diff --git a/src/brevitas/utils/python_utils.py b/src/brevitas/utils/python_utils.py
index fa69499c7..ae8845b48 100644
--- a/src/brevitas/utils/python_utils.py
+++ b/src/brevitas/utils/python_utils.py
@@ -54,3 +54,13 @@ def _getattr(obj, attr):
         return getattr(obj, attr)
 
     return functools.reduce(_getattr, [obj] + attr.split("."))
+
+
+def hooked_on_a_function(function, prefunction):
+
+    @functools.wraps(function)
+    def run(*args, **kwargs):
+        prefunction()
+        return function(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    return run
diff --git a/src/brevitas_examples/llm/main.py b/src/brevitas_examples/llm/main.py
index 65c5334d7..05d9bcb47 100644
--- a/src/brevitas_examples/llm/main.py
+++ b/src/brevitas_examples/llm/main.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 import argparse
 from copy import deepcopy
+import functools
 import sys
 from warnings import warn
 
@@ -19,8 +20,10 @@
 from brevitas.graph.equalize import LayerwiseActivationRotation
 from brevitas.graph.quantize import layerwise_quantize
 from brevitas.graph.utils import get_module
+from brevitas.utils.python_utils import hooked_on_a_function
 from brevitas_examples.common.accelerate_utils.accelerate import offload_model
 from brevitas_examples.common.accelerate_utils.accelerate import remove_hooks
+from brevitas_examples.common.accelerate_utils.accelerate import update_internal_dict
 from brevitas_examples.common.generative.quantize import generate_quant_maps
 from brevitas_examples.common.generative.quantize import generate_quantizers
 from brevitas_examples.common.parse_utils import quant_format_validator
@@ -377,9 +380,24 @@ def main(args):
 
     model = offload_model(model)
 
+    dict_hooks = dict()
+
+    def update_params_post_init(module):
+        update_internal_dict(module)
+
+    for m in model.modules():
+        if hasattr(m, '_hf_hook'):
+            if m._hf_hook.weights_map is not None:
+                dict_hooks[m] = m._hf_hook.post_forward
+                new_funct = functools.partial(update_params_post_init, m)
+                m._hf_hook.post_forward = hooked_on_a_function(m._hf_hook.post_forward, new_funct)
+
     with torch.no_grad():
         model(**calibration_loader[0])
 
+    for k, v in dict_hooks.items():
+        k._hf_hook.post_forward = v
+
     if args.act_calibration:
         print("Apply act calibration...")
         apply_calibration(model, calibration_loader)