diff --git a/examples/llama4/scout-lora.yaml b/examples/llama4/scout-lora.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..26534b560
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/llama4/scout-lora.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+base_model: meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E
+model_type: Llama4ForConditionalGeneration
+  # Automatically upload checkpoint and final model to HF
+  # hub_model_id: username/custom_model_name
+
+strict: false
+
+  # torch_compile: true
+
+adapter: lora
+lora_r: 32
+lora_alpha: 64
+lora_target_modules:
+  - self_attn.q_proj
+  - self_attn.k_proj
+  - self_attn.v_proj
+  - self_attn.o_proj
+lora_modules_to_save:
+  - lm_head
+  - embed_tokens
+
+chat_template: llama4
+datasets:
+  - path: mlabonne/FineTome-100k
+    type: chat_template
+    split: train[:20%]
+    field_messages: conversations
+    message_property_mappings:
+      role: from
+      content: value
+
+dataset_prepared_path: last_run_prepared
+val_set_size: 0.0
+output_dir: ./outputs/out
+
+sequence_len: 4096
+sample_packing: true
+pad_to_sequence_len: true
+
+gradient_accumulation_steps: 1
+micro_batch_size: 1
+num_epochs: 1
+optimizer: adamw_torch_8bit
+lr_scheduler: cosine
+learning_rate: 2e-5
+
+bf16: true
+tf32: true
+
+# gradient_checkpointing: true
+# gradient_checkpointing_kwargs:
+#   use_reentrant: false
+logging_steps: 1
+flash_attention: true
+
+warmup_steps: 100
+evals_per_epoch: 2
+saves_per_epoch: 1
+weight_decay: 0.0
+fsdp:
+  - auto_wrap
+  - full_shard
+fsdp_config:
+  fsdp_version: 2
+  fsdp_offload_params: false
+  fsdp_cpu_ram_efficient_loading: true
+  fsdp_auto_wrap_policy: TRANSFORMER_BASED_WRAP
+  fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap: Llama4TextDecoderLayer
+  fsdp_state_dict_type: SHARDED_STATE_DICT
+  fsdp_sharding_strategy: FULL_SHARD
+  fsdp_reshard_after_forward: true
+  fsdp_activation_checkpointing: true
+special_tokens:
+  pad_token: <|finetune_right_pad_id|>
+  eos_token: <|eot|>
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6dac24f27..f2b2df5fb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ triton>=3.0.0
 mamba-ssm==1.2.0.post1
 xformers>=0.0.23.post1
 autoawq==0.2.7.post3
-liger-kernel==0.5.5
+liger-kernel==0.5.6
 # END section
 
 packaging==23.2
diff --git a/src/axolotl/core/trainers/base.py b/src/axolotl/core/trainers/base.py
index 9fed78eb7..dd50f8ce7 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/core/trainers/base.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/core/trainers/base.py
@@ -562,6 +562,16 @@ class AxolotlTrainer(
 
         return res
 
+    def override_accelerator_args(self, **kwargs):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
+        ret_kwargs = {}
+        if os.environ.get("ACCELERATE_MIXED_PRECISION") == "fp8":
+            from accelerate.utils import AORecipeKwargs
+
+            ret_kwargs["mixed_precision"] = "fp8"
+            ret_kwargs["kwargs_handlers"] = [AORecipeKwargs()]
+
+        return ret_kwargs
+
     def log(self, logs: dict[str, float], start_time: float | None = None) -> None:
         """
         Log `logs` on the various objects watching training, including stored metrics.
diff --git a/src/axolotl/integrations/liger/__init__.py b/src/axolotl/integrations/liger/__init__.py
index 82a46d9cf..8d737175e 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/integrations/liger/__init__.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/integrations/liger/__init__.py
@@ -173,5 +173,17 @@ class LigerPlugin(BasePlugin):
                 raise NotImplementedError(
                     "Fused linear cross entropy is not yet supported for Gemma3."
                 )
+        elif cfg.model_config_type == "llama4":
+            from axolotl.integrations.liger.models.llama4 import (
+                apply_liger_kernel_to_llama4,
+            )
+
+            apply_liger_kernel_to_llama4(
+                cross_entropy=cfg.liger_cross_entropy,
+                fused_linear_cross_entropy=cfg.liger_fused_linear_cross_entropy,
+                glu_activation=cfg.liger_glu_activation,
+                rms_norm=cfg.liger_rms_norm,
+                layer_norm=cfg.liger_layer_norm,
+            )
         elif cfg.model_config_type in ["deepseek_v3"]:
             raise ValueError(f"Unsupported model config type: {cfg.model_config_type}")
diff --git a/src/axolotl/integrations/liger/models/llama4.py b/src/axolotl/integrations/liger/models/llama4.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ee7f226cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/axolotl/integrations/liger/models/llama4.py
@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+"""
+Liger FLCE for llama4
+"""
+
+import sys
+from typing import List, Optional, Tuple, Union
+
+import torch
+from liger_kernel.transformers.model.loss_utils import LigerForCausalLMLoss
+from transformers.modeling_outputs import CausalLMOutputWithPast
+
+
+def lce_forward(
+    self,
+    input_ids: torch.LongTensor = None,
+    attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
+    past_key_values: Optional[
+        Union["Cache", List[torch.FloatTensor]]  # noqa: F821
+    ] = None,
+    inputs_embeds: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None,
+    labels: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
+    use_cache: Optional[bool] = None,
+    output_attentions: Optional[bool] = None,
+    output_hidden_states: Optional[bool] = None,
+    return_dict: Optional[bool] = None,
+    cache_position: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
+    logits_to_keep: Union[int, torch.Tensor] = 0,
+    **loss_kwargs,
+) -> Union[Tuple, CausalLMOutputWithPast]:
+    r"""
+    Args:
+        labels (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*):
+            Labels for computing the masked language modeling loss. Indices should either be in `[0, ...,
+            config.vocab_size]` or -100 (see `input_ids` docstring). Tokens with indices set to `-100` are ignored
+            (masked), the loss is only computed for the tokens with labels in `[0, ..., config.vocab_size]`.
+
+        logits_to_keep (`int` or `torch.Tensor`, *optional*):
+            If an `int`, compute logits for the last `logits_to_keep` tokens. If `0`, calculate logits for all
+            `input_ids` (special case). Only last token logits are needed for generation, and calculating them only for that
+            token can save memory, which becomes pretty significant for long sequences or large vocabulary size.
+            If a `torch.Tensor`, must be 1D corresponding to the indices to keep in the sequence length dimension.
+            This is useful when using packed tensor format (single dimension for batch and sequence length).
+
+    Returns:
+    """
+
+    print("=" * 30 + " lce_forward " + "=" * 30)
+    output_attentions = (
+        output_attentions
+        if output_attentions is not None
+        else self.config.output_attentions
+    )
+    output_hidden_states = (
+        output_hidden_states
+        if output_hidden_states is not None
+        else self.config.output_hidden_states
+    )
+    return_dict = (
+        return_dict if return_dict is not None else self.config.use_return_dict
+    )
+
+    # decoder outputs consists of (dec_features, layer_state, dec_hidden, dec_attn)
+    outputs = self.model(
+        input_ids=input_ids,
+        attention_mask=attention_mask,
+        position_ids=position_ids,
+        past_key_values=past_key_values,
+        inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
+        use_cache=use_cache,
+        output_attentions=output_attentions,
+        output_hidden_states=output_hidden_states,
+        return_dict=return_dict,
+        cache_position=cache_position,
+    )
+
+    hidden_states = outputs[0]
+
+    if hasattr(self.config, "pretraining_tp") and self.config.pretraining_tp > 1:
+        raise Exception(  # pylint: disable=broad-exception-raised
+            "Liger Kernel does not support pretraining_tp!!"
+        )
+
+    logits = None
+    loss = None
+    # if in training mode, don't materialize logits
+    if self.training and (labels is not None):
+        loss = LigerForCausalLMLoss(
+            hidden_states=hidden_states,
+            lm_head_weight=self.lm_head.weight,
+            labels=labels,
+            hidden_size=self.config.hidden_size,
+            **loss_kwargs,
+        )
+
+    else:  # if in inference mode materialize logits
+        slice_indices = (
+            slice(-logits_to_keep, None)
+            if isinstance(logits_to_keep, int)
+            else logits_to_keep
+        )
+        logits = self.lm_head(hidden_states[:, slice_indices, :])
+        if labels is not None:
+            loss = self.loss_function(
+                logits=logits,
+                labels=labels,
+                vocab_size=self.config.vocab_size,
+                **loss_kwargs,
+            )
+
+    if not return_dict:
+        output = (logits,) + outputs[1:]
+        return (loss,) + output if loss is not None else output
+
+    return CausalLMOutputWithPast(
+        loss=loss,
+        logits=logits,
+        past_key_values=outputs.past_key_values,
+        hidden_states=outputs.hidden_states,
+        attentions=outputs.attentions,
+    )
+
+
+def apply_liger_kernel_to_llama4(
+    cross_entropy: bool = False,
+    fused_linear_cross_entropy: bool = False,
+    rms_norm: bool = False,
+    glu_activation: bool = False,
+    layer_norm: bool = False,
+    **kwargs,  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
+) -> None:
+    """
+    Apply Liger kernels to replace original implementation in HuggingFace Llama models (2 and 3)
+
+    Args:
+        cross_entropy (bool): Whether to apply Liger's cross entropy loss. Default is False.
+        fused_linear_cross_entropy (bool):
+            Whether to apply Liger's fused linear cross entropy loss. Default is False.
+            `cross_entropy` and `fused_linear_cross_entropy` cannot both be False.
+            If `fused_linear_cross_entropy` is True, the logits will not be materialized but more memory efficient.
+        rms_norm (bool): Whether to apply Liger's RMSNorm. Default is False.
+        glu_activation (bool): Whether to apply Liger's SwiGLU MLP. Default is False.
+        layer_norm (bool): Whether to apply Liger's LayerNorm. Default is False.
+    """
+
+    import transformers.models.llama4.modeling_llama4  # noqa: F401  # pylint: disable=unused-import
+    from liger_kernel.transformers.functional import liger_cross_entropy
+    from liger_kernel.transformers.layer_norm import LigerLayerNorm
+    from liger_kernel.transformers.rms_norm import LigerRMSNorm
+    from liger_kernel.transformers.swiglu import LigerSwiGLUMLP
+
+    assert not (
+        cross_entropy and fused_linear_cross_entropy
+    ), "cross_entropy and fused_linear_cross_entropy cannot both be True."
+
+    modeling_llama4 = sys.modules["transformers.models.llama4.modeling_llama4"]
+
+    if rms_norm:
+        modeling_llama4.Llama4TextRMSNorm = LigerRMSNorm
+    if glu_activation:
+        modeling_llama4.Llama4TextMLP = LigerSwiGLUMLP
+    if layer_norm:
+        modeling_llama4.nn.LayerNorm = LigerLayerNorm
+
+    if cross_entropy:
+        from transformers.loss.loss_utils import nn
+
+        nn.functional.cross_entropy = liger_cross_entropy
+
+    if fused_linear_cross_entropy:
+        modeling_llama4.Llama4ForCausalLM.forward = lce_forward
diff --git a/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/trainer_accelerator_args.py b/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/trainer_accelerator_args.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8c68f2c8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/trainer_accelerator_args.py
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+"""
+allow adding additional kwargs to Accelerator init
+"""
+
+import inspect
+import logging
+
+from transformers import Trainer
+
+from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import detab_code
+
+LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+ORIGINAL_TRAINER_CODE = """
+    # create accelerator object
+    self.accelerator = Accelerator(**args)
+"""
+
+PATCHED_TRAINER_CODE = """
+    if hasattr(self, "override_accelerator_args"):
+        additional_args = self.override_accelerator_args(**args)
+        if additional_args:
+            args.update(additional_args)
+
+    # create accelerator object
+    self.accelerator = Accelerator(**args)
+"""
+
+
+def get_create_accelerate_code() -> str:
+    training_loop = inspect.getsource(Trainer.create_accelerator_and_postprocess)
+    return training_loop
+
+
+def check_create_accelerate_code_is_patchable() -> bool:
+    create_code = get_create_accelerate_code()
+    create_code, _ = detab_code(create_code)
+    return ORIGINAL_TRAINER_CODE in create_code
+
+
+def patch_create_accelerate_code_for_fp8():
+    """
+    monkeypatch create_accelerator_and_postprocess so it checks for additional kwargs
+    """
+
+    try:
+        create_code = get_create_accelerate_code()
+    except OSError:
+        return
+    Trainer._original_create_accelerator_and_postprocess = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
+        create_code
+    )
+    create_code, _ = detab_code(create_code)
+    if ORIGINAL_TRAINER_CODE not in create_code:
+        return
+
+    create_code = create_code.replace(ORIGINAL_TRAINER_CODE, PATCHED_TRAINER_CODE)
+    create_code = create_code.replace(
+        "def create_accelerator_and_postprocess(",
+        "def fixed_create_accelerator_and_postprocess(",
+        1,
+    )
+
+    # load imports necessary
+    import transformers.trainer
+
+    items_to_import = []
+    for item in dir(transformers.trainer):
+        if item in create_code:
+            items_to_import.append(item)
+
+    exec(  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
+        "from transformers.trainer import ("
+        + ", ".join(x for x in items_to_import)
+        + ")",
+        globals(),
+    )
+    exec(create_code, globals())  # pylint: disable=exec-used  # nosec B102
+    LOG.info("patching create_accelerator_and_postprocess to allow for overrides")
+    Trainer.create_accelerator_and_postprocess = fixed_create_accelerator_and_postprocess  # pylint: disable=protected-access  # pylint: disable=undefined-variable  # noqa: F821
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
index 0e1329b97..79f6c5a9b 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
@@ -557,6 +557,13 @@ class ModelLoader:
         plugin_manager = PluginManager.get_instance()
         plugin_manager.pre_model_load(self.cfg)
 
+        # monkey patch to allow additional Accelerator init kwargs
+        from axolotl.monkeypatch.trainer_accelerator_args import (
+            patch_create_accelerate_code_for_fp8,
+        )
+
+        patch_create_accelerate_code_for_fp8()
+
         if self.cfg.adapter:
             from axolotl.monkeypatch.transformers_fa_utils import (
                 patch_fa_peft_integration,
@@ -988,10 +995,11 @@ class ModelLoader:
             )
             skip_move_to_device = True
         elif (
-            self.model_config.model_type == "llama"
+            self.model_config.model_type in ["llama", "llama4"]
             and not self.cfg.trust_remote_code
             and not self.cfg.gptq
         ):
+            # TODO do we need to open this up for all models?
             if self.cfg.fsdp and self.cfg.fsdp_config.fsdp_cpu_ram_efficient_loading:
                 skip_move_to_device = True
                 if "device_map" in self.model_kwargs:
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py b/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py
index 3ceae4273..4995962df 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/schemas/config.py
@@ -464,9 +464,10 @@ class AxolotlInputConfig(
             data.get("sample_packing")
             and not data.get("flash_attention")
             and not data.get("sdp_attention")
+            and not data.get("flex_attention")
         ):
             LOG.warning(
-                "sample_packing without flash_attention or sdp_attention does not handle cross-attention."
+                "sample_packing without flash, sdp or flex attention does not handle cross sample decontamination."
             )
 
         return data
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py b/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
index c5c9e5599..964b17086 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/trainer.py
@@ -582,7 +582,9 @@ def prepare_optim_env(cfg):
 
     setup_torch_compile_env(cfg)
 
-    if (cfg.bf16 == "auto" and is_torch_bf16_gpu_available()) or cfg.bf16 is True:
+    if cfg.fp8:
+        os.environ["ACCELERATE_MIXED_PRECISION"] = "fp8"
+    elif (cfg.bf16 == "auto" and is_torch_bf16_gpu_available()) or cfg.bf16 is True:
         os.environ["ACCELERATE_MIXED_PRECISION"] = "bf16"
     elif cfg.fp16:
         os.environ["ACCELERATE_MIXED_PRECISION"] = "fp16"
diff --git a/tests/e2e/multigpu/test_llama.py b/tests/e2e/multigpu/test_llama.py
index 758491d63..f44c775c8 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/multigpu/test_llama.py
+++ b/tests/e2e/multigpu/test_llama.py
@@ -500,9 +500,7 @@ class TestMultiGPULlama:
                 ],
                 "fsdp_config": {
                     "fsdp_version": 2,
-                    "fsdp_forward_prefetch": True,
-                    "fsdp_sync_module_states": True,
-                    "fsdp_use_orig_params": True,
+                    # "fsdp_forward_prefetch": True,  # not yet implemented in accelerate
                     "fsdp_offload_params": False,
                     "fsdp_cpu_ram_efficient_loading": False,
                     "fsdp_transformer_layer_cls_to_wrap": "LlamaDecoderLayer",