diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/collators/mm_chat.py b/src/axolotl/utils/collators/mm_chat.py
index 7e9223baa..772fe818a 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/collators/mm_chat.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/collators/mm_chat.py
@@ -36,11 +36,6 @@ class MultiModalChatDataCollator(DataCollatorMixin):
         self, examples: list[Union[list[int], Any, dict[str, Any]]]
     ) -> dict[str, Any]:
         # Handle dict or lists with proper padding and conversion to tensor.
-        if self.chat_template_type == "pixtral":
-            return self.__class__.process_rows_pixtral(
-                examples, self.processor, self.chat_template, self.max_images
-            )
-
         return self.__class__.process_rows(
             examples,
             self.processor,
@@ -218,6 +213,8 @@ class MultiModalChatDataCollator(DataCollatorMixin):
                 for example in examples
             ]
 
+        if chat_template_type == "llava":
+            max_images = 1
         images = __class__.process_images(examples, max_images=max_images)
 
         # Tokenize the texts and process the images
@@ -238,51 +235,3 @@ class MultiModalChatDataCollator(DataCollatorMixin):
                 "length": [len(sample["input_ids"]) for sample in batch["input_ids"]]
             }
         return batch
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def process_rows_pixtral(
-        examples, processor, chat_template, max_images, length_only=False
-    ):
-        # HINT: use `_torch_collate_batch` to stack and pad tensors
-        # see also DataCollatorWithFlattening and DefaultDataCollator
-
-        # *** This is COPIED from the trl example sft_vlm.py code ***
-        # use this as a starting point
-
-        # Get the texts and images, and apply the chat template
-        texts = [
-            processor.apply_chat_template(
-                __class__.pixtral_chat_conversion(example["messages"]),
-                chat_template=chat_template,
-                tokenize=False,
-            )
-            for example in examples
-        ]
-        images = [
-            Image.open(example["images"])
-            if isinstance(example["images"], str)
-            else example["images"]
-            for example in examples
-        ]
-
-        if max_images > 0:
-            images = [img_batch[:max_images] for img_batch in images]
-
-        # Tokenize the texts and process the images
-        batch = processor(text=texts, images=images, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
-
-        # The labels are the input_ids, and we mask the padding tokens in the loss computation
-        labels = batch["input_ids"].clone()
-        labels[labels == processor.tokenizer.pad_token_id] = -100  #
-        # Ignore the image token index in the loss computation (model specific)
-        image_token_id = processor.tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids(
-            processor.image_token
-        )
-        labels[labels == image_token_id] = -100
-        batch["labels"] = labels
-
-        if length_only:
-            return {
-                "length": [len(sample["input_ids"]) for sample in batch["input_ids"]]
-            }
-        return batch