diff --git a/examples/offline_inference/vision_language.py b/examples/offline_inference/vision_language.py
index b136b14cd..bf7be3310 100644
--- a/examples/offline_inference/vision_language.py
+++ b/examples/offline_inference/vision_language.py
@@ -677,6 +677,7 @@ def run_mistral3(questions: list[str], modality: str) -> ModelRequestData:
         max_num_seqs=2,
         tensor_parallel_size=2,
         limit_mm_per_prompt={modality: 1},
+        ignore_patterns=["consolidated.safetensors"],
     )
 
     prompts = [f"<s>[INST]{question}\n[IMG][/INST]" for question in questions]
diff --git a/examples/offline_inference/vision_language_multi_image.py b/examples/offline_inference/vision_language_multi_image.py
index 13af8e904..eb4f3b6c8 100644
--- a/examples/offline_inference/vision_language_multi_image.py
+++ b/examples/offline_inference/vision_language_multi_image.py
@@ -505,6 +505,7 @@ def load_mistral3(question: str, image_urls: list[str]) -> ModelRequestData:
         max_num_seqs=2,
         tensor_parallel_size=2,
         limit_mm_per_prompt={"image": len(image_urls)},
+        ignore_patterns=["consolidated.safetensors"],
     )
 
     placeholders = "[IMG]" * len(image_urls)