diff --git a/unsloth/models/rl.py b/unsloth/models/rl.py
index 5651a7da41..45206045e1 100755
--- a/unsloth/models/rl.py
+++ b/unsloth/models/rl.py
@@ -1947,6 +1947,91 @@ def patch_trl_rl_trainers():
     return
 
 
+def patch_trl_disable_gradient_checkpointing():
+    # TRL 1.0.0+ wraps generation in:
+    #   with torch.no_grad(), disable_gradient_checkpointing(self.model, ...):
+    # The toggle exists only to suppress a cosmetic PyTorch warning
+    # ("None of the inputs have requires_grad=True"). Inside torch.no_grad()
+    # the gradient checkpointing state has no functional effect on the
+    # forward pass.
+    #
+    # On exit, the context manager calls model.gradient_checkpointing_enable()
+    # which dispatches to HuggingFace's generic implementation and overwrites
+    # Unsloth's custom `use_gradient_checkpointing="unsloth"` wrapper. For
+    # Gemma-4 (and likely other models) this corrupts the forward numerics
+    # enough to make GRPO KL divergence explode to ~10^12 at step 1.
+    #
+    # Replacing the context manager with a no-op preserves Unsloth's custom
+    # gradient checkpointing wrapper across generation/inference passes.
+    #
+    # Backwards compatibility:
+    #   - trl < 1.0.0 (no disable_gradient_checkpointing): early return.
+    #   - trl >= 1.0.0: noop is functionally equivalent for forward
+    #     correctness. The only loss is a cosmetic warning being emitted
+    #     by PyTorch when use_reentrant=True (which is exactly the warning
+    #     TRL added the toggle to suppress in the first place).
+    try:
+        import trl.models.utils as _tmu
+    except ImportError:
+        return
+    if not hasattr(_tmu, "disable_gradient_checkpointing"):
+        return
+    if getattr(
+        _tmu.disable_gradient_checkpointing,
+        "_unsloth_noop_patched",
+        False,
+    ):
+        return
+
+    from contextlib import contextmanager
+
+    @contextmanager
+    def _noop_disable_gradient_checkpointing(
+        model,
+        gradient_checkpointing_kwargs = None,
+    ):
+        yield
+
+    _noop_disable_gradient_checkpointing._unsloth_noop_patched = True
+
+    _tmu.disable_gradient_checkpointing = _noop_disable_gradient_checkpointing
+
+    # Also rebind any trl.* module that already imported the symbol by
+    # reference, so the noop applies even when the trainer module cached the
+    # original at import time. We walk sys.modules dynamically rather than
+    # hardcoding a list, so this picks up:
+    #   trl.trainer.grpo_trainer, trl.trainer.dpo_trainer,
+    #   trl.trainer.rloo_trainer, trl.experimental.dppo.dppo_trainer,
+    #   trl.experimental.gfpo.gfpo_trainer,
+    #   trl.experimental.grpo_with_replay_buffer.grpo_with_replay_buffer_trainer
+    # and any future TRL module that adds `from ...models.utils import
+    # disable_gradient_checkpointing`.
+    import sys as _sys
+
+    for _mod_name, _mod in list(_sys.modules.items()):
+        if _mod is None:
+            continue
+        if not _mod_name.startswith("trl."):
+            continue
+        try:
+            _bound = getattr(_mod, "disable_gradient_checkpointing", None)
+        except Exception:
+            continue
+        if _bound is None:
+            continue
+        if getattr(_bound, "_unsloth_noop_patched", False):
+            continue
+        try:
+            setattr(
+                _mod,
+                "disable_gradient_checkpointing",
+                _noop_disable_gradient_checkpointing,
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+    return
+
+
 def patch_trl_openenv():
     for function in RL_ADDITIONAL_FUNCTIONS["openenv"]:
         logger.info(f"Unsloth: Patching trl openenv with function: {function.__name__}")
@@ -1981,6 +2066,11 @@ def patch_trl_vllm_generation():
 def PatchFastRL(algorithm = None, FastLanguageModel = None):
     if FastLanguageModel is not None:
         PatchRL(FastLanguageModel)
+    # Install the disable_gradient_checkpointing noop BEFORE
+    # patch_trl_rl_trainers so the compiled cache picks up the noop
+    # at its `from trl.trainer.grpo_trainer import disable_gradient_checkpointing`
+    # binding time.
+    patch_trl_disable_gradient_checkpointing()
     patch_trl_rl_trainers()
     patch_trl_openenv()
     patch_trl_vllm_generation()
diff --git a/unsloth/models/vision.py b/unsloth/models/vision.py
index 5abeb3a81a..88587a4d10 100644
--- a/unsloth/models/vision.py
+++ b/unsloth/models/vision.py
@@ -1094,6 +1094,43 @@ def from_pretrained(
         # Log Unsloth version for future fastpaths for inference
         if hasattr(model, "config"):
             model.config.update({"unsloth_version": __version__})
+
+            # For multimodal models (e.g. Gemma-4) the
+            # `final_logit_softcapping` attribute lives on
+            # `config.text_config`, but Unsloth's GRPO trainer reads it from
+            # the top-level `model.config`. Inject it at the top level so the
+            # lookup finds the correct value (e.g. 30.0 for Gemma-4) instead
+            # of silently defaulting to 0. No-op for models that already
+            # expose it at the top level or do not use softcapping.
+            try:
+                _top_config = model.config
+                if getattr(_top_config, "final_logit_softcapping", None) is None:
+                    _softcap = None
+                    _text_cfg = getattr(_top_config, "text_config", None)
+                    if _text_cfg is not None:
+                        _softcap = getattr(
+                            _text_cfg,
+                            "final_logit_softcapping",
+                            None,
+                        )
+                    if _softcap is None:
+                        _get_text = getattr(_top_config, "get_text_config", None)
+                        if callable(_get_text):
+                            try:
+                                _softcap = getattr(
+                                    _get_text(),
+                                    "final_logit_softcapping",
+                                    None,
+                                )
+                            except Exception:
+                                pass
+                    if _softcap is not None:
+                        try:
+                            setattr(_top_config, "final_logit_softcapping", _softcap)
+                        except Exception:
+                            pass
+            except Exception:
+                pass
         patch_saving_functions(model, vision = True)
         if tokenizer is None:
             # Last resort: try loading tokenizer via AutoTokenizer, then PreTrainedTokenizerFast