diff --git a/src/MaxText/layers/moe.py b/src/MaxText/layers/moe.py
index 7c54faf5a0..9b813e1070 100644
--- a/src/MaxText/layers/moe.py
+++ b/src/MaxText/layers/moe.py
@@ -368,6 +368,11 @@ def __init__(
     else:
       self._tensor_parallelism_name = "tensor"
 
+    if self.config.attention == "vllm_rpa":
+      self._expert_parallelism_name = "attn_dp_expert"
+    else:
+      self._expert_parallelism_name = "expert"
+
     self.gate = GateLogit(
         in_features_shape=self.config.emb_dim,
         out_features_shape=self.num_experts,
@@ -465,7 +470,12 @@ def _logical_to_mesh_axes(self, logical_name):
     return logical_to_mesh_axes(logical_name, mesh=self.mesh, rules=self.config.logical_axis_rules)
 
   def get_expert_parallelism_size(self):
-    return self.mesh.shape.get("expert", 1)
+    if isinstance(self._expert_parallelism_name, tuple):
+      size = 1
+      for axis in self._expert_parallelism_name:
+        size *= self.mesh.shape.get(axis, 1)
+      return size
+    return self.mesh.shape.get(self._expert_parallelism_name, 1)
 
   def get_tensor_parallelism_size(self):
     if isinstance(self._tensor_parallelism_name, tuple):
@@ -1000,7 +1010,7 @@ def gmm(
     # batch_size=1 while decode can have batch_size > 1.
     try:
       is_batch_sharded_by_expert = (
-          "expert"
+          self._expert_parallelism_name
           in tuple(
               filter(
                   lambda tup: tup[0] == "activation_batch",
@@ -1092,10 +1102,9 @@ def gmm(
     )
     def wrapper(x, logits, pre_bias_logits, w0, w1, wo, w0_bias, w1_bias, wo_bias, rngs):
       batch_size, sequence_length, _ = x.shape
-      expert_axis_name = "expert"
       num_expert_parallelism = self.get_expert_parallelism_size()
       if num_expert_parallelism > 1:
-        expert_shard_id = jax.lax.axis_index(expert_axis_name)
+        expert_shard_id = jax.lax.axis_index(self._expert_parallelism_name)
       else:
         expert_shard_id = 0
       num_expert_parallelism = self.get_expert_parallelism_size()
@@ -1105,7 +1114,8 @@ def wrapper(x, logits, pre_bias_logits, w0, w1, wo, w0_bias, w1_bias, wo_bias, r
 
         # Duplicate inputs to all expert shards.
         x, logits, pre_bias_logits = tuple(
-            jax.lax.all_gather(z, axis_name=expert_axis_name, tiled=True) for z in (x, logits, pre_bias_logits)
+            jax.lax.all_gather(z, axis_name=self._expert_parallelism_name, tiled=True)
+            for z in (x, logits, pre_bias_logits)
         )
 
         # "Route" tokens within each shard.
@@ -1129,7 +1139,7 @@ def wrapper(x, logits, pre_bias_logits, w0, w1, wo, w0_bias, w1_bias, wo_bias, r
         )
 
         if num_expert_parallelism > 1:
-          batch_axis = "expert" if is_batch_sharded_by_expert else "data"
+          batch_axis = self._expert_parallelism_name if is_batch_sharded_by_expert else "data"
           # get group sizes for all shards
           local_expert_size = self.config.num_experts // num_expert_parallelism
           reshaped_group_sizes = jnp.sum(group_sizes.reshape(-1, local_expert_size), axis=1)
@@ -1161,9 +1171,9 @@ def wrapper(x, logits, pre_bias_logits, w0, w1, wo, w0_bias, w1_bias, wo_bias, r
                 send_sizes,
                 output_offsets,
                 recv_sizes,
-                axis_name=expert_axis_name,
+                axis_name=self._expert_parallelism_name,
             )
-            global_group_sizes = jax.lax.all_gather(group_sizes, axis_name=expert_axis_name)
+            global_group_sizes = jax.lax.all_gather(group_sizes, axis_name=self._expert_parallelism_name)
             x, local_sorted_indices, group_sizes, selected_experts = RoutedMoE.local_permute(
                 x,
                 global_group_sizes,
@@ -1308,7 +1318,7 @@ def get_active_sharding_axes(pspec_dim_axes, tensor_dim_index):
 
         # Sum up the partial outputs across the expert shards.
         output = jnp.reshape(output, (-1, sequence_length, self.config.emb_dim))
-        output = jax.lax.psum_scatter(output, expert_axis_name, scatter_dimension=0, tiled=True)
+        output = jax.lax.psum_scatter(output, self._expert_parallelism_name, scatter_dimension=0, tiled=True)
 
       else:
         if num_expert_parallelism > 1:
@@ -1341,7 +1351,7 @@ def get_active_sharding_axes(pspec_dim_axes, tensor_dim_index):
                 send_sizes,
                 output_offsets,
                 recv_sizes,
-                axis_name=expert_axis_name,
+                axis_name=self._expert_parallelism_name,
             )
           else:
             # If bach is replicated across EP shards then each shard should send
@@ -1361,7 +1371,7 @@ def get_active_sharding_axes(pspec_dim_axes, tensor_dim_index):
                 send_sizes,
                 output_offsets,
                 recv_sizes,
-                axis_name=expert_axis_name,
+                axis_name=self._expert_parallelism_name,
             )
 
         output = self.unpermute(
diff --git a/src/MaxText/rl/train_rl.py b/src/MaxText/rl/train_rl.py
index 00752aa3c7..0b66a7763b 100644
--- a/src/MaxText/rl/train_rl.py
+++ b/src/MaxText/rl/train_rl.py
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ def get_rollout_kwargs_for_data_parallelism(sampler_config, num_sampler_devices)
 
   rollout_kwargs = {}
   tp = sampler_config.rollout_tensor_parallelism
+  ep = sampler_config.rollout_expert_parallelism
 
   if tp == -1:
     if num_sampler_devices % dp != 0:
@@ -244,17 +245,22 @@ def get_rollout_kwargs_for_data_parallelism(sampler_config, num_sampler_devices)
           f"rollout_data_parallelism({dp}) "
           f"when rollout_tensor_parallelism is -1."
       )
-    tp = num_sampler_devices // dp
-  elif tp * dp != num_sampler_devices:
+    tp = num_sampler_devices // dp // ep
+  elif tp * dp * ep != num_sampler_devices:
     raise ValueError(
         f"rollout_tensor_parallelism({tp}) * "
-        f"rollout_data_parallelism({dp}) "
+        f"rollout_data_parallelism({dp}) * "
+        f"rollout_expert_parallelism({ep}) "
         f"!= len(sampler_devices)({num_sampler_devices})"
     )
   rollout_kwargs["tensor_parallel_size"] = tp
   rollout_kwargs["data_parallel_size"] = dp
-  rollout_kwargs["rollout_vllm_async_scheduling"] = True
 
+  if ep > 1:
+    rollout_kwargs["expert_parallel_size"] = ep
+    rollout_kwargs["rollout_vllm_enable_expert_parallelism"] = True
+
+  rollout_kwargs["rollout_vllm_async_scheduling"] = True
   return rollout_kwargs
 
 
@@ -321,10 +327,7 @@ def _filter_long_prompts(x):
   train_dataset = train_dataset[:dataset_size]
   train_dataset = train_dataset.repeat(trainer_config.num_epoch)
 
-  train_dataset = (
-      train_dataset.to_iter_dataset()
-      .batch(trainer_config.batch_size)
-  )
+  train_dataset = train_dataset.to_iter_dataset().batch(trainer_config.batch_size)
 
   eval_dataset_name = getattr(trainer_config, "eval_dataset_name", None)
   if not eval_dataset_name:
@@ -342,10 +345,7 @@ def _filter_long_prompts(x):
   test_dataset = test_dataset.filter(_filter_long_prompts)
   test_dataset = test_dataset[: trainer_config.num_test_batches * trainer_config.batch_size]
 
-  test_dataset = (
-      test_dataset.to_iter_dataset()
-      .batch(trainer_config.batch_size)
-  )
+  test_dataset = test_dataset.to_iter_dataset().batch(trainer_config.batch_size)
 
   # Load reference model
   max_logging.log("Creating reference model and also meshes for reference and rollout")
diff --git a/src/maxtext/configs/base.yml b/src/maxtext/configs/base.yml
index 632f3345b7..e71b241550 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/configs/base.yml
+++ b/src/maxtext/configs/base.yml
@@ -1083,6 +1083,8 @@ use_jax_splash: false
 # vLLM Adapter Configurations
 # Path to the HuggingFace-style config directory for the adapter (e.g. src/MaxText/integration/vllm/maxtext_vllm_adapter)
 vllm_hf_config_path: ""
+# Path to yaml file for loading vLLM config
+vllm_config_path: ""
 # JSON string containing additional configuration for the vLLM model (e.g. '{"maxtext_config": {...}}')
 vllm_additional_config: {}
 # When use_jax_splash=True, force the layout of the query tensor to be [..., NUM_HEADS, HEAD_DIM, SEQ_LENGTH]
diff --git a/src/maxtext/configs/inference/vllm.yml b/src/maxtext/configs/inference/vllm.yml
index 21ca47410e..30af0631ca 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/configs/inference/vllm.yml
+++ b/src/maxtext/configs/inference/vllm.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ weight_dtype: bfloat16
 
 
 # -------------- Logical Axis Rules --------------
-mesh_axes: ['data', 'attn_dp', 'model', 'expert']
+mesh_axes: ['data', 'attn_dp', 'model', 'expert', 'attn_dp_expert']
 logical_axis_rules: [
                       ['activation_batch', ['expert']],
                       ['activation_batch_no_exp', []],
@@ -37,37 +37,38 @@ logical_axis_rules: [
                       ['activation_attn_length_no_exp', []],
                       ['activation_length', ['data', 'expert']],
                       ['activation_length_no_exp', 'data'],
-                      ['activation_q_length', ['expert']],
+                      ['activation_q_length', ['expert', 'attn_dp_expert']],
                       ['activation_attn_embed', 'model'],
                       ['activation_embed', ['model', 'attn_dp']],
                       ['activation_mlp', ['model', 'attn_dp']],
                       ['activation_kv', ['model']],
-                      ['activation_prefill_kv_batch', ['expert']],
-                      ['activation_kv_batch', ['expert']],
+                      ['activation_prefill_kv_batch', ['expert', 'attn_dp_expert']],
+                      ['activation_kv_batch', ['expert', 'attn_dp_expert']],
                       ['activation_kv_batch_no_exp', []],
                       ['activation_kv_head_dim', ['model']],
                       ['activation_vocab', ['model', 'attn_dp']],
                       ['activation_norm_length', []],
-                      ['activation_exp', ['expert']],
-                      ['decode_batch', ['expert']],
+                      ['activation_exp', ['expert', 'attn_dp_expert']],
+                      ['decode_batch', ['expert', 'attn_dp_expert']],
                       ['decode_length', []],
                       ['mlp', ['model', 'attn_dp']],
                       ['mlp_no_fsdp', ['model', 'attn_dp']],
+                      ['moe_mlp', ['model', 'attn_dp']],
                       ['vocab', ['model', 'attn_dp']],
                       ['heads', ['model']],
                       ['q_heads', ['model']],
                       ['kv_heads', ['model']],
                       ['kv_head_dim', []],
                       ['kv', []],
-                      ['embed', ['expert']],
+                      ['embed', ['expert', 'attn_dp_expert']],
                       ['embed_tensor_transpose', ['attn_dp', 'model']],
                       ['embed_no_exp', []],
-                      ['q_lora', ['expert']],
-                      ['kv_lora', ['expert']],
+                      ['q_lora', ['expert', 'attn_dp_expert']],
+                      ['kv_lora', ['expert', 'attn_dp_expert']],
                       ['norm', []],
                       ['cache_heads', ['model']],
-                      ['exp', ['expert']],
+                      ['exp', ['expert', 'attn_dp_expert']],
                       ['paged_kv_heads', ['model']],
                     ]
-data_sharding: [['data', 'attn_dp', 'model', 'expert']]
+data_sharding: [['data', 'attn_dp', 'model', 'expert', 'attn_dp_expert']]
 input_data_sharding_logical_axes: ['activation_embed_and_logits_batch']
diff --git a/src/maxtext/configs/post_train/rl.yml b/src/maxtext/configs/post_train/rl.yml
index 9d741e7a8c..a32fff2376 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/configs/post_train/rl.yml
+++ b/src/maxtext/configs/post_train/rl.yml
@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ enable_dp_attention: False
 # Performance tuning for samplers
 max_num_batched_tokens: null
 max_num_seqs: null
+# path to initialize vllm config
+vllm_config_path: 'src/maxtext/configs/inference/vllm.yml'
 
 # ====== Checkpoint Configuration ======
 enable_checkpointing: True
diff --git a/src/maxtext/configs/types.py b/src/maxtext/configs/types.py
index e651293a19..f4ef37a099 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/configs/types.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/configs/types.py
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ class ProfilerType(str, Enum):
     "llama4-17b-16e",
     "llama4-17b-128e",
     "olmo3-7b",
-    'olmo3-7b-pt',
+    "olmo3-7b-pt",
     "olmo3-32b",
 ]
 
@@ -1544,6 +1544,7 @@ class RLHardware(BaseModel):
   rollout_tensor_parallelism: int = Field(
       -1, description="Tensor parallelism per replica for rollout. If not specified, it will be auto-determined."
   )
+  rollout_expert_parallelism: int = Field(1, description="Expert parallelism per replica for rollout")
 
 
 class VLLM(BaseModel):
@@ -1557,6 +1558,9 @@ class VLLM(BaseModel):
   max_num_seqs: Optional[int] = Field(None, description="Max number of sequences in vLLM.")
   vllm_additional_config: dict[str, Any] = Field(default_factory=dict, description="Additional vLLM config options.")
   vllm_hf_config_path: str = Field("", description="Path to HuggingFace model config for MaxText model.")
+  vllm_config_path: str = Field(
+      "src/maxtext/configs/inference/vllm.yml", description="path to yaml file for loading vLLM config."
+  )
 
 
 class RL(BaseModel):
@@ -2447,6 +2451,7 @@ def calculate_global_batch_sizes(per_device_batch_size, expansion_factor, num_de
           "expert": self.ici_expert_parallelism,
           "autoregressive": self.ici_autoregressive_parallelism,
           "attn_dp": 1,  # initialized to 1, vLLM will auto calculate this value based on TP and num_kv_heads
+          "attn_dp_expert": 1,  # initialized to 1, vLLM will auto calculate this value based on EP
       }
       self.ici_parallelism = [ici_map[axis] for axis in self.mesh_axes]
 
@@ -2466,6 +2471,7 @@ def calculate_global_batch_sizes(per_device_batch_size, expansion_factor, num_de
           "expert": self.dcn_expert_parallelism,
           "autoregressive": self.dcn_autoregressive_parallelism,
           "attn_dp": 1,  # initialized to 1, vLLM will auto calculate this value based on TP and num_kv_heads
+          "attn_dp_expert": 1,  # initialized to 1, vLLM will auto calculate this value based on EP
       }
       self.dcn_parallelism = [dcn_map[axis] for axis in self.mesh_axes]
 
diff --git a/src/maxtext/vllm_decode.py b/src/maxtext/vllm_decode.py
index 2e532d63af..00f023943b 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/vllm_decode.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/vllm_decode.py
@@ -80,15 +80,21 @@
 flags.DEFINE_integer("max_prefill_length", 512, "Maximum prefill length.")
 flags.DEFINE_float("gpu_memory_utilization", 0.72, "Fraction of GPU memory to be used for the model executor.")
 
+# vllm config variables
+flags.DEFINE_integer("vllm_swap_space", 2, "per device swap space in GB")
+flags.DEFINE_integer("vllm_async_scheduling", 1, "Async DP Scheduler for vLLM")
+
 # Decoding
 flags.DEFINE_bool("use_tunix", False, "Whether to use Tunix for vLLM decoding.")
 flags.DEFINE_string("prompt", "Suggest some famous landmarks in London.", "The prompt to decode.")
 flags.DEFINE_integer("decode_sampling_temperature", 0, "Temperature for sampling.")
 flags.DEFINE_integer("decode_sampling_nucleus_p", 1, "Nucleus sampling probability.")
 flags.DEFINE_integer("decode_sampling_top_k", 1, "Top-k sampling probability.")
-
-# Mark required flags
-flags.mark_flag_as_required("hf_config_path")
+flags.DEFINE_string(
+    "vllm_config_path",
+    "src/MaxText/configs/vllm.yml",
+    "Path to vLLM config file. Defaults to MAXTEXT_PKG_DIR/configs/vllm.yml.",
+)
 
 
 def decode_with_vllm(
@@ -103,6 +109,8 @@ def decode_with_vllm(
     max_prefill_length: int,
     max_target_length: int,
     gpu_memory_utilization: float,
+    vllm_swap_space: int,
+    vllm_async_scheduling: int,
     enable_expert_parallel: bool,
     prompt: str,
     decode_sampling_temperature: float,
@@ -145,6 +153,8 @@ def decode_with_vllm(
   vllm_args["enable_expert_parallel"] = enable_expert_parallel
   vllm_args["hf_config_path"] = hf_config_path
   vllm_args["gpu_memory_utilization"] = gpu_memory_utilization
+  vllm_args["swap_space"] = vllm_swap_space
+  vllm_args["async_scheduling"] = vllm_async_scheduling
 
   # Prepare MaxText and sharding configs (Parallelism is dynamic)
   vllm_args["additional_config"]["maxtext_config"] = {
@@ -291,12 +301,15 @@ def main(argv: Sequence[str]) -> None:
         max_target_length=FLAGS.max_target_length,
         max_prefill_length=FLAGS.max_prefill_length,
         gpu_memory_utilization=FLAGS.gpu_memory_utilization,
+        vllm_swap_space=FLAGS.vllm_swap_space,
+        vllm_async_scheduling=FLAGS.vllm_async_scheduling,
         enable_expert_parallel=FLAGS.enable_expert_parallel,
         prompt=FLAGS.prompt,
         decode_sampling_temperature=FLAGS.decode_sampling_temperature,
         decode_sampling_nucleus_p=FLAGS.decode_sampling_nucleus_p,
         decode_sampling_top_k=FLAGS.decode_sampling_top_k,
         debug_sharding=FLAGS.debug_sharding,
+        vllm_config_path=FLAGS.vllm_config_path,
     )