diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f32af373b..dc74b916f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ numpy>=1.24.4
 # qlora things
 evaluate==0.4.1
 scipy
-scikit-learn==1.2.2
+scikit-learn==1.4.2
 pynvml
 art
 fschat @ git+https://github.com/lm-sys/FastChat.git@27a05b04a35510afb1d767ae7e5990cbd278f8fe
diff --git a/src/axolotl/cli/preprocess.py b/src/axolotl/cli/preprocess.py
index e0dd7c2dc..e12462c00 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/cli/preprocess.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/cli/preprocess.py
@@ -82,7 +82,14 @@ def do_cli(config: Union[Path, str] = Path("examples/"), **kwargs):
             # "copying from a non-meta parameter in the checkpoint to a meta parameter in the current model"
             warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
             with init_empty_weights(include_buffers=True):
-                AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True)
+                # fmt: off
+                try:
+                    AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+                        model_name, trust_remote_code=True
+                    )
+                except Exception as exc:  # pylint: disable=broad-exception-caught,unused-variable  # nosec B110  # noqa F841
+                    pass
+                # fmt: on
 
     LOG.info(
         Fore.GREEN
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/config/models/input/v0_4_1/__init__.py b/src/axolotl/utils/config/models/input/v0_4_1/__init__.py
index bc4c79a6c..309469cb4 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/config/models/input/v0_4_1/__init__.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/config/models/input/v0_4_1/__init__.py
@@ -344,6 +344,8 @@ class ModelInputConfig(BaseModel):
     )
     trust_remote_code: Optional[bool] = None
 
+    model_kwargs: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None
+
     @field_validator("trust_remote_code")
     @classmethod
     def hint_trust_remote_code(cls, trust_remote_code):
@@ -637,6 +639,8 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
     flash_attn_fuse_mlp: Optional[bool] = None
     flash_optimum: Optional[bool] = None
 
+    eager_attention: Optional[bool] = None
+
     unsloth_cross_entropy_loss: Optional[bool] = None
     unsloth_lora_mlp: Optional[bool] = None
     unsloth_lora_qkv: Optional[bool] = None
@@ -1302,6 +1306,19 @@ class AxolotlConfigWCapabilities(AxolotlInputConfig):
 
         return data
 
+    @model_validator(mode="before")
+    @classmethod
+    def check_hopper_8bit_lora(cls, data):
+        is_sm_90: bool = (
+            data["capabilities"]
+            and data["capabilities"].get("compute_capability") == "sm_90"
+        )
+        if data.get("adapter") and data.get("load_in_8bit") and is_sm_90:
+            # see https://github.com/bitsandbytes-foundation/bitsandbytes/issues/538#issuecomment-2262945464
+            raise ValueError("8-bit LoRA is not supported on Hopper GPUs")
+
+        return data
+
     @model_validator(mode="before")
     @classmethod
     def check_fsdp_deepspeed(cls, data):
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py b/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
index 02234d8b7..26796f2e5 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
@@ -390,6 +390,14 @@ def calculate_total_num_steps(cfg, train_dataset, update=True):
     return total_num_steps
 
 
+def setup_torch_compile_env(cfg):
+    if cfg.torch_compile:
+        if not cfg.torch_compile_backend:
+            os.environ["ACCELERATE_DYNAMO_BACKEND"] = "INDUCTOR"
+        else:
+            os.environ["ACCELERATE_DYNAMO_BACKEND"] = cfg.torch_compile_backend.upper()
+
+
 def setup_deepspeed_env(cfg, stage=None):
     os.environ["ACCELERATE_USE_DEEPSPEED"] = "true"
     os.environ["ACCELERATE_DEEPSPEED_CONFIG_FILE"] = cfg.deepspeed
@@ -434,6 +442,8 @@ def prepare_optim_env(cfg):
             stage = deepspeed_config.get("zero_optimization", {}).get("stage", None)
         setup_deepspeed_env(cfg, stage=stage)
 
+    setup_torch_compile_env(cfg)
+
     if (cfg.bf16 == "auto" and is_torch_bf16_gpu_available()) or cfg.bf16 is True:
         os.environ["ACCELERATE_MIXED_PRECISION"] = "bf16"
     elif cfg.fp16: