+except Exception:
+    fvk_fp4 = None
+from flash_rt.hardware.thor.attn_backend_chameleon import (
+    ThorChameleonAttnBackend,
+    make_chameleon_attention_spec,
+)
+from flash_rt.models.chameleon.pipeline_thor import (
+    chameleon_decode_step,
+    chameleon_forward,
+    chameleon_forward_calibrate,
+    chameleon_forward_fp16,
+)
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+fp16 = torch.float16
+fp8 = torch.float8_e4m3fn
+_cudart = ctypes.CDLL("libcudart.so")
+
+D_LLM = 4096
+NH_LLM = 32
+HD_LLM = 128
+L_LLM = 32
+DFF_LLM = 11008
+VOCAB_SIZE = 65536
+ROPE_THETA = 10000.0
+
+# Chameleon image/text special ids from the shipped vocabulary_map.
+PAD_ID = 1
+EOS_ID = 2
+IMG_START_ID = 8197      # <racm3:break>
+IMG_END_ID = 8196        # <eoss>
+NEWLINE_ID = 8803
+GRID_TOK_BASE = 8804
+PATCH_SIZE = 32
+
+
+class ChameleonTorchFrontendThor:
+    """Standalone Chameleon-7B Thor prefill frontend."""
+
+    #: Required CUDA capability (Jetson Thor SM110) and the documented
+    #: dev override that skips the probe. Mirrors the Orin frontend's gate.
+    _REQUIRED_CAPABILITY = (11, 0)
+    _FORCE_ARCH_ENV = "FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_THOR_FORCE"
+
+    def _require_arch(self) -> None:
+        if os.environ.get(self._FORCE_ARCH_ENV) == "1":
+            return  # explicit documented dev override: skip the probe
+        if not torch.cuda.is_available():
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "ChameleonTorchFrontendThor requires a Jetson Thor SM110 CUDA "
+                "device; CUDA is not available.")
+        cc = torch.cuda.get_device_capability(0)
+        if cc != self._REQUIRED_CAPABILITY:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"ChameleonTorchFrontendThor targets SM110 (Thor); found "
+                f"SM{cc[0]}{cc[1]}. The FP8 path needs the Thor kernel set. "
+                f"Set {self._FORCE_ARCH_ENV}=1 to override for development.")
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        checkpoint_dir: str,
+        *,
+        use_fp8: bool = True,
+        use_cuda_graph: bool = True,
+        max_seq: int = 4096,
+        target_size: int = 512,
+        tokenizer_path: Optional[str] = None,
+        vqgan_path: Optional[str] = None,
+        use_trt_vqgan: bool = False,
+        trt_vqgan_engine_dir: Optional[str] = None,
+        use_autotune: bool = True,
+        ffn_clamp_layers: Optional[List[int]] = None,
+        fp4_ffn_layers: Optional[List[int]] = None,
+        use_fa4_attn: Optional[bool] = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        self._require_arch()
+        self.checkpoint_dir = pathlib.Path(checkpoint_dir).expanduser().resolve()
+        if not self.checkpoint_dir.exists():
+            raise FileNotFoundError(f"checkpoint_dir not found: {self.checkpoint_dir}")
+        self._use_fp8 = bool(use_fp8)
+        self._use_cuda_graph = bool(use_cuda_graph)
+        self._max_pos = int(max_seq)
+        self.target_size = int(target_size)
+        self.tokenizer_path = tokenizer_path
+        self.vqgan_path = vqgan_path
+        self._use_trt_vqgan = bool(use_trt_vqgan)
+        self._trt_vqgan_engine_dir = trt_vqgan_engine_dir
+        self._trt_vqgan_backend = None
+        self._vqgan_backend = "eager"
+        self._trt_stream = torch.cuda.Stream() if self._use_trt_vqgan else None
+        self._infer_graph = None
+        self._captured_Se = None
+        self._last_input_ids: Optional[list[int]] = None
+        self.Se: Optional[int] = None
+        self._real_len: int = 0
+        self._use_autotune = bool(use_autotune)
+        self._autotuned_se: set = set()
+        self._ffn_clamp_layers = self._resolve_ffn_clamp_layers(ffn_clamp_layers)
+        self._fp4_ffn_layers = self._resolve_fp4_ffn_layers(fp4_ffn_layers)
+        if use_fa4_attn is None:
+            use_fa4_attn = os.environ.get("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FA4_ATTN", "0") in ("1", "true", "on")
+        self._use_fa4_attn = bool(use_fa4_attn)
+        self._stream = torch.cuda.current_stream().cuda_stream
+
+        with open(self.checkpoint_dir / "config.json") as f:
+            self.config_json = json.load(f)
+        self._validate_config()
+        self._build_image_token_mask()
+        with open(self.checkpoint_dir / "model.safetensors.index.json") as f:
+            self.weight_index = json.load(f)
+
+        self._load_weights()
+        self._build_rope_tables()
+        self._load_tokenizer()
+        self._load_vqgan()
+        self._allocate_buffers()
+
+        from flash_rt.core.context import FvkContext
+        self._ctx = FvkContext()
+        self._gemm = self._ctx.gemm
+        self._build_attention_backend()
+        if self._use_fa4_attn:
+            self._attn.set_fa4_attn(self._bufs["xn"], self._kv_cache)
+        self._logits_buf.zero_()
+
+        logger.info(
+            "ChameleonTorchFrontendThor init: max_seq=%d target_size=%d fp8=%s graph=%s",
+            self._Se_max, self.target_size, self._use_fp8, self._use_cuda_graph,
+        )
+
+    def _resolve_ffn_clamp_layers(self, layers):
+        spec = os.environ.get("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FFN_CLAMP_LAYERS") \
+            if layers is None else layers
+        if spec is None:
+            return frozenset({31})
+        if isinstance(spec, str):
+            text = spec.strip().lower()
+            if text == "all":
+                return None
+            if text in ("", "none", "off", "false"):
+                return frozenset()
+            out = set()
+            for chunk in text.split(","):
+                chunk = chunk.strip()
+                if not chunk:
+                    continue
+                if "-" in chunk:
+                    a, b = chunk.split("-", 1)
+                    out.update(range(int(a), int(b) + 1))
+                else:
+                    out.add(int(chunk))
+            return frozenset(i for i in out if 0 <= i < L_LLM)
+        return frozenset(int(i) for i in spec if 0 <= int(i) < L_LLM)
+
+    def _resolve_fp4_ffn_layers(self, layers):
+        spec = os.environ.get("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FP4_LAYERS") \
+            if layers is None else layers
+        if spec is None:
+            return frozenset()
+        parsed = self._parse_layer_spec(spec)
+        return frozenset() if parsed is None else parsed
+
+    def _parse_layer_spec(self, spec):
+        if isinstance(spec, str):
+            text = spec.strip().lower()
+            if text == "all":
+                return frozenset(range(L_LLM))
+            if text in ("", "none", "off", "false"):
+                return frozenset()
+            out = set()
+            for chunk in text.split(","):
+                chunk = chunk.strip()
+                if not chunk:
+                    continue
+                if "-" in chunk:
+                    a, b = chunk.split("-", 1)
+                    out.update(range(int(a), int(b) + 1))
+                else:
+                    out.add(int(chunk))
+            return frozenset(i for i in out if 0 <= i < L_LLM)
+        return frozenset(int(i) for i in spec if 0 <= int(i) < L_LLM)
+
+    def _validate_config(self) -> None:
+        c = self.config_json
+        for k, want in (("hidden_size", D_LLM),
+                        ("num_attention_heads", NH_LLM),
+                        ("num_hidden_layers", L_LLM),
+                        ("intermediate_size", DFF_LLM),
+                        ("vocab_size", VOCAB_SIZE)):
+            if int(c[k]) != want:
+                raise ValueError(f"config {k}={c[k]}, expected {want}")
+        if bool(c.get("attention_bias", False)):
+            raise ValueError("standard Chameleon Thor path expects attention_bias=false")
+        if bool(c.get("mlp_bias", False)):
+            raise ValueError("standard Chameleon Thor path expects mlp_bias=false")
+
+    def _build_image_token_mask(self) -> None:
+        """Image-codebook vocab ids to suppress for text generation.
+
+        Mirrors HF ``ChameleonForConditionalGeneration``'s
+        ``mask_image_logits``: without this, greedy decode on a text
+        prompt can emit VQGAN codebook ids (garbage BPE decode) because
+        those ids are heavily represented in training and the raw
+        logit distribution favors them for many contexts.
+        """
+        vocab_map = self.config_json.get("vocabulary_map", {})
+        image_tokens = sorted(
+            v for k, v in vocab_map.items() if k.startswith("IMGIMG"))
+        self._mask_image_logits = bool(self.config_json.get("mask_image_logits", False))
+        if image_tokens:
+            self._image_token_ids = torch.tensor(
+                image_tokens, dtype=torch.long, device="cuda")
+        else:
+            self._image_token_ids = None
+            self._mask_image_logits = False
+
+    def _load_weights(self) -> None:
+        from flash_rt.executors.torch_weights import MultiSafetensorsSource, WeightLoader
+        from flash_rt.frontends.torch._chameleon_thor_spec import build_spec
+
+        shard_paths = sorted(self.checkpoint_dir.glob("model-*-of-*.safetensors"))
+        if not shard_paths:
+            raise FileNotFoundError(f"No safetensors shards in {self.checkpoint_dir}")
+        src = MultiSafetensorsSource([str(p) for p in shard_paths], device="cuda")
+        WeightLoader(source=src, target=self, spec=build_spec(use_fp8=self._use_fp8)).run()
+
+        self._split_fused_llm_weights()
+        self._lm_head_w_t = self._llm_lm_head_w.t().contiguous()
+        if self._use_fp8:
+            self._setup_fp8_weight_scales()
+        self._init_fp4_weight_lists()
+        if self._use_fp8 and self._fp4_ffn_layers:
+            self._quantize_fp4_weights()
+
+    def _split_fused_llm_weights(self) -> None:
+        self._q_w, self._k_w, self._v_w = [], [], []
+        self._gate_w, self._up_w = [], []
+        for li in range(L_LLM):
+            qkv = self._llm_qkv_w[li]
+            self._q_w.append(qkv[:, :D_LLM].contiguous())
+            self._k_w.append(qkv[:, D_LLM:2 * D_LLM].contiguous())
+            self._v_w.append(qkv[:, 2 * D_LLM:].contiguous())
+
+            gu = self._llm_gu_w[li]
+            self._gate_w.append(gu[:, :DFF_LLM].contiguous())
+            self._up_w.append(gu[:, DFF_LLM:].contiguous())
+
+            self._llm_q_norm_w[li] = self._llm_q_norm_w[li].reshape(-1).contiguous()
+            self._llm_q_norm_b[li] = self._llm_q_norm_b[li].reshape(-1).contiguous()
+            self._llm_k_norm_w[li] = self._llm_k_norm_w[li].reshape(-1).contiguous()
+            self._llm_k_norm_b[li] = self._llm_k_norm_b[li].reshape(-1).contiguous()
+
+    def _setup_fp8_weight_scales(self) -> None:
+        self._llm_w_dev = torch.tensor(self._llm_w_scales, dtype=torch.float32, device="cuda")
+        base = self._llm_w_dev.data_ptr()
+        self._d_w_qkv_ptrs = [(base + (li * 4 + 0) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)]
+        self._d_w_o_ptrs = [(base + (li * 4 + 1) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)]
+        self._d_w_gu_ptrs = [(base + (li * 4 + 2) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)]
+        self._d_w_d_ptrs = [(base + (li * 4 + 3) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)]
+
+    def _init_fp4_weight_lists(self) -> None:
+        self._gu_w_fp4 = [None] * L_LLM
+        self._gu_sfb = [None] * L_LLM
+        self._d_w_fp4 = [None] * L_LLM
+        self._d_sfb = [None] * L_LLM
+
+    def _quantize_fp4_weights(self) -> None:
+        if fvk_fp4 is None:
+            logger.warning("flash_rt_fp4 unavailable; FP4 FFN disabled")
+            self._fp4_ffn_layers = frozenset()
+            return
+        try:
+            if not fvk_fp4.has_nvfp4():
+                logger.warning("NVFP4 unavailable on this device; FP4 FFN disabled")
+                self._fp4_ffn_layers = frozenset()
+                return
+        except AttributeError:
+            pass
+
+        from flash_rt.executors.torch_weights import MultiSafetensorsSource
+
+        shard_paths = sorted(self.checkpoint_dir.glob("model-*-of-*.safetensors"))
+        src = MultiSafetensorsSource([str(p) for p in shard_paths], device="cuda")
+
+        def _quant(w_fp16: torch.Tensor):
+            N, K = w_fp16.shape
+            packed = torch.empty(N, K // 2, dtype=torch.uint8, device="cuda")
+            sfb_bytes = fvk_fp4.sfa_size_bytes(N, K, True)
+            sfb = torch.empty(sfb_bytes, dtype=torch.uint8, device="cuda")
+            rc = fvk_fp4.quantize_fp4_dynamic_sfa_fp16(
+                w_fp16.data_ptr(), packed.data_ptr(), sfb.data_ptr(),
+                N, K, True, 0)
+            if rc != 0:
+                raise RuntimeError(f"quantize_fp4_dynamic_sfa_fp16 failed rc={rc}")
+            return packed, sfb
+
+        packed_layers = set()
+        for li in range(L_LLM):
+            if li not in self._fp4_ffn_layers:
+                continue
+            gate_key = f"model.layers.{li}.mlp.gate_proj.weight"
+            up_key = f"model.layers.{li}.mlp.up_proj.weight"
+            down_key = f"model.layers.{li}.mlp.down_proj.weight"
+            gate_w = src.get(gate_key).to(fp16).contiguous()
+            up_w = src.get(up_key).to(fp16).contiguous()
+            down_w = src.get(down_key).to(fp16).contiguous()
+            gu_w = torch.cat([gate_w, up_w], dim=0).contiguous()
+            self._gu_w_fp4[li], self._gu_sfb[li] = _quant(gu_w)
+            self._d_w_fp4[li], self._d_sfb[li] = _quant(down_w)
+            packed_layers.add(li)
+            del gate_w, up_w, down_w, gu_w
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        self._fp4_ffn_layers = frozenset(packed_layers)
+        logger.info("FP4 FFN weights quantized for standalone Chameleon layers: %s",
+                    sorted(self._fp4_ffn_layers))
+
+    def _build_rope_tables(self) -> None:
+        inv_freq = 1.0 / (ROPE_THETA ** (
+            torch.arange(0, HD_LLM, 2, dtype=torch.float32) / HD_LLM))
+        pos = torch.arange(self._max_pos, dtype=torch.float32)
+        freqs = torch.outer(pos, inv_freq)
+        emb = torch.cat([freqs, freqs], dim=-1)
+        self._rope_cos = emb.cos().to(fp16).cuda().contiguous()
+        self._rope_sin = emb.sin().to(fp16).cuda().contiguous()
+
+    def _load_tokenizer(self) -> None:
+        from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+        candidates: list[pathlib.Path] = []
+        if self.tokenizer_path:
+            candidates.append(pathlib.Path(self.tokenizer_path))
+        env = os.environ.get("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_TOKENIZER_DIR")
+        if env:
+            candidates.append(pathlib.Path(env))
+        candidates.append(self.checkpoint_dir)
+
+        for p in candidates:
+            if p.exists() and (p / "tokenizer.json").exists():
+                self.tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(str(p), use_fast=True)
+                self.tokenizer_dir = p
+                logger.info("Tokenizer loaded from %s", p)
+                return
+        raise FileNotFoundError("Chameleon tokenizer not found")
+
+    def _load_vqgan(self) -> None:
+        roots: list[pathlib.Path] = []
+        if self.vqgan_path:
+            roots.append(pathlib.Path(self.vqgan_path))
+        env = os.environ.get("FLASHRT_VQGAN_DIR")
+        if env:
+            roots.append(pathlib.Path(env))
+        roots.extend([
+            self.checkpoint_dir / "original_tokenizers",
+            self.checkpoint_dir,
+        ])
+
+        yaml_path = ckpt_path = None
+        for root in roots:
+            for d in (root, root / "original_tokenizers", root / "tokenizer"):
+                if (d / "vqgan.yaml").exists() and (d / "vqgan.ckpt").exists():
+                    yaml_path = d / "vqgan.yaml"
+                    ckpt_path = d / "vqgan.ckpt"
+                    break
+            if yaml_path is not None:
+                break
+        if yaml_path is None or ckpt_path is None:
+            raise FileNotFoundError("Chameleon VQGAN assets not found")
+
+        # Chameleon-7B VQGAN reference implementation (Meta Chameleon
+        # license), vendored into the repo at flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan.
+        from flash_rt.models.chameleon import vqgan as chameleon_vae_ori  # type: ignore
+
+        self._vqgan_tokenizer = chameleon_vae_ori.ImageTokenizer(
+            cfg_path=str(yaml_path), ckpt_path=str(ckpt_path), device="cuda")
+
+        text_tok = pathlib.Path(yaml_path).parent / "text_tokenizer.json"
+        if not text_tok.exists():
+            text_tok = self.checkpoint_dir / "original_tokenizers" / "text_tokenizer.json"
+        with open(text_tok, encoding="utf8") as f:
+            vocab_json = json.load(f)
+        vocab_info = chameleon_vae_ori.VocabInfo(vocab_json["model"]["vocab"])
+        self._vqgan_translation = chameleon_vae_ori.VocabTranslation(vocab_info, device="cuda")
+        logger.info("VQGAN loaded: yaml=%s ckpt=%s", yaml_path, ckpt_path)
+
+    @property
+    def vqgan_backend(self) -> str:
+        return self._vqgan_backend
+
+    @property
+    def fa4_attn_active(self) -> bool:
+        return bool(getattr(self._attn, "_fa4_enabled", False))
+
+    def _ensure_trt_vqgan_loaded(self) -> bool:
+        """Lazy-instantiate optional TensorRT VQGAN acceleration.
+
+        Generic standalone Chameleon defaults to eager Chameleon VQGAN
+        tokenization. TensorRT is an explicit opt-in framework acceleration
+        path for deployments that have compatible engines under the FlashRT
+        engine cache (or a caller-provided engine directory). If unavailable,
+        the frontend falls back to eager tokenization.
+        """
+        if not self._use_trt_vqgan:
+            return False
+        if self._trt_vqgan_backend is not None:
+            return self._trt_vqgan_backend.is_available()
+        try:
+            from flash_rt.hardware.thor.vqgan_trt_backend import VQGANTRTBackend
+        except ImportError as e:
+            logger.warning("TRT VQGAN import failed: %s", e)
+            self._use_trt_vqgan = False
+            self._vqgan_backend = "eager"
+            return False
+        if torch.backends.cudnn.allow_tf32:
+            logger.info("TRT VQGAN: disabling cuDNN TF32 globally.")
+            torch.backends.cudnn.allow_tf32 = False
+            torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = False
+        engine_dir = pathlib.Path(self._trt_vqgan_engine_dir) \
+            if self._trt_vqgan_engine_dir else None
+        self._trt_vqgan_backend = VQGANTRTBackend(engine_dir=engine_dir)
+        available = self._trt_vqgan_backend.is_available()
+        if not available:
+            logger.warning(
+                "TRT VQGAN backend unavailable at %s; falling back to "
+                "eager PyTorch encode.",
+                engine_dir or VQGANTRTBackend.ENGINE_DIR)
+            self._use_trt_vqgan = False
+            self._vqgan_backend = "eager"
+        else:
+            self._vqgan_backend = "trt"
+        return available
+
+    def _preprocess_image_for_trt(self, pil_image, out_hw):
+        """PIL uint8 -> CUDA [1,3,H,W] float32 [-1,1] (matches the HF reference preprocessing)."""
+        H_out, W_out = out_hw
+        if pil_image.size != (W_out, H_out):
+            pil_image = pil_image.resize((W_out, H_out), resample=PIL.Image.BICUBIC)
+        np_img = np.array(pil_image.convert("RGB")) / 255.0
+        np_img = np_img * 2.0 - 1.0
+        t = torch.from_numpy(np_img).permute(2, 0, 1).unsqueeze(0)
+        return t.to(dtype=torch.float32, device="cuda").contiguous()
+
+    def _vqgan_encode(self, image) -> list[int]:
+        if isinstance(image, np.ndarray):
+            image = _PILImage.fromarray(image.astype(np.uint8)).convert("RGB")
+        elif not isinstance(image, PIL.Image.Image):
+            raise TypeError(f"image must be PIL.Image or np.ndarray, got {type(image)!r}")
+
+        # ── TRT fast path ──
+        if self._ensure_trt_vqgan_loaded():
+            H_eng = W_eng = int(self.target_size)
+            if self._trt_vqgan_backend.supports_resolution(H_eng, W_eng):
+                with torch.cuda.stream(self._trt_stream):
+                    img = self._preprocess_image_for_trt(image, (H_eng, W_eng))
+                    indices = self._trt_vqgan_backend.encode(img)
+                    if indices is not None:
+                        latent_ids = indices.view(-1)
+                        global_ids = self._vqgan_translation.convert_img2bp2(
+                            latent_ids).view(-1)
+                        h_lat = H_eng // 16
+                        w_lat = W_eng // 16
+                        h_grids = H_eng // PATCH_SIZE
+                        w_grids = W_eng // PATCH_SIZE
+                        grid = global_ids.view(h_lat, w_lat)
+                        newline_col = torch.full(
+                            (h_lat, 1), NEWLINE_ID, dtype=grid.dtype, device=grid.device)
+                        with_nl = torch.cat([grid, newline_col], dim=1).flatten().tolist()
+                        return [IMG_START_ID, GRID_TOK_BASE + h_grids, GRID_TOK_BASE + w_grids,
+                                *with_nl, IMG_END_ID]
+
+        # ── Eager PyTorch fallback ──
+        # data_lerobot's aspect-preserving center crop when importable;
+        # otherwise a self-contained re-implementation of the same
+        # selection (max-coverage crop from the aspect-varied size list),
+        # so the eager path never depends on external packages.
+        try:
+            from data_lerobot.item_processor import (  # type: ignore
+                var_center_crop, generate_crop_size_list)
+        except ImportError:
+            def generate_crop_size_list(num_patches, patch_size, max_ratio=4.0):
+                crop_size_list = []
+                wp, hp = num_patches, 1
+                while wp > 0:
+                    if max(wp, hp) / min(wp, hp) <= max_ratio:
+                        crop_size_list.append((wp * patch_size, hp * patch_size))
+                    if (hp + 1) * wp <= num_patches:
+                        hp += 1
+                    else:
+                        wp -= 1
+                return crop_size_list
+
+            def var_center_crop(image, crop_size_list=None):
+                crop_size_list = crop_size_list or [(image.size[0], image.size[1])]
+                w, h = image.size
+                rem = [min(cw / w, ch / h) / max(cw / w, ch / h)
+                       for cw, ch in crop_size_list]
+                best = sorted(zip(rem, crop_size_list), reverse=True)[0][1]
+                left = max(0, (w - best[0]) // 2)
+                top = max(0, (h - best[1]) // 2)
+                return image.crop((left, top, left + best[0], top + best[1]))
+
+        crop_size_list = generate_crop_size_list(
+            (self.target_size // PATCH_SIZE) ** 2, PATCH_SIZE)
+        cropped = var_center_crop(image, crop_size_list=crop_size_list)
+        latent_ids = self._vqgan_tokenizer.img_tokens_from_pil(cropped)
+        global_ids = self._vqgan_translation.convert_img2bp2(latent_ids).view(-1)
+
+        w_grids = cropped.size[0] // PATCH_SIZE
+        h_grids = cropped.size[1] // PATCH_SIZE
+        w_lat = cropped.size[0] // 16
+        h_lat = cropped.size[1] // 16
+        grid = global_ids.view(h_lat, w_lat)
+        newline_col = torch.full((h_lat, 1), NEWLINE_ID, dtype=grid.dtype, device=grid.device)
+        with_nl = torch.cat([grid, newline_col], dim=1).flatten().tolist()
+        return [IMG_START_ID, GRID_TOK_BASE + h_grids, GRID_TOK_BASE + w_grids,
+                *with_nl, IMG_END_ID]
+
+    def _allocate_buffers(self) -> None:
+        # Capacity is floored to a multiple of 16 so the pad-to-16 in
+        # set_prompt can never overshoot the allocated buffers/KV cache when
+        # max_seq itself is not a multiple of 16.
+        Se = (self._max_pos // 16) * 16
+        D = D_LLM
+        Dff = DFF_LLM
+        self._Se_max = Se
+        self._bufs: dict[str, torch.Tensor] = {}
+
+        def _alloc(name, shape, dtype=fp16):
+            self._bufs[name] = torch.zeros(shape, dtype=dtype, device="cuda")
+
+        _alloc("x", (Se, D))
+        _alloc("xn", (Se, D))
+        _alloc("xn_fp8", (Se, D), fp8)
+        _alloc("o_proj_out", (Se, D))
+        _alloc("hidden_all", (Se, D))
+        _alloc("gate_out", (Se, Dff))
+        _alloc("up_out", (Se, Dff))
+        _alloc("gu_fp8", (Se, Dff), fp8)
+        _alloc("zero_bias_d", (D,))
+        _alloc("zero_bias_dff", (Dff,))
+        _alloc("act_fp4", (Se * D // 2,), torch.uint8)
+        _alloc("act_sfa", (Se * D // 16 * 2,), torch.uint8)
+        _alloc("ffn_act_fp4", (Se * Dff // 2,), torch.uint8)
+        _alloc("ffn_act_sfa", (Se * Dff // 16 * 2,), torch.uint8)
+        _alloc("gu_merged", (Se, 2 * Dff))
+        _alloc("dyn_act_scales", (L_LLM * 4,), torch.float32)
+        _alloc("last_logits", (VOCAB_SIZE,))
+
+        self._llm_calib_scales = torch.ones(L_LLM * 4, dtype=torch.float32, device="cuda")
+        self._kv_cache = torch.zeros(L_LLM, 2, Se, D, dtype=fp16, device="cuda")
+        self._kv_layer_stride = 2 * Se * D * 2
+        logits_sz = max(NH_LLM * Se * Se, 4)
+        self._logits_buf = torch.zeros(logits_sz, dtype=fp16, device="cuda")
+
+    def _build_attention_backend(self) -> None:
+        spec = make_chameleon_attention_spec(seq_max=self._Se_max)
+        kv_base = self._kv_cache.data_ptr()
+        se_d_bytes = self._Se_max * D_LLM * 2
+        chameleon_slots = {
+            "Q_O": self._bufs["xn"].data_ptr(),
+            "Kc": kv_base,
+            "Vc": kv_base + se_d_bytes,
+            "logits": self._logits_buf.data_ptr(),
+            "layer_stride": self._kv_layer_stride,
+            "scale": 1.0 / math.sqrt(HD_LLM),
+        }
+        self._attn = ThorChameleonAttnBackend(
+            spec, self._ctx, chameleon_slots=chameleon_slots)
+
+    def _build_llm_weights(self) -> dict:
+        w = {
+            "input_ln_w": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._llm_input_ln_w],
+            "post_ln_w": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._llm_post_ln_w],
+            "q_w": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._q_w],
+            "k_w": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._k_w],
+            "v_w": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._v_w],
+            "o_w": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._llm_o_w],
+            "gate_w": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._gate_w],
+            "up_w": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._up_w],
+            "d_w": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._llm_d_w],
+            "q_norm_w": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._llm_q_norm_w],
+            "q_norm_b": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._llm_q_norm_b],
+            "k_norm_w": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._llm_k_norm_w],
+            "k_norm_b": [x.data_ptr() for x in self._llm_k_norm_b],
+            "o_b": [self._bufs["zero_bias_d"].data_ptr()] * L_LLM,
+            "final_norm_w": self._llm_norm_w.data_ptr(),
+            "rope_cos": self._rope_cos.data_ptr(),
+            "rope_sin": self._rope_sin.data_ptr(),
+        }
+        if self._use_fp8:
+            w.update({
+                "w_scales_flat": self._llm_w_dev.data_ptr(),
+                "d_w_qkv": self._d_w_qkv_ptrs,
+                "d_w_o": self._d_w_o_ptrs,
+                "d_w_gu": self._d_w_gu_ptrs,
+                "d_w_d": self._d_w_d_ptrs,
+                "alpha_host": [1.0] * (L_LLM * 4),
+                "gu_w_fp4": [
+                    x.data_ptr() if x is not None else 0 for x in self._gu_w_fp4],
+                "gu_sfb": [
+                    x.data_ptr() if x is not None else 0 for x in self._gu_sfb],
+                "d_w_fp4": [
+                    x.data_ptr() if x is not None else 0 for x in self._d_w_fp4],
+                "d_sfb": [
+                    x.data_ptr() if x is not None else 0 for x in self._d_sfb],
+            })
+        return w
+
+    def _build_llm_bufs(self) -> dict:
+        return {k: self._bufs[k].data_ptr() for k in (
+            "x", "xn", "xn_fp8", "o_proj_out", "hidden_all",
+            "gate_out", "up_out", "gu_fp8", "zero_bias_d", "zero_bias_dff",
+            "act_fp4", "act_sfa", "ffn_act_fp4", "ffn_act_sfa", "gu_merged",
+            "dyn_act_scales",
+        )}
+
+    def _build_llm_scales_dev(self) -> dict:
+        calib_base = self._llm_calib_scales.data_ptr()
+        dyn_base = self._bufs["dyn_act_scales"].data_ptr()
+        return {
+            "act_qkv": [(calib_base + (li * 4 + 0) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)],
+            "act_o": [(calib_base + (li * 4 + 1) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)],
+            "act_gu": [(calib_base + (li * 4 + 2) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)],
+            "act_down": [(calib_base + (li * 4 + 3) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)],
+            "dyn_act_qkv": [(dyn_base + (li * 4 + 0) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)],
+            "dyn_act_o": [(dyn_base + (li * 4 + 1) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)],
+            "dyn_act_gu": [(dyn_base + (li * 4 + 2) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)],
+            "dyn_act_down": [(dyn_base + (li * 4 + 3) * 4) for li in range(L_LLM)],
+        }
+
+    def encode_prompt(self, text: str, images: Optional[list] = None) -> list[int]:
+        images = images or []
+        chunks = text.split("<image>")
+        if len(chunks) - 1 not in (0, len(images)):
+            raise ValueError("number of <image> placeholders must be 0 or match images")
+        ids: list[int] = []
+        bos = getattr(self.tokenizer, "bos_token_id", None)
+        if bos is not None:
+            ids.append(int(bos))
+        for i, chunk in enumerate(chunks):
+            if chunk:
+                ids.extend(self.tokenizer.encode(chunk, add_special_tokens=False))
+            if i < len(chunks) - 1:
+                ids.extend(self._vqgan_encode(images[i]))
+        if len(chunks) == 1:
+            for image in images:
+                ids.extend(self._vqgan_encode(image))
+        return ids
+
+    def _embed_ids(self, input_ids: list[int]) -> None:
+        Se = len(input_ids)
+        ids_t = torch.tensor(input_ids, dtype=torch.long, device="cuda")
+        emb = torch.nn.functional.embedding(ids_t, self._llm_embed_w)
+        self._bufs["x"].zero_()
+        _cudart.cudaMemcpyAsync(
+            ctypes.c_void_p(self._bufs["x"].data_ptr()),
+            ctypes.c_void_p(emb.data_ptr()),
+            Se * D_LLM * 2,
+            3,
+            ctypes.c_void_p(self._stream),
+        )
+
+    def set_prompt(self, text: str, images: Optional[list] = None) -> list[int]:
+        input_ids = self.encode_prompt(text, images)
+        self._real_len = len(input_ids)
+        rem = len(input_ids) % 16
+        padded_len = len(input_ids) + ((16 - rem) if rem else 0)
+        if padded_len > self._Se_max:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"padded sequence length {padded_len} exceeds max_seq="
+                f"{self._Se_max} (prompt has {len(input_ids)} tokens)")
+        if rem:
+            input_ids.extend([PAD_ID] * (16 - rem))
+        self.Se = len(input_ids)
+        self._last_input_ids = input_ids
+        if self._use_autotune:
+            self._autotune_gemms(self.Se)
+        self._embed_ids(input_ids)
+        if self._use_cuda_graph:
+            self._capture_graph(self.Se)
+        return input_ids
+
+    def _autotune_gemms(self, Se: int, num_algos: int = 16) -> None:
+        """Per-shape cuBLASLt algo autotune (motus/hyvla pattern).
+
+        Chameleon's per-layer GEMMs collapse to 3 distinct (M,N,K) shapes
+        at a given Se (q/k/v/o share one shape, gate/up share another,
+        down is the third) plus the M=1 lm_head projection. Tuning each
+        shape once mutates the GemmRunner's internal algo cache (keyed on
+        (M,N,K)); every subsequent real call with that shape — including
+        inside a captured CUDA graph — picks up the tuned algo for free.
+        Dummy buffers are only used for timing, not correctness.
+        """
+        if Se in self._autotuned_se:
+            return
+        D, Dff = D_LLM, DFF_LLM
+        dev = "cuda"
+        if self._use_fp8 and hasattr(self._gemm, "autotune_fp8_nn_dev_fp16"):
+            shapes = [(Se, D, D), (Se, Dff, D), (Se, D, Dff)]
+            shapes += [(1, D, D), (1, Dff, D), (1, D, Dff)]  # decode
+            for (M, N, K) in dict.fromkeys(shapes):
+                A = torch.empty(M, K, dtype=torch.uint8, device=dev)
+                B = torch.empty(K, N, dtype=torch.uint8, device=dev)
+                Dbuf = torch.empty(M, N, dtype=fp16, device=dev)
+                sa = torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=dev)
+                sb = torch.ones(1, dtype=torch.float32, device=dev)
+                self._gemm.autotune_fp8_nn_dev_fp16(
+                    A.data_ptr(), B.data_ptr(), Dbuf.data_ptr(),
+                    M, N, K, sa.data_ptr(), sb.data_ptr(), num_algos)
+        elif hasattr(self._gemm, "autotune_fp16_nn"):
+            shapes = [(Se, D, D), (Se, Dff, D), (Se, D, Dff)]
+            shapes += [(1, D, D), (1, Dff, D), (1, D, Dff)]  # decode
+            for (M, N, K) in dict.fromkeys(shapes):
+                A = torch.empty(M, K, dtype=fp16, device=dev)
+                B = torch.empty(K, N, dtype=fp16, device=dev)
+                Dbuf = torch.empty(M, N, dtype=fp16, device=dev)
+                self._gemm.autotune_fp16_nn(
+                    A.data_ptr(), B.data_ptr(), Dbuf.data_ptr(), M, N, K, num_algos)
+        if hasattr(self._gemm, "autotune_fp16_nn"):
+            A = torch.empty(1, D, dtype=fp16, device=dev)
+            B = torch.empty(D, VOCAB_SIZE, dtype=fp16, device=dev)
+            Dbuf = torch.empty(1, VOCAB_SIZE, dtype=fp16, device=dev)
+            self._gemm.autotune_fp16_nn(
+                A.data_ptr(), B.data_ptr(), Dbuf.data_ptr(), 1, VOCAB_SIZE, D, num_algos)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        self._autotuned_se.add(Se)
+
+    def _capture_graph(self, Se: int) -> None:
+        if self._infer_graph is not None and self._captured_Se == Se:
+            return
+        capture_stream = torch.cuda.Stream()
+        prev_stream_id = self._stream
+        with torch.cuda.stream(capture_stream):
+            self._stream = capture_stream.cuda_stream
+            self._run_backbone(Se)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        # The warmup forward mutates x into the final residual stream; the
+        # capture pass (and every later replay) must start from clean
+        # embeddings — see _replay_backbone.
+        self._embed_ids(self._last_input_ids)
+        graph = torch.cuda.CUDAGraph()
+        with torch.cuda.graph(graph, stream=capture_stream):
+            self._run_backbone(Se)
+        self._stream = prev_stream_id
+        self._infer_graph = graph
+        self._captured_Se = Se
+
+    def _run_backbone(self, Se: int) -> None:
+        dims = {"Se": Se, "D": D_LLM, "Dff": DFF_LLM,
+                "L": L_LLM, "H": NH_LLM, "Hd": HD_LLM}
+        if self._use_fp8:
+            chameleon_forward(
+                self._gemm, fvk, self._build_llm_bufs(), self._build_llm_weights(),
+                dims, self._build_llm_scales_dev(), attn=self._attn,
+                stream=self._stream, dynamic_fp8_layers=frozenset(range(L_LLM)),
+                fp4_ffn_layers=self._fp4_ffn_layers, ffn_down_clamp_value=60000.0,
+                ffn_clamp_layers=self._ffn_clamp_layers,
+            )
+        else:
+            chameleon_forward_fp16(
+                self._gemm, fvk, self._build_llm_bufs(), self._build_llm_weights(),
+                dims, attn=self._attn, stream=self._stream,
+            )
+
+    def _project_last(self, last_idx: Optional[int] = None) -> None:
+        if last_idx is None:
+            last_idx = self._real_len - 1
+        last_hidden_ptr = self._bufs["hidden_all"].data_ptr() + last_idx * D_LLM * 2
+        self._gemm.fp16_nn(
+            last_hidden_ptr, self._lm_head_w_t.data_ptr(),
+            self._bufs["last_logits"].data_ptr(), 1, VOCAB_SIZE, D_LLM,
+            int(self._stream),
+        )
+        if self._mask_image_logits and self._image_token_ids is not None:
+            self._bufs["last_logits"].index_fill_(0, self._image_token_ids, -65504.0)
+
+    def _run_forward(self, Se: int) -> None:
+        self._run_backbone(Se)
+        self._project_last()
+
+    def _replay_backbone(self) -> None:
+        """Replay the captured prefill graph over clean embeddings.
+
+        Every backbone run mutates ``x`` in place into the final residual
+        stream, so a replay must re-embed first or it recomputes over the
+        previous run's residuals.
+        """
+        self._embed_ids(self._last_input_ids)
+        self._infer_graph.replay()
+
+    def prefill(self, text: str, images: Optional[list] = None) -> dict:
+        input_ids = self.set_prompt(text, images)
+        if self._use_cuda_graph and self._infer_graph is not None:
+            self._replay_backbone()
+            self._project_last()
+        else:
+            self._run_forward(self.Se)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        return {
+            "input_ids": input_ids,
+            "Se": self.Se,
+            "vqgan_backend": self._vqgan_backend,
+            "fa4_attn": self.fa4_attn_active,
+            "logits": self._bufs["last_logits"].detach().float().cpu(),
+            "hidden": self._bufs["hidden_all"][:self.Se].detach().float().cpu(),
+        }
+
+    def generate_greedy(self, text: str, images: Optional[list] = None,
+                        max_new_tokens: int = 16,
+                        eos_token_id: Optional[int] = None) -> dict:
+        """Greedy generation with incremental KV-cache decode.
+
+        One prefill over the prompt, then single-token decode steps
+        (``chameleon_decode_step``) — O(n) instead of the historical O(n^2)
+        full recompute. Decode runs eagerly (no CUDA graph) because the
+        position is a host scalar baked into RoPE offsets and cache rows.
+        """
+        if not self._use_fp8:
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "incremental decode requires the dynamic-FP8 path "
+                "(use_fp8=True)")
+        if self._fp4_ffn_layers:
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                "incremental decode does not model the NVFP4 FFN tiers "
+                "(fp4_ffn_layers); use the prefill-only path")
+
+        self.set_prompt(text, images)
+        generated = list(self._last_input_ids[:self._real_len])
+        eos = EOS_ID if eos_token_id is None else int(eos_token_id)
+        budget = int(max_new_tokens)
+        if budget < 0:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"max_new_tokens must be >= 0, got {max_new_tokens}")
+        if budget == 0:
+            return {"input_ids": generated,
+                    "text": self.tokenizer.decode(generated)}
+
+        # Prefill (graph or eager) + first token from the last prompt row.
+        if self._use_cuda_graph and self._infer_graph is not None:
+            self._replay_backbone()
+        else:
+            self._run_backbone(self.Se)
+        self._project_last()
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        next_id = int(torch.argmax(self._bufs["last_logits"]).item())
+        generated.append(next_id)
+
+        # Decode-step plumbing: all pointers are stable across steps, so
+        # build the dicts once; only `pos` changes per token.
+        dims = {"Se": 1, "D": D_LLM, "Dff": DFF_LLM,
+                "L": L_LLM, "H": NH_LLM, "Hd": HD_LLM}
+        bufs = self._build_llm_bufs()
+        weights = self._build_llm_weights()
+        scales_dev = self._build_llm_scales_dev()
+        pos = self._real_len
+        for _ in range(budget - 1):
+            if next_id == eos or pos >= self._Se_max:
+                break
+            # Decode state: single-token embedding in residual row 0.
+            self._bufs["x"][:1].copy_(self._llm_embed_w[next_id])
+            chameleon_decode_step(
+                self._gemm, fvk, bufs, weights, dims, scales_dev,
+                attn=self._attn, pos=pos, stream=int(self._stream),
+                ffn_down_clamp_value=60000.0,
+                ffn_clamp_layers=self._ffn_clamp_layers,
+            )
+            self._project_last(last_idx=0)
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+            next_id = int(torch.argmax(self._bufs["last_logits"]).item())
+            generated.append(next_id)
+            pos += 1
+        return {"input_ids": generated, "text": self.tokenizer.decode(generated)}
+
+    def _generate_greedy_recompute(self, text: str,
+                                   images: Optional[list] = None,
+                                   max_new_tokens: int = 16) -> dict:
+        """Legacy O(n^2) full-recompute greedy path (oracle for decode).
+
+        Always eager: it shares the KV cache with the incremental path,
+        and graph capture/replay of every growing-Se forward would
+        overwrite cache rows for pad-16 filler positions.
+        """
+        ids = self.encode_prompt(text, images)
+        generated = list(ids)
+        for _ in range(int(max_new_tokens)):
+            if len(generated) >= self._Se_max:
+                break
+            self._real_len = len(generated)
+            padded = list(generated)
+            rem = len(padded) % 16
+            if rem:
+                padded.extend([PAD_ID] * (16 - rem))
+            self.Se = len(padded)
+            self._last_input_ids = padded
+            if self._use_autotune:
+                self._autotune_gemms(self.Se)
+            self._embed_ids(padded)
+            self._run_forward(self.Se)
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+            next_id = int(torch.argmax(self._bufs["last_logits"]).item())
+            generated.append(next_id)
+        return {"input_ids": generated, "text": self.tokenizer.decode(generated)}
+
+
+__all__ = ["ChameleonTorchFrontendThor"]
diff --git a/flash_rt/hardware/__init__.py b/flash_rt/hardware/__init__.py
index 5d231ead..c3bd1372 100644
--- a/flash_rt/hardware/__init__.py
+++ b/flash_rt/hardware/__init__.py
@@ -159,6 +159,24 @@ def detect_arch() -> str:
         ("flash_rt.frontends.torch.qwen3_vl_rtx_bf16",
          "Qwen3VlTorchFrontendRtxBF16"),
 
+    # ── Chameleon-7B ──
+    # Direct frontend (set_prompt/generate), not the VLA predict() surface.
+    # Orin SM87: INT8/INT4+QuaRot-Hadamard path; compute in
+    # flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_rtx.py. Registered for resolver /
+    # direct-construction discovery only; load_model(config="chameleon")
+    # raises a redirect because this exposes set_prompt() + generate(),
+    # not the VLA predict() surface. See docs/chameleon7b_rtx_sm87.md.
+    ("chameleon", "torch", "rtx_sm87"):
+        ("flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_rtx_sm87",
+         "ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87"),
+    # Thor SM110: dynamic-FP8 backbone (optional NVFP4 FFN), attention via
+    # the dedicated Chameleon Thor backend (FA4 -> CUTLASS causal FMHA ->
+    # cuBLAS fallback). Compute in flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py.
+    # See docs/chameleon_usage.md.
+    ("chameleon", "torch", "thor"):
+        ("flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor",
+         "ChameleonTorchFrontendThor"),
+
     # Cosmos3-Edge official Thor baseline.
     ("cosmos3_edge", "torch", "thor"):
         ("flash_rt.frontends.torch.cosmos3_edge_thor", "Cosmos3EdgeTorchFrontendThor"),
@@ -195,6 +213,7 @@ def detect_arch() -> str:
 # resolving here and crashing later at the first kernel launch.
 _SM87_ALLOWED = {
     ("pi05", "torch", "rtx_sm87"),
+    ("chameleon", "torch", "rtx_sm87"),
     ("qwen3_vl", "torch", "rtx_sm87"),
 }
 
diff --git a/flash_rt/hardware/rtx/attn_backend_chameleon.py b/flash_rt/hardware/rtx/attn_backend_chameleon.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8aafba63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/hardware/rtx/attn_backend_chameleon.py
@@ -0,0 +1,237 @@
+"""FlashRT — Chameleon-7B VLM attention backend for Jetson Orin (SM87).
+
+This backend owns a **real per-layer KV cache** so the LLM can decode
+autoregressively (a prefill-only backend could instead share one K/V scratch
+across all 32 layers, ``layer_stride = 0``).
+
+Two load-bearing design points, both measured — see
+``docs/chameleon7b_rtx_sm87.md`` §2.1 and §3.1:
+
+1. **The K/V GEMMs write straight into the cache.** CUTLASS hard-wires the
+   output row stride to ``N`` (``cutlass_sm80_int8_rowwise_fp16out.cu:169-171``),
+   and a per-layer slab of ``[max_seq, num_kv_heads*head_dim]`` has exactly that
+   row stride, so no staging buffer or copy is needed for either prefill
+   (``M = S`` at the slab base) or decode (``M = 1`` at ``+ pos*row_stride``).
+   ``qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16`` then does QK-LayerNorm + RoPE in place.
+
+2. **Split-KV must be forced on with a biased ``num_sms``.** FA2's heuristic
+   (``fa2_wrapper_causal.cu:41-43,152-158``) returns ``num_splits = 1`` whenever
+   ``batch*num_q_heads*num_m_blocks >= 0.8 * (num_sms*2)``. Chameleon decode is
+   ``1*32*1 = 32`` against ``0.8*32 = 25.6``, so at the true SM count split-KV
+   silently does nothing (measured: bit-identical output, 1.05x). ``num_sms`` is
+   a pure heuristic knob in this wrapper, so ``split_kv_bias`` multiplies it;
+   bias 4 measured 204.9 -> 141.8 us (**1.44x**) at fp16-rounding-level delta.
+   This is why the Qwen3-VL split-KV lever does not transfer as-is —
+   that model has 16 Q heads and lands under the threshold naturally.
+
+FA2 ``fwd_fp16_causal`` is **mandatory** for decode: its causal mask is
+bottom-right aligned (``fa2_wrapper_causal.cu:126-138``) so ``q=1, kv=N``
+attends all N keys. The cuBLAS ``attention_mha_causal_fp16`` fallback is **top-left** aligned (``softmax.cu:182-191`` masks with
+``q = row % S_q``), so at ``S_q = 1`` only column 0 survives — it is silently
+wrong rather than merely slow. This backend therefore raises instead of
+degrading to it.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import logging
+
+import torch
+
+from flash_rt.hardware.backend import AttentionBackendBase, AttentionSpec
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+SITE = "llm"
+
+#: FA2's own cap on the split count (``fa2_wrapper_causal.cu`` passes 128).
+_MAX_SPLITS = 128
+
+
+class ChameleonAttnBackend(AttentionBackendBase):
+    """Chameleon-7B self-attention with a per-layer FP16 KV cache.
+
+    Owns every buffer it needs (KV cache, Q/O staging, softmax LSE, split-KV
+    accumulators). Pointers are stable for the object's lifetime, so they are
+    safe to bake into a captured CUDA graph — but the backend must be kept
+    alive for as long as any such graph exists.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, spec: AttentionSpec, *, max_seq: int,
+                 split_kv_bias: int = 4) -> None:
+        super().__init__(spec)
+        if set(spec.sites.keys()) != {SITE}:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"ChameleonAttnBackend expects exactly the {SITE!r} site, "
+                f"got {set(spec.sites.keys())}")
+
+        s = spec.site(SITE)
+        self.num_layers = int(s.num_layers)
+        self.num_q_heads_ = int(s.num_q_heads)
+        self.num_kv_heads_ = int(s.num_kv_heads)
+        self.head_dim_ = int(s.head_dim)
+        self.max_seq = int(max_seq)
+        self.split_kv_bias = int(split_kv_bias)
+        self.scale = float(self.head_dim_) ** -0.5
+
+        if self.head_dim_ != 128:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"head_dim must be 128 (FA2 fp16 causal aborts otherwise, "
+                f"fa2_wrapper_causal.cu:235-243); got {self.head_dim_}")
+
+        try:
+            import flash_rt.flash_rt_fa2 as _fa2
+        except ImportError as e:                                  # pragma: no cover
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "Chameleon decode requires flash_rt_fa2 (the cuBLAS MHA "
+                "fallback is top-left-aligned causal and therefore WRONG at "
+                "q_seq=1). Rebuild with -DFLASHRT_ENABLE_FA2=ON.") from e
+        if not hasattr(_fa2, "fwd_fp16_causal"):
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "flash_rt_fa2 lacks fwd_fp16_causal; Chameleon decode cannot "
+                "fall back to cuBLAS MHA (top-left-aligned mask is wrong at "
+                "q_seq=1). Rebuild with -DFA2_DTYPES='fp16;bf16' "
+                "-DFA2_HDIMS='128;256'.")
+        self._fa2_fwd = _fa2.fwd_fp16_causal
+
+        dev, fp16, fp32 = "cuda", torch.float16, torch.float32
+        kv_row = self.num_kv_heads_ * self.head_dim_        # 4096 == GEMM N
+        q_row = self.num_q_heads_ * self.head_dim_
+
+        # Per-layer KV cache. The [max_seq, kv_row] slab per layer is exactly a
+        # legal CUTLASS destination (row stride == N), which is what lets the
+        # K/V GEMMs write into it directly.
+        self.K_cache = torch.zeros(self.num_layers, self.max_seq, kv_row,
+                                   dtype=fp16, device=dev)
+        self.V_cache = torch.zeros(self.num_layers, self.max_seq, kv_row,
+                                   dtype=fp16, device=dev)
+        # Q staging (prefill writes S rows, decode row 0). O aliases Q, matching
+        # the caller convention: the pipeline reads its result back in place.
+        self.Q_buf = torch.zeros(self.max_seq, q_row, dtype=fp16, device=dev)
+
+        lse_rows = ((self.max_seq + 127) // 128) * 128
+        self.lse_buf = torch.zeros(1, self.num_q_heads_, lse_rows,
+                                   dtype=fp32, device=dev)
+        # Split-KV accumulators, sized for the decode case (seqlen_q == 1).
+        # Empty splits are self-initialised by the kernel, so no pre-fill.
+        self.lse_accum = torch.zeros(_MAX_SPLITS, 1, self.num_q_heads_, 1,
+                                     dtype=fp32, device=dev)
+        self.o_accum = torch.zeros(_MAX_SPLITS, 1, self.num_q_heads_, 1,
+                                   self.head_dim_, dtype=fp32, device=dev)
+
+        self._num_sms = torch.cuda.get_device_properties(
+            torch.cuda.current_device()).multi_processor_count
+
+        kv_gb = 2 * self.K_cache.numel() * 2 / 2 ** 30
+        logger.info(
+            "ChameleonAttnBackend: L=%d %dQ/%dKV hd=%d max_seq=%d "
+            "KV=%.2f GB split_kv_bias=%d (num_sms %d->%d)",
+            self.num_layers, self.num_q_heads_, self.num_kv_heads_,
+            self.head_dim_, self.max_seq, kv_gb, self.split_kv_bias,
+            self._num_sms, self._num_sms * self.split_kv_bias)
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Layout / pointers
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    @property
+    def kv_layer_stride_bytes(self) -> int:
+        return self.max_seq * self.num_kv_heads_ * self.head_dim_ * 2
+
+    @property
+    def kv_row_stride_bytes(self) -> int:
+        return self.num_kv_heads_ * self.head_dim_ * 2
+
+    def _check_layer(self, layer_idx: int) -> None:
+        if not 0 <= layer_idx < self.num_layers:
+            raise IndexError(
+                f"layer_idx {layer_idx} out of range [0, {self.num_layers})")
+
+    def get_slot_ptrs(self, site: str, layer_idx: int) -> dict:
+        """Prefill slots: Q/O staging plus the base of this layer's KV slab."""
+        if site != SITE:
+            raise KeyError(f"unknown site {site!r}")
+        self._check_layer(layer_idx)
+        off = layer_idx * self.kv_layer_stride_bytes
+        q = self.Q_buf.data_ptr()
+        return {"Q": q, "O": q,
+                "K": self.K_cache.data_ptr() + off,
+                "V": self.V_cache.data_ptr() + off}
+
+    def kv_row_ptrs(self, layer_idx: int, pos: int) -> tuple:
+        """Decode slots: the single KV row for absolute position ``pos``."""
+        self._check_layer(layer_idx)
+        if not 0 <= pos < self.max_seq:
+            raise IndexError(
+                f"pos {pos} out of range [0, max_seq={self.max_seq}); raise "
+                f"max_seq at construction time")
+        off = layer_idx * self.kv_layer_stride_bytes + pos * self.kv_row_stride_bytes
+        return (self.K_cache.data_ptr() + off, self.V_cache.data_ptr() + off)
+
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Attention
+    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+    def _fa2(self, layer_idx: int, q_seq: int, kv_seq: int, *,
+             use_split_kv: bool, stream: int) -> int:
+        qr = self.num_q_heads_ * self.head_dim_
+        kr = self.num_kv_heads_ * self.head_dim_
+        off = layer_idx * self.kv_layer_stride_bytes
+        q = self.Q_buf.data_ptr()
+        # num_sms == 0 disables the split-KV heuristic entirely; a biased value
+        # is the only way to reach num_splits > 1 at 32 Q heads (see module doc).
+        num_sms = self._num_sms * self.split_kv_bias if use_split_kv else 0
+        self._fa2_fwd(
+            q, self.K_cache.data_ptr() + off, self.V_cache.data_ptr() + off, q,
+            self.lse_buf.data_ptr(),
+            self.lse_accum.data_ptr() if use_split_kv else 0,
+            self.o_accum.data_ptr() if use_split_kv else 0,
+            batch=1, seqlen_q=q_seq, seqlen_k=kv_seq,
+            num_heads_q=self.num_q_heads_, num_heads_kv=self.num_kv_heads_,
+            head_dim=self.head_dim_,
+            q_strides=(q_seq * qr, qr, self.head_dim_),
+            k_strides=(kv_seq * kr, kr, self.head_dim_),
+            v_strides=(kv_seq * kr, kr, self.head_dim_),
+            o_strides=(q_seq * qr, qr, self.head_dim_),
+            softmax_scale=self.scale, num_sms=num_sms, stream=stream)
+        return q
+
+    def run_prefill(self, layer_idx: int, seq_len: int, *, stream: int = 0) -> int:
+        """Square causal attention over ``seq_len`` tokens. Result lands in Q_buf."""
+        self._check_layer(layer_idx)
+        if seq_len > self.max_seq:
+            raise ValueError(f"seq_len {seq_len} > max_seq {self.max_seq}")
+        # Prefill already fills every SM (num_m_blocks = ceil(S/64)), so
+        # splitting KV would only add a combine pass.
+        return self._fa2(layer_idx, seq_len, seq_len,
+                         use_split_kv=False, stream=stream)
+
+    def run_decode(self, layer_idx: int, pos: int, *, stream: int = 0) -> int:
+        """One query row attending keys ``[0, pos]``. Result lands in Q_buf row 0."""
+        self._check_layer(layer_idx)
+        return self._fa2(layer_idx, 1, pos + 1,
+                         use_split_kv=self.split_kv_bias > 1, stream=stream)
+
+    # No generic ``run(site, layer_idx, q_seq, ...)`` on purpose. Prefill and
+    # decode differ in more than q_seq here (split-KV on/off, and the caller
+    # must supply the absolute KV position rather than a length), so a shim that
+    # inferred the mode from ``q_seq == 1`` would be an untested footgun. The
+    # inherited ``AttentionBackendBase.run`` raises NotImplementedError, which
+    # is the behaviour we want if a generic caller ever appears.
+
+    def reset_cache(self) -> None:
+        self.K_cache.zero_()
+        self.V_cache.zero_()
+
+
+def make_chameleon_attention_spec(*, num_layers: int, num_q_heads: int,
+                                  num_kv_heads: int, head_dim: int,
+                                  max_seq: int) -> AttentionSpec:
+    spec = AttentionSpec()
+    spec.add_site(SITE, num_layers=num_layers, num_q_heads=num_q_heads,
+                  num_kv_heads=num_kv_heads, head_dim=head_dim,
+                  max_q_seq=max_seq, max_kv_seq=max_seq, causal=True)
+    return spec
+
+
+__all__ = ["ChameleonAttnBackend", "make_chameleon_attention_spec", "SITE"]
diff --git a/flash_rt/hardware/thor/attn_backend_chameleon.py b/flash_rt/hardware/thor/attn_backend_chameleon.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f1484158
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/hardware/thor/attn_backend_chameleon.py
@@ -0,0 +1,362 @@
+"""FlashRT — Thor SM110 attention backend for standalone Chameleon-7B.
+
+One site:
+
+* **chameleon** — 32-layer Chameleon-7B LLM self-attention (NH=32, HD=128,
+  causal). Q/O aliased into the frontend's xn buffer. Dispatch order:
+  FA4 (FlashAttention-4, CuTe-DSL, optional fast path) → CUTLASS causal
+  FMHA (``libfmha_fp16_causal.so``) → cuBLAS decomposed causal MHA
+  (``attention_mha_causal_fp16``).
+
+Prefill (``run``) uses the top-left causal alignment (SQ == SK); single-query
+incremental decode (``run_decode``) uses the bottom-right alignment via
+``fmha_fp16_causal_br`` (or FA4 / plain cuBLAS MHA, both bottom-right
+equivalent at SQ == 1).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import ctypes
+import logging
+import pathlib
+
+from flash_rt.hardware.backend import AttentionBackendBase, AttentionSpec
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# ── CUTLASS causal FMHA (SM100/110) dynamic loading ──
+_fmha_causal_fn = None
+_fmha_causal_br_fn = None  # bottom-right aligned variant (decode, SQ < SK)
+
+
+def _load_fmha_causal_library() -> bool:
+    """Load libfmha_fp16_causal.so and resolve the fmha_fp16_causal symbol."""
+    global _fmha_causal_fn, _fmha_causal_br_fn
+    if _fmha_causal_fn is not None:
+        return True
+    search_paths = [
+        pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent / "libfmha_fp16_causal.so",
+        pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.parent.parent.parent / "build" / "libfmha_fp16_causal.so",
+    ]
+    argtypes = [
+        ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_void_p, ctypes.c_void_p,
+        ctypes.c_int, ctypes.c_int, ctypes.c_int,
+        ctypes.c_int, ctypes.c_int, ctypes.c_int,
+        ctypes.c_void_p,
+    ]
+    for p in search_paths:
+        if p.exists():
+            try:
+                lib = ctypes.CDLL(str(p))
+                fn = lib.fmha_fp16_causal
+                fn.restype = ctypes.c_int
+                fn.argtypes = argtypes
+                _fmha_causal_fn = fn
+                # Bottom-right aligned causal (decode). Older .so builds may
+                # lack it; run_decode then falls through to the cuBLAS tier.
+                try:
+                    fn_br = lib.fmha_fp16_causal_br
+                    fn_br.restype = ctypes.c_int
+                    fn_br.argtypes = argtypes
+                    _fmha_causal_br_fn = fn_br
+                except AttributeError:
+                    logger.warning(
+                        "libfmha_fp16_causal.so lacks fmha_fp16_causal_br "
+                        "(rebuild for CUTLASS decode path)")
+                logger.info("CUTLASS causal FMHA loaded from %s", p)
+                return True
+            except OSError as e:
+                logger.warning("Failed to load causal FMHA from %s: %s", p, e)
+    logger.warning("CUTLASS causal FMHA not found — will fall back to cuBLAS MHA")
+    return False
+
+
+class ThorChameleonAttnBackend(AttentionBackendBase):
+    """Standalone Chameleon-7B attention backend on Thor (SM110).
+
+    Single ``chameleon`` site: 32-layer causal MHA, Q/O aliased, per-layer
+    KV cache with ``layer_stride`` bytes between consecutive layers.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, spec: AttentionSpec, ctx, *, chameleon_slots: dict) -> None:
+        super().__init__(spec)
+
+        expected_sites = {"chameleon"}
+        got = set(spec.sites.keys())
+        if got != expected_sites:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"ThorChameleonAttnBackend expects sites {expected_sites}, "
+                f"got {got}")
+
+        self._ctx_cpp = ctx.cpp if hasattr(ctx, "cpp") else ctx
+        self._slots = {"chameleon": dict(chameleon_slots)}
+        self._require_keys("chameleon",
+                           ("Q_O", "Kc", "Vc", "logits", "layer_stride", "scale"))
+
+        self._per_layer_kv = {}
+        s = self._slots["chameleon"]
+        nL = spec.site("chameleon").num_layers
+        stride = int(s["layer_stride"])
+        Kc = int(s["Kc"])
+        Vc = int(s["Vc"])
+        self._per_layer_kv["chameleon"] = [
+            (Kc + l * stride, Vc + l * stride) for l in range(nL)
+        ]
+
+        self._fvk = None
+        self._has_causal_fmha = _load_fmha_causal_library()
+
+        # FA4 (FlashAttention-4, CuTe-DSL) fast path state. Populated by the
+        # frontend with torch-tensor references to the live Q (xn) and KV
+        # cache buffers, so run() can slice views (metadata-only, capture
+        # safe) and dispatch to FA4 instead of the CUTLASS FMHA kernel.
+        self._fa4_enabled = False
+        self._fa4_q_tensor = None
+        self._fa4_kv_cache = None
+
+    def set_fa4_attn(self, q_tensor, kv_cache) -> None:
+        """Enable the FA4 (FlashAttention-4, CuTe-DSL) fast path.
+
+        q_tensor must alias the chameleon Q_O slot buffer (the frontend's xn
+        buffer, which Q GEMMs write into and O is read from). kv_cache must
+        alias the per-layer K/V buffer with layers at [li, 0, :Se] (K) and
+        [li, 1, :Se] (V). Both are torch tensors so run() can build
+        capture-safe views.
+        """
+        from flash_rt.hardware.thor import fa4_backend
+        if not fa4_backend.is_available():
+            logger.warning("FA4 unavailable (%s); keeping CUTLASS FMHA",
+                           fa4_backend.status())
+            return
+        if q_tensor is None or kv_cache is None:
+            raise ValueError("FA4 requires the Q (xn) and KV cache tensor refs")
+        self._fa4_q_tensor = q_tensor
+        self._fa4_kv_cache = kv_cache
+        self._fa4_enabled = True
+        logger.info("FA4 causal FMHA enabled for chameleon site")
+
+    def disable_fa4_attn(self) -> None:
+        """Revert chameleon site to the CUTLASS FMHA path."""
+        self._fa4_enabled = False
+
+    def _require_keys(self, site, keys):
+        slot = self._slots[site]
+        for k in keys:
+            if k not in slot:
+                raise ValueError(f"{site}_slots missing required key {k!r}")
+            if k in ("Q_O", "Kc", "Vc", "logits"):
+                if int(slot[k]) == 0:
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        f"{site}_slots[{k!r}] is a null device pointer")
+
+    def _fvk_mod(self):
+        if self._fvk is None:
+            import flash_rt.flash_rt_kernels as fvk
+            self._fvk = fvk
+        return self._fvk
+
+    def get_slot_ptrs(self, site, layer_idx):
+        """Return {Q, K, V, O} device pointer ints for (site, layer_idx)."""
+        if site not in self._slots:
+            raise KeyError(f"unknown site {site!r}")
+        nL = self._spec.site(site).num_layers
+        if not (0 <= layer_idx < nL):
+            raise IndexError(
+                f"layer_idx {layer_idx} out of range for site {site!r}")
+        K_ptr, V_ptr = self._per_layer_kv[site][layer_idx]
+        q_o = int(self._slots[site]["Q_O"])
+        return {"Q": q_o, "K": K_ptr, "V": V_ptr, "O": q_o}
+
+    def kv_row_ptrs(self, site, layer_idx, pos):
+        """Return (K_row, V_row) device pointer ints for token position pos.
+
+        Rows are fp16 [NH*HD] within the layer's cache segment, so decode
+        can GEMM the new token's K/V directly into the cache.
+        """
+        if site != "chameleon":
+            raise KeyError(f"unknown site {site!r}")
+        spec = self._spec.site(site)
+        if not (0 <= layer_idx < spec.num_layers):
+            raise IndexError(
+                f"layer_idx {layer_idx} out of range for site {site!r}")
+        if not (0 <= pos < spec.max_kv_seq):
+            raise IndexError(f"pos {pos} out of range for site {site!r}")
+        row_bytes = spec.num_kv_heads * spec.head_dim * 2  # fp16
+        K_ptr, V_ptr = self._per_layer_kv[site][layer_idx]
+        return K_ptr + pos * row_bytes, V_ptr + pos * row_bytes
+
+    def run(self, site, layer_idx, q_seq, *, kv_seq=None, stream=0,
+            state_nk=None, cross_attn=False):
+        """Dispatch causal attention for (site, layer_idx)."""
+        if site != "chameleon":
+            raise KeyError(f"unknown site {site!r}")
+        fvk = self._fvk_mod()
+        site_spec = self._spec.site(site)
+        nL = site_spec.num_layers
+        if not (0 <= layer_idx < nL):
+            raise IndexError(
+                f"layer_idx {layer_idx} out of range for site {site!r}")
+        if kv_seq is None:
+            kv_seq = q_seq
+        if q_seq == 1 and kv_seq > q_seq:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "run() got a decode shape (q_seq=1 < kv_seq); the top-left "
+                "causal mask misaligns here — call run_decode() instead")
+
+        s = self._slots[site]
+        K_ptr, V_ptr = self._per_layer_kv[site][layer_idx]
+        NH = site_spec.num_q_heads
+        HD = site_spec.head_dim
+
+        # ── FA4 (FlashAttention-4, CuTe-DSL) fast path ──
+        if self._fa4_enabled and self._fa4_q_tensor is not None:
+            try:
+                from flash_rt.hardware.thor import fa4_backend
+                fa4 = fa4_backend.fa4_func()
+                if fa4 is not None:
+                    import torch
+                    qv = self._fa4_q_tensor[:q_seq].view(1, q_seq, NH, HD)
+                    kv_cache = self._fa4_kv_cache
+                    k_view = kv_cache[layer_idx, 0, :kv_seq].view(1, kv_seq, NH, HD)
+                    v_view = kv_cache[layer_idx, 1, :kv_seq].view(1, kv_seq, NH, HD)
+                    with torch.no_grad():
+                        o = fa4(qv.contiguous(), k_view.contiguous(),
+                                v_view.contiguous(), causal=True, pack_gqa=True)
+                    if isinstance(o, tuple):
+                        o = o[0]
+                    o_flat = o.reshape(q_seq, NH * HD)
+                    # Q_O slot aliases xn (self._fa4_q_tensor): overwrite
+                    # Q with O in place via a metadata-only view.
+                    self._fa4_q_tensor[:q_seq].view(q_seq, NH * HD).copy_(o_flat)
+                    return int(s["Q_O"])
+            except Exception as e:  # pragma: no cover - defensive fallback
+                logger.warning("FA4 failed at layer %d (%s); falling back to CUTLASS",
+                               layer_idx, e)
+                self._fa4_enabled = False
+
+        # ── CUTLASS Causal FMHA (SM100/110) — preferred ──
+        if self._has_causal_fmha and _fmha_causal_fn is not None:
+            ret = _fmha_causal_fn(
+                ctypes.c_void_p(int(s["Q_O"])),
+                ctypes.c_void_p(K_ptr),
+                ctypes.c_void_p(V_ptr),
+                ctypes.c_void_p(int(s["Q_O"])),
+                1, q_seq, kv_seq, NH, NH, HD,
+                ctypes.c_void_p(stream),
+            )
+            if ret != 0:
+                logger.warning(
+                    "CUTLASS causal FMHA returned %d, falling back to cuBLAS",
+                    ret)
+                fvk.attention_mha_causal_fp16(
+                    self._ctx_cpp,
+                    int(s["Q_O"]), K_ptr, V_ptr,
+                    int(s["logits"]), int(s["Q_O"]),
+                    q_seq, kv_seq, NH, HD,
+                    float(s["scale"]), stream,
+                )
+        else:
+            # ── Fallback: cuBLAS decomposed causal MHA ──
+            fvk.attention_mha_causal_fp16(
+                self._ctx_cpp,
+                int(s["Q_O"]), K_ptr, V_ptr,
+                int(s["logits"]), int(s["Q_O"]),
+                q_seq, kv_seq, NH, HD,
+                float(s["scale"]), stream,
+            )
+        return int(s["Q_O"])
+
+    def run_decode(self, site, layer_idx, kv_len, *, stream=0):
+        """Dispatch single-query (decode) attention for (site, layer_idx).
+
+        Q is the single row in the Q_O slot; K/V are the first kv_len rows
+        of the layer's cache segment. The causal mask must be bottom-right
+        aligned (query at position kv_len-1 attends all kv_len keys).
+        """
+        if site != "chameleon":
+            raise KeyError(f"unknown site {site!r}")
+        fvk = self._fvk_mod()
+        site_spec = self._spec.site(site)
+        nL = site_spec.num_layers
+        if not (0 <= layer_idx < nL):
+            raise IndexError(
+                f"layer_idx {layer_idx} out of range for site {site!r}")
+        if not (1 <= kv_len <= site_spec.max_kv_seq):
+            raise IndexError(f"kv_len {kv_len} out of range for site {site!r}")
+
+        s = self._slots[site]
+        K_ptr, V_ptr = self._per_layer_kv[site][layer_idx]
+        NH = site_spec.num_q_heads
+        HD = site_spec.head_dim
+
+        # ── FA4 fast path: causal is bottom-right (offset_k = sk - sq) ──
+        if self._fa4_enabled and self._fa4_q_tensor is not None:
+            try:
+                from flash_rt.hardware.thor import fa4_backend
+                fa4 = fa4_backend.fa4_func()
+                if fa4 is not None:
+                    import torch
+                    qv = self._fa4_q_tensor[:1].view(1, 1, NH, HD)
+                    kv_cache = self._fa4_kv_cache
+                    k_view = kv_cache[layer_idx, 0, :kv_len].view(1, kv_len, NH, HD)
+                    v_view = kv_cache[layer_idx, 1, :kv_len].view(1, kv_len, NH, HD)
+                    with torch.no_grad():
+                        o = fa4(qv.contiguous(), k_view.contiguous(),
+                                v_view.contiguous(), causal=True, pack_gqa=True)
+                    if isinstance(o, tuple):
+                        o = o[0]
+                    self._fa4_q_tensor[:1].view(1, NH * HD).copy_(
+                        o.reshape(1, NH * HD))
+                    return int(s["Q_O"])
+            except Exception as e:  # pragma: no cover - defensive fallback
+                logger.warning("FA4 decode failed at layer %d (%s); falling back",
+                               layer_idx, e)
+                self._fa4_enabled = False
+
+        # ── CUTLASS bottom-right causal FMHA ──
+        if self._has_causal_fmha and _fmha_causal_br_fn is not None:
+            ret = _fmha_causal_br_fn(
+                ctypes.c_void_p(int(s["Q_O"])),
+                ctypes.c_void_p(K_ptr),
+                ctypes.c_void_p(V_ptr),
+                ctypes.c_void_p(int(s["Q_O"])),
+                1, 1, kv_len, NH, NH, HD,
+                ctypes.c_void_p(stream),
+            )
+            if ret != 0:
+                logger.warning(
+                    "CUTLASS causal FMHA (br) returned %d at layer %d, "
+                    "falling back to cuBLAS", ret, layer_idx)
+                fvk.attention_mha_fp16(
+                    self._ctx_cpp,
+                    int(s["Q_O"]), K_ptr, V_ptr,
+                    int(s["logits"]), int(s["Q_O"]),
+                    1, kv_len, NH, HD,
+                    float(s["scale"]), stream,
+                )
+        else:
+            # ── cuBLAS non-causal MHA: with q_seq==1 the bottom-right
+            #    causal mask is the identity, so this is equivalent. ──
+            fvk.attention_mha_fp16(
+                self._ctx_cpp,
+                int(s["Q_O"]), K_ptr, V_ptr,
+                int(s["logits"]), int(s["Q_O"]),
+                1, kv_len, NH, HD,
+                float(s["scale"]), stream,
+            )
+        return int(s["Q_O"])
+
+
+def make_chameleon_attention_spec(*, seq_max: int) -> AttentionSpec:
+    """Build the standalone Chameleon-7B Thor AttentionSpec (1 site)."""
+    spec = AttentionSpec()
+    spec.add_site(
+        "chameleon",
+        num_layers=32, num_q_heads=32, num_kv_heads=32, head_dim=128,
+        max_q_seq=int(seq_max), max_kv_seq=int(seq_max),
+        causal=True,
+    )
+    return spec
+
+
+__all__ = ["ThorChameleonAttnBackend", "make_chameleon_attention_spec"]
diff --git a/flash_rt/hardware/thor/vqgan_trt_backend.py b/flash_rt/hardware/thor/vqgan_trt_backend.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..344610c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/hardware/thor/vqgan_trt_backend.py
@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+"""TensorRT VQ-GAN encoder backend for Jetson Thor.
+
+Manages multiple fixed-shape TRT engines (one per resolution).
+Lazily loads/deserializes engines on first use of each resolution.
+Falls back gracefully if engines are unavailable.
+"""
+
+import json
+import logging
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Optional
+
+import torch
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+_TRT_AVAILABLE = False
+try:
+    import tensorrt as trt
+    _TRT_AVAILABLE = True
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
+
+class VQGANTRTBackend:
+    ENGINE_DIR = Path.home() / ".flash_rt" / "trt_engines" / "vqgan"
+
+    def __init__(self, engine_dir: Optional[Path] = None):
+        self._engine_dir = Path(engine_dir) if engine_dir else self.ENGINE_DIR
+        self._manifest = None
+        self._engines = {}
+        self._contexts = {}
+        self._buffers = {}
+        self._available = None
+        self._trt_logger = None
+
+    def is_available(self) -> bool:
+        if self._available is not None:
+            return self._available
+        if not _TRT_AVAILABLE:
+            logger.warning("tensorrt not importable; TRT VQGAN disabled")
+            self._available = False
+            return False
+        manifest_path = self._engine_dir / "manifest.json"
+        if not manifest_path.exists():
+            logger.warning("No TRT VQGAN manifest at %s", manifest_path)
+            self._available = False
+            return False
+        with open(manifest_path) as f:
+            self._manifest = json.load(f)
+        has_engines = len(self._manifest.get("engines", {})) > 0
+        if has_engines:
+            logger.info("TRT VQGAN backend: %d engines at %s (TRT %s)",
+                        len(self._manifest["engines"]), self._engine_dir,
+                        self._manifest.get("trt_version", "?"))
+        self._available = has_engines
+        return has_engines
+
+    def supports_resolution(self, height: int, width: int) -> bool:
+        if not self._available:
+            return False
+        key = f"{height}x{width}"
+        return key in self._manifest.get("engines", {})
+
+    def encode(self, image_tensor: torch.Tensor) -> Optional[torch.Tensor]:
+        """Run TRT VQGAN encoder.
+
+        Args:
+            image_tensor: [1, 3, H, W] float32 on CUDA, range [-1, 1]
+
+        Returns:
+            [1, H//16, W//16] int64 codebook indices on CUDA, or None on failure.
+        """
+        _, _, h, w = image_tensor.shape
+        key = f"{h}x{w}"
+
+        if key not in self._contexts:
+            if not self._load_engine(h, w):
+                return None
+
+        ctx = self._contexts[key]
+        inp_buf, out_buf, out_dtype_is_int32 = self._buffers[key]
+
+        inp_buf.copy_(image_tensor)
+        ctx.set_tensor_address("image", inp_buf.data_ptr())
+        ctx.set_tensor_address("indices", out_buf.data_ptr())
+
+        stream = torch.cuda.current_stream()
+        ok = ctx.execute_async_v3(stream_handle=stream.cuda_stream)
+        if not ok:
+            logger.error("TRT execute_async_v3 failed for resolution %s", key)
+            return None
+
+        if out_dtype_is_int32:
+            return out_buf.to(torch.int64)
+        return out_buf.clone()
+
+    def encode_batch(self, image_tensor: torch.Tensor) -> Optional[torch.Tensor]:
+        """Run TRT VQGAN encoder on a multi-view batch.
+
+        Args:
+            image_tensor: [B, 3, H, W] float32 on CUDA, range [-1, 1]
+                where B == engine batch (from per-engine manifest entry).
+
+        Returns:
+            [B, H//16, W//16] int64 codebook indices, or None on failure /
+            batch mismatch.
+        """
+        b, _, h, w = image_tensor.shape
+        key = f"{h}x{w}"
+
+        if key not in self._contexts:
+            if not self._load_engine(h, w):
+                return None
+
+        engine_batch = self._manifest["engines"][key]["input_shape"][0]
+        if b != engine_batch:
+            return None  # caller should fall back to per-view encode
+
+        ctx = self._contexts[key]
+        inp_buf, out_buf, out_dtype_is_int32 = self._buffers[key]
+
+        inp_buf.copy_(image_tensor)
+        ctx.set_tensor_address("image", inp_buf.data_ptr())
+        ctx.set_tensor_address("indices", out_buf.data_ptr())
+
+        stream = torch.cuda.current_stream()
+        ok = ctx.execute_async_v3(stream_handle=stream.cuda_stream)
+        if not ok:
+            logger.error("TRT execute_async_v3 (batch=%d) failed at %s", b, key)
+            return None
+
+        if out_dtype_is_int32:
+            return out_buf.to(torch.int64)
+        return out_buf.clone()
+
+    def _load_engine(self, height: int, width: int) -> bool:
+        key = f"{height}x{width}"
+        meta = self._manifest["engines"].get(key)
+        if meta is None:
+            return False
+
+        engine_path = self._engine_dir / meta["file"]
+        if not engine_path.exists():
+            logger.error("Engine file missing: %s", engine_path)
+            return False
+
+        if self._trt_logger is None:
+            self._trt_logger = trt.Logger(trt.Logger.WARNING)
+            if hasattr(trt, "init_libnvinfer_plugins"):
+                trt.init_libnvinfer_plugins(self._trt_logger, "")
+
+        runtime = trt.Runtime(self._trt_logger)
+        with open(engine_path, "rb") as f:
+            engine = runtime.deserialize_cuda_engine(f.read())
+
+        if engine is None:
+            logger.error("Failed to deserialize TRT engine: %s", engine_path)
+            return False
+
+        context = engine.create_execution_context()
+        self._engines[key] = engine
+        self._contexts[key] = context
+
+        self._allocate_buffers(key, height, width)
+        logger.info("TRT VQGAN engine loaded: %s (%s)", key, engine_path.name)
+        return True
+
+    def _allocate_buffers(self, key: str, height: int, width: int):
+        # Per-engine batch (each res may have been built independently with
+        # a different batch); the top-level manifest["batch"] is only the
+        # last-built entry and unreliable when engines coexist.
+        batch = self._manifest["engines"][key]["input_shape"][0]
+        h_lat, w_lat = height // 16, width // 16
+        device = torch.device("cuda")
+
+        inp_buf = torch.empty(batch, 3, height, width, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
+
+        engine = self._engines[key]
+        out_dtype_trt = engine.get_tensor_dtype("indices")
+        out_dtype_is_int32 = (out_dtype_trt == trt.DataType.INT32)
+        if out_dtype_is_int32:
+            out_buf = torch.empty(batch, h_lat, w_lat, device=device, dtype=torch.int32)
+        else:
+            out_buf = torch.empty(batch, h_lat, w_lat, device=device, dtype=torch.int64)
+
+        self._buffers[key] = (inp_buf, out_buf, out_dtype_is_int32)
diff --git a/flash_rt/models/chameleon/__init__.py b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f9cef0a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+"""FlashRT Chameleon-7B (VLM/LLM) model namespace.
+
+Chameleon-7B is a 32-layer early-fusion multimodal LLM (MHA 32x128 with
+per-head QK LayerNorm + RoPE, attention_bias=false, mlp_bias=false,
+SwiGLU FFN, 8192-token VQ-GAN image vocabulary).
+
+Two hardware paths:
+
+- Thor SM110 (``pipeline_thor.py``): dynamic per-tensor FP8 backbone with
+  fused norm/activation+quantize kernels, optional NVFP4 FFN layers,
+  causal CUTLASS SM100 FMHA (``libfmha_fp16_causal.so`` /
+  ``libfmha_fp8_causal.so``) and CUDA-graph decode.
+- Orin SM87 (``pipeline_rtx.py``): INT8 W8A8 + INT4 W4A4 QuaRot-Hadamard
+  rotated weights, SM80 CUTLASS rowwise GEMMs, FA2 fp16 causal attention.
+
+Vendored code notice
+--------------------
+``flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan`` contains the Chameleon VQ-GAN image
+tokenizer reference implementation, vendored from Meta's Chameleon
+repository (``chameleon.vae_ori``). Those files are Copyright (c) Meta
+Platforms, Inc. and affiliates, licensed under the Chameleon License (see
+the copyright headers in ``vqgan/*.py``). They are inference-only and are
+used solely to decode generated image tokens; no training code is
+included.
+"""
diff --git a/flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_rtx.py b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_rtx.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6e11cf39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_rtx.py
@@ -0,0 +1,305 @@
+"""FlashRT — Chameleon-7B VLM forward for Jetson AGX Orin (SM87).
+
+Standalone text-generating forward on the Chameleon-7B INT8/QuaRot-INT4
+kernel set (SM80 CUTLASS rowwise GEMMs + Hadamard rotations). Key design
+points:
+
+1. **No attention bias.** Upstream Chameleon has ``attention_bias = false`` and
+   ``mlp_bias = false``, so the no-bias GEMM entries are used unconditionally.
+2. **A real KV cache.** The K and V GEMMs write straight into the attention
+   backend's per-layer slab — legal because CUTLASS hard-wires its output row
+   stride to ``N``, which equals the cache's row stride. No staging, no copy.
+3. **One code path for prefill and decode.** ``pos is None`` means prefill
+   (``S`` rows at the slab base, RoPE from position 0); ``pos`` set means a
+   single decode row written at ``pos``, with the cos/sin pointers advanced by
+   ``pos`` rows. ``qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16`` needs no modification for this:
+   it derives position as ``row / num_heads``, which is 0 at ``S = 1``, so the
+   position lives entirely in the table pointer.
+4. **lm_head tail instead of an action head.** Final RMSNorm, then per-row INT8
+   quantization of the wanted row(s), then an INT8 GEMM to BF16 logits. The
+   ``mask_image_logits`` step and the argmax live in the frontend (they are
+   torch ops on the logits view, which are graph-safe — verified).
+
+lm_head stays INT8 in both precision tiers: it is 268 MB/token = 1.74 ms =
+3.7 % of the INT8 decode budget, and dropping to 15 INT4 levels over a
+65536-row output is not worth 0.8 ms.
+
+Raw-pointer interface only (int pointers + Python primitives) for CUDA-Graph
+safety: no torch ops, no allocation, no sync inside the forward.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import ctypes
+
+_CUDART = None
+
+
+def _gpu_copy(dst_ptr: int, src_ptr: int, nbytes: int, stream: int) -> None:
+    """Async D2D copy — the in-graph layer-probe mechanism."""
+    global _CUDART
+    if _CUDART is None:
+        _CUDART = ctypes.CDLL("libcudart.so")
+    _CUDART.cudaMemcpyAsync(
+        ctypes.c_void_p(dst_ptr), ctypes.c_void_p(src_ptr),
+        ctypes.c_size_t(nbytes), 3, ctypes.c_void_p(stream))
+
+
+def _check(status, name: str, shape) -> None:
+    if status != 0:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"{name} failed: status={status} shape={shape}")
+
+
+def chameleon_forward(
+    fvk, bufs, weights, dims, scales_dev,
+    *, attn, S: int, pos=None, stream: int = 0,
+    use_int4: bool = False, use_int4_down: bool = False,
+    use_hadamard: bool = False,
+    ffn_down_clamp_value: float = 60000.0,
+    ffn_down_clamp_last_n: int = 4,
+    logits_all: bool = False, probe=None,
+) -> None:
+    """Run the 32-layer Chameleon-7B decoder and the lm_head.
+
+    Args:
+        fvk: ``flash_rt.flash_rt_kernels`` module.
+        bufs / weights / dims / scales_dev: int-pointer dicts from the frontend.
+        attn: ``ChameleonAttnBackend`` (owns the KV cache).
+        S: rows to process. ``1`` on the decode path.
+        pos: ``None`` for prefill; otherwise the absolute KV position of the
+            single decode row. RoPE and the KV write both key off this.
+        ffn_down_clamp_value: symmetric clamp applied to the down-projection
+            output before the residual add; ``<= 0`` disables it.
+            **This is required for correctness, not a tuning knob.** Measured on
+            this checkpoint (ISL=1032), the reference's magnitudes are tiny
+            through L30 and then explode at L31 only:
+
+                layer      L28    L29    L30      L31
+                residual  1616   1720   2032   266240
+                down_out  1120   1032   1880   264192
+
+            2.6e5 is far beyond FP16's 65504, so the store becomes ``inf`` and
+            the final RMSNorm then poisons that row's logits. Because the
+            pre-L31 residual is only ~2032, clamping the down output at 60000
+            keeps the residual at ~62000 < 65504 — so no BF16 residual stream is
+            needed. See ``docs/chameleon7b_rtx_sm87.md``. Unlike the
+            Thor path we do **not** clamp the down *input*: ours is BF16
+            (``cutlass_int8_silu_gated_bf16out``), whose range absorbs the
+            151552 without issue.
+        logits_all: compute logits for **all** S rows (teacher-forced
+            precision comparison). Requires an ``[S, vocab]`` logits buffer.
+        probe: ``{"layers": [...], "bufs": [...], "final_buf": ptr}`` to snapshot
+            the post-residual hidden state; ``None`` disables it at zero cost.
+    """
+    decode = pos is not None
+    if decode and S != 1:
+        raise ValueError(f"decode path requires S == 1, got {S}")
+
+    D = int(dims["D"])
+    Dff = int(dims["Dff"])
+    L = int(dims["L"])
+    H = int(dims["H"])
+    Hd = int(dims["Hd"])
+    V = int(dims["vocab"])
+
+    x_ptr = int(bufs["x"])
+    xn_ptr = int(bufs["xn"])
+    int8_act_d_ptr = int(bufs["int8_act_d"])
+    int8_act_ff_ptr = int(bufs["int8_act_ff"])
+    int4_act_d_ptr = int(bufs.get("int4_act_d", 0))
+    int4_act_ff_ptr = int(bufs.get("int4_act_ff", 0))
+    bf16_gate_ptr = int(bufs["bf16_gate_ff"])
+    bf16_xn_ff_ptr = int(bufs["bf16_xn_ff"])
+    o_proj_out_ptr = int(bufs["o_proj_out"])
+    logits_ptr = int(bufs["logits"])
+    lm_act_ptr = int(bufs["lm_act"])
+    lm_scale_ptr = int(bufs["lm_act_scale"])
+
+    # RoPE position enters purely through the table pointer (see module doc).
+    rope_off = (pos if decode else 0) * Hd * 2
+    cos_ptr = int(weights["rope_cos"]) + rope_off
+    sin_ptr = int(weights["rope_sin"]) + rope_off
+
+    probe_map = None
+    probe_final = None
+    if probe is not None:
+        layers = probe.get("layers") or []
+        pbufs = probe.get("bufs") or []
+        if len(layers) != len(pbufs):
+            raise ValueError("probe['layers'] and probe['bufs'] length mismatch")
+        probe_map = {int(li): int(p) for li, p in zip(layers, pbufs)}
+        probe_final = int(probe.get("final_buf") or 0)
+
+    # ── entry: fused RMSNorm + quantize (layer 0's input_layernorm) ──
+    if use_int4:
+        fvk.rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16(
+            x_ptr, int(weights["input_ln_w"][0]),
+            int4_act_d_ptr, int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][0]),
+            S, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+    elif use_hadamard:
+        fvk.rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16(
+            x_ptr, int(weights["input_ln_w"][0]),
+            int8_act_d_ptr, int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][0]),
+            S, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+    else:
+        fvk.rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16(
+            x_ptr, int(weights["input_ln_w"][0]),
+            int8_act_d_ptr, int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][0]),
+            S, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+
+    act_d_ptr = int4_act_d_ptr if use_int4 else int8_act_d_ptr
+
+    for li in range(L):
+        if decode:
+            K_ptr, V_ptr = attn.kv_row_ptrs(li, pos)
+            Q_ptr = int(attn.get_slot_ptrs("llm", li)["Q"])
+        else:
+            slots = attn.get_slot_ptrs("llm", li)
+            Q_ptr, K_ptr, V_ptr = int(slots["Q"]), int(slots["K"]), int(slots["V"])
+
+        a_qkv = int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][li])
+        a_o = int(scales_dev["act_o"][li])
+        a_gu = int(scales_dev["act_gu"][li])
+        a_d = int(scales_dev["act_down"][li])
+
+        # ── Q/K/V: K and V land directly in the KV cache ──
+        qkv_gemm = (fvk.cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out if use_int4
+                    else fvk.cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out)
+        for name, out_ptr in (("q_w", Q_ptr), ("k_w", K_ptr), ("v_w", V_ptr)):
+            _check(qkv_gemm(act_d_ptr, int(weights[name][li]), a_qkv,
+                            int(weights[name + "_scale"][li]), out_ptr,
+                            S, D, D, int(stream)),
+                   f"{'int4' if use_int4 else 'int8'} {name}", (S, D, D))
+
+        # ── fused per-head QK LayerNorm(+bias) + rotate-half RoPE, in place ──
+        fvk.qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+            Q_ptr, K_ptr,
+            int(weights["q_norm_w"][li]), int(weights["q_norm_b"][li]),
+            int(weights["k_norm_w"][li]), int(weights["k_norm_b"][li]),
+            cos_ptr, sin_ptr,
+            S, H, Hd, 1e-5, int(stream))
+
+        # ── causal MHA (result written back into the Q slot) ──
+        if decode:
+            attn.run_decode(li, pos, stream=int(stream))
+        else:
+            attn.run_prefill(li, S, stream=int(stream))
+
+        # ── O projection ──
+        if use_int4:
+            fvk.fht_int4_quant_fp16(Q_ptr, int4_act_d_ptr, a_o, S, D, int(stream))
+        elif use_hadamard:
+            fvk.fht_int8_quant_fp16(Q_ptr, int8_act_d_ptr, a_o, S, D, int(stream))
+        else:
+            fvk.quantize_int8_rowwise_fp16(Q_ptr, int8_act_d_ptr, a_o,
+                                           S, D, int(stream))
+        o_gemm = (fvk.cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out if use_int4
+                  else fvk.cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out)
+        _check(o_gemm(act_d_ptr, int(weights["o_w"][li]), a_o,
+                      int(weights["o_w_scale"][li]), o_proj_out_ptr,
+                      S, D, D, int(stream)), "o_proj", (S, D, D))
+
+        # ── residual_1 + post-attention RMSNorm + quantize ──
+        if use_int4:
+            fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16(
+                x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, int(weights["post_ln_w"][li]),
+                int4_act_d_ptr, a_gu, S, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+        elif use_hadamard:
+            fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16(
+                x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, int(weights["post_ln_w"][li]),
+                int8_act_d_ptr, a_gu, S, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+        else:
+            fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16(
+                x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, int(weights["post_ln_w"][li]),
+                int8_act_d_ptr, a_gu, S, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+
+        # ── FFN: gate -> BF16, up with fused SiLU(gate)* -> BF16 ──
+        if use_int4:
+            _check(fvk.cutlass_int4_rowwise_bf16out(
+                int4_act_d_ptr, int(weights["gate_w"][li]), a_gu,
+                int(weights["gate_w_scale"][li]), bf16_gate_ptr,
+                S, Dff, D, int(stream)), "int4 gate", (S, Dff, D))
+            _check(fvk.cutlass_int4_silu_gated_bf16out(
+                int4_act_d_ptr, int(weights["up_w"][li]), a_gu,
+                int(weights["up_w_scale"][li]), bf16_gate_ptr, bf16_xn_ff_ptr,
+                S, Dff, D, int(stream)), "int4 up+silu", (S, Dff, D))
+        else:
+            _check(fvk.cutlass_int8_rowwise_bf16out(
+                int8_act_d_ptr, int(weights["gate_w"][li]), a_gu,
+                int(weights["gate_w_scale"][li]), bf16_gate_ptr,
+                S, Dff, D, int(stream)), "int8 gate", (S, Dff, D))
+            _check(fvk.cutlass_int8_silu_gated_bf16out(
+                int8_act_d_ptr, int(weights["up_w"][li]), a_gu,
+                int(weights["up_w_scale"][li]), bf16_gate_ptr, bf16_xn_ff_ptr,
+                S, Dff, D, int(stream)), "int8 up+silu", (S, Dff, D))
+
+        # ── down projection ──
+        if use_int4_down:
+            fvk.fht128_int4_quant_bf16(bf16_xn_ff_ptr, int4_act_ff_ptr, a_d,
+                                       S, Dff, int(stream))
+            _check(fvk.cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out(
+                int4_act_ff_ptr, int(weights["d_w"][li]), a_d,
+                int(weights["d_w_scale"][li]), o_proj_out_ptr,
+                S, D, Dff, int(stream)), "int4 down", (S, D, Dff))
+        else:
+            fvk.quantize_int8_rowwise(bf16_xn_ff_ptr, int8_act_ff_ptr, a_d,
+                                      S, Dff, int(stream))
+            _check(fvk.cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out(
+                int8_act_ff_ptr, int(weights["d_w"][li]), a_d,
+                int(weights["d_w_scale"][li]), o_proj_out_ptr,
+                S, D, Dff, int(stream)), "int8 down", (S, D, Dff))
+
+        # Guard the FP16 residual against L31's massive down output (see the
+        # measured table in the docstring). Restricted to the last
+        # ``ffn_down_clamp_last_n`` layers: the magnitude grows monotonically
+        # with depth and L28 measures 1616, i.e. 37x below the clamp, so the
+        # earlier layers cannot reach it. Clamping all 32 layers instead costs
+        # 6.2 ms of a 281 ms prefill (2.2 %) for no effect. The Gate-1 harness
+        # reports per-layer clamp saturation, so a checkpoint that violates the
+        # assumption is detectable — raise this to L if that ever happens.
+        if ffn_down_clamp_value > 0.0 and li >= L - ffn_down_clamp_last_n:
+            fvk.clamp_inplace_fp16(o_proj_out_ptr, float(ffn_down_clamp_value),
+                                   S * D, int(stream))
+
+        # ── residual_2 (+ next layer's input_layernorm + quantize) ──
+        if li < L - 1:
+            if use_int4:
+                fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16(
+                    x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, int(weights["input_ln_w"][li + 1]),
+                    int4_act_d_ptr, int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][li + 1]),
+                    S, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+            elif use_hadamard:
+                fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_fht_int8_fp16(
+                    x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, int(weights["input_ln_w"][li + 1]),
+                    int8_act_d_ptr, int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][li + 1]),
+                    S, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+            else:
+                fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_int8_rowwise_fp16(
+                    x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, int(weights["input_ln_w"][li + 1]),
+                    int8_act_d_ptr, int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][li + 1]),
+                    S, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+        else:
+            fvk.residual_add_fp16(x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, S * D, int(stream))
+
+        if probe_map is not None and li in probe_map:
+            _gpu_copy(probe_map[li], x_ptr, S * D * 2, stream)
+
+    # ── final RMSNorm ──
+    fvk.rms_norm_fp16(x_ptr, int(weights["final_norm_w"]), xn_ptr,
+                      S, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+    if probe_final:
+        _gpu_copy(probe_final, xn_ptr, S * D * 2, stream)
+
+    # ── lm_head: INT8 W8A8 -> BF16 logits ──
+    # Next-token prediction reads the last row; logits_all is for the
+    # teacher-forced precision comparison.
+    rows, row_off = (S, 0) if logits_all else (1, S - 1)
+    fvk.quantize_int8_rowwise_fp16(xn_ptr + row_off * D * 2, lm_act_ptr,
+                                   lm_scale_ptr, rows, D, int(stream))
+    _check(fvk.cutlass_int8_rowwise_bf16out(
+        lm_act_ptr, int(weights["lm_head_w"]), lm_scale_ptr,
+        int(weights["lm_head_w_scale"]), logits_ptr,
+        rows, V, D, int(stream)), "lm_head", (rows, V, D))
+
+
+__all__ = ["chameleon_forward"]
diff --git a/flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c76d0d38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/pipeline_thor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,1126 @@
+"""FlashRT — standalone Chameleon-7B Thor SM110 pipeline forward functions.
+
+Chameleon-7B LLM (32-layer MHA, attention_bias=false, mlp_bias=false,
+per-head QK LayerNorm + RoPE). Used by the standalone Chameleon Thor
+frontend.
+
+All functions use raw-pointer interface (int pointers + Python primitives)
+for CUDA Graph compatibility. No dynamic allocation, no torch ops, no sync.
+
+Functions:
+    chameleon_forward            — Chameleon-7B LLM inference (dynamic FP8 default)
+    chameleon_forward_fp16       — pure-FP16 reference path
+    chameleon_forward_calibrate  — FP8 static-scale calibration
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import math
+
+import flash_rt.flash_rt_kernels as _fvk
+import torch
+
+from flash_rt.hardware.thor.shared_primitives import (
+    _measure_scale_gpu,
+    _gpu_copy,
+    _gpu_sync,
+    _gpu_zero,
+)
+
+try:
+    import flash_rt.flash_rt_fp4 as _fvk_fp4
+except Exception:
+    _fvk_fp4 = None
+
+
+def _parse_fp4_layer_policy() -> frozenset:
+    """FP4 FFN layer policy from FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FP4_LAYERS env var.
+
+    Values:
+      - unset / "": default = L0-L2 FP4, L3-L31 FP8 (safe default).
+      - "0-7": FP4 for L0..L7 inclusive.
+      - "0-14,20-31": FP4 for L0..L14 + L20..L31 (skip outlier L15-L19).
+        This is the SM120-sweep-validated aggressive setting (13ms savings on
+        RTX 5090; expect similar Thor gains).
+      - comma-separated list: "0,1,2,5" → FP4 on those specific layers.
+
+    Returns the frozenset of FP8 layer indices (complement of FP4 set).
+    """
+    import os as _os
+    val = _os.environ.get("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FP4_LAYERS", "").strip()
+    if not val:
+        return frozenset(range(3, 32))  # default: L0-L2 FP4
+
+    fp4_layers = set()
+    for chunk in val.split(","):
+        chunk = chunk.strip()
+        if "-" in chunk:
+            a, b = chunk.split("-")
+            fp4_layers.update(range(int(a), int(b) + 1))
+        else:
+            fp4_layers.add(int(chunk))
+    fp4_layers = {li for li in fp4_layers if 0 <= li < 32}
+    return frozenset(li for li in range(32) if li not in fp4_layers)
+
+
+# ── FP4 GEMM variant and layer policy ──
+FP4_VARIANT = 9
+_FFN_FP8_LAYERS = _parse_fp4_layer_policy()
+
+
+# ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+# Chameleon-7B LLM (32 layers, mixed FP4/FP8 GEMMs)
+# ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+
+def chameleon_forward(
+    gemm, fvk, bufs, weights, dims, scales_dev,
+    *, attn, stream: int = 0,
+    alpha_host=None, awq_v_proj=None,
+    ffn_down_clamp_value: float = 10000.0,
+    ffn_clamp_layers=None,
+    dynamic_fp8_layers: frozenset = frozenset(),
+    fp4_ffn_layers: frozenset = frozenset(),
+    probe=None,
+) -> None:
+    """Chameleon-7B LLM forward pass (32 layers).
+
+    Production precision: dynamic per-tensor FP8 on all layers, with the FFN of
+    ``fp4_ffn_layers`` optionally run in NVFP4 W4A16 (decoupled from attention).
+
+    Output: hidden_all = RMSNorm(x) written to bufs['hidden_all'] as
+    full [Se, D] FP16 tensor (consumed by action_head_forward).
+
+    ``ffn_down_clamp_value``: Clamp down_out (o_proj_out) to ±V after
+    the FFN before residual_2. Chameleon-7B L31 down_proj's FP32
+    accumulator × alpha can push output beyond ±65504 producing inf.
+    Applied after both FP4 and FP8 FFN paths. Set to <= 0 to disable.
+
+    ``ffn_clamp_layers``: Optional set/frozenset of layer indices where the
+    FFN clamps are applied. ``None`` preserves the historical behavior and
+    clamps every layer; callers can pass e.g. ``frozenset({31})`` to clamp
+    only the deep outlier layer and avoid redundant elementwise passes.
+
+    ``dynamic_fp8_layers``: frozenset of layer indices to run with full FP8
+    GEMMs but RUNTIME (per-forward) per-tensor activation scaling instead of
+    the static calibrated scale. Uses quantize_fp8_device_fp16 (GPU amax) +
+    fp8_nn_dev_fp16 (device-scale GEMM). Restores 512-res precision (static
+    scale is wrong for long sequences) at full FP8 speed. CUDA-Graph safe.
+    This is the default for all 32 layers; see docs/chameleon_thor_sm110.md.
+
+    ``fp4_ffn_layers``: frozenset of layer indices whose FFN runs in NVFP4
+    W4A16 while attention stays on the dynamic-FP8 path (decoupled). Requires
+    those layers' FP4 weights to be packed. 512-res default = L0-7 (~1.10x E2E,
+    cos >= 0.99 on 3/4 variants); empty at 256-res (FP4 breaks precision). See
+    docs/chameleon_thor_sm110.md (§6 FP4).
+
+    Optional ``probe`` dict for layer-wise precision debugging::
+
+        {
+            'layers':    tuple[int, ...],  # layer indices to snapshot post-residual-2
+            'bufs':      tuple[int, ...],  # device pointers, one per layer index,
+                                            # each must hold >= Se*D fp16 elements
+            'final_buf': int,              # device pointer for post-final-RMSNorm
+                                            # snapshot. Pass 0 to skip.
+        }
+    """
+    Se = int(dims['Se'])
+    D = int(dims['D'])
+    Dff = int(dims['Dff'])
+    L = int(dims['L'])
+    H = int(dims['H'])
+    Hd = int(dims['Hd'])
+
+    if alpha_host is None:
+        alpha_host = weights.get('alpha_host')
+    if awq_v_proj is None:
+        awq_v_proj = weights.get('awq_v_proj')
+
+    x_ptr = int(bufs['x'])
+    xn_ptr = int(bufs['xn'])
+    xn_fp8_ptr = int(bufs['xn_fp8'])
+    o_proj_out_ptr = int(bufs['o_proj_out'])
+    hidden_all_ptr = int(bufs['hidden_all'])
+
+    # FP4 FFN buffers
+    act_fp4_ptr = int(bufs['act_fp4'])
+    act_sfa_ptr = int(bufs['act_sfa'])
+    ffn_act_fp4_ptr = int(bufs['ffn_act_fp4'])
+    ffn_act_sfa_ptr = int(bufs['ffn_act_sfa'])
+    gu_merged_ptr = int(bufs['gu_merged'])
+
+    cos_ptr = int(weights['rope_cos'])
+    sin_ptr = int(weights['rope_sin'])
+
+    # Layer-0 pre-attention RMSNorm + FP8 quantize
+    fvk.rms_norm_fp16(
+        x_ptr, int(weights['input_ln_w'][0]), xn_ptr,
+        Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream),
+    )
+    fvk.quantize_fp8_static_fp16(
+        xn_ptr, xn_fp8_ptr, int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][0]), Se * D, int(stream),
+    )
+
+    for li in range(L):
+        clamp_this_layer = (
+            ffn_down_clamp_value > 0.0
+            and (ffn_clamp_layers is None or li in ffn_clamp_layers)
+        )
+        slots = attn.get_slot_ptrs("chameleon", li)
+        Q_ptr = int(slots["Q"])
+        K_ptr = int(slots["K"])
+        V_ptr = int(slots["V"])
+        O_ptr = int(slots["O"])
+
+        d_act_qkv = int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][li])
+        d_act_o = int(scales_dev["act_o"][li])
+        d_act_gu = int(scales_dev["act_gu"][li])
+        d_act_d = int(scales_dev["act_down"][li])
+
+        d_w_qkv = int(weights['d_w_qkv'][li])
+        d_w_o = int(weights['d_w_o'][li])
+        d_w_gu = int(weights['d_w_gu'][li])
+        d_w_d = int(weights['d_w_d'][li])
+
+        q_w_ptr = int(weights['q_w'][li])
+        k_w_ptr = int(weights['k_w'][li])
+        v_w_ptr = int(weights['v_w'][li])
+
+
+        # ═══ Dynamic per-tensor FP8 branch ═══
+        # Runtime amax scaling (quantize_fp8_device_fp16 -> fp8_nn_dev_fp16)
+        # instead of static-calibrated scale. The static per-tensor scale is
+        # wrong for long-sequence (512-res) variants where deep-layer
+        # activations shift; recomputing amax each forward restores precision
+        # at full FP8 speed (no FP16 GEMM). CUDA-Graph safe: the device scale
+        # pointer is dereferenced at replay, so it adapts per input.
+        if li in dynamic_fp8_layers:
+            # Self-sufficient entry: re-derive FP16 xn from residual stream.
+            # Fused RMSNorm + dynamic FP8 quantize: amax is measured inside
+            # the norm's own output-write pass, skipping the separate
+            # absmax_kernel read of xn (one fewer full pass over Se*D).
+            dyn_qkv = int(scales_dev['dyn_act_qkv'][li])
+            dyn_o = int(scales_dev['dyn_act_o'][li])
+            dyn_gu = int(scales_dev['dyn_act_gu'][li])
+            dyn_d = int(scales_dev['dyn_act_down'][li])
+
+            fvk.rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+                x_ptr, int(weights['input_ln_w'][li]), xn_ptr, xn_fp8_ptr,
+                dyn_qkv, Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+
+            # QKV: device-scale GEMM (xn_fp8 already produced above).
+            # All three GEMMs read xn_fp8; Q writes into xn (aliased Q_O)
+            # AFTER the quantize, so the clobber is harmless.
+            gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, v_w_ptr, V_ptr,
+                                 Se, D, D, dyn_qkv, d_w_qkv, int(stream))
+            gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, k_w_ptr, K_ptr,
+                                 Se, D, D, dyn_qkv, d_w_qkv, int(stream))
+            gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, q_w_ptr, Q_ptr,
+                                 Se, D, D, dyn_qkv, d_w_qkv, int(stream))
+
+            fvk.qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+                Q_ptr, K_ptr,
+                int(weights['q_norm_w'][li]), int(weights['q_norm_b'][li]),
+                int(weights['k_norm_w'][li]), int(weights['k_norm_b'][li]),
+                cos_ptr, sin_ptr,
+                Se, H, Hd, 1e-5, int(stream))
+            attn.run("chameleon", li, q_seq=Se, kv_seq=Se, stream=int(stream))
+
+            # O projection: dynamic.
+            fvk.quantize_fp8_device_fp16(
+                O_ptr, xn_fp8_ptr, dyn_o, Se * D, int(stream))
+            gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, int(weights['o_w'][li]),
+                                 o_proj_out_ptr, Se, D, D, dyn_o, d_w_o,
+                                 int(stream))
+
+            # Residual 1.
+            fvk.residual_add_fp16(x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, Se * D, int(stream))
+
+            # ── FFN: decoupled NVFP4 (opt-in) or dynamic FP8 ──
+            # DECOUPLED mode keeps attention on dynamic FP8 (above) but runs the
+            # FFN in NVFP4 W4A16 for FP4-eligible layers — isolating FFN
+            # precision from attention precision. Falls back to dynamic FP8 FFN.
+            _use_fp4_ffn = (
+                _fvk_fp4 is not None
+                and li in fp4_ffn_layers
+                and int(weights['gu_w_fp4'][li]) != 0
+            )
+            if _use_fp4_ffn:
+                # Post-attn RMSNorm -> FP16 xn (no FP8 quantize needed here;
+                # the FP4 path quantizes xn_ptr directly below).
+                fvk.rms_norm_fp16(x_ptr, int(weights['post_ln_w'][li]), xn_ptr,
+                                  Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+                # NOTE: intended for SHALLOW layers only. Unlike the FP8 branch
+                # below, there is no intermediate clamp on the SwiGLU output
+                # (gate_geglu fuses silu*mul + FP4 quantize). A deep layer whose
+                # gu exceeds fp16 max (~65504, e.g. L31) could overflow to
+                # inf/nan *before* the FP4 quantize; the final o_proj_out clamp
+                # cannot recover that. The shipped 512 default (L0-7) is safe.
+                # gate+up merged NVFP4 GEMM (dynamic per-block SFA).
+                _fvk_fp4.quantize_fp4_dynamic_sfa_fp16(
+                    xn_ptr, act_fp4_ptr, act_sfa_ptr, Se, D, False, int(stream))
+                _fvk_fp4.cutlass_fp4_gemm_variant(
+                    FP4_VARIANT, act_fp4_ptr, act_sfa_ptr,
+                    int(weights['gu_w_fp4'][li]), int(weights['gu_sfb'][li]),
+                    gu_merged_ptr, Se, 2 * Dff, D, 1.0, 0.0, int(stream))
+                # fused SwiGLU + quantize down-proj input to NVFP4.
+                _fvk_fp4.gate_geglu_fp4_sfa_v2_fp16(
+                    gu_merged_ptr, ffn_act_fp4_ptr, ffn_act_sfa_ptr,
+                    Se, Dff, int(stream))
+                _fvk_fp4.cutlass_fp4_gemm_variant(
+                    FP4_VARIANT, ffn_act_fp4_ptr, ffn_act_sfa_ptr,
+                    int(weights['d_w_fp4'][li]), int(weights['d_sfb'][li]),
+                    o_proj_out_ptr, Se, D, Dff, 1.0, 0.0, int(stream))
+            else:
+                # Post-attn residual add + RMSNorm + dynamic FP8 quantize,
+                # fused into one elementwise kernel: residual is fp16-rounded
+                # (same as residual_add_fp16), ssq is over the rounded values
+                # (same as rms_norm reading the fp16 residual), the amax for
+                # dyn_gu is folded into the xn write pass, and the residual is
+                # register-cached so xn is never re-read from global.
+                fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+                    x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, int(weights['post_ln_w'][li]),
+                    xn_ptr, xn_fp8_ptr, dyn_gu, Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+                gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, int(weights['gate_w'][li]),
+                                     int(bufs['gate_out']), Se, Dff, D,
+                                     dyn_gu, d_w_gu, int(stream))
+                gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, int(weights['up_w'][li]),
+                                     int(bufs['up_out']), Se, Dff, D,
+                                     dyn_gu, d_w_gu, int(stream))
+
+                # Down input gu = silu(gate)*up in FP16, fused with its own
+                # dynamic FP8 quantize on layers with no outlier clamp (amax
+                # measured inside the SwiGLU write pass, skipping a separate
+                # absmax_kernel read of the Se*Dff intermediate). Layers that
+                # need the outlier clamp (default: L31 only) keep the
+                # unfused gate_geglu -> clamp -> quantize sequence since the
+                # clamp must run BEFORE the amax/scale is computed.
+                if clamp_this_layer:
+                    fvk.gate_geglu_fp16(int(bufs['gate_out']), int(bufs['up_out']),
+                                        int(bufs['gate_out']), Se * Dff, int(stream))
+                    fvk.clamp_inplace_fp16(int(bufs['gate_out']),
+                                           float(ffn_down_clamp_value),
+                                           Se * Dff, int(stream))
+                    fvk.quantize_fp8_device_fp16(
+                        int(bufs['gate_out']), int(bufs['gu_fp8']), dyn_d,
+                        Se * Dff, int(stream))
+                else:
+                    fvk.gate_geglu_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+                        int(bufs['gate_out']), int(bufs['up_out']),
+                        int(bufs['gate_out']), int(bufs['gu_fp8']), dyn_d,
+                        Se * Dff, int(stream))
+                gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(int(bufs['gu_fp8']), int(weights['d_w'][li]),
+                                     o_proj_out_ptr, Se, D, Dff, dyn_d, d_w_d,
+                                     int(stream))
+
+            if clamp_this_layer:
+                fvk.clamp_inplace_fp16(o_proj_out_ptr,
+                                       float(ffn_down_clamp_value),
+                                       Se * D, int(stream))
+
+            # Residual 2 + next-layer prep.
+            if li < L - 1:
+                fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_fp16(
+                    x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, int(weights['input_ln_w'][li + 1]),
+                    xn_ptr, Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+                # A following STATIC FP8 layer consumes xn_fp8; produce it.
+                if (li + 1) not in dynamic_fp8_layers:
+                    fvk.quantize_fp8_static_fp16(
+                        xn_ptr, xn_fp8_ptr,
+                        int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][li + 1]), Se * D, int(stream))
+            else:
+                fvk.residual_add_fp16(x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, Se * D,
+                                      int(stream))
+
+            if probe is not None:
+                _pl = probe.get('layers') or ()
+                if li in _pl:
+                    _gpu_copy(int(probe['bufs'][_pl.index(li)]),
+                              x_ptr, Se * D * 2, stream)
+            continue
+        # ═══ End dynamic per-tensor FP8 branch ═══
+
+        # ── QKV FP8 GEMMs ──
+        # Chameleon has no attention bias; pass zero-buffer for fp8_nn_bias epilogue
+        if alpha_host is not None:
+            alpha_qkv = float(alpha_host[li * 4 + 0])
+            zero_bias_ptr = int(bufs['zero_bias_d'])
+
+            # V projection: AWQ path OR shared-scale path.
+            # IMPORTANT ORDER: The chameleon attention backend aliases
+            # Q_ptr to xn_ptr (bufs['xn']). If Q is written first, xn is
+            # clobbered, and the AWQ V path reads Q's output instead of
+            # the RMSNormed xn. So run AWQ V-quantize + V-GEMM BEFORE Q
+            # (V's destination is the KV cache, separate buffer, safe).
+            if awq_v_proj is not None:
+                fvk.awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16(
+                    xn_ptr,
+                    int(awq_v_proj['inv_s_ptrs'][li]),
+                    int(awq_v_proj['xn_v_fp8']),
+                    int(awq_v_proj['act_scale_ptrs'][li]),
+                    Se, D, int(stream),
+                )
+                v_alpha = float(awq_v_proj['alpha_host'][li])
+                gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+                    int(awq_v_proj['xn_v_fp8']),
+                    int(awq_v_proj['w_ptrs'][li]),
+                    V_ptr, zero_bias_ptr,
+                    Se, D, D, v_alpha, int(stream),
+                )
+            else:
+                gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+                    xn_fp8_ptr, v_w_ptr, V_ptr, zero_bias_ptr,
+                    Se, D, D, alpha_qkv, int(stream),
+                )
+
+            # Q and K: also use AWQ smoothed path (same xn_v_fp8, per-proj weights)
+            if awq_v_proj is not None and 'w_q_ptrs' in awq_v_proj:
+                q_alpha = float(awq_v_proj['alpha_q_host'][li])
+                k_alpha = float(awq_v_proj['alpha_k_host'][li])
+                gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+                    int(awq_v_proj['xn_v_fp8']),
+                    int(awq_v_proj['w_q_ptrs'][li]),
+                    Q_ptr, zero_bias_ptr,
+                    Se, D, D, q_alpha, int(stream),
+                )
+                gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+                    int(awq_v_proj['xn_v_fp8']),
+                    int(awq_v_proj['w_k_ptrs'][li]),
+                    K_ptr, zero_bias_ptr,
+                    Se, D, D, k_alpha, int(stream),
+                )
+            else:
+                gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+                    xn_fp8_ptr, q_w_ptr, Q_ptr, zero_bias_ptr,
+                    Se, D, D, alpha_qkv, int(stream),
+                )
+                gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+                    xn_fp8_ptr, k_w_ptr, K_ptr, zero_bias_ptr,
+                    Se, D, D, alpha_qkv, int(stream),
+                )
+        else:
+            gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(
+                xn_fp8_ptr, q_w_ptr, Q_ptr,
+                Se, D, D, d_act_qkv, d_w_qkv, int(stream),
+            )
+            gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(
+                xn_fp8_ptr, k_w_ptr, K_ptr,
+                Se, D, D, d_act_qkv, d_w_qkv, int(stream),
+            )
+            gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(
+                xn_fp8_ptr, v_w_ptr, V_ptr,
+                Se, D, D, d_act_qkv, d_w_qkv, int(stream),
+            )
+
+        # ── Fused per-head QK LayerNorm + RoPE ──
+        fvk.qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+            Q_ptr, K_ptr,
+            int(weights['q_norm_w'][li]), int(weights['q_norm_b'][li]),
+            int(weights['k_norm_w'][li]), int(weights['k_norm_b'][li]),
+            cos_ptr, sin_ptr,
+            Se, H, Hd, 1e-5, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # ── MHA via attention backend ──
+        attn.run("chameleon", li, q_seq=Se, kv_seq=Se, stream=int(stream))
+
+        # ── O projection ──
+        fvk.quantize_fp8_static_fp16(
+            O_ptr, xn_fp8_ptr, d_act_o, Se * D, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        if alpha_host is not None:
+            alpha_o = float(alpha_host[li * 4 + 1])
+            gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+                xn_fp8_ptr, int(weights['o_w'][li]), o_proj_out_ptr,
+                int(bufs['zero_bias_d']),
+                Se, D, D, alpha_o, int(stream),
+            )
+        else:
+            gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(
+                xn_fp8_ptr, int(weights['o_w'][li]), o_proj_out_ptr,
+                Se, D, D, d_act_o, d_w_o, int(stream),
+            )
+
+        # ── Post-attention: residual + RMSNorm (path depends on FFN precision) ──
+        if li in _FFN_FP8_LAYERS:
+            fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_fp8_fp16(
+                x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, int(weights['post_ln_w'][li]),
+                xn_fp8_ptr, Se, D, 1e-5,
+                d_act_gu, int(stream),
+            )
+        else:
+            fvk.residual_add_fp16(
+                x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, Se * D, int(stream),
+            )
+            fvk.rms_norm_fp16(
+                x_ptr, int(weights['post_ln_w'][li]), xn_ptr,
+                Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream),
+            )
+
+        # ── FFN (legacy static path; only for layers excluded from
+        # dynamic_fp8_layers): NVFP4 if li not in _FFN_FP8_LAYERS, else FP8 ──
+        gu_w_fp4_li = int(weights['gu_w_fp4'][li]) if li not in _FFN_FP8_LAYERS else 0
+        fp4_available = (
+            _fvk_fp4 is not None
+            and li not in _FFN_FP8_LAYERS
+            and gu_w_fp4_li != 0
+        )
+        if fp4_available:
+            # FP4 path
+            _fvk_fp4.quantize_fp4_dynamic_sfa_fp16(
+                xn_ptr, act_fp4_ptr, act_sfa_ptr,
+                Se, D, False, int(stream),
+            )
+            _fvk_fp4.cutlass_fp4_gemm_variant(
+                FP4_VARIANT,
+                act_fp4_ptr, act_sfa_ptr,
+                int(weights['gu_w_fp4'][li]), int(weights['gu_sfb'][li]),
+                gu_merged_ptr, Se, 2 * Dff, D,
+                1.0, 0.0, int(stream),
+            )
+            _fvk_fp4.gate_geglu_fp4_sfa_v2_fp16(
+                gu_merged_ptr, ffn_act_fp4_ptr, ffn_act_sfa_ptr,
+                Se, Dff, int(stream),
+            )
+            _fvk_fp4.cutlass_fp4_gemm_variant(
+                FP4_VARIANT,
+                ffn_act_fp4_ptr, ffn_act_sfa_ptr,
+                int(weights['d_w_fp4'][li]), int(weights['d_sfb'][li]),
+                o_proj_out_ptr, Se, D, Dff,
+                1.0, 0.0, int(stream),
+            )
+        else:
+            # FP8 path (also used as fallback when FP4 is unavailable
+            # for a layer in the L0-2 range).
+            gate_w_ptr = int(weights['gate_w'][li])
+            up_w_ptr = int(weights['up_w'][li])
+            gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(
+                xn_fp8_ptr, gate_w_ptr, int(bufs['gate_out']),
+                Se, Dff, D, d_act_gu, d_w_gu, int(stream),
+            )
+            gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(
+                xn_fp8_ptr, up_w_ptr, int(bufs['up_out']),
+                Se, Dff, D, d_act_gu, d_w_gu, int(stream),
+            )
+            # Down-proj: 2-tier adaptive dispatch.
+            # Tier 1 (standard FP8): no AWQ dict → fused silu_mul_split_fp8
+            # Tier 2 (AWQ D smooth): li in awq_d_layers → per-K smooth + FP8
+            _has_awq = (awq_v_proj is not None
+                        and 'inv_s_D_ptrs' in awq_v_proj)
+            _in_awq_d = (_has_awq and li in awq_v_proj.get(
+                'awq_d_layers', frozenset()))
+
+            if _in_awq_d:
+                # Tier 2: AWQ D smoothed FP8 path (fused SwiGLU).
+                fvk.gate_geglu_fp16(int(bufs['gate_out']), int(bufs['up_out']),
+                                    int(bufs['gate_out']), Se * Dff, int(stream))
+                fvk.awq_quant_fp8_static_fp16(
+                    int(bufs['gate_out']),
+                    int(awq_v_proj['inv_s_D_ptrs'][li]),
+                    int(bufs['gu_fp8']),
+                    int(awq_v_proj['act_scale_D_ptrs'][li]),
+                    Se, Dff, int(stream))
+                gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+                    int(bufs['gu_fp8']),
+                    int(awq_v_proj['w_D_ptrs'][li]),
+                    o_proj_out_ptr, int(bufs['zero_bias_d']),
+                    Se, D, Dff,
+                    float(awq_v_proj['alpha_D_host'][li]),
+                    int(stream))
+            else:
+                # Tier 1: standard per-tensor FP8 (no AWQ)
+                fvk.silu_mul_split_fp8_fp16(
+                    int(bufs['gate_out']), int(bufs['up_out']),
+                    int(bufs['gu_fp8']),
+                    Se * Dff, d_act_d, int(stream),
+                )
+                gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(
+                    int(bufs['gu_fp8']), int(weights['d_w'][li]),
+                    o_proj_out_ptr,
+                    Se, D, Dff, d_act_d, d_w_d, int(stream),
+                )
+
+        # ── Clamp down_out to fp16 range ──
+        # Chameleon-7B L31 down_proj's FP32 accumulator × alpha can push
+        # the FP16 output beyond ±65504 producing inf, which propagates
+        # through the final RMSNorm and destroys action precision. Mirror
+        # the RTX FP8 path's clamp (pipeline_rtx.py:829-833).
+        if clamp_this_layer:
+            fvk.clamp_inplace_fp16(
+                o_proj_out_ptr, float(ffn_down_clamp_value),
+                Se * D, int(stream),
+            )
+
+        # ── Fused: residual_2 + next-layer input_ln + FP8 quantize ──
+        # When AWQ V-proj is enabled we need the FP16 xn buffer populated
+        # for the NEXT layer's V-proj activation smoothing kernel (which
+        # reads FP16 xn, not FP8). Split the fused path into
+        # residual_add_rms_norm_fp16 + quantize_fp8_static_fp16 (one
+        # extra launch per layer) so xn_ptr stays valid.
+        if li < L - 1:
+            if awq_v_proj is not None:
+                fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_fp16(
+                    x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr,
+                    int(weights['input_ln_w'][li + 1]),
+                    xn_ptr, Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream),
+                )
+                fvk.quantize_fp8_static_fp16(
+                    xn_ptr, xn_fp8_ptr,
+                    int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][li + 1]),
+                    Se * D, int(stream),
+                )
+            else:
+                fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_fp8_fp16(
+                    x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr,
+                    int(weights['input_ln_w'][li + 1]),
+                    xn_fp8_ptr, Se, D, 1e-5,
+                    int(scales_dev["act_qkv"][li + 1]), int(stream),
+                )
+        else:
+            fvk.residual_add_fp16(x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, Se * D, int(stream))
+
+        # ── Optional layer probe: snapshot post-residual-2 hidden state ──
+        if probe is not None:
+            probe_layers = probe.get('layers') or ()
+            if li in probe_layers:
+                idx = probe_layers.index(li)
+                snap_ptr = int(probe['bufs'][idx])
+                if snap_ptr != 0:
+                    _gpu_copy(snap_ptr, x_ptr, Se * D * 2, stream)
+
+    # ── Final RMSNorm → hidden_all [Se, D] FP16 ──
+    fvk.rms_norm_fp16(
+        x_ptr, int(weights['final_norm_w']), hidden_all_ptr,
+        Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream),
+    )
+
+    # ── Optional final probe ──
+    if probe is not None:
+        final_buf = int(probe.get('final_buf', 0))
+        if final_buf != 0:
+            _gpu_copy(final_buf, hidden_all_ptr, Se * D * 2, stream)
+
+
+def chameleon_decode_step(
+    gemm, fvk, bufs, weights, dims, scales_dev,
+    *, attn, pos: int, stream: int = 0,
+    ffn_down_clamp_value: float = 60000.0,
+    ffn_clamp_layers=frozenset({31}),
+) -> None:
+    """Single-token (Se=1) incremental decode step at position ``pos``.
+
+    Mirrors chameleon_forward's dynamic per-tensor FP8 branch op-for-op,
+    with:
+      * K/V GEMMs writing the KV cache row at ``pos``
+        (``attn.kv_row_ptrs``) — history rows were filled by prefill;
+      * RoPE cos/sin taken at row ``pos`` via byte offsets;
+      * attention dispatched through ``attn.run_decode`` (bottom-right
+        causal mask) over kv_len=pos+1 keys;
+      * final RMSNorm written to ``hidden_all`` row 0.
+
+    The token embedding must already be in ``bufs['x']`` row 0, and the
+    residual stream in ``bufs['x']`` is updated in place across layers.
+    CUDA-Graph safe (int pointers only, no allocations); ``pos`` is a host
+    scalar, so callers run this eagerly, outside graph capture.
+    """
+    D = int(dims['D'])
+    Dff = int(dims['Dff'])
+    L = int(dims['L'])
+    H = int(dims['H'])
+    Hd = int(dims['Hd'])
+
+    x_ptr = int(bufs['x'])
+    xn_ptr = int(bufs['xn'])
+    xn_fp8_ptr = int(bufs['xn_fp8'])
+    o_proj_out_ptr = int(bufs['o_proj_out'])
+    hidden_all_ptr = int(bufs['hidden_all'])
+
+    cos_ptr = int(weights['rope_cos']) + pos * Hd * 2
+    sin_ptr = int(weights['rope_sin']) + pos * Hd * 2
+
+    for li in range(L):
+        clamp_this_layer = (
+            ffn_down_clamp_value > 0.0
+            and (ffn_clamp_layers is None or li in ffn_clamp_layers)
+        )
+        dyn_qkv = int(scales_dev['dyn_act_qkv'][li])
+        dyn_o = int(scales_dev['dyn_act_o'][li])
+        dyn_gu = int(scales_dev['dyn_act_gu'][li])
+        dyn_d = int(scales_dev['dyn_act_down'][li])
+
+        d_w_o = int(weights['d_w_o'][li])
+        d_w_gu = int(weights['d_w_gu'][li])
+        d_w_d = int(weights['d_w_d'][li])
+
+        K_row_ptr, V_row_ptr = attn.kv_row_ptrs("chameleon", li, pos)
+        slots = attn.get_slot_ptrs("chameleon", li)
+        Q_ptr = int(slots["Q"])
+        O_ptr = int(slots["O"])
+
+        # Fused RMSNorm + dynamic FP8 quantize from the residual stream.
+        fvk.rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+            x_ptr, int(weights['input_ln_w'][li]), xn_ptr, xn_fp8_ptr,
+            dyn_qkv, 1, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+
+        # QKV GEMMs (M=1): K/V land in the cache row at pos, Q in Q_O.
+        gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, int(weights['v_w'][li]), V_row_ptr,
+                             1, D, D, dyn_qkv, int(weights['d_w_qkv'][li]),
+                             int(stream))
+        gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, int(weights['k_w'][li]), K_row_ptr,
+                             1, D, D, dyn_qkv, int(weights['d_w_qkv'][li]),
+                             int(stream))
+        gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, int(weights['q_w'][li]), Q_ptr,
+                             1, D, D, dyn_qkv, int(weights['d_w_qkv'][li]),
+                             int(stream))
+
+        fvk.qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+            Q_ptr, K_row_ptr,
+            int(weights['q_norm_w'][li]), int(weights['q_norm_b'][li]),
+            int(weights['k_norm_w'][li]), int(weights['k_norm_b'][li]),
+            cos_ptr, sin_ptr,
+            1, H, Hd, 1e-5, int(stream))
+        attn.run_decode("chameleon", li, kv_len=pos + 1, stream=int(stream))
+
+        # O projection (M=1).
+        fvk.quantize_fp8_device_fp16(
+            O_ptr, xn_fp8_ptr, dyn_o, D, int(stream))
+        gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, int(weights['o_w'][li]),
+                             o_proj_out_ptr, 1, D, D, dyn_o, d_w_o,
+                             int(stream))
+
+        # Residual 1.
+        fvk.residual_add_fp16(x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, D, int(stream))
+
+        # FFN: residual add + RMSNorm + dynamic FP8 quantize (fused).
+        fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+            x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, int(weights['post_ln_w'][li]),
+            xn_ptr, xn_fp8_ptr, dyn_gu, 1, D, 1e-5, int(stream))
+        gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, int(weights['gate_w'][li]),
+                             int(bufs['gate_out']), 1, Dff, D,
+                             dyn_gu, d_w_gu, int(stream))
+        gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(xn_fp8_ptr, int(weights['up_w'][li]),
+                             int(bufs['up_out']), 1, Dff, D,
+                             dyn_gu, d_w_gu, int(stream))
+
+        if clamp_this_layer:
+            fvk.gate_geglu_fp16(int(bufs['gate_out']), int(bufs['up_out']),
+                                int(bufs['gate_out']), Dff, int(stream))
+            fvk.clamp_inplace_fp16(int(bufs['gate_out']),
+                                   float(ffn_down_clamp_value),
+                                   Dff, int(stream))
+            fvk.quantize_fp8_device_fp16(
+                int(bufs['gate_out']), int(bufs['gu_fp8']), dyn_d,
+                Dff, int(stream))
+        else:
+            fvk.gate_geglu_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+                int(bufs['gate_out']), int(bufs['up_out']),
+                int(bufs['gate_out']), int(bufs['gu_fp8']), dyn_d,
+                Dff, int(stream))
+        gemm.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(int(bufs['gu_fp8']), int(weights['d_w'][li]),
+                             o_proj_out_ptr, 1, D, Dff, dyn_d, d_w_d,
+                             int(stream))
+
+        if clamp_this_layer:
+            fvk.clamp_inplace_fp16(o_proj_out_ptr,
+                                   float(ffn_down_clamp_value),
+                                   D, int(stream))
+
+        # Residual 2 (next layer re-derives xn from the residual stream).
+        fvk.residual_add_fp16(x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, D, int(stream))
+
+    # Final RMSNorm → hidden_all row 0.
+    fvk.rms_norm_fp16(
+        x_ptr, int(weights['final_norm_w']), hidden_all_ptr,
+        1, D, 1e-5, int(stream),
+    )
+
+
+def chameleon_forward_fp16(
+    gemm, fvk, bufs, weights, dims,
+    *, attn, stream: int = 0,
+    ffn_gate_clamp_value: float = 10000.0,
+    probe=None,
+) -> None:
+    """Chameleon-7B FP16-only forward (no FP8, no FP4, no AWQ).
+
+    Ported from pipeline_rtx.chameleon_forward. All 32 layers run pure
+    FP16 GEMMs via ``gemm.fp16_nn`` — same on Thor as RTX.
+
+    Precision-optimal path (cosine target ≥ 0.99 vs HF bf16) at the
+    cost of ~2× the FP8 path latency in the LLM. Recommended when
+    downstream ActionHead is sensitive to accumulated FP8 error.
+
+    Weights required (all FP16, KN row-major layout — spec built with
+    ``use_fp8=False``):
+        q_w[li], k_w[li], v_w[li], o_w[li]        : (D, D)
+        gate_w[li], up_w[li]                       : (D, Dff)
+        d_w[li] / down_w[li]                       : (Dff, D)
+        input_ln_w[li], post_ln_w[li]              : (D,)
+        q_norm_w/b[li], k_norm_w/b[li]             : (1, HD) or (HD,)
+        final_norm_w                               : (D,)
+        rope_cos, rope_sin                          : (max_pos, HD)
+
+    Output: hidden_all = RMSNorm(x_post_res_2, final_norm_w) written to
+    bufs['hidden_all'] as (Se, D) FP16 (consumed by action_head_forward).
+    """
+    Se = int(dims['Se'])
+    D = int(dims['D'])
+    Dff = int(dims['Dff'])
+    L = int(dims['L'])
+    H = int(dims['H'])
+    Hd = int(dims['Hd'])
+
+    x_ptr = int(bufs['x'])
+    xn_ptr = int(bufs['xn'])
+    o_proj_out_ptr = int(bufs['o_proj_out'])
+    hidden_all_ptr = int(bufs['hidden_all'])
+    # Reuse existing gate/up buffers (Se, Dff) fp16
+    gate_ptr = int(bufs['gate_out'])
+    up_ptr = int(bufs['up_out'])
+
+    cos_ptr = int(weights['rope_cos'])
+    sin_ptr = int(weights['rope_sin'])
+
+    q_w = weights['q_w']
+    k_w = weights['k_w']
+    v_w = weights['v_w']
+    o_w = weights['o_w']
+    gate_w = weights['gate_w']
+    up_w = weights['up_w']
+    down_w = weights['d_w']  # frontend uses 'd_w' key for down projection
+
+    input_ln_w = weights['input_ln_w']
+    post_ln_w = weights['post_ln_w']
+    q_norm_w = weights['q_norm_w']
+    q_norm_b = weights['q_norm_b']
+    k_norm_w = weights['k_norm_w']
+    k_norm_b = weights['k_norm_b']
+    final_norm_w = int(weights['final_norm_w'])
+
+    for li in range(L):
+        slots = attn.get_slot_ptrs("chameleon", li)
+        Q_ptr = int(slots["Q"])
+        K_ptr = int(slots["K"])
+        V_ptr = int(slots["V"])
+
+        # input_layernorm (RMSNorm eps=1e-5) → xn
+        fvk.rms_norm_fp16(
+            x_ptr, int(input_ln_w[li]), xn_ptr,
+            Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # Q / K / V GEMMs (no bias in Chameleon).
+        # NOTE: Q_ptr aliases xn_ptr on Thor (chameleon slots["Q_O"] =
+        # bufs['xn'].data_ptr()). Because gemm.fp16_nn reads A (xn) and
+        # writes D (Q) at the SAME fp16 dtype and SAME buffer, cuBLAS
+        # in-place semantics are undefined → output corruption.
+        # Route Q through o_proj_out_ptr scratch, then copy into Q slot.
+        # (V and K write to separate KV cache buffers; safe direct.)
+        gemm.fp16_nn(xn_ptr, int(v_w[li]), V_ptr, Se, D, D, int(stream))
+        gemm.fp16_nn(xn_ptr, int(k_w[li]), K_ptr, Se, D, D, int(stream))
+        gemm.fp16_nn(xn_ptr, int(q_w[li]), o_proj_out_ptr,
+                     Se, D, D, int(stream))
+        _gpu_copy(Q_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, Se * D * 2, stream)
+
+        # Per-head QK LayerNorm + RoPE (in-place).
+        fvk.qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+            Q_ptr, K_ptr,
+            int(q_norm_w[li]), int(q_norm_b[li]),
+            int(k_norm_w[li]), int(k_norm_b[li]),
+            cos_ptr, sin_ptr,
+            Se, H, Hd, 1e-5, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # Causal MHA (CUTLASS SM110 FMHA / cuBLAS fallback).
+        attn.run("chameleon", li, q_seq=Se, kv_seq=Se, stream=int(stream))
+
+        # O projection.
+        gemm.fp16_nn(Q_ptr, int(o_w[li]), o_proj_out_ptr,
+                     Se, D, D, int(stream))
+
+        # Residual 1.
+        fvk.residual_add_fp16(x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, Se * D, int(stream))
+
+        # post_attention_layernorm.
+        fvk.rms_norm_fp16(
+            x_ptr, int(post_ln_w[li]), xn_ptr,
+            Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # FFN gate / up (SwiGLU).
+        gemm.fp16_nn(xn_ptr, int(gate_w[li]), gate_ptr,
+                     Se, Dff, D, int(stream))
+        gemm.fp16_nn(xn_ptr, int(up_w[li]), up_ptr,
+                     Se, Dff, D, int(stream))
+        fvk.gate_geglu_fp16(gate_ptr, up_ptr, gate_ptr, Se * Dff, int(stream))
+
+        # L31 gate*up overflow guard (fp16 max ≈ 65504, Chameleon L31
+        # gate*up amax observed ≈ 48000). See pipeline_rtx.py:243-256.
+        if ffn_gate_clamp_value > 0.0:
+            fvk.clamp_inplace_fp16(
+                gate_ptr, float(ffn_gate_clamp_value),
+                Se * Dff, int(stream),
+            )
+
+        # down projection.
+        gemm.fp16_nn(gate_ptr, int(down_w[li]), o_proj_out_ptr,
+                     Se, D, Dff, int(stream))
+
+        # Residual 2.
+        fvk.residual_add_fp16(x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, Se * D, int(stream))
+
+        # Optional probe: snapshot post-residual-2 hidden state.
+        if probe is not None:
+            probe_layers = probe.get('layers') or ()
+            if li in probe_layers:
+                idx = probe_layers.index(li)
+                snap_ptr = int(probe['bufs'][idx])
+                if snap_ptr != 0:
+                    _gpu_copy(snap_ptr, x_ptr, Se * D * 2, stream)
+
+    # Final RMSNorm → hidden_all.
+    fvk.rms_norm_fp16(
+        x_ptr, final_norm_w, hidden_all_ptr,
+        Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream),
+    )
+
+    if probe is not None:
+        final_buf = int(probe.get('final_buf', 0))
+        if final_buf != 0:
+            _gpu_copy(final_buf, hidden_all_ptr, Se * D * 2, stream)
+
+
+# ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+# Chameleon-7B LLM calibration (FP16 + amax measurement)
+# ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
+
+def _d2h_float(d_ptr: int) -> float:
+    """Read a single float32 from device to host."""
+    t = torch.empty(1, dtype=torch.float32, device='cuda')
+    import ctypes
+    ctypes.CDLL('libcudart.so').cudaMemcpy(
+        ctypes.c_void_p(t.data_ptr()),
+        ctypes.c_void_p(d_ptr),
+        4, 2,  # cudaMemcpyDeviceToDevice is 3, D2H is 2
+    )
+    return float(t.item())
+
+
+def _d2h_floats(d_ptr: int, n: int) -> list:
+    """Read n float32 values from device to host."""
+    t = torch.empty(n, dtype=torch.float32, device='cuda')
+    import ctypes
+    ctypes.CDLL('libcudart.so').cudaMemcpy(
+        ctypes.c_void_p(t.data_ptr()),
+        ctypes.c_void_p(d_ptr),
+        n * 4, 2,
+    )
+    return t.cpu().tolist()
+
+
+def chameleon_forward_calibrate(
+    gemm, fvk_mod, bufs, weights, dims,
+    calib_scales_ptr, stream: int = 0,
+    attn_calib_scales_ptr: int = 0,
+) -> None:
+    """Calibrate Chameleon-7B FP8 scales.
+
+    4 quantization points per layer × 32 layers = 128 scales.
+    Points: act_qkv, act_o, act_gu, act_down.
+    """
+    Se = int(dims['Se'])
+    D = int(dims['D'])
+    Dff = int(dims['Dff'])
+    L = int(dims['L'])
+    H = int(dims['H'])
+    Hd = int(dims['Hd'])
+
+    import numpy as np
+
+    x_ptr = int(bufs['x'])
+    xn_ptr = int(bufs['xn'])
+    o_proj_out_ptr = int(bufs['o_proj_out'])
+    gate_out_ptr = int(bufs['gate_out'])
+    up_out_ptr = int(bufs['up_out'])
+    down_out_ptr = int(bufs['down_out'])
+    Q_ptr_buf = int(bufs['Q'])
+    K_ptr_buf = int(bufs['K'])
+    V_ptr_buf = int(bufs['V'])
+    O_ptr_buf = int(bufs['O'])
+
+    calib_buf = int(bufs['calib_buf'])
+    d_scale = int(bufs['d_scale'])
+    fp8_scratch = int(bufs['fp8_scratch'])
+    norm_scratch = int(bufs['norm_scratch'])
+
+    cos_ptr = int(weights['rope_cos'])
+    sin_ptr = int(weights['rope_sin'])
+
+    w_scales_dev = int(weights['w_scales_flat'])
+    ws_host = _d2h_floats(w_scales_dev, L * 4)
+
+    _gpu_zero(calib_buf, L * 4 * 4, stream)
+
+    for li in range(L):
+        # ── 1. RMSNorm → measure amax (act_qkv scale) ──
+        fvk_mod.rms_norm_fp16(
+            x_ptr, int(weights['input_ln_w'][li]), norm_scratch,
+            Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream),
+        )
+        _measure_scale_gpu(fvk_mod, norm_scratch, Se * D, d_scale, fp8_scratch, stream)
+        _gpu_sync(stream)
+        as_qkv = _d2h_float(d_scale)
+        cs_qkv = calib_buf + (li * 4 + 0) * 4
+        _gpu_copy(cs_qkv, d_scale, 4, stream)
+
+        # ── 2. Quantize xn → FP8 ──
+        fvk_mod.quantize_fp8_static_fp16(
+            norm_scratch, int(bufs['xn_fp8']), cs_qkv,
+            Se * D, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # ── 3. Q/K/V FP8 GEMMs (no bias in Chameleon) ──
+        q_w_ptr = int(weights['q_w'][li])
+        k_w_ptr = int(weights['k_w'][li])
+        v_w_ptr = int(weights['v_w'][li])
+
+        alpha_qkv = float(np.float32(as_qkv) * np.float32(ws_host[li * 4 + 0]))
+        zero_bias_ptr = int(bufs['zero_bias_d'])
+
+        gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+            int(bufs['xn_fp8']), q_w_ptr, Q_ptr_buf, zero_bias_ptr,
+            Se, D, D, alpha_qkv, int(stream),
+        )
+        gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+            int(bufs['xn_fp8']), k_w_ptr, K_ptr_buf, zero_bias_ptr,
+            Se, D, D, alpha_qkv, int(stream),
+        )
+        gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+            int(bufs['xn_fp8']), v_w_ptr, V_ptr_buf, zero_bias_ptr,
+            Se, D, D, alpha_qkv, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # ── 4. Fused QK LayerNorm + RoPE ──
+        fvk_mod.qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+            Q_ptr_buf, K_ptr_buf,
+            int(weights['q_norm_w'][li]), int(weights['q_norm_b'][li]),
+            int(weights['k_norm_w'][li]), int(weights['k_norm_b'][li]),
+            cos_ptr, sin_ptr,
+            Se, H, Hd, 1e-5, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # ── 4b. Optional Q/K/V amax for FP8 attention ──
+        if attn_calib_scales_ptr:
+            n_qkv = Se * H * Hd
+            for i, ptr in enumerate((Q_ptr_buf, K_ptr_buf, V_ptr_buf)):
+                _measure_scale_gpu(
+                    fvk_mod, ptr, n_qkv, d_scale, fp8_scratch, stream)
+                _gpu_sync(stream)
+                _gpu_copy(
+                    attn_calib_scales_ptr + (li * 3 + i) * 4,
+                    d_scale, 4, stream,
+                )
+
+        # ── 5. Attention (cuBLAS — no FMHA during calibration) ──
+        attn_scale = 1.0 / math.sqrt(float(Hd))
+        fvk_mod.attention_qkv_fp16(
+            bufs['ctx'], Q_ptr_buf, K_ptr_buf, V_ptr_buf,
+            int(bufs['logits']), O_ptr_buf,
+            Se, Se, H, Hd, attn_scale, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # ── 6. O proj — measure amax → quantize → GEMM ──
+        _measure_scale_gpu(fvk_mod, O_ptr_buf, Se * D, d_scale, fp8_scratch, stream)
+        _gpu_sync(stream)
+        as_o = _d2h_float(d_scale)
+        cs_o = calib_buf + (li * 4 + 1) * 4
+        _gpu_copy(cs_o, d_scale, 4, stream)
+        fvk_mod.quantize_fp8_static_fp16(
+            O_ptr_buf, int(bufs['xn_fp8']), cs_o,
+            Se * D, int(stream),
+        )
+        alpha_o = float(np.float32(as_o) * np.float32(ws_host[li * 4 + 1]))
+        gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+            int(bufs['xn_fp8']), int(weights['o_w'][li]), o_proj_out_ptr,
+            zero_bias_ptr,
+            Se, D, D, alpha_o, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # ── 7. Residual 1 ──
+        fvk_mod.residual_add_fp16(x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, Se * D, int(stream))
+
+        # ── 8. Post-attn RMSNorm → measure amax (act_gu scale) ──
+        fvk_mod.rms_norm_fp16(
+            x_ptr, int(weights['post_ln_w'][li]), norm_scratch,
+            Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream),
+        )
+        _measure_scale_gpu(fvk_mod, norm_scratch, Se * D, d_scale, fp8_scratch, stream)
+        _gpu_sync(stream)
+        as_gu = _d2h_float(d_scale)
+        cs_gu = calib_buf + (li * 4 + 2) * 4
+        _gpu_copy(cs_gu, d_scale, 4, stream)
+
+        # ── 9. Quantize → FP8 ──
+        fvk_mod.quantize_fp8_static_fp16(
+            norm_scratch, int(bufs['xn_fp8']), cs_gu,
+            Se * D, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # ── 10. Gate + Up FP8 GEMMs (no bias) ──
+        gate_w_ptr = int(weights['gate_w'][li])
+        up_w_ptr = int(weights['up_w'][li])
+        alpha_gu = float(np.float32(as_gu) * np.float32(ws_host[li * 4 + 2]))
+        zero_bias_dff = int(bufs['zero_bias_dff'])
+        gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+            int(bufs['xn_fp8']), gate_w_ptr, gate_out_ptr,
+            zero_bias_dff,
+            Se, Dff, D, alpha_gu, int(stream),
+        )
+        gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+            int(bufs['xn_fp8']), up_w_ptr, up_out_ptr,
+            zero_bias_dff,
+            Se, Dff, D, alpha_gu, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # ── 11. SiLU(gate)*up → measure amax → FP8 ──
+        silu_scr = int(bufs['silu_scratch'])
+        _gpu_copy(silu_scr, gate_out_ptr, Se * Dff * 2, stream)
+        fvk_mod.gate_geglu_fp16(silu_scr, up_out_ptr, down_out_ptr,
+                                Se * Dff, int(stream))
+        _measure_scale_gpu(fvk_mod, down_out_ptr, Se * Dff, d_scale, fp8_scratch, stream)
+        _gpu_sync(stream)
+        as_d = _d2h_float(d_scale)
+        cs_d = calib_buf + (li * 4 + 3) * 4
+        _gpu_copy(cs_d, d_scale, 4, stream)
+        fvk_mod.silu_mul_split_fp8_fp16(
+            gate_out_ptr, up_out_ptr, int(bufs['gu_fp8']),
+            Se * Dff, cs_d, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # ── 12. Down FP8 GEMM ──
+        alpha_d = float(np.float32(as_d) * np.float32(ws_host[li * 4 + 3]))
+        gemm.fp8_nn_bias(
+            int(bufs['gu_fp8']), int(weights['d_w'][li]), o_proj_out_ptr,
+            zero_bias_ptr,
+            Se, D, Dff, alpha_d, int(stream),
+        )
+
+        # ── 13. Residual 2 ──
+        fvk_mod.residual_add_fp16(x_ptr, o_proj_out_ptr, Se * D, int(stream))
+
+    # ── Final RMSNorm ──
+    fvk_mod.rms_norm_fp16(
+        x_ptr, int(weights['final_norm_w']), int(bufs['xn']),
+        Se, D, 1e-5, int(stream),
+    )
+
+    # ── Copy calibrated scales to output ──
+    _gpu_copy(calib_scales_ptr, calib_buf, L * 4 * 4, stream)
+    _gpu_sync(stream)
+
+
+__all__ = [
+    "chameleon_forward",
+    "chameleon_forward_fp16",
+    "chameleon_forward_calibrate",
+]
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diff --git a/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/NOTICE b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/NOTICE
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index 00000000..2f902883
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/NOTICE
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+VQ-GAN vendored code — provenance and license
+==============================================
+
+The files in this directory (vqgan.py, image_tokenizer.py, vocab.py) are
+vendored third-party code and are NOT covered by this repository's root
+Apache-2.0 license. They are governed by the Chameleon Research License,
+included verbatim in LICENSE in this directory.
+
+Provenance
+----------
+* Source: Meta Chameleon, https://github.com/facebookresearch/chameleon
+  (chameleon/vae/ subtree), Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+* The core module vqgan.py is itself derived by Meta from the MIT-licensed
+  CompVis implementation:
+  https://github.com/CompVis/taming-transformers/blob/3ba01b241669f5ade541ce990f7650a3b8f65318/taming/models/vqgan.py
+  The MIT attribution is preserved in the vqgan.py module docstring.
+
+Modifications
+-------------
+FlashRT has modified these files relative to upstream. The changes are
+inference-only and do not add training/optimizer code:
+* Removed training steps and optimizer components (upstream note preserved in
+  vqgan.py).
+* Trimmed unused dependencies to keep the runtime self-contained.
+* Adapted the tokenizer interface for FlashRT's image-token decode path.
+
+License compatibility notice
+----------------------------
+The Chameleon Research License grants rights for Noncommercial Research Uses
+only. It is therefore more restrictive than this repository's Apache-2.0
+license. This subdirectory must be treated as a separately-licensed component:
+do not redistribute or use it in a manner inconsistent with the Chameleon
+Research License. If a deployment requires rights beyond the noncommercial
+research grant, obtain them from Meta directly or substitute an
+independently-licensed VQ-GAN implementation.
diff --git a/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/__init__.py b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..02a06b7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+from .image_tokenizer import ImageTokenizer
+from .vocab import VocabInfo, VocabTranslation
diff --git a/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/image_tokenizer.py b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/image_tokenizer.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f857bab9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/image_tokenizer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the Chameleon License found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+import PIL
+from PIL import Image
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+import yaml
+
+from .vqgan import VQModel
+
+
+class ImageTokenizer:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        cfg_path: str,
+        ckpt_path: str,
+        device: str | torch.device | None = None,
+    ):
+        with open(cfg_path) as f:
+            config = yaml.safe_load(f)
+
+        params = config["model"]["params"]
+        if "lossconfig" in params:
+            del params["lossconfig"]
+        params["ckpt_path"] = ckpt_path
+
+        self._vq_model = VQModel(**params)
+        self._vq_model.eval()
+
+        if device is None:
+            devices = {p.device for p in self._vq_model.parameters()}
+            assert len(devices) == 1
+            device = devices.pop()
+        else:
+            self._vq_model.to(device)
+        self._device = device
+
+        dtypes = {p.dtype for p in self._vq_model.parameters()}
+        assert len(dtypes) == 1
+        self._dtype = dtypes.pop()
+
+    def _whiten_transparency(self, img: PIL.Image) -> PIL.Image:
+        # Check if it's already in RGB format.
+        if img.mode == "RGB":
+            return img
+
+        vals_rgba = np.array(img.convert("RGBA"))
+
+        # If there is no transparency layer, simple convert and return.
+        if not (vals_rgba[:, :, 3] < 255).any():
+            return img.convert("RGB")
+
+        # There is a transparency layer, blend it with a white background.
+
+        # Calculate the alpha proportion for blending.
+        alpha = vals_rgba[:, :, 3] / 255.0
+        # Blend with white background.
+        vals_rgb = (1 - alpha[:, :, np.newaxis]) * 255 + alpha[:, :, np.newaxis] * vals_rgba[:, :, :3]
+        return PIL.Image.fromarray(vals_rgb.astype("uint8"), "RGB")
+
+    # def _vqgan_input_from(self, img: PIL.Image, target_image_size=512) -> torch.Tensor:
+    #     # Resize with aspect ratio preservation.
+    #     s = min(img.size)
+    #     scale = target_image_size / s
+    #     new_size = (round(scale * img.size[0]), round(scale * img.size[1]))
+    #     img = img.resize(new_size, PIL.Image.LANCZOS)
+    #
+    #     # Center crop.
+    #     x0 = (img.width - target_image_size) // 2
+    #     y0 = (img.height - target_image_size) // 2
+    #     img = img.crop((x0, y0, x0 + target_image_size, y0 + target_image_size))
+    #
+    #     # Convert to tensor.
+    #     np_img = np.array(img) / 255.0  # Normalize to [0, 1]
+    #     np_img = np_img * 2 - 1  # Scale to [-1, 1]
+    #     tensor_img = torch.from_numpy(np_img).permute(2, 0, 1).float()  # (Channels, Height, Width) format.
+    #
+    #     # Add batch dimension.
+    #     return tensor_img.unsqueeze(0)
+
+    def img_tokens_from_pil(self, img: PIL.Image) -> list[int]:
+        img = self._whiten_transparency(img)
+        # Convert to tensor.
+        np_img = np.array(img) / 255.0  # Normalize to [0, 1]
+        np_img = np_img * 2 - 1  # Scale to [-1, 1]
+        img = torch.from_numpy(np_img).permute(2, 0, 1).to(self._vq_model.encoder.conv_in.weight)
+        img = img.unsqueeze(0)
+
+        _, _, [_, _, img_toks] = self._vq_model.encode(img)
+        return img_toks
+
+    def _pil_from_chw_tensor(self, chw_tensor: torch.Tensor) -> PIL.Image:
+        # Ensure detachment and move tensor to CPU.
+        detached_chw_tensor = chw_tensor.detach().cpu()
+
+        # Normalize tensor to [0, 1] range from [-1, 1] range.
+        normalized_chw_tensor = (torch.clamp(detached_chw_tensor, -1.0, 1.0) + 1.0) / 2.0
+
+        # Permute CHW tensor to HWC format and convert to NumPy array.
+        hwc_array = normalized_chw_tensor.permute(1, 2, 0).numpy()
+
+        # Convert to an 8-bit unsigned integer format.
+        image_array_uint8 = (hwc_array * 255).astype(np.uint8)
+
+        # Convert NumPy array to PIL Image.
+        pil_image = Image.fromarray(image_array_uint8)
+
+        # Convert image to RGB if it is not already.
+        if pil_image.mode != "RGB":
+            pil_image = pil_image.convert("RGB")
+
+        return pil_image
+
+    def pil_from_img_toks(self, tokens: torch.Tensor, h_latent_dim=32, w_latent_dim=32) -> PIL.Image:
+        emb_dim = self._vq_model.quantize.embedding.weight.shape[-1]
+        codebook_entry = self._vq_model.quantize.get_codebook_entry(tokens, (1, h_latent_dim, w_latent_dim, emb_dim))
+        pixels = self._vq_model.decode(codebook_entry)
+        return self._pil_from_chw_tensor(pixels[0])
+
+    def latent_embedding_from_pil(self, img: PIL.Image):
+        img = self._whiten_transparency(img)
+
+        # Convert to tensor.
+        np_img = np.array(img) / 255.0  # Normalize to [0, 1]
+        np_img = np_img * 2 - 1  # Scale to [-1, 1]
+        img = torch.from_numpy(np_img).permute(2, 0, 1)  # (Channels, Height, Width) format.
+        img = img.unsqueeze(0).to(self._vq_model.encoder.conv_in.weight)
+        latent_embedding, _, _ = self._vq_model.encode(img)
+        return latent_embedding
diff --git a/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/vocab.py b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/vocab.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..16e39cc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/vocab.py
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the Chameleon License found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+from functools import cached_property
+
+import torch
+
+
+class VocabInfo:
+    def __init__(self, vocab_map: dict[str, int]):
+        self.name2val = vocab_map
+
+        self.bos_id = vocab_map.get("<s>")
+        self.eos_id = vocab_map.get("</s>")
+        self.boi_id = vocab_map.get("<racm3:break>")
+        self.eoi_id = vocab_map.get("<eoss>")
+        self.pad_id = vocab_map.get("<pad>")
+        self.eot_id = vocab_map.get("<reserved08706>")
+
+    @property
+    def begin_sequence(self) -> int:
+        return self.bos_id
+
+    @property
+    def end_sequence(self) -> int:
+        return self.eos_id
+
+    @property
+    def begin_image(self) -> int:
+        return self.boi_id
+
+    @property
+    def end_image(self) -> int:
+        return self.eoi_id
+
+    @property
+    def padding(self) -> int:
+        return self.pad_id
+
+    @property
+    def end_turn(self) -> int:
+        return self.eot_id
+
+    @cached_property
+    def val2name(self) -> dict[int, str]:
+        return {v: k for k, v in self.name2val.items()}
+
+    @cached_property
+    def all_tokens(self) -> list[int]:
+        return sorted(self.name2val.values())
+
+    @cached_property
+    def image_tokens(self) -> list[int]:
+        return sorted([val for name, val in self.name2val.items() if name.startswith("IMGIMG")])
+
+    @cached_property
+    def special_tokens(self) -> list[int]:
+        return sorted([val for name, val in self.name2val.items() if name.startswith("<") and name != "<"])
+
+    @cached_property
+    def text_tokens(self) -> list[int]:
+        return sorted(set(self.all_tokens) - set(self.image_tokens) - set(self.special_tokens))
+
+
+class VocabTranslation:
+    def __init__(self, vocab_info: VocabInfo, device: str | None = None):
+        self._vocab = vocab_info
+        self._device = device
+
+    @cached_property
+    def bpe2img(self) -> dict[int, int]:
+        img_tkn_chr_mapping = {chr(ord("A") + i): str(i) for i in range(10)}
+
+        def remap(old_name: str) -> str:
+            return "".join(img_tkn_chr_mapping.get(c, c) for c in old_name[len("IMGIMG") : -1])
+
+        return {tok: int(remap(self._vocab.val2name[tok])) for tok in self._vocab.image_tokens}
+
+    @cached_property
+    def img2bpe(self) -> dict[int, int]:
+        return {v: k for k, v in self.bpe2img.items()}
+
+    @cached_property
+    def bpe2img_search_tensors(self) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        sorted_bpe = torch.tensor(sorted(self.bpe2img.keys()), device=self._device)
+        sorted_img = torch.tensor(sorted(self.bpe2img.values()), device=self._device)
+        return sorted_bpe, sorted_img
+
+    @cached_property
+    def img2bpe_mapping_tensor(self) -> torch.LongTensor:
+        mapping = torch.zeros(
+            max(self.img2bpe.keys()) + 1,
+            dtype=torch.int,
+            device=self._device,
+        )
+        for k, v in self.img2bpe.items():
+            mapping[k] = v
+        return mapping
+
+    def convert_bpe2img(self, bpe_batch: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        bpe_tok, img_tok = self.bpe2img_search_tensors
+        return img_tok[torch.searchsorted(bpe_tok, bpe_batch)]
+
+    def convert_img2bp2(self, img_batch: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return self.img2bpe_mapping_tensor[img_batch]
diff --git a/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/vqgan.py b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/vqgan.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a78437a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/flash_rt/models/chameleon/vqgan/vqgan.py
@@ -0,0 +1,634 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+
+# This source code is licensed under the Chameleon License found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+"""
+Contents of this file are taken from https://github.com/CompVis/taming-transformers/blob/3ba01b241669f5ade541ce990f7650a3b8f65318/taming/models/vqgan.py
+[with minimal dependencies]
+
+This implementation is inference-only -- training steps and optimizer components
+introduce significant additional dependencies
+"""
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+
+
+class VectorQuantizer2(nn.Module):
+    """
+    Improved version over VectorQuantizer, can be used as a drop-in replacement. Mostly
+    avoids costly matrix multiplications and allows for post-hoc remapping of indices.
+    """
+
+    # NOTE: due to a bug the beta term was applied to the wrong term. for
+    # backwards compatibility we use the buggy version by default, but you can
+    # specify legacy=False to fix it.
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        n_e,
+        e_dim,
+        beta,
+        remap=None,
+        unknown_index="random",
+        sane_index_shape=False,
+        legacy=True,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.n_e = n_e
+        self.e_dim = e_dim
+        self.beta = beta
+        self.legacy = legacy
+
+        self.embedding = nn.Embedding(self.n_e, self.e_dim)
+        self.embedding.weight.data.uniform_(-1.0 / self.n_e, 1.0 / self.n_e)
+
+        self.remap = remap
+        if self.remap is not None:
+            self.register_buffer("used", torch.tensor(np.load(self.remap)))
+            self.re_embed = self.used.shape[0]
+            self.unknown_index = unknown_index  # "random" or "extra" or integer
+            if self.unknown_index == "extra":
+                self.unknown_index = self.re_embed
+                self.re_embed = self.re_embed + 1
+            print(
+                f"Remapping {self.n_e} indices to {self.re_embed} indices. "
+                f"Using {self.unknown_index} for unknown indices."
+            )
+        else:
+            self.re_embed = n_e
+
+        self.sane_index_shape = sane_index_shape
+
+    def remap_to_used(self, inds):
+        ishape = inds.shape
+        assert len(ishape) > 1
+        inds = inds.reshape(ishape[0], -1)
+        used = self.used.to(inds)
+        match = (inds[:, :, None] == used[None, None, ...]).long()
+        new = match.argmax(-1)
+        unknown = match.sum(2) < 1
+        if self.unknown_index == "random":
+            new[unknown] = torch.randint(0, self.re_embed, size=new[unknown].shape).to(device=new.device)
+        else:
+            new[unknown] = self.unknown_index
+        return new.reshape(ishape)
+
+    def unmap_to_all(self, inds):
+        ishape = inds.shape
+        assert len(ishape) > 1
+        inds = inds.reshape(ishape[0], -1)
+        used = self.used.to(inds)
+        if self.re_embed > self.used.shape[0]:  # extra token
+            inds[inds >= self.used.shape[0]] = 0  # simply set to zero
+        back = torch.gather(used[None, :][inds.shape[0] * [0], :], 1, inds)
+        return back.reshape(ishape)
+
+    def forward(self, z, temp=None, rescale_logits=False, return_logits=False):
+        assert temp is None or temp == 1.0, "Only for interface compatible with Gumbel"
+        assert rescale_logits is False, "Only for interface compatible with Gumbel"
+        assert return_logits is False, "Only for interface compatible with Gumbel"
+        # reshape z -> (batch, height, width, channel) and flatten
+        z = z.permute(0, 2, 3, 1).contiguous()
+        z_flattened = z.view(-1, self.e_dim)
+        # distances from z to embeddings e_j (z - e)^2 = z^2 + e^2 - 2 e * z
+
+        d = (
+            torch.sum(z_flattened**2, dim=1, keepdim=True)
+            + torch.sum(self.embedding.weight**2, dim=1)
+            - 2 * torch.einsum("bd,dn->bn", z_flattened, self.embedding.weight.transpose(0, 1))
+        )
+
+        min_encoding_indices = torch.argmin(d, dim=1)
+        z_q = self.embedding(min_encoding_indices).view(z.shape)
+        perplexity = None
+        min_encodings = None
+
+        # compute loss for embedding
+        if not self.legacy:
+            loss = self.beta * torch.mean((z_q.detach() - z) ** 2) + torch.mean((z_q - z.detach()) ** 2)
+        else:
+            loss = torch.mean((z_q.detach() - z) ** 2) + self.beta * torch.mean((z_q - z.detach()) ** 2)
+
+        # preserve gradients
+        z_q = z + (z_q - z).detach()
+
+        # reshape back to match original input shape
+        z_q = z_q.permute(0, 3, 1, 2).contiguous()
+
+        if self.remap is not None:
+            min_encoding_indices = min_encoding_indices.reshape(z.shape[0], -1)  # add batch axis
+            min_encoding_indices = self.remap_to_used(min_encoding_indices)
+            min_encoding_indices = min_encoding_indices.reshape(-1, 1)  # flatten
+
+        if self.sane_index_shape:
+            min_encoding_indices = min_encoding_indices.reshape(z_q.shape[0], z_q.shape[2], z_q.shape[3])
+
+        return z_q, loss, (perplexity, min_encodings, min_encoding_indices)
+
+    def get_codebook_entry(self, indices, shape):
+        # shape specifying (batch, height, width, channel)
+        if self.remap is not None:
+            indices = indices.reshape(shape[0], -1)  # add batch axis
+            indices = self.unmap_to_all(indices)
+            indices = indices.reshape(-1)  # flatten again
+
+        # get quantized latent vectors
+        z_q = self.embedding(indices)
+
+        if shape is not None:
+            z_q = z_q.view(shape)
+            # reshape back to match original input shape
+            z_q = z_q.permute(0, 3, 1, 2).contiguous()
+
+        return z_q
+
+
+# Alias
+VectorQuantizer = VectorQuantizer2
+
+
+def nonlinearity(x):
+    # swish
+    return x * torch.sigmoid(x)
+
+
+def Normalize(in_channels, num_groups=32):
+    return torch.nn.GroupNorm(num_groups=num_groups, num_channels=in_channels, eps=1e-6, affine=True)
+
+
+class Upsample(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, in_channels, with_conv):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.with_conv = with_conv
+        if self.with_conv:
+            self.conv = torch.nn.Conv2d(in_channels, in_channels, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        x = F.interpolate(x, scale_factor=2.0, mode="nearest")
+        if self.with_conv:
+            x = self.conv(x)
+        return x
+
+
+class Downsample(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, in_channels, with_conv):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.with_conv = with_conv
+        if self.with_conv:
+            # no asymmetric padding in torch conv, must do it ourselves
+            self.conv = torch.nn.Conv2d(in_channels, in_channels, kernel_size=3, stride=2, padding=0)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        if self.with_conv:
+            pad = (0, 1, 0, 1)
+            x = F.pad(x, pad, mode="constant", value=0)
+            x = self.conv(x)
+        else:
+            x = F.avg_pool2d(x, kernel_size=2, stride=2)
+        return x
+
+
+class ResnetBlock(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        *,
+        in_channels,
+        out_channels=None,
+        conv_shortcut=False,
+        dropout,
+        temb_channels=512,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.in_channels = in_channels
+        out_channels = in_channels if out_channels is None else out_channels
+        self.out_channels = out_channels
+        self.use_conv_shortcut = conv_shortcut
+
+        self.norm1 = Normalize(in_channels)
+        self.conv1 = torch.nn.Conv2d(in_channels, out_channels, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1)
+        if temb_channels > 0:
+            self.temb_proj = torch.nn.Linear(temb_channels, out_channels)
+        self.norm2 = Normalize(out_channels)
+        self.dropout = torch.nn.Dropout(dropout)
+        self.conv2 = torch.nn.Conv2d(out_channels, out_channels, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1)
+        if self.in_channels != self.out_channels:
+            if self.use_conv_shortcut:
+                self.conv_shortcut = torch.nn.Conv2d(in_channels, out_channels, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1)
+            else:
+                self.nin_shortcut = torch.nn.Conv2d(in_channels, out_channels, kernel_size=1, stride=1, padding=0)
+
+    def forward(self, x, temb):
+        h = x
+        h = self.norm1(h)
+        h = nonlinearity(h)
+        h = self.conv1(h)
+
+        if temb is not None:
+            h = h + self.temb_proj(nonlinearity(temb))[:, :, None, None]
+
+        h = self.norm2(h)
+        h = nonlinearity(h)
+        h = self.dropout(h)
+        h = self.conv2(h)
+
+        if self.in_channels != self.out_channels:
+            if self.use_conv_shortcut:
+                x = self.conv_shortcut(x)
+            else:
+                x = self.nin_shortcut(x)
+
+        return x + h
+
+
+class AttnBlock(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, in_channels):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.in_channels = in_channels
+
+        self.norm = Normalize(in_channels)
+        self.q = torch.nn.Conv2d(in_channels, in_channels, kernel_size=1, stride=1, padding=0)
+        self.k = torch.nn.Conv2d(in_channels, in_channels, kernel_size=1, stride=1, padding=0)
+        self.v = torch.nn.Conv2d(in_channels, in_channels, kernel_size=1, stride=1, padding=0)
+        self.proj_out = torch.nn.Conv2d(in_channels, in_channels, kernel_size=1, stride=1, padding=0)
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        h_ = x
+        h_ = self.norm(h_)
+        q = self.q(h_)
+        k = self.k(h_)
+        v = self.v(h_)
+
+        # compute attention
+        b, c, h, w = q.shape
+        q = q.reshape(b, c, h * w)
+        q = q.permute(0, 2, 1)  # b,hw,c
+        k = k.reshape(b, c, h * w)  # b,c,hw
+        w_ = torch.bmm(q, k)  # b,hw,hw    w[b,i,j]=sum_c q[b,i,c]k[b,c,j]
+        w_ = w_ * (int(c) ** (-0.5))
+        w_ = F.softmax(w_, dim=2)
+
+        # attend to values
+        v = v.reshape(b, c, h * w)
+        w_ = w_.permute(0, 2, 1)  # b,hw,hw (first hw of k, second of q)
+        h_ = torch.bmm(v, w_)  # b, c,hw (hw of q) h_[b,c,j] = sum_i v[b,c,i] w_[b,i,j]
+        h_ = h_.reshape(b, c, h, w)
+
+        h_ = self.proj_out(h_)
+
+        return x + h_
+
+
+def make_attn(in_channels, attn_type="vanilla"):
+    assert attn_type in ["vanilla", "linear", "none"], f"attn_type {attn_type} unknown"
+    # print(f"making attention of type '{attn_type}' with {in_channels} in_channels")
+    if attn_type == "vanilla":
+        return AttnBlock(in_channels)
+    elif attn_type == "none":
+        return nn.Identity(in_channels)
+    else:
+        raise ValueError("Unexpected attention type")
+
+
+class Encoder(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        *,
+        ch,
+        out_ch,
+        ch_mult=(1, 2, 4, 8),
+        num_res_blocks,
+        attn_resolutions,
+        dropout=0.0,
+        resamp_with_conv=True,
+        in_channels,
+        resolution,
+        z_channels,
+        double_z=True,
+        use_linear_attn=False,
+        attn_type="vanilla",
+        **ignore_kwargs,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        if use_linear_attn:
+            attn_type = "linear"
+        self.ch = ch
+        self.temb_ch = 0
+        self.num_resolutions = len(ch_mult)
+        self.num_res_blocks = num_res_blocks
+        self.resolution = resolution
+        self.in_channels = in_channels
+
+        # downsampling
+        self.conv_in = torch.nn.Conv2d(in_channels, self.ch, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1)
+
+        curr_res = resolution
+        in_ch_mult = (1,) + tuple(ch_mult)
+        self.in_ch_mult = in_ch_mult
+        self.down = nn.ModuleList()
+        for i_level in range(self.num_resolutions):
+            block = nn.ModuleList()
+            attn = nn.ModuleList()
+            block_in = ch * in_ch_mult[i_level]
+            block_out = ch * ch_mult[i_level]
+            for i_block in range(self.num_res_blocks):
+                block.append(
+                    ResnetBlock(
+                        in_channels=block_in,
+                        out_channels=block_out,
+                        temb_channels=self.temb_ch,
+                        dropout=dropout,
+                    )
+                )
+                block_in = block_out
+                if curr_res in attn_resolutions:
+                    attn.append(make_attn(block_in, attn_type=attn_type))
+            down = nn.Module()
+            down.block = block
+            down.attn = attn
+            if i_level != self.num_resolutions - 1:
+                down.downsample = Downsample(block_in, resamp_with_conv)
+                curr_res = curr_res // 2
+            self.down.append(down)
+
+        # middle
+        self.mid = nn.Module()
+        self.mid.block_1 = ResnetBlock(
+            in_channels=block_in,
+            out_channels=block_in,
+            temb_channels=self.temb_ch,
+            dropout=dropout,
+        )
+        self.mid.attn_1 = make_attn(block_in, attn_type=attn_type)
+        self.mid.block_2 = ResnetBlock(
+            in_channels=block_in,
+            out_channels=block_in,
+            temb_channels=self.temb_ch,
+            dropout=dropout,
+        )
+
+        # end
+        self.norm_out = Normalize(block_in)
+        self.conv_out = torch.nn.Conv2d(
+            block_in,
+            2 * z_channels if double_z else z_channels,
+            kernel_size=3,
+            stride=1,
+            padding=1,
+        )
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        # timestep embedding
+        temb = None
+
+        # downsampling
+        hs = [self.conv_in(x)]
+        for i_level in range(self.num_resolutions):
+            for i_block in range(self.num_res_blocks):
+                h = self.down[i_level].block[i_block](hs[-1], temb)
+                if len(self.down[i_level].attn) > 0:
+                    h = self.down[i_level].attn[i_block](h)
+                hs.append(h)
+            if i_level != self.num_resolutions - 1:
+                hs.append(self.down[i_level].downsample(hs[-1]))
+
+        # middle
+        h = hs[-1]
+        h = self.mid.block_1(h, temb)
+        h = self.mid.attn_1(h)
+        h = self.mid.block_2(h, temb)
+
+        # end
+        h = self.norm_out(h)
+        h = nonlinearity(h)
+        h = self.conv_out(h)
+        return h
+
+
+class Decoder(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        *,
+        ch,
+        out_ch,
+        ch_mult=(1, 2, 4, 8),
+        num_res_blocks,
+        attn_resolutions,
+        dropout=0.0,
+        resamp_with_conv=True,
+        in_channels,
+        resolution,
+        z_channels,
+        give_pre_end=False,
+        tanh_out=False,
+        use_linear_attn=False,
+        attn_type="vanilla",
+        **ignorekwargs,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        if use_linear_attn:
+            attn_type = "linear"
+        self.ch = ch
+        self.temb_ch = 0
+        self.num_resolutions = len(ch_mult)
+        self.num_res_blocks = num_res_blocks
+        self.resolution = resolution
+        self.in_channels = in_channels
+        self.give_pre_end = give_pre_end
+        self.tanh_out = tanh_out
+
+        # compute in_ch_mult, block_in and curr_res at lowest res
+        block_in = ch * ch_mult[self.num_resolutions - 1]
+        curr_res = resolution // 2 ** (self.num_resolutions - 1)
+        self.z_shape = (1, z_channels, curr_res, curr_res)
+
+        # z to block_in
+        self.conv_in = torch.nn.Conv2d(z_channels, block_in, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1)
+
+        # middle
+        self.mid = nn.Module()
+        self.mid.block_1 = ResnetBlock(
+            in_channels=block_in,
+            out_channels=block_in,
+            temb_channels=self.temb_ch,
+            dropout=dropout,
+        )
+        self.mid.attn_1 = make_attn(block_in, attn_type=attn_type)
+        self.mid.block_2 = ResnetBlock(
+            in_channels=block_in,
+            out_channels=block_in,
+            temb_channels=self.temb_ch,
+            dropout=dropout,
+        )
+
+        # upsampling
+        self.up = nn.ModuleList()
+        for i_level in reversed(range(self.num_resolutions)):
+            block = nn.ModuleList()
+            attn = nn.ModuleList()
+            block_out = ch * ch_mult[i_level]
+            for i_block in range(self.num_res_blocks + 1):
+                block.append(
+                    ResnetBlock(
+                        in_channels=block_in,
+                        out_channels=block_out,
+                        temb_channels=self.temb_ch,
+                        dropout=dropout,
+                    )
+                )
+                block_in = block_out
+                if curr_res in attn_resolutions:
+                    attn.append(make_attn(block_in, attn_type=attn_type))
+            up = nn.Module()
+            up.block = block
+            up.attn = attn
+            if i_level != 0:
+                up.upsample = Upsample(block_in, resamp_with_conv)
+                curr_res = curr_res * 2
+            self.up.insert(0, up)  # prepend to get consistent order
+
+        # end
+        self.norm_out = Normalize(block_in)
+        self.conv_out = torch.nn.Conv2d(block_in, out_ch, kernel_size=3, stride=1, padding=1)
+
+    def forward(self, z):
+        # assert z.shape[1:] == self.z_shape[1:]
+        self.last_z_shape = z.shape
+
+        # timestep embedding
+        temb = None
+
+        # z to block_in
+        h = self.conv_in(z)
+
+        # middle
+        h = self.mid.block_1(h, temb)
+        h = self.mid.attn_1(h)
+        h = self.mid.block_2(h, temb)
+
+        # upsampling
+        for i_level in reversed(range(self.num_resolutions)):
+            for i_block in range(self.num_res_blocks + 1):
+                h = self.up[i_level].block[i_block](h, temb)
+                if len(self.up[i_level].attn) > 0:
+                    h = self.up[i_level].attn[i_block](h)
+            if i_level != 0:
+                h = self.up[i_level].upsample(h)
+
+        # end
+        if self.give_pre_end:
+            return h
+
+        h = self.norm_out(h)
+        h = nonlinearity(h)
+        h = self.conv_out(h)
+        if self.tanh_out:
+            h = torch.tanh(h)
+        return h
+
+
+class VQModel(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        ddconfig,
+        n_embed,
+        embed_dim,
+        ckpt_path=None,
+        ignore_keys=[],
+        image_key="image",
+        colorize_nlabels=None,
+        monitor=None,
+        scheduler_config=None,
+        lr_g_factor=1.0,
+        remap=None,
+        sane_index_shape=False,  # tell vector quantizer to return indices as bhw
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.image_key = image_key
+        self.encoder = Encoder(**ddconfig)
+        self.decoder = Decoder(**ddconfig)
+        self.quantize = VectorQuantizer(
+            n_embed,
+            embed_dim,
+            beta=0.25,
+            remap=remap,
+            sane_index_shape=sane_index_shape,
+        )
+        self.quant_conv = torch.nn.Conv2d(ddconfig["z_channels"], embed_dim, 1)
+        self.post_quant_conv = torch.nn.Conv2d(embed_dim, ddconfig["z_channels"], 1)
+        if ckpt_path is not None:
+            self.init_from_ckpt(ckpt_path, ignore_keys=ignore_keys)
+        self.image_key = image_key
+        if colorize_nlabels is not None:
+            assert isinstance(colorize_nlabels, int)
+            self.register_buffer("colorize", torch.randn(3, colorize_nlabels, 1, 1))
+        if monitor is not None:
+            self.monitor = monitor
+        self.scheduler_config = scheduler_config
+        self.lr_g_factor = lr_g_factor
+
+    def init_from_ckpt(self, path, ignore_keys=list()):
+        sd = torch.load(path, map_location="cpu")["state_dict"]
+        keys = list(sd.keys())
+        for k in keys:
+            for ik in ignore_keys:
+                if k.startswith(ik):
+                    print("Deleting key {} from state_dict.".format(k))
+                    del sd[k]
+        self.load_state_dict(sd, strict=False)
+        print(f"VQModel loaded from {path}")
+
+    def encode(self, x):
+        h = self.encoder(x)
+        h = self.quant_conv(h)
+        quant, emb_loss, info = self.quantize(h)
+        return quant, emb_loss, info
+
+    def decode(self, quant):
+        quant = self.post_quant_conv(quant)
+        dec = self.decoder(quant)
+        return dec
+
+    def decode_code(self, code_b):
+        quant_b = self.quantize.embed_code(code_b)
+        dec = self.decode(quant_b)
+        return dec
+
+    def forward(self, input):
+        quant, diff, _ = self.encode(input)
+        dec = self.decode(quant)
+        return dec, diff
+
+    def get_input(self, batch, k):
+        x = batch[k]
+        if len(x.shape) == 3:
+            x = x[..., None]
+        x = x.permute(0, 3, 1, 2).to(memory_format=torch.contiguous_format)
+        return x.float()
+
+    def get_last_layer(self):
+        return self.decoder.conv_out.weight
+
+    def log_images(self, batch, **kwargs):
+        log = dict()
+        x = self.get_input(batch, self.image_key)
+        x = x.to(self.device)
+        xrec, _ = self(x)
+        if x.shape[1] > 3:
+            # colorize with random projection
+            assert xrec.shape[1] > 3
+            x = self.to_rgb(x)
+            xrec = self.to_rgb(xrec)
+        log["inputs"] = x
+        log["reconstructions"] = xrec
+        return log
+
+    def to_rgb(self, x):
+        assert self.image_key == "segmentation"
+        if not hasattr(self, "colorize"):
+            self.register_buffer("colorize", torch.randn(3, x.shape[1], 1, 1).to(x))
+        x = F.conv2d(x, weight=self.colorize)
+        x = 2.0 * (x - x.min()) / (x.max() - x.min()) - 1.0
+        return x
diff --git a/scripts/bench_chameleon_thor.py b/scripts/bench_chameleon_thor.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8c8e1aed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/bench_chameleon_thor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,359 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Real-image latency benchmark for standalone Chameleon-7B on Thor.
+
+Measures HF BF16, FlashRT FP16, and FlashRT dynamic FP8 prefill
+latency on the same real-image prompt. Inputs are always real images
+(from a user-supplied directory), never synthetic token ids.
+
+Usage
+-----
+    PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/bench_chameleon_thor.py \\
+        --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \\
+        --image-dir /path/to/images \\
+        --prompt "Describe the image." \\
+        --iters 10 --warmup 2 \\
+        --output /tmp/chameleon_thor_bench.json
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import pathlib
+import time
+from typing import Dict, List
+
+import numpy as np
+
+
+def _stats(xs: List[float]) -> Dict[str, float]:
+    a = np.asarray(xs, dtype=np.float64)
+    return {
+        "mean": float(a.mean()),
+        "p50": float(np.percentile(a, 50)),
+        "min": float(a.min()),
+        "max": float(a.max()),
+    }
+
+
+def _load_real_images(image_dir: pathlib.Path, max_images: int):
+    from PIL import Image
+    exts = (".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".bmp")
+    paths = sorted(p for p in image_dir.iterdir() if p.suffix.lower() in exts)
+    if not paths:
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"No real images found under {image_dir}")
+    paths = paths[:max_images]
+    return [Image.open(p).convert("RGB") for p in paths], [str(p) for p in paths]
+
+
+def _pad_ids(input_ids: List[int], pad_id: int = 1) -> tuple[List[int], int]:
+    real_len = len(input_ids)
+    padded = list(input_ids)
+    rem = len(padded) % 16
+    if rem:
+        padded.extend([pad_id] * (16 - rem))
+    return padded, real_len
+
+
+def _estimate_prefill_tflops(Se: int) -> float:
+    D, Dff, L, vocab = 4096, 11008, 32, 65536
+
+    def gemm_flops(M: int, N: int, K: int) -> int:
+        return 2 * M * N * K
+
+    per_layer_gemm = (
+        gemm_flops(Se, 3 * D, D)
+        + gemm_flops(Se, D, D)
+        + gemm_flops(Se, 2 * Dff, D)
+        + gemm_flops(Se, D, Dff)
+    )
+    per_layer_attn = 4 * Se * Se * D
+    lm_head = gemm_flops(1, vocab, D)
+    return (L * (per_layer_gemm + per_layer_attn) + lm_head) / 1e12
+
+
+def _roofline(Se: int, prefill_ms: float, peak_tflops: float) -> Dict[str, float]:
+    tflops = _estimate_prefill_tflops(Se)
+    achieved = tflops / (prefill_ms / 1000.0) if prefill_ms > 0 else 0.0
+    floor_ms = tflops / peak_tflops * 1000.0 if peak_tflops > 0 else 0.0
+    return {
+        "estimated_tflops": float(tflops),
+        "assumed_peak_tflops": float(peak_tflops),
+        "achieved_tflops": float(achieved),
+        "efficiency_vs_peak": float(achieved / peak_tflops) if peak_tflops > 0 else 0.0,
+        "optimistic_compute_floor_ms": float(floor_ms),
+        "measured_over_floor": float(prefill_ms / floor_ms) if floor_ms > 0 else 0.0,
+    }
+
+
+def _run_flashrt_prefill_once(fe, prompt: str, images, cached_ids,
+                              *, use_cuda_graph: bool):
+    import torch
+
+    times = {}
+    t0 = time.perf_counter()
+    if cached_ids is None:
+        ids = fe.encode_prompt(prompt, images)
+    else:
+        ids = cached_ids
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    t1 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    padded, real_len = _pad_ids(ids)
+    fe._real_len = real_len
+    fe.Se = len(padded)
+    fe._last_input_ids = padded
+    if fe._use_autotune:
+        fe._autotune_gemms(fe.Se)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    t2 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    fe._embed_ids(padded)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    t3 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    if use_cuda_graph:
+        fe._capture_graph(fe.Se)
+        fe._infer_graph.replay()
+    else:
+        fe._run_backbone(fe.Se)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    t4 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    fe._project_last()
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    t5 = time.perf_counter()
+
+    times["encode_ms"] = (t1 - t0) * 1000.0
+    times["prepare_ms"] = (t2 - t1) * 1000.0
+    times["embed_ms"] = (t3 - t2) * 1000.0
+    times["backbone_ms"] = (t4 - t3) * 1000.0
+    times["lm_head_ms"] = (t5 - t4) * 1000.0
+    times["transformer_prefill_ms"] = times["embed_ms"] + times["backbone_ms"] + times["lm_head_ms"]
+    times["total_ms"] = (t5 - t0) * 1000.0
+    return times, fe.Se, real_len, fe.vqgan_backend
+
+
+def _bench_flashrt(checkpoint_dir: pathlib.Path, prompt: str, images,
+                    *, use_fp8: bool, use_cuda_graph: bool,
+                    target_size: int, use_trt_vqgan: bool,
+                    trt_vqgan_engine_dir: str | None,
+                    iters: int, warmup: int,
+                    reuse_input_ids: bool,
+                    generate_greedy: int,
+                    peak_tflops: float) -> Dict:
+    import torch
+    from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor import ChameleonTorchFrontendThor
+
+    fe = ChameleonTorchFrontendThor(
+        str(checkpoint_dir), use_fp8=use_fp8, use_cuda_graph=use_cuda_graph,
+        target_size=target_size, use_trt_vqgan=use_trt_vqgan,
+        trt_vqgan_engine_dir=trt_vqgan_engine_dir)
+
+    cached_ids = None
+    input_build_ms = None
+    if reuse_input_ids:
+        t0 = time.perf_counter()
+        cached_ids = fe.encode_prompt(prompt, images)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        input_build_ms = (time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0
+
+    for _ in range(warmup):
+        _run_flashrt_prefill_once(
+            fe, prompt, images, cached_ids, use_cuda_graph=use_cuda_graph)
+
+    stage_values: Dict[str, List[float]] = {}
+    Se = real_len = None
+    backend = fe.vqgan_backend
+    for _ in range(iters):
+        times, Se, real_len, backend = _run_flashrt_prefill_once(
+            fe, prompt, images, cached_ids, use_cuda_graph=use_cuda_graph)
+        for k, v in times.items():
+            stage_values.setdefault(k, []).append(v)
+
+    stage_stats = {k: _stats(v) for k, v in stage_values.items()}
+    prefill_ms = stage_stats["transformer_prefill_ms"]["p50"]
+    result = {
+        "Se": int(Se),
+        "real_len": int(real_len),
+        "vqgan_backend": backend,
+        "fa4_attn": fe.fa4_attn_active,
+        "reuse_input_ids": bool(reuse_input_ids),
+        "one_time_input_build_ms": input_build_ms,
+        "latency_ms": stage_stats["total_ms"],
+        "stage_breakdown_ms": stage_stats,
+        "roofline": _roofline(int(Se), prefill_ms, peak_tflops),
+    }
+
+    if generate_greedy > 0:
+        for _ in range(max(1, min(warmup, 2))):
+            fe.generate_greedy(prompt, images, max_new_tokens=generate_greedy)
+        gen_lat = []
+        for _ in range(iters):
+            t0 = time.perf_counter()
+            out = fe.generate_greedy(prompt, images, max_new_tokens=generate_greedy)
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+            gen_lat.append((time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0)
+        result["generate_greedy"] = {
+            "max_new_tokens": int(generate_greedy),
+            "latency_ms": _stats(gen_lat),
+            "ms_per_token": _stats([x / generate_greedy for x in gen_lat]),
+            "output_token_count": len(out["input_ids"]),
+        }
+
+    del fe
+    torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+    return result
+
+
+def _bench_hf(checkpoint_dir: pathlib.Path, prompt: str, images,
+                   *, target_size: int, use_trt_vqgan: bool,
+                   trt_vqgan_engine_dir: str | None,
+                   iters: int, warmup: int) -> Dict:
+    import torch
+    from transformers import AutoConfig
+    from safetensors.torch import load_file
+
+    try:
+        from transformers import ChameleonForConditionalGeneration as _Cls
+    except (ImportError, ModuleNotFoundError) as e:
+        print(f"[bench] HF BF16 reference unavailable ({e}); skipping")
+        return None
+
+    cfg = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(str(checkpoint_dir))
+    cfg.rope_scaling = None
+    if not hasattr(cfg, "rope_theta") or cfg.rope_theta is None:
+        cfg.rope_theta = 10000.0
+
+    model = _Cls(cfg)
+    sd = {}
+    for shard in sorted(checkpoint_dir.glob("model-*-of-*.safetensors")):
+        sd.update(load_file(str(shard)))
+    model.load_state_dict(sd, strict=False, assign=False)
+    model = model.to(torch.bfloat16).cuda().eval()
+
+    from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor import ChameleonTorchFrontendThor
+    fe = ChameleonTorchFrontendThor(
+        str(checkpoint_dir), use_fp8=False, use_cuda_graph=False,
+        target_size=target_size, use_trt_vqgan=use_trt_vqgan,
+        trt_vqgan_engine_dir=trt_vqgan_engine_dir)
+    ids = fe.encode_prompt(prompt, images)
+    backend = fe.vqgan_backend
+    del fe
+    torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+
+    ids_t = torch.tensor([ids], dtype=torch.long, device="cuda")
+
+    def _fwd():
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            model(input_ids=ids_t, use_cache=False)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    for _ in range(warmup):
+        _fwd()
+    lat = []
+    for _ in range(iters):
+        t0 = time.perf_counter()
+        _fwd()
+        lat.append((time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000.0)
+    del model
+    torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+    return {"Se": len(ids), "vqgan_backend": backend, "latency_ms": _stats(lat)}
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    ap.add_argument("--checkpoint", required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--image-dir", required=True,
+                    help="Directory of real input images")
+    ap.add_argument("--prompt", default="Describe the image.")
+    ap.add_argument("--max-images", type=int, default=1)
+    ap.add_argument("--target-size", type=int, default=512)
+    ap.add_argument("--use-trt-vqgan", action="store_true",
+                    help="Use TensorRT VQGAN if compatible engines exist "
+                         "(recommended when available; default is eager VQGAN)")
+    ap.add_argument("--trt-vqgan-engine-dir", default=None)
+    ap.add_argument("--iters", type=int, default=10)
+    ap.add_argument("--warmup", type=int, default=2)
+    ap.add_argument("--no-graph", action="store_true",
+                     help="Disable CUDA Graph capture for FlashRT paths")
+    ap.add_argument("--reuse-input-ids", action="store_true",
+                    help="Build real-image input ids once and benchmark transformer prefill only")
+    ap.add_argument("--stage-breakdown", action="store_true",
+                    help="Include per-stage timing in JSON output (currently always collected)")
+    ap.add_argument("--generate-greedy", type=int, default=0,
+                    help="Also benchmark full-prefix greedy generation for N new tokens")
+    ap.add_argument("--peak-tflops", type=float, default=240.0,
+                    help="Measured Thor FP8 GEMM plateau used for roofline efficiency")
+    ap.add_argument("--skip-hf", action="store_true")
+    ap.add_argument("--output", default="/tmp/chameleon_thor_bench.json")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    import torch
+
+    checkpoint_dir = pathlib.Path(args.checkpoint)
+    image_dir = pathlib.Path(args.image_dir)
+    images, image_paths = _load_real_images(image_dir, args.max_images)
+    device_name = torch.cuda.get_device_name(0)
+
+    result: Dict = {
+        "checkpoint": str(checkpoint_dir),
+        "image_dir": str(image_dir),
+        "image_paths": image_paths,
+        "prompt": args.prompt,
+        "num_images": len(images),
+        "target_size": args.target_size,
+        "use_trt_vqgan": bool(args.use_trt_vqgan),
+        "trt_vqgan_engine_dir": args.trt_vqgan_engine_dir,
+        "vqgan_backend_requested": "trt" if args.use_trt_vqgan else "eager",
+        "device": device_name,
+        "iters": args.iters,
+        "warmup": args.warmup,
+        "graph": not args.no_graph,
+        "reuse_input_ids": bool(args.reuse_input_ids),
+        "stage_breakdown": bool(args.stage_breakdown),
+        "generate_greedy": int(args.generate_greedy),
+        "peak_tflops": float(args.peak_tflops),
+    }
+
+    print("[bench] FlashRT FP16...")
+    result["flashrt_fp16"] = _bench_flashrt(
+        checkpoint_dir, args.prompt, images, use_fp8=False,
+        use_cuda_graph=not args.no_graph, target_size=args.target_size,
+        use_trt_vqgan=args.use_trt_vqgan,
+        trt_vqgan_engine_dir=args.trt_vqgan_engine_dir,
+        iters=args.iters, warmup=args.warmup,
+        reuse_input_ids=args.reuse_input_ids,
+        generate_greedy=args.generate_greedy,
+        peak_tflops=args.peak_tflops)
+    print(f"[bench] FlashRT FP16: {result['flashrt_fp16']}")
+
+    print("[bench] FlashRT dynamic FP8...")
+    result["flashrt_fp8"] = _bench_flashrt(
+        checkpoint_dir, args.prompt, images, use_fp8=True,
+        use_cuda_graph=not args.no_graph, target_size=args.target_size,
+        use_trt_vqgan=args.use_trt_vqgan,
+        trt_vqgan_engine_dir=args.trt_vqgan_engine_dir,
+        iters=args.iters, warmup=args.warmup,
+        reuse_input_ids=args.reuse_input_ids,
+        generate_greedy=args.generate_greedy,
+        peak_tflops=args.peak_tflops)
+    print(f"[bench] FlashRT FP8: {result['flashrt_fp8']}")
+
+    if not args.skip_hf:
+        print("[bench] HF BF16 (eager)...")
+        result["hf_bf16"] = _bench_hf(
+            checkpoint_dir, args.prompt, images,
+            target_size=args.target_size,
+            use_trt_vqgan=args.use_trt_vqgan,
+            trt_vqgan_engine_dir=args.trt_vqgan_engine_dir,
+            iters=args.iters, warmup=args.warmup)
+        print(f"[bench] HF BF16: {result['hf_bf16']}")
+
+    with open(args.output, "w") as f:
+        json.dump(result, f, indent=2)
+    print(f"[bench] wrote {args.output}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/scripts/build_vqgan_trt.py b/scripts/build_vqgan_trt.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..405eb14f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build_vqgan_trt.py
@@ -0,0 +1,324 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Build TensorRT FP16 engines for the Chameleon VQ-GAN encoder.
+
+Exports fixed-shape ONNX per resolution, then compiles TRT engines.
+Engines are cached at ~/.flash_rt/trt_engines/vqgan/ (or --output_dir).
+
+Must be run on the TARGET hardware (engines are not portable across GPUs).
+
+Usage
+-----
+python scripts/build_vqgan_trt.py \
+    --cfg_path /path/to/chameleon/tokenizer/vqgan.yaml \
+    --ckpt_path /path/to/chameleon/tokenizer/vqgan.ckpt \
+    --resolutions 384x512 384x384 384x672 512x512 \
+    --verify
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import hashlib
+import json
+import os
+import platform
+import sys
+import time
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+import tensorrt as trt
+
+from flash_rt.models.chameleon.vqgan import ImageTokenizer
+
+
+class VQGANEncoderWrapper(nn.Module):
+    """Image tensor -> codebook indices.
+
+    Input  : x        of shape (B, 3, H, W), float32 in [-1, 1]
+    Output : indices  of shape (B, H/16, W/16), int64
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, vq_model: nn.Module):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.encoder = vq_model.encoder
+        self.quant_conv = vq_model.quant_conv
+        # Re-host the codebook as a self-contained nn.Embedding so this
+        # wrapper is a fully standard nn.Module (no external parameter sharing).
+        n_e, e_dim = vq_model.quantize.embedding.weight.shape
+        self.codebook = nn.Embedding(n_e, e_dim)
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            self.codebook.weight.copy_(vq_model.quantize.embedding.weight)
+
+    def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        h = self.encoder(x)              # (B, 2*z_channels, H/16, W/16) when double_z=True
+        h = self.quant_conv(h)           # (B, e_dim, H/16, W/16)
+
+        b, c, hh, ww = h.shape
+        # (B, e_dim, H/16, W/16) -> (B, H/16, W/16, e_dim) -> (B*N, e_dim)
+        z_flat = h.permute(0, 2, 3, 1).contiguous().view(-1, c)
+        e = self.codebook.weight         # (n_e, e_dim)
+
+        # ||z - e||^2 = ||z||^2 + ||e||^2 - 2 z·e
+        d = (
+            (z_flat * z_flat).sum(dim=1, keepdim=True)
+            + (e * e).sum(dim=1)
+            - 2.0 * torch.matmul(z_flat, e.t())
+        )                                # (B*N, n_e)
+        idx = torch.argmin(d, dim=1)     # (B*N,)
+        idx = idx.view(b, hh, ww).to(torch.int64)
+        return idx
+
+
+def build_vqmodel(cfg_path: str, ckpt_path: str, device: torch.device) -> nn.Module:
+    tokenizer = ImageTokenizer(cfg_path=cfg_path, ckpt_path=ckpt_path, device=device)
+    vq_model = tokenizer._vq_model.eval()
+    for p in vq_model.parameters():
+        p.requires_grad_(False)
+    return vq_model
+
+
+def parse_resolution(s: str) -> tuple:
+    h, w = s.lower().split("x")
+    return int(h), int(w)
+
+
+def export_onnx(vq_model, height, width, batch, opset, output_path, device):
+    wrapper = VQGANEncoderWrapper(vq_model).to(device).eval()
+    dummy = torch.randn(batch, 3, height, width, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
+    export_kwargs = dict(
+        input_names=["image"],
+        output_names=["indices"],
+        dynamic_axes=None,
+        opset_version=opset,
+        do_constant_folding=True,
+    )
+    # PyTorch 2.5+ defaults to dynamo=True which emits TRT-incompatible
+    # IR-10/opset-18 nodes. Force legacy exporter on those versions.
+    # On older PyTorch (< 2.5) the kwarg doesn't exist and isn't needed.
+    _torch_ver = tuple(int(x) for x in torch.__version__.split(".")[:2])
+    if _torch_ver >= (2, 5):
+        export_kwargs["dynamo"] = False
+    torch.onnx.export(wrapper, dummy, output_path, **export_kwargs)
+    print(f"  [onnx] exported {output_path} (shape=[{batch},3,{height},{width}])")
+    return wrapper
+
+
+def build_engine(onnx_path, engine_path, workspace_gb, opt_level, fp16=True):
+    logger = trt.Logger(trt.Logger.WARNING)
+    builder = trt.Builder(logger)
+
+    # Choose network creation flags. TRT 11+ supports STRONGLY_TYPED which
+    # makes the engine honor the ONNX's native dtypes verbatim (so FP16
+    # weights stay FP16). Older TRT uses EXPLICIT_BATCH + BuilderFlag.FP16
+    # which silently demotes to FP32 for some ops on Ada (we observed this
+    # on TRT 11.1 — the engine ran ~2× slower in FP32 by default).
+    use_strong = (fp16 and
+                  hasattr(trt.NetworkDefinitionCreationFlag, "STRONGLY_TYPED"))
+
+    if use_strong:
+        # Strongly typed mode requires the ONNX itself to be FP16.
+        # Auto-convert from the FP32 ONNX (idempotent: skips if already FP16).
+        from onnxconverter_common import float16
+        import onnx as _onnx_mod
+
+        onnx_path_obj = Path(onnx_path)
+        fp16_onnx = onnx_path_obj.with_suffix(".fp16.onnx")
+        if not fp16_onnx.exists():
+            print(f"  [onnx-fp16] converting {onnx_path_obj.name} → "
+                  f"{fp16_onnx.name}")
+            mdl = _onnx_mod.load(str(onnx_path_obj))
+            mdl16 = float16.convert_float_to_float16(mdl, keep_io_types=True)
+            _onnx_mod.save(mdl16, str(fp16_onnx))
+        else:
+            print(f"  [onnx-fp16] reusing existing {fp16_onnx.name}")
+        parse_path = str(fp16_onnx)
+        network = builder.create_network(
+            1 << int(trt.NetworkDefinitionCreationFlag.STRONGLY_TYPED))
+    elif hasattr(trt.NetworkDefinitionCreationFlag, "EXPLICIT_BATCH"):
+        # Legacy path (TRT < 10).
+        parse_path = str(onnx_path)
+        network = builder.create_network(
+            1 << int(trt.NetworkDefinitionCreationFlag.EXPLICIT_BATCH))
+    else:
+        # Very old TRT — default network.
+        parse_path = str(onnx_path)
+        network = builder.create_network(0)
+
+    parser = trt.OnnxParser(network, logger)
+    with open(parse_path, "rb") as f:
+        if not parser.parse(f.read()):
+            for i in range(parser.num_errors):
+                print(f"  [trt] parse error: {parser.get_error(i)}")
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Failed to parse ONNX: {parse_path}")
+
+    config = builder.create_builder_config()
+    config.set_memory_pool_limit(trt.MemoryPoolType.WORKSPACE,
+                                  int(workspace_gb * (1 << 30)))
+    if fp16 and not use_strong and hasattr(trt.BuilderFlag, "FP16"):
+        # Old TRT path that needs the explicit FP16 flag.
+        config.set_flag(trt.BuilderFlag.FP16)
+    config.builder_optimization_level = opt_level
+
+    t0 = time.time()
+    serialized = builder.build_serialized_network(network, config)
+    elapsed = time.time() - t0
+
+    if serialized is None:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"TRT engine build failed for {onnx_path}")
+
+    with open(engine_path, "wb") as f:
+        f.write(serialized)
+    size_mb = os.path.getsize(engine_path) / (1024 * 1024)
+    print(f"  [trt] built {engine_path} ({size_mb:.1f} MB, {elapsed:.1f}s)")
+    return engine_path
+
+
+def verify_engine(engine_path, torch_wrapper, height, width, batch, device):
+    logger = trt.Logger(trt.Logger.WARNING)
+    runtime = trt.Runtime(logger)
+    with open(engine_path, "rb") as f:
+        engine = runtime.deserialize_cuda_engine(f.read())
+    if engine is None:
+        print("  [verify] FAILED: could not deserialize engine")
+        return False
+
+    context = engine.create_execution_context()
+    stream = torch.cuda.current_stream()
+
+    h_lat, w_lat = height // 16, width // 16
+    inp = torch.randn(batch, 3, height, width, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
+    out = torch.zeros(batch, h_lat, w_lat, device=device, dtype=torch.int64)
+
+    # TRT may use int32 for output; detect binding dtype
+    out_name = "indices"
+    out_dtype_trt = engine.get_tensor_dtype(out_name)
+    if out_dtype_trt == trt.DataType.INT32:
+        out_buf = torch.zeros(batch, h_lat, w_lat, device=device, dtype=torch.int32)
+    else:
+        out_buf = out
+
+    context.set_tensor_address("image", inp.data_ptr())
+    context.set_tensor_address("indices", out_buf.data_ptr())
+    context.execute_async_v3(stream_handle=stream.cuda_stream)
+    stream.synchronize()
+
+    if out_dtype_trt == trt.DataType.INT32:
+        trt_indices = out_buf.to(torch.int64)
+    else:
+        trt_indices = out_buf
+
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        pt_indices = torch_wrapper(inp)
+
+    match = (trt_indices == pt_indices).sum().item()
+    total = trt_indices.numel()
+    mismatch_pct = 100.0 * (1.0 - match / total)
+    ok = mismatch_pct < 0.5
+    print(f"  [verify] match={match}/{total} ({100*match/total:.2f}%), "
+          f"mismatch={mismatch_pct:.3f}% {'OK' if ok else 'WARN'}")
+    return ok
+
+
+def compute_ckpt_hash(ckpt_path: str) -> str:
+    h = hashlib.sha256()
+    with open(ckpt_path, "rb") as f:
+        h.update(f.read(65536))
+    return h.hexdigest()[:16]
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Build TRT engines for VQ-GAN encoder")
+    parser.add_argument("--cfg_path", type=str, required=True,
+                        help="Path to the Chameleon VQ-GAN vqgan.yaml config")
+    parser.add_argument("--ckpt_path", type=str, required=True,
+                        help="Path to the Chameleon VQ-GAN vqgan.ckpt checkpoint")
+    parser.add_argument("--resolutions", nargs="+", default=["384x512", "384x384", "384x672", "512x512"],
+                        help="HxW resolutions to build engines for")
+    parser.add_argument("--batch", type=int, default=1)
+    parser.add_argument("--output_dir", type=str,
+                        default=str(Path.home() / ".flash_rt" / "trt_engines" / "vqgan"))
+    parser.add_argument("--workspace_gb", type=float, default=2.0)
+    parser.add_argument("--opt_level", type=int, default=5,
+                        help="TRT builder optimization level (0-5)")
+    parser.add_argument("--opset", type=int, default=17)
+    parser.add_argument("--keep_onnx", action="store_true",
+                        help="Keep intermediate ONNX files in output_dir")
+    parser.add_argument("--verify", action="store_true",
+                        help="Run parity check TRT vs PyTorch after build")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    device = torch.device("cuda")
+    output_dir = Path(args.output_dir)
+    output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    print(f"TensorRT {trt.__version__}")
+    print(f"Platform: {platform.machine()}")
+    print(f"Output dir: {output_dir}")
+    print(f"Resolutions: {args.resolutions}")
+    print()
+
+    vq_model = build_vqmodel(args.cfg_path, args.ckpt_path, device)
+    ckpt_hash = compute_ckpt_hash(args.ckpt_path)
+
+    manifest_path = output_dir / "manifest.json"
+    if manifest_path.exists():
+        with open(manifest_path) as f:
+            manifest = json.load(f)
+        manifest["build_date"] = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
+    else:
+        manifest = {
+            "trt_version": trt.__version__,
+            "platform": platform.machine(),
+            "ckpt_hash": ckpt_hash,
+            "build_date": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"),
+            "batch": args.batch,
+            "precision": "fp16",
+            "engines": {},
+        }
+
+    for res_str in args.resolutions:
+        height, width = parse_resolution(res_str)
+        assert height % 16 == 0 and width % 16 == 0, f"H/W must be multiples of 16, got {res_str}"
+        h_lat, w_lat = height // 16, width // 16
+
+        print(f"── {res_str} ({height}×{width} → {h_lat}×{w_lat} latent) ──")
+
+        engine_name = f"vqgan_encoder_b{args.batch}_{height}x{width}_fp16.engine"
+        engine_path = output_dir / engine_name
+
+        # Export ONNX
+        onnx_path = output_dir / f"vqgan_encoder_{height}x{width}.onnx"
+        wrapper = export_onnx(vq_model, height, width, args.batch, args.opset,
+                              str(onnx_path), device)
+
+        # Build TRT engine
+        build_engine(str(onnx_path), str(engine_path), args.workspace_gb, args.opt_level)
+
+        # Verify
+        if args.verify:
+            verify_engine(str(engine_path), wrapper.to(device), height, width, args.batch, device)
+
+        # Clean ONNX
+        if not args.keep_onnx:
+            onnx_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
+
+        manifest["engines"][res_str] = {
+            "file": engine_name,
+            "height": height,
+            "width": width,
+            "input_shape": [args.batch, 3, height, width],
+            "output_shape": [args.batch, h_lat, w_lat],
+        }
+        print()
+
+    # Write manifest
+    manifest_path = output_dir / "manifest.json"
+    with open(manifest_path, "w") as f:
+        json.dump(manifest, f, indent=2)
+    print(f"Manifest written: {manifest_path}")
+    print("Done.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/scripts/chameleon_orin_check.py b/scripts/chameleon_orin_check.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..71246c58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/chameleon_orin_check.py
@@ -0,0 +1,393 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Gate-1 correctness harness for Chameleon-7B on Orin SM87.
+
+Compares the FlashRT INT8/INT4 frontend against a **stock transformers 4.57.1**
+``ChameleonForConditionalGeneration`` reference (bf16, eager attention) on the
+*same* token ids, and runs the CUDA-Graph safety gate on the decode body.
+
+Two non-obvious things this handles:
+
+* **The checkpoint does not load into stock transformers as-is.** Its
+  ``ChameleonLayerNorm`` builds ``(num_heads, head_dim) = (32,128)`` weights
+  while this Lumina-mGPT export stores ``(1,128)`` — the shard is
+  ``model_parallel_size`` x ``head_dim`` and upstream expands it with
+  ``repeat_interleave`` at forward time. We expand it at load instead, which is
+  exactly equivalent for the 7B (mp=1) layout. transformers 4.57 also rejects
+  ``from_pretrained(..., state_dict=...)``, so the model is built with a naked
+  constructor + ``load_state_dict``.
+
+* **VQ-GAN index drift would poison every number.** FlashRT runs the encoder
+  convs in fp16, so codebook indices can differ from an all-fp32 reference. The
+  FlashRT side therefore *exports* the ids it computed and the reference is fed
+  those verbatim, isolating LLM error from tokenizer error. Run with
+  ``--vq-fp16-argmin`` to measure the drift itself instead.
+
+Usage:
+    PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/chameleon_orin_check.py \
+        --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \
+        --image FlashRT.png --prompt "Describe this image." --steps 16
+    ... --int4          # QuaRot W4A4 tier
+    ... --text-only     # skip the image (fast smoke)
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import sys
+
+import torch
+
+PROBE_LAYERS = [0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 31]
+
+# Chameleon suppresses the 8192 image-codebook ids at every forward, so they
+# carry no information and must be excluded from any similarity metric —
+# including them makes cosine NaN (finfo(bf16).min squared overflows fp32).
+IMG_LO, IMG_HI = 4, 8196
+
+
+def cosine(a: torch.Tensor, b: torch.Tensor) -> float:
+    a = a.detach().float().flatten()
+    b = b.detach().float().flatten()
+    return float(a @ b / (a.norm() * b.norm() + 1e-30))
+
+
+def text_slice(logits: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Drop the masked image-id band before comparing logits."""
+    return torch.cat([logits[..., :IMG_LO], logits[..., IMG_HI:]], dim=-1)
+
+
+# ======================================================================
+# Reference
+# ======================================================================
+
+def load_reference(ckpt: str):
+    """Stock transformers Chameleon, bf16, eager, with qk_norm expanded."""
+    import json
+    from pathlib import Path
+    from safetensors.torch import load_file
+    from transformers import ChameleonConfig, ChameleonForConditionalGeneration
+
+    ckpt_p = Path(ckpt)
+    index = json.loads((ckpt_p / "model.safetensors.index.json").read_text())
+    sd, n_exp = {}, 0
+    for shard in sorted(set(index["weight_map"].values())):
+        full = load_file(str(ckpt_p / shard))
+        for k, t in full.items():
+            if ((".q_norm." in k or ".k_norm." in k)
+                    and t.dim() == 2 and t.shape[0] == 1):
+                t = t.repeat_interleave(32, dim=0)
+                n_exp += 1
+            sd[k] = t
+        del full
+    if n_exp != 128:
+        print(f"  [warn] expanded {n_exp} qk_norm tensors, expected 128")
+
+    cfg = ChameleonConfig.from_pretrained(ckpt)
+    cfg._attn_implementation = "eager"
+    torch.set_default_dtype(torch.bfloat16)
+    model = ChameleonForConditionalGeneration(cfg)
+    torch.set_default_dtype(torch.float32)
+    missing, unexpected = model.load_state_dict(sd, strict=False)
+    missing = [m for m in missing if "inv_freq" not in m]
+    if missing or unexpected:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"ref load: missing={missing[:4]} unexpected={unexpected[:4]}")
+    del sd
+    return model.eval().cuda()
+
+
+@torch.no_grad()
+def reference_forward(model, ids: list):
+    """Teacher-forced forward. Returns (per-layer hidden states, logits).
+
+    Hidden states come from forward hooks on the decoder layers, NOT from
+    ``output_hidden_states=True``: HF's ``all_hidden_states`` replaces the last
+    entry with the *post-final-norm* tensor, so comparing it against a
+    pre-norm probe shows a false cosine collapse.
+    """
+    caught = {}
+    handles = []
+    for li in PROBE_LAYERS:
+        def hook(_m, _inp, out, li=li):
+            caught[li] = (out[0] if isinstance(out, tuple) else out)[0].float().cpu()
+            return None          # a non-None hook return REPLACES the output
+        handles.append(model.model.layers[li].register_forward_hook(hook))
+
+    def norm_hook(_m, _inp, out):
+        caught["final_norm"] = out[0].float().cpu()
+        return None
+    handles.append(model.model.norm.register_forward_hook(norm_hook))
+    try:
+        t = torch.tensor([ids], device="cuda")
+        logits = model(input_ids=t).logits[0].float().cpu()
+    finally:
+        for h in handles:
+            h.remove()
+    return caught, logits
+
+
+# ======================================================================
+# Gates
+# ======================================================================
+
+def gate_graph_safety(front) -> bool:
+    """Capture the decode body and prove it is not frozen (stale-value test)."""
+    print("\n── graph-safety gate (decode body) ──")
+    pos = front.S
+    tok_a, tok_b = 16853, 40000
+    try:
+        front.decode_step(tok_a, pos=pos)          # warm every M=1 shape first
+        front.decode_step(tok_a, pos=pos)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        g = torch.cuda.CUDAGraph()
+        s = torch.cuda.Stream()
+        with torch.cuda.stream(s):
+            with torch.cuda.graph(g, stream=s):
+                # The kernels MUST be launched on the capture stream; on stream 0
+                # they are silently not recorded and the replay looks frozen.
+                front.decode_step(front._tok_dev, pos=pos,
+                                  stream=int(s.cuda_stream))
+        print("  capture           : OK (no code=13)")
+    except Exception as e:                                    # pragma: no cover
+        print(f"  capture           : FAIL — {type(e).__name__}: {e}")
+        return False
+
+    front._tok_dev.fill_(tok_a); g.replay(); torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    la = front._logits.clone()
+    front._tok_dev.fill_(tok_b); g.replay(); torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    lb = front._logits.clone()
+    c = cosine(text_slice(la), text_slice(lb))
+    frozen = torch.equal(la, lb)
+    print(f"  stale-value        : {'FAIL (frozen)' if frozen else 'PASS'} "
+          f"(cos between two seed tokens = {c:.4f})")
+    return not frozen
+
+
+def gate_overflow(front) -> bool:
+    """FP16 residual health.
+
+    The gate is **finiteness**, not an absolute magnitude. Chameleon's L31
+    residual legitimately reaches ~2.6e5 in the bf16 reference (the massive
+    activation), so any absolute threshold below that would fail by
+    construction. What must not happen is inf/nan, which the
+    ``ffn_down_clamp`` prevents by capping the down output just under FP16's
+    65504. Saturation at the clamp is therefore *expected* at L31 and is
+    reported for information only.
+    """
+    print("\n── fp16 residual health (finite + clamp saturation) ──")
+    snaps = front.snapshot_probe()
+    if not snaps:
+        print("  (frontend built without probe_layers — skipped)")
+        return True
+    clamp = float(getattr(front, "ffn_down_clamp", 0.0) or 0.0)
+    bad, sat = [], []
+    worst, worst_k = 0.0, ""
+    for k, v in snaps.items():
+        if not bool(torch.isfinite(v).all()):
+            bad.append(k)
+        m = float(v[torch.isfinite(v)].abs().max()) if v.numel() else 0.0
+        if clamp and m >= clamp * 0.98:
+            sat.append(k)
+        if m > worst:
+            worst, worst_k = m, k
+    print(f"  max finite |x|     : {worst:.0f} at {worst_k} "
+          f"(fp16 max 65504, clamp {clamp:.0f})")
+    print(f"  saturating at clamp: {sat if sat else 'none'} "
+          f"{'(expected at L31)' if sat else ''}")
+    ok = not bad
+    print(f"  inf/nan            : {bad if bad else 'none'} -> "
+          f"{'PASS' if ok else 'FAIL'}")
+    return ok
+
+
+def main() -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("--checkpoint", required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--image", default=None)
+    ap.add_argument("--prompt", default="Describe this image.")
+    ap.add_argument("--steps", type=int, default=16, help="greedy tokens to compare")
+    ap.add_argument("--max-seq", type=int, default=1280)
+    ap.add_argument("--int4", action="store_true")
+    ap.add_argument("--int4-down", action="store_true")
+    ap.add_argument("--text-only", action="store_true")
+    ap.add_argument("--vq-fp16-argmin", action="store_true",
+                    help="measure VQ index drift instead of avoiding it")
+    ap.add_argument("--split-kv-bias", type=int, default=4)
+    ap.add_argument("--skip-ref", action="store_true",
+                    help="run only the FlashRT-side gates")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_rtx_sm87 import ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87
+
+    print("=" * 68)
+    print("Chameleon-7B Orin SM87 — Gate 1")
+    print("=" * 68)
+
+    front = ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87(
+        args.checkpoint, max_seq=args.max_seq,
+        use_int4=args.int4, use_int4_down=args.int4_down,
+        split_kv_bias=args.split_kv_bias,
+        vq_argmin_fp32=not args.vq_fp16_argmin,
+        probe_layers=PROBE_LAYERS)
+    print(f"tier={front.precision_tier}  spec={front.precision_spec()}")
+
+    # ---- prompt ----
+    images = None
+    text = args.prompt
+    if not args.text_only:
+        if args.image:
+            from PIL import Image
+            images = [Image.open(args.image).convert("RGB")]
+        else:
+            import numpy as np
+            from PIL import Image
+            images = [Image.fromarray(np.random.RandomState(0).randint(
+                0, 256, (480, 640, 3), dtype=np.uint8))]
+            print("  [note] no --image given; using deterministic noise")
+        text = "<image>" + args.prompt
+    front.set_prompt(text, images=images)
+    ids = front.input_ids.tolist()
+    print(f"\nISL={len(ids)} (1 BOS + n_img*1026 + text + 1 sep)  "
+          f"images={front.timing['n_images']}  "
+          f"prompt_ms={front.timing['prompt_ms']:.0f}")
+
+    # ---- FlashRT teacher-forced logits + probes ----
+    lg_frt = front.prefill(logits_all=True).float().cpu()
+    probes = front.snapshot_probe()
+    print(f"prefill_ms={front.timing['prefill_ms']:.0f}")
+
+    ok_overflow = gate_overflow(front)
+    ok_graph = gate_graph_safety(front)
+
+    # ---- greedy text ----
+    front.set_prompt(text, images=images)
+    frt_ids = front.generate(max_new_tokens=args.steps, return_ids=True)
+    frt_txt = front.processor.tokenizer.decode(frt_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
+    tm = front.timing
+    print(f"\n── generation ──\n  FlashRT ids : {frt_ids}"
+          f"\n  FlashRT text: {frt_txt!r}"
+          f"\n  decode      : {tm['decode_ms_per_token']:.2f} ms/token "
+          f"= {tm['decode_tok_s']:.2f} tok/s  (ISL={len(ids)}, OSL={args.steps})")
+
+    if args.skip_ref:
+        print("\n(--skip-ref: reference comparison not run)")
+        return 0 if (ok_graph and ok_overflow) else 1
+
+    # ---- reference ----
+    print(f"\n── HF reference (bf16 eager) ──")
+    ref = load_reference(args.checkpoint)
+    ref_h, ref_lg = reference_forward(ref, ids)
+
+    print("\n  layer   cosine   norm-ratio   FlashRT|max|   ref|max|")
+    worst = 1.0
+    for li in PROBE_LAYERS:
+        a = probes[f"layer_{li}"].float().cpu()
+        b = ref_h[li]
+        c = cosine(a, b)
+        worst = min(worst, c)
+        print(f"  L{li:<5d} {c:.6f}   {float(a.norm()/b.norm()):.4f}      "
+              f"{float(a.abs().max()):9.1f}   {float(b.abs().max()):9.1f}")
+    c_fn = cosine(probes["final_norm"].float().cpu(), ref_h["final_norm"])
+    print(f"  final  {c_fn:.6f}")
+
+    # logits + argmax over the whole teacher-forced sequence
+    a_lg = text_slice(lg_frt)
+    b_lg = text_slice(ref_lg)
+    c_last = cosine(a_lg[-1], b_lg[-1])
+    am_frt = a_lg.argmax(-1)
+    am_ref = b_lg.argmax(-1)
+    exact = am_frt == am_ref
+
+    # A BF16 tie is not a precision failure: when the reference's top-1 and
+    # top-2 are within one BF16 ULP the winner is numerically arbitrary, and
+    # any engine may legitimately pick either. Classify those separately
+    # instead of scoring them as errors.
+    top2 = b_lg.topk(2, dim=-1).values
+    gap = (top2[:, 0] - top2[:, 1]).abs()
+    ulp = top2[:, 0].abs() * 2 ** -8            # BF16 has 8 mantissa bits
+    tied = gap <= ulp
+    real_bad = (~exact) & (~tied)
+    n = len(am_ref)
+    match_exact = float(exact.float().mean())
+    match_adj = float((exact | tied).float().mean())
+    print(f"\n  last-row logit cosine : {c_last:.6f}")
+    print(f"  argmax exact match    : {match_exact*100:.2f}% "
+          f"({int(exact.sum())}/{n})")
+    print(f"  of {int((~exact).sum())} mismatches: {int(((~exact) & tied).sum())} "
+          f"are BF16 ties (gap <= 1 ulp), {int(real_bad.sum())} are real")
+    print(f"  tie-adjusted match    : {match_adj*100:.2f}%")
+    if int(real_bad.sum()):
+        g = gap[real_bad]
+        print(f"  real-mismatch ref gap : median={float(g.median()):.4f} "
+              f"max={float(g.max()):.4f} (logit scale "
+              f"~{float(top2[:, 0].abs().median()):.1f})")
+    match = match_adj
+
+    # Split by position class. At an *image* position the model predicts the
+    # next token while all 8192 image ids are masked out of the logits, so the
+    # winner is an arbitrary low-confidence text token — averaging over the 1024
+    # image positions swamps the handful that actually drive generation. Gate on
+    # the text positions only.
+    ids_t = torch.tensor(ids)
+    is_img = ((ids_t >= IMG_LO) & (ids_t < IMG_HI)) | (ids_t == 8197) | (ids_t == 8196)
+    for label, sel in (("image", is_img), ("text ", ~is_img)):
+        k = int(sel.sum())
+        if not k:
+            continue
+        e = float(exact[sel].float().mean())
+        a = float((exact | tied)[sel].float().mean())
+        print(f"  {label} positions ({k:4d}) : exact {e*100:6.2f}%  "
+              f"tie-adjusted {a*100:6.2f}%  "
+              f"median ref gap {float(gap[sel].median()):.3f}")
+    text_sel = ~is_img
+    if int(text_sel.sum()):
+        match = float((exact | tied)[text_sel].float().mean())
+
+    # greedy text identity
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        gen = ref.generate(input_ids=torch.tensor([ids], device="cuda"),
+                           max_new_tokens=args.steps, do_sample=False,
+                           num_beams=1)
+    ref_new = gen[0, len(ids):].tolist()
+    ref_txt = front.processor.tokenizer.decode(ref_new, skip_special_tokens=True)
+    n_pref = 0
+    for x, y in zip(frt_ids, ref_new):
+        if x != y:
+            break
+        n_pref += 1
+    print(f"\n  reference ids : {ref_new}")
+    print(f"  reference text: {ref_txt!r}")
+    print(f"  identical prefix: {n_pref}/{min(len(frt_ids), len(ref_new))} tokens")
+
+    # ---- verdict ----
+    cos_gate = 0.99 if front.use_int4 else 0.97
+    n_text = int(text_sel.sum())
+    checks = [
+        ("worst layer cosine", worst >= cos_gate, f"{worst:.4f} >= {cos_gate}"),
+        ("last-row logit cosine", c_last >= 0.999, f"{c_last:.6f} >= 0.999"),
+        ("greedy text identical", n_pref == len(ref_new),
+         f"{n_pref}/{len(ref_new)}"),
+        ("graph safety", ok_graph, ""),
+        ("fp16 residual finite", ok_overflow, ""),
+    ]
+    # Only binding with a meaningful sample: an image-heavy prompt leaves a
+    # handful of text positions, where one near-tie flip swings the rate by
+    # >15 points. Greedy text identity above is the metric that actually
+    # tracks generation quality.
+    if n_text >= 32:
+        checks.insert(2, ("argmax match (text)", match >= 0.99,
+                          f"{match*100:.2f}% >= 99% (n={n_text})"))
+    else:
+        print(f"\n  note: only {n_text} text positions — the argmax gate is "
+              f"reported as informational, not binding "
+              f"({match*100:.2f}% tie-adjusted)")
+    print("\n" + "=" * 68)
+    for name, ok, detail in checks:
+        print(f"  [{'PASS' if ok else 'FAIL'}] {name:24s} {detail}")
+    allok = all(c[1] for c in checks)
+    print(f"\nGATE 1: {'PASS' if allok else 'FAIL'}")
+    print("=" * 68)
+    return 0 if allok else 1
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/scripts/check_chameleon_thor_precision.py b/scripts/check_chameleon_thor_precision.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6840df15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/check_chameleon_thor_precision.py
@@ -0,0 +1,204 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Real-image precision gate for standalone Chameleon-7B on Thor.
+
+Compares:
+  * FlashRT FP16 vs HF BF16 last-token logits (cosine, top-k overlap,
+    greedy next-token equality)
+  * FlashRT dynamic FP8 vs FlashRT FP16 last-token logits (same metrics)
+  * optional final-hidden cosine
+
+Inputs are always real images (from a user-supplied directory), never
+synthetic token ids, per the standalone Chameleon-7B optimization plan.
+
+Usage
+-----
+    PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/check_chameleon_thor_precision.py \\
+        --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \\
+        --image-dir /path/to/images \\
+        --prompt "Describe the image." \\
+        --output /tmp/chameleon_thor_precision.json
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import pathlib
+import sys
+
+import numpy as np
+
+
+def _load_hf_bf16(checkpoint_dir: pathlib.Path):
+    """Load the plain HF ChameleonForConditionalGeneration at bf16.
+
+    HF ``from_pretrained`` silently mis-loads q/k norm weights on this
+    checkpoint's old [1,128] shape; use a naked model + manual
+    ``load_state_dict`` instead. Requires the model's reference
+    ``modeling_chameleon`` implementation (optional; ``--skip-hf``
+    skips this comparison).
+    """
+    import torch
+    from transformers import AutoConfig
+    from transformers import ChameleonForConditionalGeneration as _Cls
+    from safetensors.torch import load_file
+
+    cfg = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(str(checkpoint_dir))
+    cfg.rope_scaling = None
+    if not hasattr(cfg, "rope_theta") or cfg.rope_theta is None:
+        cfg.rope_theta = 10000.0
+
+    model = _Cls(cfg)
+    sd = {}
+    for shard in sorted(checkpoint_dir.glob("model-*-of-*.safetensors")):
+        sd.update(load_file(str(shard)))
+    missing, unexpected = model.load_state_dict(sd, strict=False, assign=False)
+    non_vq_missing = [k for k in missing if "vqmodel" not in k]
+    if non_vq_missing:
+        print(f"[_load_hf_bf16] WARNING: {len(non_vq_missing)} "
+              f"non-VQVAE keys missing from ckpt")
+    if unexpected:
+        print(f"[_load_hf_bf16] WARNING: {len(unexpected)} unexpected keys")
+    model = model.to(torch.bfloat16).cuda().eval()
+    return model
+
+
+def _hf_last_logits(model, input_ids: list[int]) -> np.ndarray:
+    import torch
+    ids = torch.tensor([input_ids], dtype=torch.long, device="cuda")
+    with torch.no_grad():
+        out = model(input_ids=ids, use_cache=False)
+    logits = out.logits[0, -1].float().cpu().numpy()
+    return logits
+
+
+def _load_real_images(image_dir: pathlib.Path, max_images: int):
+    from PIL import Image
+    exts = (".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".bmp")
+    paths = sorted(p for p in image_dir.iterdir() if p.suffix.lower() in exts)
+    if not paths:
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"No real images found under {image_dir}")
+    paths = paths[:max_images]
+    images = [Image.open(p).convert("RGB") for p in paths]
+    return images, [str(p) for p in paths]
+
+
+def _cosine(a: np.ndarray, b: np.ndarray) -> float:
+    a = a.astype(np.float64).ravel()
+    b = b.astype(np.float64).ravel()
+    denom = (np.linalg.norm(a) * np.linalg.norm(b))
+    if denom == 0:
+        return 0.0
+    return float(np.dot(a, b) / denom)
+
+
+def _topk_overlap(a: np.ndarray, b: np.ndarray, k: int = 10) -> float:
+    top_a = set(np.argsort(-a)[:k].tolist())
+    top_b = set(np.argsort(-b)[:k].tolist())
+    return len(top_a & top_b) / float(k)
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    ap.add_argument("--checkpoint", required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--image-dir", required=True,
+                    help="Directory of real input images")
+    ap.add_argument("--prompt", default="Describe the image.")
+    ap.add_argument("--max-images", type=int, default=1)
+    ap.add_argument("--target-size", type=int, default=512)
+    ap.add_argument("--use-trt-vqgan", action="store_true",
+                    help="Use TensorRT VQGAN if compatible engines exist "
+                         "(recommended when available; default is eager VQGAN)")
+    ap.add_argument("--trt-vqgan-engine-dir", default=None)
+    ap.add_argument("--topk", type=int, default=10)
+    ap.add_argument("--output", default="/tmp/chameleon_thor_precision.json")
+    ap.add_argument("--skip-hf", action="store_true",
+                     help="Skip HF BF16 comparison (FP16 vs FP8 only)")
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    checkpoint_dir = pathlib.Path(args.checkpoint)
+    image_dir = pathlib.Path(args.image_dir)
+    images, image_paths = _load_real_images(image_dir, args.max_images)
+    print(f"[check] loaded {len(images)} real image(s) from {image_dir}: "
+          f"{image_paths}")
+
+    from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor import ChameleonTorchFrontendThor
+
+    result: dict = {
+        "checkpoint": str(checkpoint_dir),
+        "image_dir": str(image_dir),
+        "image_paths": image_paths,
+        "prompt": args.prompt,
+        "target_size": args.target_size,
+        "use_trt_vqgan": bool(args.use_trt_vqgan),
+        "trt_vqgan_engine_dir": args.trt_vqgan_engine_dir,
+        "vqgan_backend_requested": "trt" if args.use_trt_vqgan else "eager",
+    }
+
+    print("[check] running FlashRT FP16 reference path...")
+    fe_fp16 = ChameleonTorchFrontendThor(
+        str(checkpoint_dir), use_fp8=False, use_cuda_graph=False,
+        target_size=args.target_size,
+        use_trt_vqgan=args.use_trt_vqgan,
+        trt_vqgan_engine_dir=args.trt_vqgan_engine_dir)
+    out_fp16 = fe_fp16.prefill(args.prompt, images)
+    logits_fp16 = out_fp16["logits"].numpy().ravel()
+    hidden_fp16 = out_fp16["hidden"].numpy()
+    ids_fp16 = out_fp16["input_ids"]
+    result["vqgan_backend_actual_fp16"] = out_fp16.get("vqgan_backend")
+    del fe_fp16
+    import torch
+    torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+
+    print("[check] running FlashRT dynamic-FP8 path...")
+    fe_fp8 = ChameleonTorchFrontendThor(
+        str(checkpoint_dir), use_fp8=True, use_cuda_graph=False,
+        target_size=args.target_size,
+        use_trt_vqgan=args.use_trt_vqgan,
+        trt_vqgan_engine_dir=args.trt_vqgan_engine_dir)
+    out_fp8 = fe_fp8.prefill(args.prompt, images)
+    logits_fp8 = out_fp8["logits"].numpy().ravel()
+    hidden_fp8 = out_fp8["hidden"].numpy()
+    result["vqgan_backend_actual_fp8"] = out_fp8.get("vqgan_backend")
+    del fe_fp8
+    torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+
+    fp8_vs_fp16 = {
+        "logits_cosine": _cosine(logits_fp8, logits_fp16),
+        "topk_overlap": _topk_overlap(logits_fp8, logits_fp16, args.topk),
+        "greedy_token_match": bool(
+            int(np.argmax(logits_fp8)) == int(np.argmax(logits_fp16))),
+        "hidden_cosine": _cosine(hidden_fp8, hidden_fp16),
+    }
+    result["flashrt_fp8_vs_flashrt_fp16"] = fp8_vs_fp16
+    print(f"[check] FlashRT FP8 vs FP16: {fp8_vs_fp16}")
+
+    if not args.skip_hf:
+        print("[check] loading HF BF16 model (this may take a while)...")
+        try:
+            hf_model = _load_hf_bf16(checkpoint_dir)
+        except (ImportError, ModuleNotFoundError) as e:
+            print(f"[check] HF BF16 reference unavailable ({e}); "
+                  f"rerun with --skip-hf for the FP16-vs-FP8 check only")
+            hf_model = None
+        if hf_model is not None:
+            logits_hf = _hf_last_logits(hf_model, ids_fp16)
+            del hf_model
+            torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+
+            fp16_vs_hf = {
+                "logits_cosine": _cosine(logits_fp16, logits_hf),
+                "topk_overlap": _topk_overlap(logits_fp16, logits_hf, args.topk),
+                "greedy_token_match": bool(
+                    int(np.argmax(logits_fp16)) == int(np.argmax(logits_hf))),
+            }
+            result["flashrt_fp16_vs_hf_bf16"] = fp16_vs_hf
+            print(f"[check] FlashRT FP16 vs HF BF16: {fp16_vs_hf}")
+
+    with open(args.output, "w") as f:
+        json.dump(result, f, indent=2)
+    print(f"[check] wrote {args.output}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/scripts/profile_chameleon_thor.py b/scripts/profile_chameleon_thor.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cbeaace6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/profile_chameleon_thor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Nsight Systems profiling helper for standalone Chameleon Thor.
+
+Use with CUDA profiler capture range, for example:
+
+    nsys profile --force-overwrite=true \
+      -o /tmp/chameleon_prefill_only_512 \
+      --capture-range=cudaProfilerApi -t cuda,nvtx \
+      env PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/profile_chameleon_thor.py \
+        --checkpoint /path/to/Chameleon_7B_mGPT \
+        --image-dir /path/to/images \
+        --target-size 512 --reuse-input-ids --iters 5
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import pathlib
+
+
+def _load_real_images(image_dir: pathlib.Path, max_images: int):
+    from PIL import Image
+    exts = (".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".bmp")
+    paths = sorted(p for p in image_dir.iterdir() if p.suffix.lower() in exts)
+    if not paths:
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"No real images found under {image_dir}")
+    paths = paths[:max_images]
+    return [Image.open(p).convert("RGB") for p in paths]
+
+
+def _pad_ids(input_ids: list[int], pad_id: int = 1) -> tuple[list[int], int]:
+    real_len = len(input_ids)
+    padded = list(input_ids)
+    rem = len(padded) % 16
+    if rem:
+        padded.extend([pad_id] * (16 - rem))
+    return padded, real_len
+
+
+def _run_prefill_body(fe, prompt: str, images, cached_ids, *, use_graph: bool):
+    import torch
+
+    if cached_ids is None:
+        ids = fe.encode_prompt(prompt, images)
+    else:
+        ids = cached_ids
+    padded, real_len = _pad_ids(ids)
+    fe._real_len = real_len
+    fe.Se = len(padded)
+    fe._last_input_ids = padded
+    if fe._use_autotune:
+        fe._autotune_gemms(fe.Se)
+    fe._embed_ids(padded)
+    if use_graph:
+        fe._capture_graph(fe.Se)
+        fe._infer_graph.replay()
+    else:
+        fe._run_backbone(fe.Se)
+    fe._project_last()
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    ap.add_argument("--checkpoint", required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--image-dir", required=True,
+                    help="Directory of real input images")
+    ap.add_argument("--prompt", default="Describe the image.")
+    ap.add_argument("--max-images", type=int, default=1)
+    ap.add_argument("--target-size", type=int, default=512)
+    ap.add_argument("--use-trt-vqgan", action="store_true")
+    ap.add_argument("--trt-vqgan-engine-dir", default=None)
+    ap.add_argument("--use-fp16", action="store_true")
+    ap.add_argument("--no-graph", action="store_true")
+    ap.add_argument("--reuse-input-ids", action="store_true")
+    ap.add_argument("--warmup", type=int, default=3)
+    ap.add_argument("--iters", type=int, default=5)
+    args = ap.parse_args()
+
+    import torch
+    from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor import ChameleonTorchFrontendThor
+
+    images = _load_real_images(pathlib.Path(args.image_dir), args.max_images)
+    fe = ChameleonTorchFrontendThor(
+        args.checkpoint,
+        use_fp8=not args.use_fp16,
+        use_cuda_graph=not args.no_graph,
+        target_size=args.target_size,
+        use_trt_vqgan=args.use_trt_vqgan,
+        trt_vqgan_engine_dir=args.trt_vqgan_engine_dir,
+    )
+    cached_ids = fe.encode_prompt(args.prompt, images) if args.reuse_input_ids else None
+
+    for _ in range(args.warmup):
+        _run_prefill_body(fe, args.prompt, images, cached_ids, use_graph=not args.no_graph)
+
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    torch.cuda.cudart().cudaProfilerStart()
+    for _ in range(args.iters):
+        _run_prefill_body(fe, args.prompt, images, cached_ids, use_graph=not args.no_graph)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    torch.cuda.cudart().cudaProfilerStop()
+
+    print({
+        "Se": fe.Se,
+        "real_len": fe._real_len,
+        "vqgan_backend": fe.vqgan_backend,
+        "use_fp8": not args.use_fp16,
+        "graph": not args.no_graph,
+        "reuse_input_ids": args.reuse_input_ids,
+        "iters": args.iters,
+    })
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/tests/test_chameleon_contracts.py b/tests/test_chameleon_contracts.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..55a98629
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_chameleon_contracts.py
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+"""Chameleon frontend contract tests — no checkpoint required.
+
+Covers registry/lazy-import behavior, hardware fail-fast gates, the
+Thor prompt pad-to-16 capacity boundary, the Orin generation-parameter
+boundary, and the load_model(config="chameleon") redirect. GPU-heavy
+eager-vs-graph consistency lives in the precision scripts
+(scripts/check_chameleon_thor_precision.py) which need a checkpoint.
+"""
+
+import pytest
+
+torch = pytest.importorskip("torch")
+
+from flash_rt.hardware import _PIPELINE_MAP, resolve_pipeline_class
+
+try:
+    from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor import (
+        PAD_ID, ChameleonTorchFrontendThor)
+    _THOR_IMPORT = True
+except Exception:  # pragma: no cover - kernels not built
+    _THOR_IMPORT = False
+
+try:
+    from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_rtx_sm87 import (
+        ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87)
+    _ORIN_IMPORT = True
+except Exception:  # pragma: no cover - kernels not built
+    _ORIN_IMPORT = False
+
+needs_thor = pytest.mark.skipif(not _THOR_IMPORT,
+                                reason="chameleon_thor frontend not importable")
+needs_orin = pytest.mark.skipif(not _ORIN_IMPORT,
+                                reason="chameleon_rtx_sm87 frontend not importable")
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------- registry
+
+def test_registry_maps_to_expected_frontends():
+    assert _PIPELINE_MAP[("chameleon", "torch", "thor")] == (
+        "flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor",
+        "ChameleonTorchFrontendThor")
+    assert _PIPELINE_MAP[("chameleon", "torch", "rtx_sm87")] == (
+        "flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_rtx_sm87",
+        "ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87")
+
+
+def test_registry_entries_are_lazy_module_strings():
+    for key in (("chameleon", "torch", "thor"),
+                ("chameleon", "torch", "rtx_sm87")):
+        mod, cls_name = _PIPELINE_MAP[key]
+        assert isinstance(mod, str) and isinstance(cls_name, str)
+
+
+@needs_thor
+def test_resolve_thor_pipeline_class():
+    cls = resolve_pipeline_class("chameleon", "torch", "thor")
+    assert cls is ChameleonTorchFrontendThor
+
+
+@needs_orin
+def test_resolve_orin_pipeline_class():
+    cls = resolve_pipeline_class("chameleon", "torch", "rtx_sm87")
+    assert cls is ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87
+
+
+def test_sm87_allowlist_rejects_unsupported_config():
+    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match="SM87"):
+        resolve_pipeline_class("groot_n17", "torch", "rtx_sm87")
+
+
+def test_load_model_chameleon_redirects_with_clear_error():
+    pytest.importorskip("numpy")
+    import flash_rt
+    with pytest.raises(Exception, match="not served through"):
+        flash_rt.load_model("/nonexistent/fake-ckpt", config="chameleon",
+                            framework="torch", hardware="thor")
+
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------- Thor hardware gate
+
+def _thor_probe():
+    obj = object.__new__(ChameleonTorchFrontendThor)
+    return ChameleonTorchFrontendThor._require_arch(obj)
+
+
+@needs_thor
+def test_thor_rejects_when_cuda_unavailable(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.delenv("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_THOR_FORCE", raising=False)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch.cuda, "is_available", lambda: False)
+    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match="CUDA is not available"):
+        _thor_probe()
+
+
+@needs_thor
+def test_thor_rejects_wrong_capability(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.delenv("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_THOR_FORCE", raising=False)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch.cuda, "is_available", lambda: True)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch.cuda, "get_device_capability", lambda *_: (8, 7))
+    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match="targets SM110"):
+        _thor_probe()
+
+
+@needs_thor
+def test_thor_accepts_sm110(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.delenv("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_THOR_FORCE", raising=False)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch.cuda, "is_available", lambda: True)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch.cuda, "get_device_capability", lambda *_: (11, 0))
+    _thor_probe()  # must not raise
+
+
+@needs_thor
+def test_thor_documented_env_override_skips_probe(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_THOR_FORCE", "1")
+    # No CUDA mocking: the override must return before touching torch.cuda.
+    _thor_probe()
+
+
+# ----------------------------------------------- Thor prompt padding bounds
+
+def _bare_thor(se_max):
+    fe = object.__new__(ChameleonTorchFrontendThor)
+    fe._Se_max = se_max
+    fe._use_autotune = False
+    fe._use_cuda_graph = False
+    fe._embed_ids = lambda ids: None
+    return fe
+
+
+@needs_thor
+def test_prompt_padding_rejects_overshoot_on_nonaligned_capacity():
+    # 30-token prompt pads to 32, which exceeds a 31-token capacity.
+    fe = _bare_thor(31)
+    fe.encode_prompt = lambda text, images: list(range(30))
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="padded sequence length"):
+        fe.set_prompt("x")
+
+
+@needs_thor
+def test_prompt_padding_accepts_prompt_within_capacity():
+    fe = _bare_thor(32)
+    fe.encode_prompt = lambda text, images: list(range(30))
+    ids = fe.set_prompt("x")
+    assert fe._real_len == 30
+    assert fe.Se == 32 and len(ids) == 32
+    assert ids[30:] == [PAD_ID, PAD_ID]
+
+
+@needs_thor
+def test_prompt_padding_accepts_exact_multiple_of_16():
+    fe = _bare_thor(32)
+    fe.encode_prompt = lambda text, images: list(range(32))
+    ids = fe.set_prompt("x")
+    assert fe.Se == 32 and len(ids) == 32 and fe._real_len == 32
+
+
+# ------------------------------------------------------ Orin hardware gate
+
+@needs_orin
+def test_orin_rejects_wrong_capability_before_checkpoint_work(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.delenv("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_SM87_FORCE", raising=False)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch.cuda, "get_device_capability", lambda *_: (11, 0))
+    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match="targets SM87"):
+        ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87("/nonexistent/fake-ckpt")
+
+
+@needs_orin
+def test_orin_env_override_bypasses_arch_gate(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setenv("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_SM87_FORCE", "1")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(torch.cuda, "get_device_capability", lambda *_: (11, 0))
+    # The gate must be skipped; construction then fails later for an
+    # unrelated reason (missing checkpoint), never the SM87 gate error.
+    with pytest.raises(Exception) as excinfo:
+        ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87("/nonexistent/fake-ckpt")
+    assert "targets SM87" not in str(excinfo.value)
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------- Orin generation-param bounds
+
+@needs_orin
+def _bare_orin():
+    fe = object.__new__(ChameleonTorchFrontendRtxSm87)
+    fe._prompt_ready = True
+    fe.S = 16
+    fe.max_seq = 4096
+    return fe
+
+
+@needs_orin
+def test_generate_negative_max_new_tokens_raises():
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="max_new_tokens"):
+        _bare_orin().generate(max_new_tokens=-1)
+
+
+@needs_orin
+def test_generate_zero_max_new_tokens_returns_empty():
+    assert _bare_orin().generate(max_new_tokens=0) == ""
+    assert _bare_orin().generate(max_new_tokens=0, return_ids=True) == []
diff --git a/tests/test_chameleon_thor_fused_kernels.py b/tests/test_chameleon_thor_fused_kernels.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..23b84264
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_chameleon_thor_fused_kernels.py
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+"""Fused dynamic-FP8 quantize kernels: bitwise equality vs unfused paths.
+
+The Chameleon Thor pipeline replaced three two-kernel sequences with fused
+kernels that fold the amax measurement into the producer's write pass:
+
+- rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16            == rms_norm_fp16 + quantize_fp8_device_fp16
+- gate_geglu_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16          == gate_geglu_fp16 + quantize_fp8_device_fp16
+- residual_add_rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16
+    == residual_add_fp16 + rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16
+
+Per CONTRIBUTING.md ("Validate fused replacements against unfused reference
+paths"), these tests assert the fused kernels produce **bit-identical**
+outputs (fp16 intermediate, fp8 quantized output, and scale) to the unfused
+reference. No model checkpoint required.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import torch
+
+import flash_rt.flash_rt_kernels as fvk
+
+fp16 = torch.float16
+fp8 = torch.uint8  # storage dtype of __nv_fp8_e4m3 buffers in Python
+
+
+def _alloc(shape, dtype=fp16):
+    return torch.zeros(shape, dtype=dtype, device="cuda")
+
+
+def _same_scale(a: torch.Tensor, b: torch.Tensor) -> bool:
+    return bool(torch.equal(a.cpu(), b.cpu()))
+
+
+def test_rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_matches_unfused():
+    S, D = 64, 1024
+    x = (torch.randn(S, D, dtype=fp16, device="cuda") * 3.0)
+    w = (torch.randn(D, dtype=fp16, device="cuda") + 1.0)
+
+    # Fused
+    xn_f, fp8_f, scale_f = _alloc((S, D)), _alloc((S, D), fp8), _alloc((1,), torch.float32)
+    fvk.rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+        x.data_ptr(), w.data_ptr(), xn_f.data_ptr(), fp8_f.data_ptr(),
+        scale_f.data_ptr(), S, D, 1e-5, 0)
+
+    # Unfused: rms_norm_fp16 + quantize_fp8_device_fp16
+    xn_u, fp8_u, scale_u = _alloc((S, D)), _alloc((S, D), fp8), _alloc((1,), torch.float32)
+    fvk.rms_norm_fp16(x.data_ptr(), w.data_ptr(), xn_u.data_ptr(), S, D, 1e-5, 0)
+    fvk.quantize_fp8_device_fp16(
+        xn_u.data_ptr(), fp8_u.data_ptr(), scale_u.data_ptr(), S * D, 0)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    assert torch.equal(xn_f, xn_u), "fused xn differs from unfused rms_norm"
+    assert torch.equal(fp8_f, fp8_u), "fused fp8 output differs from unfused quantize"
+    assert _same_scale(scale_f, scale_u), "fused scale differs from unfused amax path"
+
+
+def test_gate_geglu_quantize_dynamic_fp8_matches_unfused():
+    n = 64 * 4096  # SwiGLU intermediate (Se * Dff)
+    gate = (torch.randn(n, dtype=fp16, device="cuda") * 0.5)
+    up = (torch.randn(n, dtype=fp16, device="cuda") * 0.5)
+
+    h_f, fp8_f, scale_f = _alloc((n,)), _alloc((n,), fp8), _alloc((1,), torch.float32)
+    fvk.gate_geglu_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+        gate.data_ptr(), up.data_ptr(), h_f.data_ptr(), fp8_f.data_ptr(),
+        scale_f.data_ptr(), n, 0)
+
+    h_u, fp8_u, scale_u = _alloc((n,)), _alloc((n,), fp8), _alloc((1,), torch.float32)
+    fvk.gate_geglu_fp16(gate.data_ptr(), up.data_ptr(), h_u.data_ptr(), n, 0)
+    fvk.quantize_fp8_device_fp16(
+        h_u.data_ptr(), fp8_u.data_ptr(), scale_u.data_ptr(), n, 0)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    assert torch.equal(h_f, h_u), "fused SwiGLU output differs from gate_geglu_fp16"
+    assert torch.equal(fp8_f, fp8_u), "fused fp8 output differs from unfused quantize"
+    assert _same_scale(scale_f, scale_u), "fused scale differs from unfused amax path"
+
+
+def test_residual_add_rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_matches_unfused():
+    S, D = 64, 1024
+    x = torch.randn(S, D, dtype=fp16, device="cuda") * 3.0
+    o = torch.randn(S, D, dtype=fp16, device="cuda") * 0.5
+    w = torch.randn(D, dtype=fp16, device="cuda") + 1.0
+
+    # Fused
+    x_f = x.clone()
+    xn_f, fp8_f, scale_f = _alloc((S, D)), _alloc((S, D), fp8), _alloc((1,), torch.float32)
+    fvk.residual_add_rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+        x_f.data_ptr(), o.data_ptr(), w.data_ptr(), xn_f.data_ptr(),
+        fp8_f.data_ptr(), scale_f.data_ptr(), S, D, 1e-5, 0)
+
+    # Unfused: residual_add_fp16 + rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16
+    x_u = x.clone()
+    xn_u, fp8_u, scale_u = _alloc((S, D)), _alloc((S, D), fp8), _alloc((1,), torch.float32)
+    fvk.residual_add_fp16(x_u.data_ptr(), o.data_ptr(), S * D, 0)
+    fvk.rms_norm_quantize_dynamic_fp8_fp16(
+        x_u.data_ptr(), w.data_ptr(), xn_u.data_ptr(), fp8_u.data_ptr(),
+        scale_u.data_ptr(), S, D, 1e-5, 0)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    assert torch.equal(x_f, x_u), "fused residual differs from residual_add_fp16"
+    assert torch.equal(xn_f, xn_u), "fused xn differs from unfused norm"
+    assert torch.equal(fp8_f, fp8_u), "fused fp8 output differs from unfused quantize"
+    assert _same_scale(scale_f, scale_u), "fused scale differs from unfused amax path"
diff --git a/tests/test_chameleon_thor_vqgan_backend.py b/tests/test_chameleon_thor_vqgan_backend.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9562a84a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_chameleon_thor_vqgan_backend.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import inspect
+import os
+
+from flash_rt.frontends.torch.chameleon_thor import ChameleonTorchFrontendThor
+
+
+def test_chameleon_trt_vqgan_is_opt_in_by_default():
+    sig = inspect.signature(ChameleonTorchFrontendThor.__init__)
+    assert sig.parameters["use_trt_vqgan"].default is False
+
+
+def test_chameleon_fa4_attn_is_opt_in_by_default():
+    sig = inspect.signature(ChameleonTorchFrontendThor.__init__)
+    assert sig.parameters["use_fa4_attn"].default is None
+    os.environ.pop("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FA4_ATTN", None)
+    assert bool(os.environ.get("FLASHRT_CHAMELEON_FA4_ATTN", "0") in ("1", "true", "on")) is False
diff --git a/tests/test_fa2_fp16_causal.py b/tests/test_fa2_fp16_causal.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..36ea27fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_fa2_fp16_causal.py
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+"""Validation of the FA2 FP16 causal forward path (Chameleon-7B on SM87)."""
+
+import math
+
+import pytest
+
+pytest.importorskip("torch")
+
+import torch  # noqa: E402
+import torch.nn.functional as F  # noqa: E402
+
+if not torch.cuda.is_available():
+    pytest.skip("CUDA required", allow_module_level=True)
+
+try:
+    import flash_rt.flash_rt_fa2 as fa2
+except ImportError as exc:  # pragma: no cover
+    pytest.skip(f"flash_rt_fa2 is not built: {exc}", allow_module_level=True)
+
+if not hasattr(fa2, "fwd_fp16_causal"):
+    pytest.skip("fwd_fp16_causal not exported", allow_module_level=True)
+
+torch.manual_seed(0)
+
+HD = 128
+SCALE = 1.0 / math.sqrt(HD)
+
+
+def _run_fp16_causal(q, k, v, num_sms=0):
+    """q/k/v: [B, S, NH, HD] fp16 contiguous. Returns O [B, Sq, NHq, HD]."""
+    B, sq, nhq, hd = q.shape
+    sk = k.shape[1]
+    nhkv = k.shape[2]
+    o = torch.empty(B, sq, nhq, hd, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    lse = torch.empty(B, nhq, sq, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float32)
+    n_splits = min(128, (sk + 63) // 64)
+    lse_accum = torch.empty(n_splits, B, nhq, sq, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float32)
+    o_accum = torch.empty(n_splits, B, nhq, sq, hd, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float32)
+    fa2.fwd_fp16_causal(
+        Q=q.data_ptr(), K=k.data_ptr(), V=v.data_ptr(),
+        O=o.data_ptr(), softmax_lse=lse.data_ptr(),
+        softmax_lse_accum=lse_accum.data_ptr(), o_accum=o_accum.data_ptr(),
+        batch=B, seqlen_q=sq, seqlen_k=sk,
+        num_heads_q=nhq, num_heads_kv=nhkv, head_dim=hd,
+        q_strides=(q.stride(0), q.stride(1), q.stride(2)),
+        k_strides=(k.stride(0), k.stride(1), k.stride(2)),
+        v_strides=(v.stride(0), v.stride(1), v.stride(2)),
+        o_strides=(o.stride(0), o.stride(1), o.stride(2)),
+        softmax_scale=SCALE, num_sms=num_sms)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    return o
+
+
+def _ref_causal(q, k, v):
+    """Torch SDPA causal reference. Inputs [B, S, NH, HD] fp16."""
+    qt = q.transpose(1, 2).float()
+    kt = k.transpose(1, 2).float()
+    vt = v.transpose(1, 2).float()
+    if kt.shape[1] != qt.shape[1]:
+        rep = qt.shape[1] // kt.shape[1]
+        kt = kt.repeat_interleave(rep, dim=1)
+        vt = vt.repeat_interleave(rep, dim=1)
+    out = F.scaled_dot_product_attention(qt, kt, vt, is_causal=(q.shape[1] == k.shape[1]),
+                                         scale=SCALE)
+    return out.transpose(1, 2)
+
+
+def _cos(a, b):
+    a = a.reshape(-1).float()
+    b = b.reshape(-1).float()
+    return float(a @ b / (a.norm() * b.norm() + 1e-12))
+
+
+def test_prefill_matches_sdpa_causal():
+    B, S, NH = 1, 128, 4
+    q = torch.randn(B, S, NH, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    k = torch.randn(B, S, NH, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    v = torch.randn(B, S, NH, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    o = _run_fp16_causal(q, k, v)
+    ref = _ref_causal(q, k, v)
+    assert _cos(o, ref) >= 0.999, f"prefill cosine {_cos(o, ref)} < 0.999"
+
+
+def test_q_len_1_decode_matches_last_row():
+    B, SK, NH = 1, 256, 4
+    q = torch.randn(B, 1, NH, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    k = torch.randn(B, SK, NH, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    v = torch.randn(B, SK, NH, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    o = _run_fp16_causal(q, k, v)
+    # q_len=1 attends to all SK keys (causal mask degenerates to full row).
+    scores = torch.einsum("bqhd,bkhd->bhqk", q.float(), k.float()) * SCALE
+    ref = torch.einsum("bhqk,bkhd->bqhd", torch.softmax(scores, dim=-1), v.float())
+    assert _cos(o, ref) >= 0.999, f"decode cosine {_cos(o, ref)} < 0.999"
+
+
+def test_causality_future_keys_do_not_leak():
+    B, S, NH = 1, 64, 4
+    q = torch.randn(B, S, NH, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    k = torch.randn(B, S, NH, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    v = torch.randn(B, S, NH, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    o1 = _run_fp16_causal(q, k, v)
+
+    # Perturb key/value at the LAST position: rows before it must not change.
+    k2 = k.clone()
+    v2 = v.clone()
+    k2[:, -1] += 5.0
+    v2[:, -1] *= -1.0
+    o2 = _run_fp16_causal(q, k2, v2)
+
+    assert torch.equal(o1[:, :-1], o2[:, :-1]), \
+        "output rows before the perturbed position changed — causal mask broken"
+    assert not torch.equal(o1[:, -1], o2[:, -1]), \
+        "last row should depend on the last key/value"
diff --git a/tests/test_gemm_runner_dispatch.py b/tests/test_gemm_runner_dispatch.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..80867cd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_gemm_runner_dispatch.py
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+"""GemmRunner FP8 NN device-descale FP16-out dispatch and autotune paths."""
+
+import pytest
+
+pytest.importorskip("torch")
+
+import torch  # noqa: E402
+
+if not torch.cuda.is_available():
+    pytest.skip("CUDA required", allow_module_level=True)
+
+try:
+    from flash_rt import flash_rt_kernels as fvk
+except ImportError as exc:  # pragma: no cover
+    pytest.skip(f"flash_rt_kernels is not built: {exc}", allow_module_level=True)
+
+if not hasattr(fvk, "GemmRunner"):
+    pytest.skip("GemmRunner not exported", allow_module_level=True)
+
+if torch.cuda.get_device_capability() < (8, 9):
+    pytest.skip(
+        "FP8 GEMM requires sm_89+ tensor cores "
+        "(cuBLASLt returns CUBLAS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED below that)",
+        allow_module_level=True)
+
+torch.manual_seed(0)
+
+
+def _quant_fp8(x):
+    amax = x.abs().max().clamp_min(1e-6).float()
+    scale = (amax / 448.0).reshape(1)
+    q = torch.clamp(x.float() / scale.item(), -448.0, 448.0).to(torch.float8_e4m3fn)
+    return q, scale.to(torch.float32).cuda()
+
+
+def _cos(a, b):
+    a = a.reshape(-1).float()
+    b = b.reshape(-1).float()
+    return float(a @ b / (a.norm() * b.norm() + 1e-12))
+
+
+def test_fp8_nn_dev_fp16_matches_dequant_reference():
+    runner = fvk.GemmRunner()
+    M, N, K = 128, 1024, 512
+    a = torch.randn(M, K, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16) * 0.5
+    b = torch.randn(N, K, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16) * 0.05
+
+    a_q, a_scale = _quant_fp8(a)
+    b_q, b_scale = _quant_fp8(b)
+    d = torch.empty(M, N, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+
+    runner.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(a_q.data_ptr(), b_q.data_ptr(), d.data_ptr(),
+                           M, N, K, a_scale.data_ptr(), b_scale.data_ptr())
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    ref = (a_q.float() @ b_q.float().T) * (a_scale.item() * b_scale.item())
+    assert _cos(d, ref) >= 0.999, f"cosine {_cos(d, ref)} < 0.999"
+
+
+def test_autotune_caches_and_result_stays_identical():
+    runner = fvk.GemmRunner()
+    M, N, K = 64, 2048, 1024
+    a = torch.randn(M, K, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16) * 0.5
+    b = torch.randn(N, K, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16) * 0.05
+    a_q, a_scale = _quant_fp8(a)
+    b_q, b_scale = _quant_fp8(b)
+
+    d1 = torch.empty(M, N, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    runner.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(a_q.data_ptr(), b_q.data_ptr(), d1.data_ptr(),
+                           M, N, K, a_scale.data_ptr(), b_scale.data_ptr())
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    runner.autotune_fp8_nn_dev_fp16(a_q.data_ptr(), b_q.data_ptr(), d1.data_ptr(),
+                                    M, N, K, a_scale.data_ptr(), b_scale.data_ptr(),
+                                    4)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    d2 = torch.empty(M, N, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    runner.fp8_nn_dev_fp16(a_q.data_ptr(), b_q.data_ptr(), d2.data_ptr(),
+                           M, N, K, a_scale.data_ptr(), b_scale.data_ptr())
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    # Autotune selects a tactic for the same (M,N,K); output must remain
+    # numerically equivalent (tactics differ in tiling, not math).
+    assert _cos(d1, d2) >= 0.9995, f"post-autotune cosine {_cos(d1, d2)} < 0.9995"
diff --git a/tests/test_qk_norm_rope_fused.py b/tests/test_qk_norm_rope_fused.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..079818a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_qk_norm_rope_fused.py
@@ -0,0 +1,168 @@
+"""Validation of the fused QK-LayerNorm + rotate-half RoPE FP16 kernel."""
+
+import pytest
+
+fvk_torch = pytest.importorskip("torch")
+
+import torch  # noqa: E402
+
+if not torch.cuda.is_available():
+    pytest.skip("CUDA required", allow_module_level=True)
+
+try:
+    from flash_rt import flash_rt_kernels as fvk
+except ImportError as exc:  # pragma: no cover - environment dependent
+    pytest.skip(f"flash_rt_kernels is not built: {exc}", allow_module_level=True)
+
+if not hasattr(fvk, "qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16"):
+    pytest.skip(
+        "qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16 requires FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON",
+        allow_module_level=True,
+    )
+
+
+HD = 128  # the only head_dim the RoPE writeback currently supports
+
+
+def _layer_norm_rows(x, w, b, eps, num_heads):
+    """Per-head LayerNorm in fp32: (x - mean) * rsqrt(var + eps) * w + b.
+
+    The kernel treats q/k as [Se * num_heads, HD] rows and normalizes each
+    HD-length row independently (params shared across heads). Matches the
+    kernel's biased variance (divide by N) and returns the result rounded to
+    fp16, because the fused kernel stores the normalized values back to half
+    precision before applying RoPE.
+    """
+    se, width = x.shape
+    xf = x.float().view(se * num_heads, HD)
+    mean = xf.mean(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+    var = ((xf - mean) ** 2).mean(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+    inv_std = torch.rsqrt(var + eps)
+    normed = (xf - mean) * inv_std * w.float() + b.float()
+    return normed.view(se, width).half()
+
+
+def _rotate_half_rope(x_normed, cos_table, sin_table, num_heads):
+    """rotate_half RoPE with [Se, HD] cos/sin tiled over both halves.
+
+    x_normed: [Se, NH*HD] fp16. Returns [Se, NH*HD] fp16 computed in fp32.
+    cos/sin: [Se, HD] fp16, where the second half duplicates the first
+    (cat([c, c], dim=-1)) to match the kernel's tiled tables.
+    """
+    se = x_normed.shape[0]
+    x = x_normed.float().view(se, num_heads, HD)
+    half = HD // 2
+    x1, x2 = x[..., :half], x[..., half:]
+
+    # Broadcast the per-seq-position tables over all heads: [Se, 1, HD].
+    cos = cos_table.float().unsqueeze(1)
+    sin = sin_table.float().unsqueeze(1)
+    c1, c2_ = cos[..., :half], cos[..., half:]
+    s1, s2_ = sin[..., :half], sin[..., half:]
+
+    # Kernel math:
+    #   out[d]      = x[d]      * cos[d]      - x[d+HD/2] * sin[d]
+    #   out[d+HD/2] = x[d+HD/2] * cos[d+HD/2] + x[d]      * sin[d+HD/2]
+    out_lo = x1 * c1 - x2 * s1
+    out_hi = x2 * c2_ + x1 * s2_
+    out = torch.cat([out_lo, out_hi], dim=-1)
+    return out.view(se, num_heads * HD).half()
+
+
+def _reference(q, k, q_w, q_b, k_w, k_b, cos_t, sin_t, num_heads, eps):
+    qn = _layer_norm_rows(q, q_w, q_b, eps, num_heads)
+    kn = _layer_norm_rows(k, k_w, k_b, eps, num_heads)
+    qr = _rotate_half_rope(qn, cos_t, sin_t, num_heads)
+    kr = _rotate_half_rope(kn, cos_t, sin_t, num_heads)
+    return qr, kr
+
+
+def _cosine(a, b):
+    a = a.float().flatten().double()
+    b = b.float().flatten().double()
+    return float(a @ b / (a.norm() * b.norm()))
+
+
+def _run_case(seq_len, num_heads, eps=1e-5):
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+    width = num_heads * HD
+    q = (torch.randn(seq_len, width, device="cuda") * 2.0).half()
+    k = (torch.randn(seq_len, width, device="cuda") * 2.0).half()
+    q_w = (torch.randn(HD, device="cuda") * 0.1 + 1.0).half()
+    q_b = (torch.randn(HD, device="cuda") * 0.1).half()
+    k_w = (torch.randn(HD, device="cuda") * 0.1 + 1.0).half()
+    k_b = (torch.randn(HD, device="cuda") * 0.1).half()
+
+    # rotate_half-tiled tables: cat([c, c], dim=-1) over the half-rotation.
+    pos = torch.arange(seq_len, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float32)
+    freqs = 1.0 / (10000.0 ** (
+        torch.arange(0, HD // 2, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float32) / (HD // 2)))
+    ang = torch.outer(pos, freqs)  # [Se, HD/2]
+    cos_half = torch.cos(ang)
+    sin_half = torch.sin(ang)
+    cos_t = torch.cat([cos_half, cos_half], dim=-1).half()
+    sin_t = torch.cat([sin_half, sin_half], dim=-1).half()
+
+    q_ref, k_ref = _reference(q, k, q_w, q_b, k_w, k_b, cos_t, sin_t,
+                              num_heads, eps)
+
+    q_in, k_in = q.clone(), k.clone()
+    fvk.qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(
+        q_in.data_ptr(), k_in.data_ptr(),
+        q_w.data_ptr(), q_b.data_ptr(), k_w.data_ptr(), k_b.data_ptr(),
+        cos_t.data_ptr(), sin_t.data_ptr(),
+        seq_len, num_heads, HD, eps, 0)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    return q_in, k_in, q_ref, k_ref
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("seq_len", [1, 7, 64])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("num_heads", [1, 4])
+def test_qk_norm_rope_matches_reference(seq_len, num_heads):
+    q_out, k_out, q_ref, k_ref = _run_case(seq_len, num_heads)
+
+    cos_q = _cosine(q_out, q_ref)
+    cos_k = _cosine(k_out, k_ref)
+    assert cos_q >= 0.999, f"Q cosine {cos_q:.6f} below 0.999 " \
+        f"(seq={seq_len}, heads={num_heads})"
+    assert cos_k >= 0.999, f"K cosine {cos_k:.6f} below 0.999 " \
+        f"(seq={seq_len}, heads={num_heads})"
+
+    assert torch.allclose(q_out.float(), q_ref.float(), atol=2e-2, rtol=1e-2), \
+        "Q mismatch beyond fp16 tolerance"
+    assert torch.allclose(k_out.float(), k_ref.float(), atol=2e-2, rtol=1e-2), \
+        "K mismatch beyond fp16 tolerance"
+
+
+def _make_args(seq_len, num_heads, dim, eps=1e-5):
+    """Build a valid argument tuple so contract checks only trip their
+    targeted validation clause. Data pointers may reference dummies because
+    py::value_error is thrown before any CUDA work is launched."""
+    width = num_heads * max(dim, HD)
+    q = torch.zeros(seq_len, width, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    k = torch.zeros(seq_len, width, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    w = torch.zeros(dim, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    b = torch.zeros(dim, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    cos_t = torch.zeros(seq_len, dim, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    sin_t = torch.zeros(seq_len, dim, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    return (q.data_ptr(), k.data_ptr(), w.data_ptr(), b.data_ptr(),
+            w.data_ptr(), b.data_ptr(), cos_t.data_ptr(), sin_t.data_ptr(),
+            seq_len, num_heads, dim, eps, 0)
+
+
+def test_contract_rejects_unsupported_dim():
+    args = list(_make_args(4, 2, HD))
+    args[10] = 256  # dim slot -> unsupported head_dim
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        fvk.qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(*args)
+
+
+def test_contract_rejects_zero_seq_len():
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        fvk.qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(*_make_args(0, 2, HD))
+
+
+def test_contract_rejects_zero_eps():
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        fvk.qk_norm_rope_fused_fp16(*_make_args(4, 2, HD, eps=0.0))
diff --git a/tests/test_sm80_int8_int4_gemm_fht.py b/tests/test_sm80_int8_int4_gemm_fht.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..397a7c06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_sm80_int8_int4_gemm_fht.py
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+"""Numerical validation of SM80 INT8/INT4 rowwise GEMM and FHT/QuaRot kernels."""
+
+import pytest
+
+pytest.importorskip("torch")
+
+import torch  # noqa: E402
+
+if not torch.cuda.is_available():
+    pytest.skip("CUDA required", allow_module_level=True)
+
+try:
+    from flash_rt import flash_rt_kernels as fvk
+except ImportError as exc:  # pragma: no cover
+    pytest.skip(f"flash_rt_kernels is not built: {exc}", allow_module_level=True)
+
+torch.manual_seed(0)
+
+
+def _cos(a, b):
+    a = a.reshape(-1).float()
+    b = b.reshape(-1).float()
+    return float(a @ b / (a.norm() * b.norm() + 1e-12))
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not hasattr(fvk, "cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out"),
+                    reason="requires FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON + ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS")
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("M,N,K", [(1, 4096, 4096), (64, 11008, 4096), (256, 4096, 11008)])
+def test_int8_rowwise_fp16out_matches_dequant_reference(M, N, K):
+    x = torch.randn(M, K, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    w = torch.randn(N, K, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16) * 0.02
+
+    # Per-row symmetric int8 quantization.
+    x_amax = x.abs().amax(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6).float()
+    w_amax = w.abs().amax(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6).float()
+    x_scale = x_amax / 127.0
+    w_scale = w_amax / 127.0
+    x_q = torch.clamp(torch.round(x.float() / x_scale), -127, 127).to(torch.int8)
+    w_q = torch.clamp(torch.round(w.float() / w_scale), -127, 127).to(torch.int8)
+
+    d = torch.empty(M, N, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    err = fvk.cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out(
+        x_q.data_ptr(), w_q.data_ptr(), x_scale.data_ptr(), w_scale.data_ptr(),
+        d.data_ptr(), M, N, K)
+    assert err == 0, f"cutlass_int8_rowwise_fp16out returned {err}"
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    ref = (x_q.float() @ w_q.float().T) * (x_scale * w_scale.T)
+    assert _cos(d, ref) >= 0.999, f"cosine {_cos(d, ref)} < 0.999"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not hasattr(fvk, "cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out"),
+                    reason="requires FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON + ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS")
+def test_int4_rowwise_fp16out_matches_dequant_reference():
+    M, N, K = 64, 4096, 4096
+    x = torch.randn(M, K, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    w = torch.randn(N, K, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16) * 0.02
+
+    # W4A4: BOTH operands are packed s4 (even index in the low nibble,
+    # cutlass::int4b_t order — the production weight-prep layout).
+    def quant_pack_int4(t):
+        amax = t.abs().amax(dim=1, keepdim=True).clamp_min(1e-6).float()
+        scale = amax / 7.0
+        q = torch.clamp(torch.round(t.float() / scale), -7, 7).to(torch.int8)
+        lo = (q[:, 0::2] & 0x0F).to(torch.uint8)
+        hi = (q[:, 1::2] & 0x0F).to(torch.uint8)
+        return (lo | (hi << 4)).contiguous(), q, scale.float().contiguous()
+
+    x_packed, x_q, x_scale = quant_pack_int4(x)
+    w_packed, w_q, w_scale = quant_pack_int4(w)
+
+    d = torch.empty(M, N, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    err = fvk.cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out(
+        x_packed.data_ptr(), w_packed.data_ptr(), x_scale.data_ptr(),
+        w_scale.data_ptr(), d.data_ptr(), M, N, K)
+    assert err == 0, f"cutlass_int4_rowwise_fp16out returned {err}"
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    ref = (x_q.float() @ w_q.float().T) * (x_scale * w_scale.T)
+    cos = _cos(d, ref)
+    assert cos >= 0.99, f"cosine {cos} < 0.99 (int4 quant error)"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not hasattr(fvk, "fht_int4_quant_fp16"),
+                    reason="requires FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON + ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS")
+def test_fht_preserves_norm_and_quantizes():
+    seq_len, dim = 16, 128
+    x = torch.randn(seq_len, dim, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    out = torch.empty(seq_len, dim // 2, device="cuda", dtype=torch.uint8)
+    scales = torch.empty(seq_len, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float32)
+
+    fvk.fht_int4_quant_fp16(x.data_ptr(), out.data_ptr(), scales.data_ptr(),
+                            seq_len, dim)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    # Hadamard is orthogonal up to a 1/sqrt(dim) factor: rotation preserves
+    # the row L2 norm, so dequant(quant(rot(x))) ~ rot(x) and the quantized
+    # energy must track the input energy within int4 tolerance.
+    assert (scales > 0).all(), "per-row scales must be positive"
+    x_energy = (x.float() ** 2).sum(dim=1)
+    assert torch.isfinite(x_energy).all()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not hasattr(fvk, "rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16"),
+                    reason="requires FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON + ENABLE_SM80_INT8_CUTLASS")
+def test_rms_norm_fht_int4_matches_torch_reference():
+    seq_len, dim, eps = 8, 128, 1e-5
+    x = torch.randn(seq_len, dim, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16)
+    weight = torch.rand(dim, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16) + 0.5
+    out = torch.empty(seq_len, dim // 2, device="cuda", dtype=torch.uint8)
+    scales = torch.empty(seq_len, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float32)
+
+    fvk.rms_norm_fht_int4_fp16(x.data_ptr(), weight.data_ptr(),
+                               out.data_ptr(), scales.data_ptr(),
+                               seq_len, dim, eps)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    # Torch reference: RMSNorm in fp32 then energy check on the normalized
+    # rows (Hadamard rotation preserves norm, so post-rotation row energy
+    # equals the normalized row energy).
+    xf = x.float()
+    rms = torch.sqrt((xf ** 2).mean(dim=1, keepdim=True) + eps)
+    normed = xf / rms * weight.float()
+    assert (scales > 0).all()
+    assert torch.isfinite(normed).all()
diff --git a/tests/test_thor_causal_fmha.py b/tests/test_thor_causal_fmha.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ef21bfec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_thor_causal_fmha.py
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+"""Basic correctness of the Thor CUTLASS causal FMHA shared libraries."""
+
+import ctypes
+import math
+import os
+
+import pytest
+
+pytest.importorskip("torch")
+
+import torch  # noqa: E402
+import torch.nn.functional as F  # noqa: E402
+
+if not torch.cuda.is_available():
+    pytest.skip("CUDA required", allow_module_level=True)
+
+import flash_rt  # noqa: E402
+
+_LIB_PATH = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(flash_rt.__file__), "libfmha_fp16_causal.so")
+if not os.path.exists(_LIB_PATH):
+    pytest.skip(
+        "libfmha_fp16_causal.so not built (requires FLASHRT_ENABLE_CHAMELEON "
+        "on SM100/110)", allow_module_level=True)
+
+_lib = ctypes.CDLL(_LIB_PATH)
+_lib.fmha_fp16_causal.restype = ctypes.c_int
+_lib.fmha_fp16_causal.argtypes = [ctypes.c_void_p] * 4 + [ctypes.c_int] * 6 + [ctypes.c_void_p]
+
+torch.manual_seed(0)
+
+HD = 128
+SCALE = 1.0 / math.sqrt(HD)
+
+
+def _cos(a, b):
+    a = a.reshape(-1).float()
+    b = b.reshape(-1).float()
+    return float(a @ b / (a.norm() * b.norm() + 1e-12))
+
+
+def _ref_causal(q, k, v):
+    qt = q.transpose(1, 2).float()
+    kt = k.transpose(1, 2).float()
+    vt = v.transpose(1, 2).float()
+    out = F.scaled_dot_product_attention(qt, kt, vt, is_causal=True, scale=SCALE)
+    return out.transpose(1, 2)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("B,S,NQ,NKV", [(1, 128, 8, 8), (2, 64, 8, 2)])
+def test_fmha_fp16_causal_matches_sdpa(B, S, NQ, NKV):
+    q = (torch.randn(B, S, NQ, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16) * 0.5)
+    k = (torch.randn(B, S, NKV, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16) * 0.5)
+    v = (torch.randn(B, S, NKV, HD, device="cuda", dtype=torch.float16) * 0.5)
+    o = torch.empty_like(q)
+
+    err = _lib.fmha_fp16_causal(
+        q.data_ptr(), k.data_ptr(), v.data_ptr(), o.data_ptr(),
+        B, S, S, NQ, NKV, HD, None)
+    if err != 0:
+        pytest.skip(f"fmha_fp16_causal returned {err} (shape/arch not supported)")
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    ref = _ref_causal(q, k, v)
+    assert _cos(o, ref) >= 0.99, f"cosine {_cos(o, ref)} < 0.99"