diff --git a/assets/qwen/qwen-image-2.1-alpha-out2.png b/assets/qwen/qwen-image-2.1-alpha-out2.png
index b3db6c892c..89e32c1e61 100644
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diff --git a/examples/common/common.cpp b/examples/common/common.cpp
index 24dc937b58..469fc5afa0 100644
--- a/examples/common/common.cpp
+++ b/examples/common/common.cpp
@@ -460,6 +460,11 @@ ArgOptions SDContextParams::get_options() {
          "VAE latent format override: auto, flux, sd3, flux2, or wan (default: auto)",
          0,
          &vae_format},
+        {"",
+         "--vae-dtype",
+         "VAE/TAE inference precision, without this will use weight dtype (f16, f32 or bf16)",
+         0,
+         &vae_dtype},
         {"",
          "--audio-vae",
          "path to standalone LTX audio vae model",
@@ -921,6 +926,7 @@ std::string SDContextParams::to_string() const {
         << "  embeddings_connectors_path: \"" << embeddings_connectors_path << "\",\n"
         << "  vae_path: \"" << vae_path << "\",\n"
         << "  vae_format: \"" << vae_format << "\",\n"
+        << "  vae_dtype: \"" << vae_dtype << "\",\n"
         << "  audio_vae_path: \"" << audio_vae_path << "\",\n"
         << "  audio_encoder_path: \"" << audio_encoder_path << "\",\n"
         << "  taesd_path: \"" << taesd_path << "\",\n"
@@ -1018,6 +1024,7 @@ sd_ctx_params_t SDContextParams::to_sd_ctx_params_t(bool taesd_preview) {
     sd_ctx_params.vae_conv_direct                 = vae_conv_direct;
     sd_ctx_params.force_sdxl_vae_conv_scale       = force_sdxl_vae_conv_scale;
     sd_ctx_params.vae_format                      = str_to_vae_format(vae_format);
+    sd_ctx_params.vae_dtype                       = vae_dtype.c_str();
     sd_ctx_params.max_vram                        = max_vram.c_str();
     sd_ctx_params.disable_prefetch                = disable_prefetch;
     sd_ctx_params.disable_segmented_compute       = disable_segmented_compute;
diff --git a/examples/common/common.h b/examples/common/common.h
index d0d39b738d..2848e4be1f 100644
--- a/examples/common/common.h
+++ b/examples/common/common.h
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ struct SDContextParams {
     std::string pulid_weights_path;
     sd_type_t wtype = SD_TYPE_COUNT;
     std::string tensor_type_rules;
+    std::string vae_dtype;  // VAE/TAE inference precision: f16/f32/bf16; empty uses weight dtype
     std::string lora_model_dir = ".";
     std::string hires_upscalers_dir;
 
diff --git a/include/stable-diffusion.h b/include/stable-diffusion.h
index a2bfdb680c..209d964961 100644
--- a/include/stable-diffusion.h
+++ b/include/stable-diffusion.h
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ typedef struct {
     const char* tokenizer;           // tokenizer.json path or main=FILE,clip-l=FILE,clip-g=FILE assignments; required for PiD and Lens
     bool sage_attn;
     int conditioning_cache_size;  // Maximum cached conditioning entries per context; 0 disables caching (default: 4)
+    const char* vae_dtype;  // VAE/TAE inference precision: "f16", "f32" or "bf16"; null or empty uses weight dtype
 } sd_ctx_params_t;
 
 typedef struct {
diff --git a/src/core/ggml_extend.cpp b/src/core/ggml_extend.cpp
index 74324169ee..6597b9fda7 100644
--- a/src/core/ggml_extend.cpp
+++ b/src/core/ggml_extend.cpp
@@ -434,7 +434,17 @@ ggml_tensor* ggml_ext_conv_2d(ggml_context* ctx,
         p1 = 0;
     }
 
-    if (direct) {
+    if (w->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
+        // ggml_conv_2d hardcodes the im2col dtype to f16 for non-bf16 weights,
+        // which would re-introduce f16 overflow in high-magnitude VAE decoder
+        // activations. Build the same im2col + mul_mat with explicit f32.
+        ggml_tensor* im2col = ggml_im2col(ctx, w, x, s0, s1, p0, p1, d0, d1, true, GGML_TYPE_F32);
+        x                   = ggml_mul_mat(ctx,
+                                           ggml_reshape_2d(ctx, im2col, im2col->ne[0], im2col->ne[3] * im2col->ne[2] * im2col->ne[1]),
+                                           ggml_reshape_2d(ctx, w, w->ne[0] * w->ne[1] * w->ne[2], w->ne[3]));
+        x                   = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx, x, im2col->ne[1], im2col->ne[2], im2col->ne[3], w->ne[3]);
+        x                   = ggml_cont(ctx, ggml_permute(ctx, x, 0, 1, 3, 2));
+    } else if (direct) {
         x = ggml_conv_2d_direct(ctx, w, x, s0, s1, p0, p1, d0, d1);
     } else {
         x = ggml_conv_2d(ctx, w, x, s0, s1, p0, p1, d0, d1);
@@ -466,11 +476,10 @@ ggml_tensor* ggml_ext_conv_3d(ggml_context* ctx,
                               int d2,
                               bool force_prec_f32,
                               bool direct) {
-    if (direct) {
-        int64_t OC = w->ne[3] / IC;
-        int64_t N  = x->ne[3] / IC;
-        x          = ggml_conv_3d_direct(ctx, w, x, s0, s1, s2, p0, p1, p2, d0, d1, d2, (int)IC, (int)N, (int)OC);
-    } else if (force_prec_f32) {
+    if (force_prec_f32 || w->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
+        // The f32-weight case must bypass ggml_conv_3d: its im2col dtype is
+        // hardcoded to f16 for non-bf16 weights, which saturates high-magnitude
+        // VAE decoder activations to inf.
         ggml_tensor* im2col = ggml_im2col_3d(ctx, w, x, IC, s0, s1, s2, p0, p1, p2, d0, d1, d2, w->type);
 
         int64_t OC = w->ne[3] / IC;
@@ -484,6 +493,10 @@ ggml_tensor* ggml_ext_conv_3d(ggml_context* ctx,
         x          = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx, x, im2col->ne[1] * im2col->ne[2], OD, N, OC);
         x          = ggml_cont(ctx, ggml_permute(ctx, x, 0, 1, 3, 2));
         x          = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx, x, im2col->ne[1], im2col->ne[2], OD, OC * N);
+    } else if (direct) {
+        int64_t OC = w->ne[3] / IC;
+        int64_t N  = x->ne[3] / IC;
+        x          = ggml_conv_3d_direct(ctx, w, x, s0, s1, s2, p0, p1, p2, d0, d1, d2, (int)IC, (int)N, (int)OC);
     } else {
         // ggml_conv_3d decomposes into GGML_OP_IM2COL_3D, which some backends
         // (e.g. Metal, see #850) do not implement. Fall back to
diff --git a/src/core/ggml_runner.cpp b/src/core/ggml_runner.cpp
index 59573210b3..29fa150f3b 100644
--- a/src/core/ggml_runner.cpp
+++ b/src/core/ggml_runner.cpp
@@ -527,6 +527,7 @@ GGMLRunnerContext GGMLRunner::get_context() {
     runner_ctx.conv3d_direct_enabled = conv3d_direct_enabled;
     runner_ctx.circular_x_enabled    = circular_x_enabled;
     runner_ctx.circular_y_enabled    = circular_y_enabled;
+    runner_ctx.vae_compute_type      = vae_compute_type;
     runner_ctx.weight_adapter        = weight_adapter;
     runner_ctx.debug_tensors         = &debug_tensors;
     runner_ctx.get_cache_tensor      = [this](const std::string& name) {
diff --git a/src/core/ggml_runner.h b/src/core/ggml_runner.h
index 9084db1097..092c73717e 100644
--- a/src/core/ggml_runner.h
+++ b/src/core/ggml_runner.h
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct GGMLRunnerContext {
     bool circular_y_enabled                                          = false;
     ggml_tensor* ip_context                                          = nullptr;
     float ip_scale                                                   = 1.0f;
+    ggml_type vae_compute_type                                       = GGML_TYPE_COUNT;  // VAE/TAE conv compute precision; COUNT keeps the stored dtype
     std::shared_ptr<WeightAdapter> weight_adapter                    = nullptr;
     std::vector<std::pair<ggml_tensor*, std::string>>* debug_tensors = nullptr;
     std::function<ggml_tensor*(const std::string&)> get_cache_tensor;
@@ -185,6 +186,7 @@ struct GGMLRunner {
     bool conv3d_direct_enabled = false;
     bool circular_x_enabled    = false;
     bool circular_y_enabled    = false;
+    ggml_type vae_compute_type = GGML_TYPE_COUNT;
 
     sd::ggml_graph_cut::PlanCache graph_cut_plan_cache_;
     std::unordered_set<const ggml_tensor*> params_tensor_set_;
@@ -355,6 +357,10 @@ struct GGMLRunner {
         this->attn_scale   = attn_scale;
     }
 
+    void set_vae_compute_type(ggml_type type) {
+        vae_compute_type = type;
+    }
+
     void set_conv2d_direct_enabled(bool enabled) {
         conv2d_direct_enabled = enabled;
     }
diff --git a/src/model/common/ggml_block.hpp b/src/model/common/ggml_block.hpp
index 991b88f28b..8dc7003f34 100644
--- a/src/model/common/ggml_block.hpp
+++ b/src/model/common/ggml_block.hpp
@@ -427,6 +427,63 @@ class Conv1d : public UnaryBlock {
     }
 };
 
+// VAE/TAE conv weights keep their stored dtype so compute precision can be
+// decided per run (see --vae-dtype); other convs (UNet, ControlNet, patch
+// embeds, upscalers) stay on the historical hardcoded f16.
+static inline bool sd_conv_prefix_is_vae(const std::string& prefix) {
+    static const std::vector<std::string> kVaePrefixes = {"first_stage_model", "vae", "tae", "decoder"};
+    for (const auto& v : kVaePrefixes) {
+        if (prefix.size() >= v.size() && prefix.compare(0, v.size(), v) == 0 &&
+            (prefix.size() == v.size() || prefix[v.size()] == '.')) {
+            return true;
+        }
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
+static inline bool sd_conv_type_computable(ggml_type t) {
+    return t == GGML_TYPE_F16 || t == GGML_TYPE_F32 || t == GGML_TYPE_BF16;
+}
+
+static inline ggml_type sd_vae_conv_param_type(const String2TensorStorage& map, const std::string& key) {
+    auto it = map.find(key);
+    if (it == map.end()) {
+        return GGML_TYPE_F16;
+    }
+    const TensorStorage& ts = it->second;
+    ggml_type t             = ts.expected_type != GGML_TYPE_COUNT ? ts.expected_type : ts.type;
+    if (sd_conv_type_computable(t)) {
+        return t;
+    }
+    // Block-quantized types need ne[0] % blck_size == 0, but conv weights have
+    // ne[0] = kernel width, so they cannot stay quantized in a conv param and
+    // keep the historical load-time f16 expansion. int8-tensorwise needs its
+    // weight_scale applied by dedicated kernels that conv paths do not have.
+    if (ggml_is_quantized(t) && !ts.is_int8_tensorwise && ts.ne[0] % ggml_blck_size(t) == 0) {
+        return t;
+    }
+    return GGML_TYPE_F16;
+}
+
+static inline ggml_type sd_conv_target_type(GGMLRunnerContext* ctx, ggml_type wtype) {
+    if (ctx->vae_compute_type != GGML_TYPE_COUNT) {
+        return ctx->vae_compute_type;
+    }
+    return sd_conv_type_computable(wtype) ? wtype : GGML_TYPE_F16;
+}
+
+// Quantized sources route through f32: backends only register direct
+// CPY kernels for quantized -> f32, not quantized -> f16/bf16.
+static inline ggml_tensor* sd_conv_cast_weight(ggml_context* ctx, ggml_tensor* w, ggml_type target) {
+    if (w->type == target) {
+        return w;
+    }
+    if (ggml_is_quantized(w->type) && target != GGML_TYPE_F32) {
+        w = ggml_cast(ctx, w, GGML_TYPE_F32);
+    }
+    return ggml_cast(ctx, w, target);
+}
+
 class Conv2d : public UnaryBlock {
 protected:
     int64_t in_channels;
@@ -440,9 +497,10 @@ class Conv2d : public UnaryBlock {
     std::string prefix;
 
     void init_params(ggml_context* ctx, const String2TensorStorage& tensor_storage_map, const std::string prefix = "") override {
-        this->prefix         = prefix;
-        enum ggml_type wtype = GGML_TYPE_F16;
-        params["weight"]     = ggml_new_tensor_4d(ctx, wtype, kernel_size.second, kernel_size.first, in_channels, out_channels);
+        this->prefix = prefix;
+        enum ggml_type wtype =
+            sd_conv_prefix_is_vae(prefix) ? sd_vae_conv_param_type(tensor_storage_map, prefix + "weight") : GGML_TYPE_F16;
+        params["weight"] = ggml_new_tensor_4d(ctx, wtype, kernel_size.second, kernel_size.first, in_channels, out_channels);
         if (bias) {
             enum ggml_type wtype = GGML_TYPE_F32;
             params["bias"]       = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, wtype, out_channels);
@@ -475,6 +533,7 @@ class Conv2d : public UnaryBlock {
 
     ggml_tensor* forward(GGMLRunnerContext* ctx, ggml_tensor* x) override {
         ggml_tensor* w = params["weight"];
+        w              = sd_conv_cast_weight(ctx->ggml_ctx, w, sd_conv_target_type(ctx, w->type));
         ggml_tensor* b = nullptr;
         if (bias) {
             b = params["bias"];
@@ -525,9 +584,10 @@ class Conv2d_grouped : public UnaryBlock {
     std::string prefix;
 
     void init_params(ggml_context* ctx, const String2TensorStorage& tensor_storage_map, const std::string prefix = "") override {
-        this->prefix         = prefix;
-        enum ggml_type wtype = GGML_TYPE_F16;
-        params["weight"]     = ggml_new_tensor_4d(ctx, wtype, kernel_size.second, kernel_size.first, in_channels / groups, out_channels);
+        this->prefix = prefix;
+        enum ggml_type wtype =
+            sd_conv_prefix_is_vae(prefix) ? sd_vae_conv_param_type(tensor_storage_map, prefix + "weight") : GGML_TYPE_F16;
+        params["weight"] = ggml_new_tensor_4d(ctx, wtype, kernel_size.second, kernel_size.first, in_channels / groups, out_channels);
         if (bias) {
             enum ggml_type wtype = GGML_TYPE_F32;
             params["bias"]       = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, wtype, out_channels);
@@ -562,6 +622,7 @@ class Conv2d_grouped : public UnaryBlock {
 
     ggml_tensor* forward(GGMLRunnerContext* ctx, ggml_tensor* x) override {
         ggml_tensor* w = params["weight"];
+        w              = sd_conv_cast_weight(ctx->ggml_ctx, w, sd_conv_target_type(ctx, w->type));
         ggml_tensor* b = nullptr;
         if (bias) {
             b = params["bias"];
@@ -682,14 +743,15 @@ class Conv3d : public UnaryBlock {
     std::string prefix;
 
     void init_params(ggml_context* ctx, const String2TensorStorage& tensor_storage_map, const std::string prefix = "") override {
-        this->prefix         = prefix;
-        enum ggml_type wtype = GGML_TYPE_F16;
-        params["weight"]     = ggml_new_tensor_4d(ctx,
-                                                  wtype,
-                                                  std::get<2>(kernel_size),
-                                                  std::get<1>(kernel_size),
-                                                  std::get<0>(kernel_size),
-                                                  in_channels * out_channels);
+        this->prefix = prefix;
+        enum ggml_type wtype =
+            sd_conv_prefix_is_vae(prefix) ? sd_vae_conv_param_type(tensor_storage_map, prefix + "weight") : GGML_TYPE_F16;
+        params["weight"] = ggml_new_tensor_4d(ctx,
+                                              wtype,
+                                              std::get<2>(kernel_size),
+                                              std::get<1>(kernel_size),
+                                              std::get<0>(kernel_size),
+                                              in_channels * out_channels);
         if (bias) {
             params["bias"] = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, out_channels);
         }
@@ -715,6 +777,7 @@ class Conv3d : public UnaryBlock {
 
     ggml_tensor* forward(GGMLRunnerContext* ctx, ggml_tensor* x) override {
         ggml_tensor* w = params["weight"];
+        w              = sd_conv_cast_weight(ctx->ggml_ctx, w, sd_conv_target_type(ctx, w->type));
         ggml_tensor* b = nullptr;
         if (ctx->weight_adapter) {
             w = ctx->weight_adapter->patch_weight(ctx->ggml_ctx, ctx->backend, w, prefix + "weight");
diff --git a/src/model/te/llm.hpp b/src/model/te/llm.hpp
index da59cfab61..af232426e4 100644
--- a/src/model/te/llm.hpp
+++ b/src/model/te/llm.hpp
@@ -277,6 +277,11 @@ namespace LLM {
                 if (!starts_with(name, prefix)) {
                     continue;
                 }
+                // Quant scale tensors mirror the weight name and can share its suffix with a
+                // different shape; never use them for config detection.
+                if (contains(name, "weight_scale")) {
+                    continue;
+                }
                 size_t pos = name.find("visual.");
                 if (pos != std::string::npos) {
                     config.have_vision_weight = true;
@@ -332,7 +337,9 @@ namespace LLM {
                         }
                     }
                 }
-                if (contains(name, "embed_tokens.weight")) {
+                // ends_with: int8 checkpoints also carry embed_tokens.weight_scale tensors whose
+                // shape would otherwise be mistaken for the embedding matrix.
+                if (ends_with(name, "embed_tokens.weight")) {
                     config.hidden_size = tensor_storage.ne[0];
                     config.vocab_size  = tensor_storage.ne[1];
                 }
diff --git a/src/model/vae/wan_vae.hpp b/src/model/vae/wan_vae.hpp
index 8d14cf9570..2fc461f245 100644
--- a/src/model/vae/wan_vae.hpp
+++ b/src/model/vae/wan_vae.hpp
@@ -33,8 +33,13 @@ namespace WAN {
                 std::get<0>(kernel_size) = 1;
                 std::get<0>(padding)     = 0;
             }
+            // VAE conv weights keep their stored dtype so compute precision can
+            // be decided per run; the decoder residual stream can exceed the
+            // f16 range, so forcing f16 here saturates im2col output to inf.
+            ggml_type wtype  = sd_conv_prefix_is_vae(prefix) ? sd_vae_conv_param_type(tensor_storage_map, prefix + "weight")
+                                                             : GGML_TYPE_F16;
             params["weight"] = ggml_new_tensor_4d(ctx,
-                                                  GGML_TYPE_F16,
+                                                  wtype,
                                                   std::get<2>(kernel_size),
                                                   std::get<1>(kernel_size),
                                                   std::get<0>(kernel_size),
@@ -64,6 +69,7 @@ namespace WAN {
             // x: [N*IC, ID, IH, IW]
             // result: x: [N*OC, ID, IH, IW]
             ggml_tensor* w = params["weight"];
+            w              = sd_conv_cast_weight(ctx->ggml_ctx, w, sd_conv_target_type(ctx, w->type));
             ggml_tensor* b = nullptr;
             if (bias) {
                 b = params["bias"];
diff --git a/src/name_conversion.cpp b/src/name_conversion.cpp
index 6f1b598e88..a9c45b7b87 100644
--- a/src/name_conversion.cpp
+++ b/src/name_conversion.cpp
@@ -1568,6 +1568,12 @@ std::string convert_tensor_name(std::string name, SDVersion version) {
     replace_with_prefix_map(name, prefix_map);
 
     if (version == VERSION_QWEN_IMAGE_2_1 || sd_version_is_boogu_image(version) || sd_version_is_krea2(version) || sd_version_is_mage_flow(version) || sd_version_is_minimax_h3(version)) {
+        // Recent transformers Qwen3-VL checkpoints nest the text backbone under
+        // model.language_model.* instead of model.*.
+        const std::string hf_lm_prefix = "text_encoders.llm.model.language_model.";
+        if (starts_with(name, hf_lm_prefix)) {
+            name = "text_encoders.llm.model." + name.substr(hf_lm_prefix.size());
+        }
         const std::string hf_vision_prefix = "text_encoders.llm.model.visual.";
         if (starts_with(name, hf_vision_prefix)) {
             name = "text_encoders.llm.visual." + name.substr(hf_vision_prefix.size());
diff --git a/src/pipeline/model_builders.cpp b/src/pipeline/model_builders.cpp
index 9b8819a05f..0dd1138d4c 100644
--- a/src/pipeline/model_builders.cpp
+++ b/src/pipeline/model_builders.cpp
@@ -615,6 +615,26 @@ namespace sd::model_builders {
                 result.preview->set_conv3d_direct_enabled(true);
             }
         }
+        {
+            ggml_type vae_compute_type = GGML_TYPE_COUNT;
+            if (SAFE_STR(sd_ctx_params->vae_dtype)[0] != '\0') {
+                const std::string dtype = sd_ctx_params->vae_dtype;
+                if (dtype == "f16" || dtype == "f32" || dtype == "bf16") {
+                    vae_compute_type = dtype == "f16"   ? GGML_TYPE_F16
+                                       : dtype == "f32" ? GGML_TYPE_F32
+                                                        : GGML_TYPE_BF16;
+                } else {
+                    LOG_WARN("invalid --vae-dtype '%s' (expected f16, f32 or bf16), using weight dtype", dtype.c_str());
+                }
+            }
+            if (vae_compute_type != GGML_TYPE_COUNT) {
+                LOG_INFO("VAE/TAE compute dtype: %s", ggml_type_name(vae_compute_type));
+                result.vae->set_vae_compute_type(vae_compute_type);
+                if (result.preview) {
+                    result.preview->set_vae_compute_type(vae_compute_type);
+                }
+            }
+        }
         if (result.vae) {
             result.vae->set_scale_overrides(sd_ctx_params->linear_scale, sd_ctx_params->attn_scale);
         }
diff --git a/src/stable-diffusion.cpp b/src/stable-diffusion.cpp
index b13c055f3d..7d7d46e817 100644
--- a/src/stable-diffusion.cpp
+++ b/src/stable-diffusion.cpp
@@ -398,7 +398,8 @@ char* sd_ctx_params_to_str(const sd_ctx_params_t* sd_ctx_params) {
              "sage_attn: %s\n"
              "linear_scale: %g\n"
              "attn_scale: %g\n"
-             "vae_format: %s\n",
+             "vae_format: %s\n"
+             "vae_dtype: %s\n",
              SAFE_STR(sd_ctx_params->model_path),
              SAFE_STR(sd_ctx_params->clip_l_path),
              SAFE_STR(sd_ctx_params->clip_g_path),
@@ -439,7 +440,8 @@ char* sd_ctx_params_to_str(const sd_ctx_params_t* sd_ctx_params) {
              BOOL_STR(sd_ctx_params->sage_attn),
              sd_ctx_params->linear_scale,
              sd_ctx_params->attn_scale,
-             sd_vae_format_name(sd_ctx_params->vae_format));
+             sd_vae_format_name(sd_ctx_params->vae_format),
+             SAFE_STR(sd_ctx_params->vae_dtype));
 
     return buf;
 }