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 8ce7c02..41ea2d6 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
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
     register_tensors_as_parameters_patch_rule,
     requires_installation_on_all_linears,
 )
+from .fsdp_utils import put_selected_meta_tensors_on_cpu
 
 
 class AutoGPTQAccelerationPlugin(AccelerationPlugin):
@@ -219,6 +220,11 @@ def model_loader(self, model_name: str, **kwargs):
             # replace
             AutoModelForCausalLM.from_config = _old_from_config
 
+            # in low_cpu_mem_mode, if certain tensors like embeddings
+            # are in the meta device, then certain operations like
+            # embedding resizing will fail
+            put_selected_meta_tensors_on_cpu(model)
+
         # AutoGPTQ does not set the torch_dtype of the model carefully
         model.config.torch_dtype = torch_dtype
 
diff --git a/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/framework_plugin_bnb.py b/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/framework_plugin_bnb.py
index 3a4c12a..9b24d0a 100644
--- a/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/framework_plugin_bnb.py
+++ b/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/framework_plugin_bnb.py
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
 from transformers.utils.import_utils import _is_package_available
 import torch
 
+# Local
+from .fsdp_utils import put_selected_meta_tensors_on_cpu
+
 
 # this is a modified copy of the function from peft.utils.other, that we
 # will instead use
@@ -154,6 +157,27 @@ def model_loader(self, model_name: str, **kwargs):
             attn_implementation=attn_implementation,
         )
 
+        if (
+            world_size > 1
+            and os.environ.get("ACCELERATE_USE_FSDP", "false").lower() == "true"
+        ):
+            config_kwargs["bnb_4bit_quant_storage"] = torch_dtype
+
+            _, _transformers_version = _is_package_available(
+                "transformers", return_version=True
+            )
+            _trl_installed, _trl_version = _is_package_available(
+                "trl", return_version=True
+            )
+
+            if _transformers_version >= "4.45" and (
+                not _trl_installed or (_trl_installed and _trl_version >= "0.12")
+            ):
+                # in low_cpu_mem_mode, if certain tensors like embeddings
+                # are in the meta device, then certain operations like
+                # embedding resizing will fail
+                put_selected_meta_tensors_on_cpu(model)
+
         return model
 
     @property
diff --git a/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/fsdp_utils.py b/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/fsdp_utils.py
index 3086cf7..e747e05 100644
--- a/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/fsdp_utils.py
+++ b/plugins/accelerated-peft/src/fms_acceleration_peft/fsdp_utils.py
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 from collections import defaultdict
 
 # Third Party
+from accelerate.utils import set_module_tensor_to_device
+from transformers import PreTrainedModel
 import torch
 
 # Copyright The IBM Tuning Team
@@ -70,3 +72,27 @@ def param_init_fn_tied_param(module: torch.nn.Module):
         return module
 
     return param_init_fn_tied_param
+
+
+# utility to put tensors on the cpu
+def put_selected_meta_tensors_on_cpu(model: PreTrainedModel):
+
+    done = {}
+    # - fow now we only put input and output embeddings
+    for module in [
+        model.get_input_embeddings(),
+        model.get_output_embeddings(),
+    ]:
+
+        for param_name, param in module.named_parameters(recurse=False):
+            param_id = id(param)
+
+            if param.device == torch.device("meta"):
+                if param_id not in done:
+                    value = torch.empty(*param.size(), dtype=param.dtype)
+                    done[param_id] = value  # memoize
+                else:
+                    # this is a tied weight, get back the previous value
+                    value = done[param_id]
+
+                set_module_tensor_to_device(module, param_name, "cpu", value)
diff --git a/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/framework_plugin_fast_quantized_peft.py b/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/framework_plugin_fast_quantized_peft.py
index 0558d6b..c825ebb 100644
--- a/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/framework_plugin_fast_quantized_peft.py
+++ b/plugins/fused-ops-and-kernels/src/fms_acceleration_foak/framework_plugin_fast_quantized_peft.py
@@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ def _all_reduce_hook(grad):
         A = mod.lora_A.default
         B = mod.lora_B.default
 
-        # install hooks on the adapters
-        A.weight.register_hook(_all_reduce_hook)
-        B.weight.register_hook(_all_reduce_hook)
-
         # because we will ignore these from FSDP, we need to manually
         # move them to gpu if they are already not on them
         # - if the adapters are on meta, we assume that this is for FSDP
@@ -80,6 +76,11 @@ def _all_reduce_hook(grad):
             if is_fsdp_enabled():
                 dist.broadcast(B.weight, src=0)
 
+        # install hooks on the adapters
+        # - this has to be done after all weight replacement happens
+        A.weight.register_hook(_all_reduce_hook)
+        B.weight.register_hook(_all_reduce_hook)
+
 def register_foak_model_patch_rules(base_type):
     # Third Party
     from fms_acceleration.model_patcher import (  # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel