diff --git a/aiter/ops/triton/fused_kv_cache.py b/aiter/ops/triton/fused_kv_cache.py
index 51e707ce07..8aa74c7147 100644
--- a/aiter/ops/triton/fused_kv_cache.py
+++ b/aiter/ops/triton/fused_kv_cache.py
@@ -1,15 +1,74 @@
 import torch
 import triton
+from typing import Tuple
 from aiter.ops.triton._triton_kernels.fused_kv_cache import (
     _fused_qk_rope_cat_and_cache_mla_kernel,
     _fused_qk_rope_reshape_and_cache_kernel,
     _fused_qk_rope_cosine_cache_llama_kernel,
 )
+from aiter.jit.utils.torch_guard import torch_compile_guard
 from aiter.ops.triton.utils.logger import AiterTritonLogger
 
 _LOGGER = AiterTritonLogger()
 
 
+def fused_qk_rope_cat_and_cache_mla_fake_tensor(
+    q_nope: torch.Tensor,
+    q_pe: torch.Tensor,
+    k_nope: torch.Tensor,
+    k_pe: torch.Tensor,
+    kv_cache: torch.Tensor,
+    slot_mapping: torch.Tensor,
+    pos: torch.Tensor,
+    cos: torch.Tensor,
+    sin: torch.Tensor,
+    k_scale: torch.Tensor,
+    is_neox: bool,
+    num_decode_toks_for_zeros: int = 0,
+    apply_scale: bool = True,
+    q_out: torch.Tensor = None,
+    decode_q_pe_out: torch.Tensor = None,
+    k_pe_out: torch.Tensor = None,
+    q_out_dtype: torch.dtype = None,
+) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+    b, qh, d_nope = q_nope.shape
+    _, _, d_pe = q_pe.shape
+    bk, kh, dk_nope = k_nope.shape
+
+    if q_out is None:
+        q_out = torch.empty(
+            (b, qh, d_nope + d_pe),
+            dtype=q_out_dtype if q_out_dtype is not None else q_nope.dtype,
+            device=q_nope.device,
+        )
+
+    if decode_q_pe_out is None:
+        decode_q_pe_out = torch.empty(
+            (num_decode_toks_for_zeros, qh, d_pe),
+            dtype=q_nope.dtype,
+            device=q_nope.device,
+        )
+
+    if k_pe_out is None:
+        k_pe_out = torch.empty((bk, kh, d_pe), dtype=k_pe.dtype, device=k_pe.device)
+
+    if num_decode_toks_for_zeros > 0:
+        q_nope_zeros_out = torch.empty(
+            (num_decode_toks_for_zeros, qh, dk_nope),
+            dtype=q_nope.dtype,
+            device=q_nope.device,
+        )
+    else:
+        q_nope_zeros_out = torch.empty(
+            (0, qh, dk_nope),
+            dtype=q_nope.dtype,
+            device=q_nope.device,
+        )
+
+    return q_out, decode_q_pe_out, k_pe_out, kv_cache, q_nope_zeros_out
+
+
+@torch_compile_guard(gen_fake=fused_qk_rope_cat_and_cache_mla_fake_tensor)
 def fused_qk_rope_cat_and_cache_mla(
     q_nope: torch.Tensor,
     q_pe: torch.Tensor,
@@ -27,8 +86,8 @@ def fused_qk_rope_cat_and_cache_mla(
     q_out: torch.Tensor = None,
     decode_q_pe_out: torch.Tensor = None,
     k_pe_out: torch.Tensor = None,
-    q_out_dtype=None,
-):
+    q_out_dtype: torch.dtype = None,
+) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
     """
     Perform RoPE on q_pe and k_pe and concat q_nope with q_pe and k_nope with k_pe along the last dimension
     the concatentaed k_nope and k_pe are copied to kv_cache inplace
@@ -75,6 +134,9 @@ def fused_qk_rope_cat_and_cache_mla(
     assert (d_freq == d_pe // 2) or (
         d_freq == d_pe
     ), "cos/sin last dim should be the same or half of the qk last dim"
+    assert (
+        num_decode_toks_for_zeros >= 0
+    ), "num_decode_toks_for_zeros must be non-negative to avoid invalid tensor creation"
     if isinstance(k_scale, torch.Tensor):
         assert k_scale.numel() == 1, "k_scale should be a single-element torch.Tensor"
     reuse_freqs_front_part = d_freq == d_pe // 2
@@ -169,9 +231,14 @@ def fused_qk_rope_cat_and_cache_mla(
         num_warps=1,
     )
 
-    if num_decode_toks_for_zeros > 0:
-        return q_out, decode_q_pe_out, k_pe_out, kv_cache, q_nope_zeros_out
-    return q_out, decode_q_pe_out, k_pe_out, kv_cache
+    if q_nope_zeros_out is None:
+        # change q_nope_zeros_out from None to a tensor for torch compile
+        q_nope_zeros_out = torch.empty(
+            (num_decode_toks_for_zeros, qh, dk_nope),
+            dtype=q_nope.dtype,
+            device=q_nope.device,
+        )
+    return q_out, decode_q_pe_out, k_pe_out, kv_cache, q_nope_zeros_out
 
 
 def fused_qk_rope_reshape_and_cache(