diff --git a/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/framework_plugin_autogptq.py b/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/framework_plugin_autogptq.py
index 89fdee46..ca8e48f5 100644
--- a/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/framework_plugin_autogptq.py
+++ b/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/framework_plugin_autogptq.py
@@ -230,8 +230,9 @@ def model_loader(self, model_name: str, **kwargs):
         # - in particular "is_loaded_in_4bit" will be checked in prepare_model_for_kbit_training
         #   and there is a section of code that will be skipped if not set.
         setattr(model, "is_loaded_in_4bit", True)
-        setattr(model, "quantization_method", "gptq")
-
+        # Need to set this on model.model instead of model, applies to all versionsof gptq
+        # as this attribute is accessed later on from model.model
+        setattr(model.model, "quantization_method", "gptq")
         return model
 
     @property
diff --git a/plugins/framework/pyproject.toml b/plugins/framework/pyproject.toml
index aefa9fe1..f60ca1a3 100644
--- a/plugins/framework/pyproject.toml
+++ b/plugins/framework/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ classifiers=[
 dependencies = [
   "numpy<2.0", # numpy needs to be bounded due to incompatiblity with current torch<2.3
   "torch>2.2",
-  "git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@9230d78e76611cfa38c845213021aeb185362d10",
   "peft",
   "accelerate",
   "pandas",
diff --git a/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/README.md b/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/README.md
index 2f17ddfc..9add3339 100644
--- a/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/README.md
+++ b/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/README.md
@@ -39,10 +39,6 @@ Path | Description | Extracted From  | Modifications | Date
 [fused_ops/unsloth_lora/gptq](./src/fms_acceleration_foak/fused_ops/unsloth_lora/gptq) | GPTQ fast dequant (triton_v2) | `jeromeku/main` @ [2839d39](https://github.com/jeromeku/unsloth/commit/2839d390ef3bb318904289bfb9a7751a782c4e44) | `fast_lora.py`<br>`triton/layers.py` | 6 Feb 2024
 [kernels/unsloth](./src/fms_acceleration_foak/kernels/unsloth) | Fast RMS, RoPE, CrossEnt kernels | `unsloth/main` @ [1ecc0185](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth/commit/1ecc0185a5759c7a0c95dfc96aceea5023cebdfc) | `cross_entropy_loss.py`<br>`rms_layernorm.py` | 28 Jan 2024
 
-
-## Code Extracted from Liger
-- TODO
-
 ## Known Issues
 
 - MixedPrecision `--fp16` should be used `fast_lora`. Also consider loading the model in `torch.float16`.
diff --git a/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/configs/fast_full.yaml b/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/configs/fast_kernels.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/configs/fast_full.yaml
rename to plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/configs/fast_kernels.yaml
diff --git a/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/framework_plugin_fast_kernels.py b/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/framework_plugin_fast_kernels.py
index 17305bec..f11687cc 100644
--- a/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/framework_plugin_fast_kernels.py
+++ b/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/framework_plugin_fast_kernels.py
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 from transformers import TrainingArguments
 import torch
 
+from .framework_plugin_fast_quantized_peft import lora_adapters_switch_ddp_from_fsdp
+
 # consider rewriting register_foak_model_patch_rules into something 
 # like this also
 def register_foak_model_patch_rules2(base_type: str, filter_endswith: Set[str] = None):
@@ -59,7 +61,6 @@ def register_foak_model_patch_rules2(base_type: str, filter_endswith: Set[str] =
 
 # maybe this we should define envvars
 FILTER_MAP = {
-    "base_layer": set(),
     "fused_lora": {"qkvo", "mlp"},
     "fast_loss": "cross-ent",
     "fast_rsm_layernorm": "rms",
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ def __init__(self, configurations: Dict[str, Dict]):
                 key="peft.quantization.fused_ops_and_kernels",
             )
 
-        self._check_config_and_maybe_check_values(
+        self.configurations["base_layer"] = self._check_config_and_maybe_check_values(
             key="base_layer",
             values=["auto_gptq", "bitsandbytes"],
             default="auto_gptq"
@@ -124,8 +125,8 @@ def augmentation(
         # will still be installed but never triggered
         # if no peft layer is detected at the point of patching
         terms = set()
-        for k, v in self.configurations.items():
-            if v:
+        for k in self.configurations:
+            if k in FILTER_MAP:
                 ts = FILTER_MAP[k]
                 if isinstance(ts, str):
                     ts = {ts}
@@ -134,13 +135,37 @@ def augmentation(
         # wrapper function to register foak patches
         # NOTE: we never take the lora modules so just set arbitrarily
         # to "auto_gptq"
-        _base_layer = self.configurations['base_layer'] if 'base_layer' \
-            in self.configurations else 'auto_gptq'
+        _base_layer = self.configurations.get('base_layer', None)
         register_foak_model_patch_rules2(
             base_type=_base_layer, filter_endswith=terms
         )
         return model, modifiable_args
 
+    def get_callbacks_and_ready_for_train(
+        self, model: torch.nn.Module = None, accelerator=None
+    ):
+        # This callback applies only for qpeft
+        # should not install this for full FT and standard peft
+        is_quantized = getattr(model, "quantization_method", None)
+        callbacks = []
+        if (
+            accelerator is not None
+            and getattr(accelerator.state, "fsdp_plugin", None) is not None
+            and is_quantized is not None
+        ):
+            # This function installs grad reduction hooks on adapters if
+            # FSDP is detected. Because of incompatibility between FSDP and
+            # fused modules, adapters are not sharded - instead
+            # accumulated gradients from adapters in each device are reduced
+            # in these grad reduce hooks
+            # This function might be removed in future if the incompatiblity
+            # is resolved
+            lora_adapters_switch_ddp_from_fsdp(
+                [mod for mod in model.modules() if isinstance(mod, LoraLayer)],
+                accelerator.state.fsdp_plugin,
+            )
+        return callbacks
+
 # register
 AccelerationPlugin.register_plugin(
     FastKernelsAccelerationPlugin,
diff --git a/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/models/granite.py b/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/models/granite.py
index 778b6211..e5307791 100644
--- a/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/models/granite.py
+++ b/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/models/granite.py
@@ -22,11 +22,6 @@
     combine_functions,
     combine_triggers,
 )
-from transformers.models.granite.modeling_granite import (
-    GraniteAttention,
-    GraniteMLP,
-    GraniteRMSNorm,
-)
 
 # Local
 from ..kernels.unsloth.cross_entropy_loss import FastCrossEntropyLoss
@@ -42,6 +37,15 @@ def get_mp_rules(base_type: str):
     its forward builder argument, wrap the forward_builder
     function as a partial function with the base_type argument
     """
+    try:
+        from transformers.models.granite.modeling_granite import ( # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+            GraniteAttention,
+            GraniteMLP,
+            GraniteRMSNorm,
+        )
+    except ImportError:
+        return []
+
     return [
         # TODO: have a generic version of this rule
         # - do regex on RMSNorm class name
diff --git a/scripts/benchmarks/scenarios.yaml b/scripts/benchmarks/scenarios.yaml
index 89502227..13c5356d 100644
--- a/scripts/benchmarks/scenarios.yaml
+++ b/scripts/benchmarks/scenarios.yaml
@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@ scenarios:
         arguments:
             learning_rate: 2e-5
             model_name_or_path: 
+                # - 'ibm/PowerLM-3b'
                 - 'bigcode/gpt_bigcode-santacoder'
-                - 'ibm/PowerLM-3b'
                 - 'mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1'
-                - 'mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1'
-                - 'NousResearch/Llama-2-70b-hf'
+                # - 'mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1'
+                # - 'NousResearch/Llama-2-70b-hf'
             torch_dtype: bfloat16
 
     -   name: standard-peft
@@ -64,14 +64,14 @@ scenarios:
             target_modules: ["q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj", "o_proj"]
             model_name_or_path: 
                 - 'mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1'
-                - 'mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1'
-                - 'NousResearch/Llama-2-70b-hf'
+                # - 'mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1'
+                # - 'NousResearch/Llama-2-70b-hf'
 
     -   name: baseline-peft-bnb
         framework_config: 
             - baseline-peft-bnb
         arguments:
-            fp16: True
+            bf16: True
             learning_rate: 2e-4
             torch_dtype: bfloat16
             peft_method: lora
@@ -81,28 +81,28 @@ scenarios:
             target_modules: ["q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj", "o_proj"]
             model_name_or_path: 
                 - 'mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1'
-                - 'mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1'
-                - 'NousResearch/Llama-2-70b-hf'
+                # - 'mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1'
+                # - 'NousResearch/Llama-2-70b-hf'
 
     -   name: accelerated-peft-bnb
         framework_config: 
             - accelerated-peft-bnb
             - accelerated-peft-bnb-foak
         arguments:
-            fp16: True
+            bf16: True
             learning_rate: 2e-4
             torch_dtype: bfloat16
             peft_method: lora
             r: 16
             lora_alpha: 16
             lora_dropout: 0.1
-            target_modules: ["q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj", "o_proj"]
+            target_modules: ["q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj", "o_proj", "c_attn"]
             model_name_or_path: 
-                - 'ibm/PowerLM-3b'
+                # - 'ibm/PowerLM-3b'
                 - 'bigcode/gpt_bigcode-santacoder'
                 - 'mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1'
-                - 'mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1'
-                - 'NousResearch/Llama-2-70b-hf'
+                # - 'mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1'
+                # - 'NousResearch/Llama-2-70b-hf'
 
     -   name: accelerated-peft-gptq
         framework_config: 
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ scenarios:
             - accelerated-peft-autogptq-foak
         arguments:
             learning_rate: 2e-4
-            fp16: True
+            bf16: True
             torch_dtype: bfloat16
             peft_method: lora
             r: 16
@@ -119,5 +119,5 @@ scenarios:
             target_modules: ["q_proj", "k_proj", "v_proj", "o_proj"]
             model_name_or_path: 
                 - 'TheBloke/Mistral-7B-v0.1-GPTQ'
-                - 'TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1-GPTQ'
-                - 'TheBloke/Llama-2-70B-GPTQ'
+                # - 'TheBloke/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1-GPTQ'
+                # - 'TheBloke/Llama-2-70B-GPTQ'
diff --git a/scripts/generate_sample_configurations.py b/scripts/generate_sample_configurations.py
index 27cd3df2..11619106 100644
--- a/scripts/generate_sample_configurations.py
+++ b/scripts/generate_sample_configurations.py
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ def read_configuration(path: str) -> Dict:
     ),
     KEY_AADP_PADDING_FREE: "plugins/attention-and-distributed-packing/configs/padding_free.yaml",
     KEY_AADP_MULTIPACK: "plugins/attention-and-distributed-packing/configs/multipack.yaml",
-    KEY_FAST_KERNELS: "plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/configs/fast_full.yaml",
+    KEY_FAST_KERNELS: "plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/configs/fast_kernels.yaml",
 }
 
 # list of (tag, combi) tuples