diff --git a/tests/saving/test_unsloth_save.py b/tests/saving/test_unsloth_save.py
index fb3593c4b0..f37e58f842 100644
--- a/tests/saving/test_unsloth_save.py
+++ b/tests/saving/test_unsloth_save.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ model_to_test = [
     "unsloth/Phi-4-mini-instruct-bnb-4bit",
     "unsloth/Qwen2.5-0.5B",
     # Vision Models
-    "unsloth/gemma-3-1b-it",
+    "unsloth/gemma-3-4b-it",
     "unsloth/Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct-bnb-4bit",
     "unsloth/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-bnb-4bit"
 ]
@@ -182,27 +182,31 @@ def test_save_torchao(model, tokenizer, temp_save_dir: str):
         push_to_hub=False,
     )
 
-    # Check model files
-    assert os.path.isdir(save_path), f"Directory {save_path} does not exist."
-    assert os.path.isfile(os.path.join(save_path, "config.json")), "config.json not found."
+    weight_files_16bit = [f for f in os.listdir(save_path) if f.endswith(".bin") or f.endswith(".safetensors")]
+    total_16bit_size = sum(os.path.getsize(os.path.join(save_path, f)) for f in weight_files_16bit)
+    save_file_sizes["merged_16bit"][model.config._name_or_path] = total_16bit_size
 
-    weight_files = [f for f in os.listdir(save_path) if f.endswith(".bin") or f.endswith(".safetensors")]
+    torchao_save_path = save_path + "-torchao"
+
+    # Check model files
+    assert os.path.isdir(torchao_save_path), f"Directory {torchao_save_path} does not exist."
+    assert os.path.isfile(os.path.join(torchao_save_path, "config.json")), "config.json not found."
+
+    weight_files = [f for f in os.listdir(torchao_save_path) if f.endswith(".bin") or f.endswith(".safetensors")]
     assert len(weight_files) > 0, "No weight files found in the save directory."
 
     # Check tokenizer files
     for file in tokenizer_files:
-        assert os.path.isfile(os.path.join(save_path, file)), f"{file} not found in the save directory."
+        assert os.path.isfile(os.path.join(torchao_save_path, file)), f"{file} not found in the save directory."
 
     # Store the size of the model files
-    total_size = sum(os.path.getsize(os.path.join(save_path, f)) for f in weight_files)
+    total_size = sum(os.path.getsize(os.path.join(torchao_save_path, f)) for f in weight_files)
     save_file_sizes["torchao"][model.config._name_or_path] = total_size
 
-    # merged_16bit tests are not running yet, so we can't test this for now
-    # TODO: enable this after merged_16bit is fixed
-    # assert total_size < save_file_sizes["merged_16bit"][model.config._name_or_path], "torchao files are larger than merged 16bit files."
+    assert total_size < save_file_sizes["merged_16bit"][model.config._name_or_path], "torchao files are larger than merged 16bit files."
 
     # Check config to see if it is quantized with torchao
-    config_path = os.path.join(save_path, "config.json")
+    config_path = os.path.join(torchao_save_path, "config.json")
     with open(config_path, "r") as f:
         config = json.load(f)
 
diff --git a/unsloth/models/mapper.py b/unsloth/models/mapper.py
index e8fc55c2bd..be269316fe 100644
--- a/unsloth/models/mapper.py
+++ b/unsloth/models/mapper.py
@@ -812,6 +812,11 @@ __INT_TO_FLOAT_MAPPER = \
         "microsoft/Phi-4-mini-reasoning",
         "unsloth/phi-4-mini-reasoning-bnb-4bit",
     ),
+    "unsloth/Phi-4-mini-instruct-unsloth-bnb-4bit" : (
+        "unsloth/Phi-4-mini-instruct",
+        "microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct",
+        "unsloth/Phi-4-mini-instruct-bnb-4bit",
+    ),
     "unsloth/orpheus-3b-0.1-pretrained-unsloth-bnb-4bit" : (
         "unsloth/orpheus-3b-0.1-pretrained",
         "canopylabs/orpheus-3b-0.1-pretrained",
diff --git a/unsloth/save.py b/unsloth/save.py
index cf3670b127..b148608f6d 100644
--- a/unsloth/save.py
+++ b/unsloth/save.py
@@ -2516,7 +2516,6 @@ def unsloth_save_pretrained_torchao(
     """
     # first merge the lora weights
     arguments = dict(locals())
-    arguments["save_directory"] = save_directory + "-local"
     arguments["model"]        = self
     arguments["tokenizer"]    = tokenizer
     arguments["push_to_hub"]  = False # We save ourselves
@@ -2527,7 +2526,7 @@ def unsloth_save_pretrained_torchao(
     for _ in range(3):
         gc.collect()
 
-    from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer, TorchAoConfig
+    from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer, TorchAoConfig
     from torchao import quantize_
     if torchao_config is None:
         from torchao.quantization import Int8DynamicActivationInt8WeightConfig
@@ -2539,21 +2538,23 @@ def unsloth_save_pretrained_torchao(
         kwargs = {"torch_dtype" : "auto"}
     else:
         kwargs = {"dtype" : "auto"}
-    model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+    model = AutoModel.from_pretrained(
         arguments["save_directory"],
         device_map = "auto",
         quantization_config = quantization_config,
         **kwargs,
     )
 
+    torchao_save_directory = save_directory + "-torchao"
+
     if push_to_hub:
         if token is None and push_to_hub: token = get_token()
         # torchao does not support safe_serialization right now
-        model.push_to_hub(save_directory, safe_serialization = False, token = token)
-        tokenizer.push_to_hub(save_directory, token = token)
+        model.push_to_hub(torchao_save_directory, safe_serialization = False, token = token)
+        tokenizer.push_to_hub(torchao_save_directory, token = token)
     else:
-        model.save_pretrained(save_directory, safe_serialization=False)
-        tokenizer.save_pretrained(save_directory)
+        model.save_pretrained(torchao_save_directory, safe_serialization=False)
+        tokenizer.save_pretrained(torchao_save_directory)
     pass
     for _ in range(3):
         gc.collect()
@@ -2671,6 +2672,7 @@ def patch_saving_functions(model, vision = False):
         model.save_pretrained_merged = types.MethodType(unsloth_generic_save_pretrained_merged, model)
         model.push_to_hub_gguf       = types.MethodType(save_to_gguf_generic,                   model)
         model.save_pretrained_gguf   = types.MethodType(save_to_gguf_generic,                   model)
+        model.save_pretrained_torchao = types.MethodType(unsloth_save_pretrained_torchao,       model)
     pass
     return model
 pass