diff --git a/tests/models/vllm/test_pallas_torchax.py b/tests/models/vllm/test_pallas_torchax.py
index a207d12bd9..18b9ec6f46 100644
--- a/tests/models/vllm/test_pallas_torchax.py
+++ b/tests/models/vllm/test_pallas_torchax.py
@@ -214,21 +214,6 @@ def test_init_with_fp8_kv_cache_raises_error(self):
                 attn_type=AttentionType.DECODER,
             )
 
-    def test_init_with_blocksparse_raises_error(self):
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError,
-                           match="does not support block-sparse attention"):
-            PallasAttentionBackendImpl(
-                num_heads=32,
-                head_size=128,
-                scale=0.088,
-                num_kv_heads=8,
-                alibi_slopes=None,
-                sliding_window=None,
-                kv_cache_dtype="auto",
-                blocksparse_params={"block_size": 16},
-                attn_type=AttentionType.DECODER,
-            )
-
     def test_init_with_encoder_attention_raises_error(self):
         with pytest.raises(NotImplementedError,
                            match="Encoder self-attention"):
@@ -326,21 +311,6 @@ def test_init_with_irope_warning(self):
                 "Using irope in Pallas is not supported yet, it will fall back "
                 "to global attention for long context.")
 
-    def test_init_with_blocksparse_constructor_error(self):
-        with pytest.raises(ValueError,
-                           match="does not support block-sparse attention"):
-            PallasAttentionBackendImpl(
-                num_heads=32,
-                head_size=128,
-                scale=0.088,
-                num_kv_heads=8,
-                alibi_slopes=None,
-                sliding_window=None,
-                kv_cache_dtype="auto",
-                blocksparse_params={"block_size": 16},
-                attn_type=AttentionType.DECODER,
-            )
-
     @patch(
         'tpu_commons.attention.backends.pallas_torchax.ragged_paged_attention')
     @patch('tpu_commons.attention.backends.pallas_torchax.get_forward_context')
diff --git a/tpu_commons/attention/backends/pallas_torchax.py b/tpu_commons/attention/backends/pallas_torchax.py
index 54cc3f7f23..a88b99705d 100644
--- a/tpu_commons/attention/backends/pallas_torchax.py
+++ b/tpu_commons/attention/backends/pallas_torchax.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
 from dataclasses import dataclass
-from typing import Any, Optional
+from typing import Optional
 
 import torch
 from jax.tree_util import register_pytree_node_class
@@ -132,7 +132,6 @@ def __init__(
         alibi_slopes: Optional[list[float]],
         sliding_window: Optional[int],
         kv_cache_dtype: str,
-        blocksparse_params: Optional[dict[str, Any]] = None,
         logits_soft_cap: Optional[float] = None,
         attn_type: str = AttentionType.DECODER,
         kv_sharing_target_layer_name: Optional[int] = None,
@@ -142,9 +141,6 @@ def __init__(
             logger.warning_once(
                 "Using irope in Pallas is not supported yet, it will fall back "
                 "to global attention for long context.")
-        if blocksparse_params is not None:
-            raise ValueError("Paged attention Pallas kernel does "
-                             "not support block-sparse attention.")
         self.num_heads = num_heads
         self.head_size = head_size
         self.scale = float(scale)
diff --git a/tpu_commons/worker/tpu_worker_torchax.py b/tpu_commons/worker/tpu_worker_torchax.py
index c665af5c6d..4204c565c3 100644
--- a/tpu_commons/worker/tpu_worker_torchax.py
+++ b/tpu_commons/worker/tpu_worker_torchax.py
@@ -292,5 +292,5 @@ def _init_tpu_worker_distributed_environment(
             backend="gloo",
         )
         ensure_model_parallel_initialized(
-            parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size,
-            parallel_config.pipeline_parallel_size)
+            self.parallel_config.tensor_parallel_size,
+            self.parallel_config.pipeline_parallel_size)