diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4583850326..41cc8e1054 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 --extra-index-url https://huggingface.github.io/autogptq-index/whl/cu118/
 packaging==23.2
 peft==0.7.0
-transformers @ git+https://github.com/huggingface/transformers.git@3cefac1d974db5e2825a0cb2b842883a628be7a0
+transformers==4.37.0
 tokenizers==0.15.0
 bitsandbytes>=0.41.1
-accelerate @ git+https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate.git@0d2280dadc6a93413a5496613b7fdda3a4d2551b
+accelerate==0.26.1
 deepspeed
 addict
 fire
diff --git a/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py b/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py
index 334948dd9d..b8309c3633 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/core/trainer_builder.py
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ def build_collator(
             ]
         ]
         if use_batch_sampler_collator:
-            if self.cfg.model_config_type == "mixtral":
+            if self.cfg.model_config_type in ["mixtral", "qwen2"]:
                 collator = V2BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq
             else:
                 collator = BatchSamplerDataCollatorForSeq2Seq
diff --git a/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/qwen2/__init__.py b/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/qwen2/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..40c54d21e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/axolotl/monkeypatch/qwen2/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+"""
+Patches to support multipack for qwen2
+"""
+import transformers
+
+from axolotl.monkeypatch.utils import get_unpad_data
+
+
+def replace_qwen2_attn_with_multipack_flash_attn():
+    transformers.models.qwen2.modeling_qwen2._get_unpad_data = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
+        get_unpad_data
+    )
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/config.py b/src/axolotl/utils/config.py
index ca7d037ddc..b045648410 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/config.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/config.py
@@ -142,17 +142,12 @@ def normalize_config(cfg):
     )
 
     cfg.is_qwen_derived_model = (
-        (
-            hasattr(model_config, "model_type")
-            and model_config.model_type
-            in [
-                "qwen",
-            ]
-        )
-        or cfg.is_qwen_derived_model
-        or "qwen" in cfg.base_model.lower()
-        or (cfg.model_type and "qwen" in cfg.model_type.lower())
-    )
+        hasattr(model_config, "model_type")
+        and model_config.model_type
+        in [
+            "qwen",
+        ]
+    ) or cfg.is_qwen_derived_model
 
     if isinstance(cfg.learning_rate, str):
         cfg.learning_rate = float(cfg.learning_rate)
diff --git a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
index 9707a4b65c..c883edb375 100644
--- a/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
+++ b/src/axolotl/utils/models.py
@@ -334,6 +334,14 @@ def load_model(
         LOG.info("patching mixtral with flash attention")
         replace_mixtral_attn_with_multipack_flash_attn()
 
+    if cfg.model_config_type == "qwen2" and cfg.flash_attention and cfg.sample_packing:
+        from axolotl.monkeypatch.qwen2 import (
+            replace_qwen2_attn_with_multipack_flash_attn,
+        )
+
+        LOG.info("patching qwen2 with flash attention")
+        replace_qwen2_attn_with_multipack_flash_attn()
+
     if cfg.is_llama_derived_model and cfg.sample_packing and not inference:
         from axolotl.monkeypatch.llama_expand_mask import hijack_expand_mask
 
@@ -426,14 +434,14 @@ def load_model(
                 cfg.is_llama_derived_model
                 or cfg.is_falcon_derived_model
                 or cfg.is_mistral_derived_model
-                or model_config.model_type == "mixtral"
+                or model_config.model_type in ["mixtral", "qwen2"]
             ):
                 model_kwargs["attn_implementation"] = "flash_attention_2"
                 model_config._attn_implementation = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
                     "flash_attention_2"
                 )
         else:
-            if model_config.model_type == "mixtral":
+            if model_config.model_type in ["mixtral", "qwen2"]:
                 model_kwargs["attn_implementation"] = "flash_attention_2"
                 model_config._attn_implementation = (  # pylint: disable=protected-access
                     "flash_attention_2"