diff --git a/nemo/collections/multimodal/models/multimodal_llm/neva/neva_model.py b/nemo/collections/multimodal/models/multimodal_llm/neva/neva_model.py
index b07093ceafe9..d61eb839b79d 100644
--- a/nemo/collections/multimodal/models/multimodal_llm/neva/neva_model.py
+++ b/nemo/collections/multimodal/models/multimodal_llm/neva/neva_model.py
@@ -83,6 +83,8 @@
     from megatron.core.models.gpt import GPTModel as MCoreGPTModel
     from megatron.core.pipeline_parallel.schedules import get_forward_backward_func
     from megatron.core.transformer.utils import make_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint
+    from megatron.core.dist_checkpointing.dict_utils import dict_list_map_inplace
+    from megatron.core.dist_checkpointing.mapping import LocalNonpersitentObject, ShardedObject
 
     HAVE_MEGATRON_CORE = True
 
@@ -542,6 +544,16 @@ def _load_model_weights(self, nemo_path):
         sharded_state_dict = None
         if getattr(self, "sharded_state_dict", None) is not None:
             sharded_state_dict = self.sharded_state_dict(prefix="model.")
+        
+        # WAR: This is a temporary fix to skip loading FP8 parameters for Dot Product Attention
+        def skip_fp8_load(x):
+            if isinstance(x, ShardedObject) and 'fused_attention' in x.key and '_extra_state' in x.key:
+                x = LocalNonpersitentObject(x.data)  # use the FP8 state from initialization, not from ckpt
+            return x
+
+        if getattr(self.config, 'skip_fp8_attention_checkpoint_load', True):
+            dict_list_map_inplace(skip_fp8_load, sharded_state_dict)
+
         state_dict, self.is_dist_ckpt = load_nemo_model_weights(nemo_path, sharded_state_dict)
 
         return state_dict