diff --git a/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/__init__.py b/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/__init__.py
index 327d084bf0..0111d1aff9 100644
--- a/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/__init__.py
+++ b/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-from . import custom, hf, nemotron_flash, patches
+from . import custom, eagle, hf, nemotron_flash, patches
 from .factory import *
diff --git a/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/__init__.py b/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/__init__.py
index e32f72f56f..4ad9e96cb8 100644
--- a/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/__init__.py
+++ b/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
+from .modeling_eagle import Eagle3DrafterForCausalLM
 from .modeling_nemotron_flash import NemotronFlashForCausalLM, NemotronFlashPreTrainedTokenizerFast
 from .modeling_nemotron_h import NemotronHForCausalLM
 
 __all__ = (
+    "Eagle3DrafterForCausalLM",
     "NemotronFlashForCausalLM",
     "NemotronFlashPreTrainedTokenizerFast",
     "NemotronHForCausalLM",
diff --git a/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/modeling_eagle.py b/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/modeling_eagle.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c16a6750d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/modeling_eagle.py
@@ -0,0 +1,434 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Eagle3 model implementation for AutoDeploy.
+
+Eagle3 is a speculative decoding draft model that predicts next tokens based on
+hidden states from a target model (e.g., Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct).
+
+This file contains model definitions used for executing Eagle3 speculative decoding in AutoDeploy.
+"""
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Optional, Tuple
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+from transformers import PreTrainedModel
+from transformers.activations import ACT2FN
+from transformers.utils import ModelOutput
+
+
+class LlamaRotaryEmbedding(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, config, dim, device=None, scaling_factor=1.0):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.scaling_factor = scaling_factor
+        self.dim = dim
+        self.base = getattr(config, "rope_theta", 10000.0)
+        self.config = config
+
+        self.factor = 2
+
+        max_position_embeddings = self.config.max_position_embeddings
+
+        if (
+            not hasattr(config, "rope_type")
+            or config.rope_type is None
+            or config.rope_type == "default"
+        ):
+            inv_freq = 1.0 / (
+                self.base
+                ** (torch.arange(0, self.dim, 2, dtype=torch.int64).float().to(device) / self.dim)
+            )
+            self.max_seq_len_cached = max_position_embeddings
+
+        elif config.rope_type == "ntk":
+            assert self.config.orig_max_position_embeddings is not None
+            orig_max_position_embeddings = self.config.orig_max_position_embeddings
+
+            self.base = self.base * (
+                (self.factor * max_position_embeddings / orig_max_position_embeddings)
+                - (self.factor - 1)
+            ) ** (self.dim / (self.dim - 2))
+            inv_freq = 1.0 / (
+                self.base
+                ** (torch.arange(0, self.dim, 2, dtype=torch.int64).float().to(device) / self.dim)
+            )
+
+            self.max_seq_len_cached = orig_max_position_embeddings
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f"Not support rope_type: {config.rope_type}")
+
+        self.register_buffer("inv_freq", inv_freq, persistent=False)
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def forward(self, x, position_ids):
+        # x: [bs, num_attention_heads, seq_len, head_size]
+        inv_freq_expanded = (
+            self.inv_freq[None, :, None].float().expand(position_ids.shape[0], -1, 1)
+        )
+        position_ids_expanded = position_ids[:, None, :].float()
+        # Force float32 since bfloat16 loses precision on long contexts
+        # See https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/29285
+        device_type = x.device.type
+        device_type = (
+            device_type if isinstance(device_type, str) and device_type != "mps" else "cpu"
+        )
+        with torch.autocast(device_type=device_type, enabled=False):
+            freqs = (inv_freq_expanded.float() @ position_ids_expanded.float()).transpose(1, 2)
+            emb = torch.cat((freqs, freqs), dim=-1)
+            cos = emb.cos()
+            sin = emb.sin()
+        return cos.to(dtype=x.dtype), sin.to(dtype=x.dtype)
+
+
+def rotate_half(x):
+    """Rotates half the hidden dims of the input."""
+    x1 = x[..., : x.shape[-1] // 2]
+    x2 = x[..., x.shape[-1] // 2 :]
+    return torch.cat((-x2, x1), dim=-1)
+
+
+def apply_rotary_pos_emb(q, k, cos, sin, unsqueeze_dim=1):
+    """Applies Rotary Position Embedding to the query and key tensors.
+
+    Args:
+        q (`torch.Tensor`): The query tensor.
+        k (`torch.Tensor`): The key tensor.
+        cos (`torch.Tensor`): The cosine part of the rotary embedding.
+        sin (`torch.Tensor`): The sine part of the rotary embedding.
+        unsqueeze_dim (`int`, *optional*, defaults to 1):
+            The 'unsqueeze_dim' argument specifies the dimension along which to unsqueeze cos[position_ids] and
+            sin[position_ids] so that they can be properly broadcasted to the dimensions of q and k. For example, note
+            that cos[position_ids] and sin[position_ids] have the shape [batch_size, seq_len, head_dim]. Then, if q and
+            k have the shape [batch_size, heads, seq_len, head_dim], then setting unsqueeze_dim=1 makes
+            cos[position_ids] and sin[position_ids] broadcastable to the shapes of q and k. Similarly, if q and k have
+            the shape [batch_size, seq_len, heads, head_dim], then set unsqueeze_dim=2.
+    Returns:
+        `tuple(torch.Tensor)` comprising of the query and key tensors rotated using the Rotary Position Embedding.
+    """
+    cos = cos.unsqueeze(unsqueeze_dim)
+    sin = sin.unsqueeze(unsqueeze_dim)
+    if q is not None:
+        q_embed = (q * cos) + (rotate_half(q) * sin)
+
+    else:
+        q_embed = None
+
+    if k is not None:
+        k_embed = (k * cos) + (rotate_half(k) * sin)
+    else:
+        k_embed = None
+    return q_embed, k_embed
+
+
+class EagleRMSNorm(nn.Module):
+    """RMSNorm implementation that uses the torch_rmsnorm custom op."""
+
+    def __init__(self, hidden_size: int, eps: float = 1e-6):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.ones(hidden_size))
+        self.variance_epsilon = eps
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        result = torch.ops.auto_deploy.torch_rmsnorm(
+            hidden_states, self.weight, self.variance_epsilon
+        )
+        return result
+
+
+class EagleMLP(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(self, config):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.config = config
+        self.hidden_size = config.hidden_size
+        self.intermediate_size = config.intermediate_size
+        self.gate_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.intermediate_size, bias=config.mlp_bias)
+        self.up_proj = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.intermediate_size, bias=config.mlp_bias)
+        self.down_proj = nn.Linear(self.intermediate_size, self.hidden_size, bias=config.mlp_bias)
+        self.act_fn = ACT2FN[config.hidden_act]
+
+    def forward(self, x):
+        down_proj = self.down_proj(self.act_fn(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x))
+        return down_proj
+
+
+class Eagle3Attention(nn.Module):
+    """Multi-headed attention from 'Attention Is All You Need' paper"""
+
+    def __init__(self, config, layer_idx: int):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.config = config
+        self.layer_idx = layer_idx
+        self.head_dim = getattr(
+            config, "head_dim", config.hidden_size // config.num_attention_heads
+        )
+        self.num_attention_heads = config.num_attention_heads
+        self.num_key_value_heads = config.num_key_value_heads
+        self.is_causal = True
+
+        # Note: Eagle3Attention expects 2 * hidden_size input, which is the concatenation of the hidden states
+        # and the input embeddings.
+
+        self.q_proj = nn.Linear(
+            2 * config.hidden_size,
+            config.num_attention_heads * self.head_dim,
+            bias=config.attention_bias,
+        )
+        self.k_proj = nn.Linear(
+            2 * config.hidden_size,
+            config.num_key_value_heads * self.head_dim,
+            bias=config.attention_bias,
+        )
+        self.v_proj = nn.Linear(
+            2 * config.hidden_size,
+            config.num_key_value_heads * self.head_dim,
+            bias=config.attention_bias,
+        )
+        self.o_proj = nn.Linear(
+            config.num_attention_heads * self.head_dim,
+            config.hidden_size,
+            bias=config.attention_bias,
+        )
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        position_embeddings: tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor],
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        bsz, q_len, _ = hidden_states.size()
+        cos, sin = position_embeddings
+
+        # Projections
+        query_states = self.q_proj(hidden_states)
+        key_states = self.k_proj(hidden_states)
+        value_states = self.v_proj(hidden_states)
+
+        # Reshape to [Batch, Seq, Heads, Dim]
+        query_states = query_states.view(bsz, q_len, -1, self.head_dim)
+        key_states = key_states.view(bsz, q_len, -1, self.head_dim)
+        value_states = value_states.view(bsz, q_len, -1, self.head_dim)
+
+        query_states, key_states = apply_rotary_pos_emb(
+            query_states, key_states, cos, sin, unsqueeze_dim=2
+        )
+
+        attn_output = torch.ops.auto_deploy.torch_attention(
+            query_states,
+            key_states,
+            value_states,
+            attn_mask=None,
+            dropout_p=0.0,
+            is_causal=self.is_causal,
+            layout="bsnd",
+        )
+
+        attn_output = attn_output.view(bsz, q_len, self.num_attention_heads * self.head_dim)
+
+        attn_output = self.o_proj(attn_output)
+
+        return attn_output
+
+
+class Eagle3DecoderLayer(nn.Module):
+    """Eagle decoder layer with modified attention and hidden state normalization."""
+
+    def __init__(self, config, layer_idx: int = 0):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.self_attn = Eagle3Attention(config, layer_idx=layer_idx)
+        self.hidden_norm = EagleRMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps)
+        self.input_layernorm = EagleRMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps)
+        self.post_attention_layernorm = EagleRMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps)
+        self.mlp = EagleMLP(config)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        embeds: torch.Tensor,
+        position_embeds: Optional[Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]] = None,
+    ) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        residual = hidden_states
+        hidden_states = self.hidden_norm(hidden_states)
+
+        embeds = self.input_layernorm(embeds)
+
+        hidden_states = torch.cat([embeds, hidden_states], dim=-1)
+
+        hidden_states = self.self_attn(
+            hidden_states=hidden_states,
+            position_embeddings=position_embeds,
+        )
+
+        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
+
+        residual = hidden_states
+        hidden_states = self.post_attention_layernorm(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = self.mlp(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = residual + hidden_states
+
+        return hidden_states
+
+
+class Eagle3Model(nn.Module):
+    """Core Eagle model architecture."""
+
+    def __init__(self, config):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.embed_tokens = nn.Embedding(config.vocab_size, config.hidden_size)
+
+        if config.draft_vocab_size is not None and config.draft_vocab_size != config.vocab_size:
+            # Vocab mappings for draft <-> target token conversion
+            # Needed to convert draft outputs to target inputs for Eagle3.
+            # Since we reuse the target model's embedding in the drafter, we need
+            # to do this conversion after every draft iteration.
+            self.d2t = nn.Parameter(
+                torch.empty((config.draft_vocab_size,), dtype=torch.int32),
+                requires_grad=False,
+            )
+
+        # Input feature fusion: 3 * hidden_size -> hidden_size for Eagle3.
+        # TODO: Can make this configurable based on number of capture layers.
+        self.fc = nn.Linear(
+            config.hidden_size * 3,
+            config.hidden_size,
+            bias=getattr(config, "bias", False),
+            dtype=config.torch_dtype,
+        )
+
+        self.head_dim = getattr(
+            config, "head_dim", config.hidden_size // config.num_attention_heads
+        )
+
+        self.rotary_emb = LlamaRotaryEmbedding(
+            config=config, dim=self.head_dim, device=torch.device("cuda")
+        )
+
+        if config.num_hidden_layers > 1:
+            self.midlayer = nn.ModuleList(
+                [Eagle3DecoderLayer(config, layer_idx=i) for i in range(config.num_hidden_layers)]
+            )
+        else:
+            self.midlayer = Eagle3DecoderLayer(config, layer_idx=0)
+
+        self.num_hidden_layers = config.num_hidden_layers
+
+    # Assumption: The hidden states are already fused if necessary
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        input_ids: torch.LongTensor,
+        position_ids: torch.LongTensor,
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        input_embeds = self.embed_tokens(input_ids)
+
+        cos, sin = self.rotary_emb(hidden_states, position_ids)
+        position_embeds = (cos, sin)
+
+        if self.num_hidden_layers > 1:
+            for layer in self.midlayer:
+                hidden_states = layer(
+                    hidden_states=hidden_states,
+                    embeds=input_embeds,
+                    position_embeds=position_embeds,
+                )
+        else:
+            hidden_states = self.midlayer(
+                hidden_states=hidden_states,
+                embeds=input_embeds,
+                position_embeds=position_embeds,
+            )
+
+        return hidden_states
+
+    def apply_eagle3_fc(self, target_hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        return self.fc(target_hidden_states)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Eagle3DraftOutput(ModelOutput):
+    logits: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None
+    last_hidden_state: Optional[torch.FloatTensor] = None
+
+
+class Eagle3DrafterForCausalLM(PreTrainedModel):
+    """HuggingFace-compatible wrapper for EagleModel.
+
+    This wrapper makes EagleModel compatible with AutoDeploy's model loading
+    and inference pipeline.
+    """
+
+    base_model_prefix = "model"
+    supports_gradient_checkpointing = False
+    _no_split_modules = ["Eagle3DecoderLayer"]
+
+    # Checkpoint conversion mapping: Eagle checkpoints have keys like "fc.weight"
+    # but the wrapper model expects "model.fc.weight" (due to self.model = Eagle3Model).
+    # This mapping tells the factory to add "model." prefix when loading weights.
+    # Used by AutoModelForCausalLMFactory._remap_param_names_load_hook()
+
+    _checkpoint_conversion_mapping = {
+        "^(?!lm_head|norm)": "model.",  # Prepend "model." to all keys EXCEPT lm_head and norm
+    }
+
+    def __init__(self, config):
+        super().__init__(config)
+        self.model = Eagle3Model(config)
+        self.norm = EagleRMSNorm(config.hidden_size, eps=config.rms_norm_eps)
+        self.lm_head = nn.Linear(config.hidden_size, config.draft_vocab_size, bias=False)
+
+        eagle_config = getattr(config, "eagle_config", {})
+        self._return_hidden_post_norm = eagle_config.get("return_hidden_post_norm", False)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        input_ids: torch.LongTensor,
+        position_ids: Optional[torch.LongTensor] = None,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> Eagle3DraftOutput:
+        """
+        Kwargs:
+            hidden_states: Hidden states from the target model. Required.
+
+        Raises:
+            ValueError: If hidden_states is not provided in kwargs.
+        """
+        batch_size, seq_len = input_ids.shape
+        device = input_ids.device
+
+        # Generate position_ids if not provided
+        if position_ids is None:
+            position_ids = torch.arange(seq_len, device=device, dtype=torch.long).unsqueeze(0)
+            position_ids = position_ids.expand(batch_size, -1)
+
+        hidden_states = kwargs.get("hidden_states")
+        if hidden_states is None:
+            raise ValueError("hidden_states must be provided.")
+
+        hidden_states = self.model(
+            input_ids=input_ids,
+            position_ids=position_ids,
+            hidden_states=hidden_states,
+        )
+
+        norm_hidden_states = self.norm(hidden_states)
+        logits = self.lm_head(norm_hidden_states)
+
+        last_hidden_state = norm_hidden_states if self._return_hidden_post_norm else hidden_states
+
+        return Eagle3DraftOutput(
+            logits=logits,
+            last_hidden_state=last_hidden_state,
+        )
diff --git a/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/eagle.py b/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/eagle.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fd60b40b35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/eagle.py
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Factory definitions for building models related to Eagle in AutoDeploy.
+
+This module provides EagleDrafterFactory, a specialized factory for building
+Eagle speculative decoding draft models. It extends AutoModelForCausalLMFactory
+to handle the mapping from base model types (e.g., "llama") to their corresponding
+Eagle drafter implementations.
+"""
+
+from contextlib import nullcontext
+from typing import Dict, Type
+
+import torch.nn as nn
+from accelerate import init_empty_weights
+from torch._prims_common import DeviceLikeType
+from transformers import PreTrainedModel
+
+from .custom.modeling_eagle import Eagle3DrafterForCausalLM
+from .factory import ModelFactoryRegistry
+from .hf import AutoModelForCausalLMFactory
+
+
+@ModelFactoryRegistry.register("EagleDrafter")
+class EagleDrafterFactory(AutoModelForCausalLMFactory):
+    """Factory for building Eagle drafter models.
+
+    This factory handles the mapping from base model types (e.g., "llama") to
+    their corresponding Eagle drafter model implementations. It overrides
+    _build_model() to directly construct the appropriate drafter class based
+    on the checkpoint's model_type.
+
+    The checkpoint config is expected to have the base model's model_type
+    (e.g., "llama") along with Eagle-specific fields like draft_vocab_size.
+    """
+
+    # Map config model_type -> Eagle drafter model class
+    _drafter_model_mapping: Dict[str, Type[PreTrainedModel]] = {
+        "llama": Eagle3DrafterForCausalLM,
+    }
+
+    def _build_model(self, device: DeviceLikeType) -> nn.Module:
+        model_config, unused_kwargs = self._get_model_config()
+
+        # Select the appropriate drafter class based on the base model type
+        match model_config.model_type:
+            case "llama":
+                drafter_cls = self._drafter_model_mapping["llama"]
+            case _:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    f"Unsupported model_type '{model_config.model_type}' for Eagle drafter. "
+                    f"Supported types: {list(self._drafter_model_mapping.keys())}"
+                )
+
+        # Build the model (same pattern as parent's _build_model)
+        with (init_empty_weights if device == "meta" else nullcontext)():
+            model = drafter_cls._from_config(model_config, **unused_kwargs)
+
+        if device == "meta":
+            # post-init must be called explicitly for HF models with init_empty_weights
+            if hasattr(model, "post_init"):
+                model.post_init()
+        else:
+            model.to(device)
+
+        # Store checkpoint conversion mapping if present
+        self._checkpoint_conversion_mapping = getattr(model, "_checkpoint_conversion_mapping", None)
+
+        model.eval()
+
+        return model
+
+    def build_and_load_model(self, device: DeviceLikeType) -> nn.Module:
+        raise NotImplementedError(
+            "EagleDrafterFactory does not support build_and_load_model(). "
+            "Use build_model() + load_or_random_init() instead."
+        )
diff --git a/tests/integration/defs/examples/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py b/tests/integration/defs/examples/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py
index e77709aa7c..19c5beb66e 100644
--- a/tests/integration/defs/examples/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py
+++ b/tests/integration/defs/examples/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py
@@ -14,13 +14,17 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 
 import os
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
 
 import pytest
+import torch
 from build_and_run_ad import ExperimentConfig, main
 from defs.conftest import llm_models_root
 
 from tensorrt_llm import SamplingParams
 from tensorrt_llm._torch.auto_deploy.llm import LLM
+from tensorrt_llm._torch.auto_deploy.models.eagle import EagleDrafterFactory
 from tensorrt_llm.llmapi import DraftTargetDecodingConfig, Eagle3DecodingConfig, KvCacheConfig
 
 prompts = [
@@ -276,3 +280,171 @@ def test_autodeploy_eagle3_acceptance_rate():
     print("\n" + "=" * 80)
     print("SUCCESS! All requests passed acceptance rate threshold")
     print("=" * 80)
+
+
+def load_weights(model_path: Path, model: torch.nn.Module):
+    """Load weights from checkpoint while applying the same _checkpoint_conversion_mapping that the factory uses.
+
+    Returns: tuple of (loaded_keys, missing_keys, unexpected_keys)
+    """
+    # 1. Load checkpoint keys
+    bin_path = model_path / "pytorch_model.bin"
+    safetensors_path = model_path / "model.safetensors"
+
+    if safetensors_path.exists():
+        from safetensors import safe_open
+
+        with safe_open(safetensors_path, framework="pt") as f:
+            checkpoint_keys_original = list(f.keys())
+    elif bin_path.exists():
+        state_dict = torch.load(bin_path, map_location="cpu", weights_only=True)
+        checkpoint_keys_original = list(state_dict.keys())
+        del state_dict
+    else:
+        raise FileNotFoundError(f"No checkpoint found at {model_path}")
+
+    # 2. Apply _checkpoint_conversion_mapping (same logic as hf.py _remap_param_names_load_hook)
+    # This is the key part - the factory does this exact same thing in lines 496-512 of hf.py
+    conversion_mapping = getattr(model, "_checkpoint_conversion_mapping", None)
+    checkpoint_keys_remapped = []
+
+    for key in checkpoint_keys_original:
+        new_key = key
+        if conversion_mapping:
+            for pattern, replacement in conversion_mapping.items():
+                new_key = re.sub(pattern, replacement, new_key)
+        checkpoint_keys_remapped.append(new_key)
+
+    # 3. Get model's expected keys
+    model_keys = set(model.state_dict().keys())
+    checkpoint_keys = set(checkpoint_keys_remapped)
+
+    # 4. Calculate differences
+    loaded_keys = checkpoint_keys & model_keys
+    missing_in_checkpoint = model_keys - checkpoint_keys
+    unexpected_in_checkpoint = checkpoint_keys - model_keys
+
+    return loaded_keys, missing_in_checkpoint, unexpected_in_checkpoint
+
+
+def test_eagle_model_with_weights():
+    """Test EagleModel forward pass with loaded weights using the EagleDrafterFactory.
+
+    This test uses EagleDrafterFactory to initialize the model, which directly
+    builds the Eagle drafter model based on the checkpoint's model_type:
+
+    1. Factory creates config via AutoConfig.from_pretrained
+    2. Factory selects Eagle3DrafterForCausalLM based on model_type="llama"
+    3. Factory creates model via _from_config
+    4. Factory loads weights via load_or_random_init -> _load_checkpoint
+
+    This ensures the test validates the exact initialization path used in production.
+    """
+    print("\n" + "=" * 80)
+    print("Test: EagleModel forward pass with loaded weights (via EagleDrafterFactory)")
+    print("=" * 80)
+
+    _, _, eagle_model_path = get_model_paths()
+    eagle_path = Path(eagle_model_path)
+
+    if not eagle_path.exists():
+        pytest.skip(f"Eagle model not found at {eagle_model_path}")
+
+    # Check for weights
+    bin_path = eagle_path / "pytorch_model.bin"
+    safetensors_path = eagle_path / "model.safetensors"
+    if not bin_path.exists() and not safetensors_path.exists():
+        pytest.skip(f"Weights not found at {eagle_model_path}")
+
+    # 1. Setup Device
+    device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
+
+    # 2. Create factory
+    # EagleDrafterFactory directly builds the correct drafter model based on model_type
+    print("Creating EagleDrafterFactory...")
+    factory = EagleDrafterFactory(
+        model=eagle_model_path,
+        skip_loading_weights=False,  # We want to test weight loading
+    )
+
+    # 3. Build model using factory
+    # Factory flow:
+    #   build_model() -> prefetch_checkpoint() -> _build_model()
+    #   _build_model() -> _get_model_config() (gets base LlamaConfig)
+    #   _build_model() -> selects Eagle3DrafterForCausalLM for model_type="llama"
+    #   _build_model() -> Eagle3DrafterForCausalLM._from_config(config)
+    print("Building model via factory.build_model('meta')...")
+    model = factory.build_model("meta")
+    print(f"Model type: {type(model).__name__}")
+    print(f"Model config type: {type(model.config).__name__}")
+
+    # 4. Load weights from checkpoint and compare to model's expected keys
+    print("\n--- Weight Loading Analysis ---")
+    loaded_keys, missing_keys, unexpected_keys = load_weights(eagle_path, model)
+
+    print(f"Total model parameters: {len(loaded_keys) + len(missing_keys)}")
+    print(f"Total checkpoint keys: {len(loaded_keys) + len(unexpected_keys)}")
+    print(f"✅ Weights to be loaded: {len(loaded_keys)}")
+    print(f"⚠️  Missing in checkpoint (will be random init): {len(missing_keys)}")
+    print(f"⚠️  Unexpected in checkpoint (will be ignored): {len(unexpected_keys)}")
+
+    if missing_keys:
+        print("\nMissing keys (model expects but checkpoint doesn't have):")
+        for key in sorted(missing_keys):
+            if "embed_tokens" in key:
+                print(f"  - {key} (expected: shared from target model)")
+            elif "rotary_emb" in key:
+                print(f"  - {key} (expected: computed at runtime)")
+            else:
+                print(f"  - {key}")
+
+    if unexpected_keys:
+        print("\nUnexpected keys (in checkpoint but model doesn't expect):")
+        for key in sorted(unexpected_keys):
+            if "t2d" in key:
+                print(f"  - {key} (expected: not used in Eagle3)")
+            else:
+                print(f"  - {key}")
+
+    if loaded_keys:
+        print(f"\nLoaded keys ({len(loaded_keys)} total):")
+        for key in sorted(loaded_keys)[:10]:
+            print(f"  - {key}")
+        if len(loaded_keys) > 10:
+            print(f"  ... and {len(loaded_keys) - 10} more")
+
+    print("--- End Weight Analysis ---\n")
+
+    # Verify expected missing and unexpected keys
+    # These are the keys we expect based on Eagle3 architecture:
+    # - embed_tokens: shared from target model (not in Eagle checkpoint)
+    # - t2d: target-to-draft mapping, not used in Eagle3 (uses d2t instead)
+    expected_missing_keys = {"model.embed_tokens.weight"}
+    expected_unexpected_keys = {"model.t2d"}
+
+    assert missing_keys == expected_missing_keys, (
+        f"Unexpected missing keys.\n"
+        f"Expected: {expected_missing_keys}\n"
+        f"Got: {missing_keys}\n"
+        f"Extra missing: {missing_keys - expected_missing_keys}\n"
+        f"Not missing (but expected): {expected_missing_keys - missing_keys}"
+    )
+
+    assert unexpected_keys == expected_unexpected_keys, (
+        f"Unexpected keys in checkpoint.\n"
+        f"Expected: {expected_unexpected_keys}\n"
+        f"Got: {unexpected_keys}\n"
+        f"Extra unexpected: {unexpected_keys - expected_unexpected_keys}\n"
+        f"Not unexpected (but expected): {expected_unexpected_keys - unexpected_keys}"
+    )
+
+    print("✅ Weight loading analysis matches expected missing/unexpected keys!")
+
+    # 5. Load weights using factory (mimics actual pipeline)
+    # If tensor shapes do not match with how they are used in the forward() function, we will
+    # get an error.
+    print("Loading weights via factory.load_or_random_init()...")
+    factory.load_or_random_init(model, device)
+    print("Weights loaded successfully via factory interface!")
+
+    model.eval()
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml b/tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml
index bb498ddeeb..bb12a3302e 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml
+++ b/tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml
@@ -441,3 +441,4 @@ l0_h100:
   - examples/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py::test_autodeploy_spec_dec_output[draft_target]
   - examples/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py::test_autodeploy_spec_dec_output[eagle3]
   - examples/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py::test_autodeploy_eagle3_acceptance_rate
+  - examples/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py::test_eagle_model_with_weights
diff --git a/tests/unittest/_torch/auto_deploy/_utils_test/_model_test_utils.py b/tests/unittest/_torch/auto_deploy/_utils_test/_model_test_utils.py
index 39c071cb20..d585e4e088 100644
--- a/tests/unittest/_torch/auto_deploy/_utils_test/_model_test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/unittest/_torch/auto_deploy/_utils_test/_model_test_utils.py
@@ -484,6 +484,11 @@ _SMALL_MODEL_CONFIGS = {
             "num_hidden_layers": 8,
         },
     },
+    "yuhuili/EAGLE3-LLaMA3.1-Instruct-8B": {
+        "model_kwargs": {
+            "hidden_size": 64,
+        }
+    },
 }
 
 
diff --git a/tests/unittest/_torch/auto_deploy/unit/singlegpu/models/test_eagle.py b/tests/unittest/_torch/auto_deploy/unit/singlegpu/models/test_eagle.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bbf4ede408
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unittest/_torch/auto_deploy/unit/singlegpu/models/test_eagle.py
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Unit tests for Eagle3 model with AutoDeploy."""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+from _model_test_utils import get_small_model_config
+from build_and_run_ad import ExperimentConfig, main
+from transformers import AutoConfig
+
+from tensorrt_llm._torch.auto_deploy.models.custom.modeling_eagle import (
+    Eagle3DrafterForCausalLM,
+    Eagle3Model,
+)
+from tensorrt_llm._torch.auto_deploy.models.eagle import EagleDrafterFactory
+from tensorrt_llm._torch.auto_deploy.models.factory import ModelFactoryRegistry
+from tests.test_common.llm_data import hf_id_to_local_model_dir
+
+EAGLE_MODEL_HUB_ID = "yuhuili/EAGLE3-LLaMA3.1-Instruct-8B"
+
+
+###############################################################################
+# Mock classes for standalone Eagle testing
+#
+# These classes enable unit testing the Eagle checkpoint without a target model.
+# In production speculative decoding, real hidden states come from the target model.
+# For testing, MockEagle3ModelForCausalLM generates random hidden states.
+###############################################################################
+
+
+class MockEagle3ModelForCausalLM(Eagle3DrafterForCausalLM):
+    """Test wrapper that provides random hidden states for standalone Eagle testing.
+
+    In production speculative decoding, real hidden states come from the target model.
+    This mock class generates random hidden states for testing the Eagle model in isolation.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, config):
+        super().__init__(config)
+        self._hidden_size = config.hidden_size
+        self._dtype = config.dtype
+
+    def forward(self, input_ids, **kwargs):
+        # Inject mock hidden states if not provided
+        if "hidden_states" not in kwargs:
+            batch_size, seq_len = input_ids.shape
+            kwargs["hidden_states"] = torch.randn(
+                (batch_size, seq_len, self._hidden_size),
+                dtype=self._dtype,
+                device=input_ids.device,
+            )
+        return super().forward(input_ids, **kwargs)
+
+
+class MockEagleDrafterFactory(EagleDrafterFactory):
+    """Test factory that uses MockEagle3ModelForCausalLM for standalone Eagle testing.
+
+    This factory overrides the drafter mapping to use the mock model class which
+    generates random hidden states, enabling testing without a target model.
+    """
+
+    _drafter_model_mapping = {
+        "llama": MockEagle3ModelForCausalLM,
+    }
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def register_mock_eagle_factory():
+    """Register MockEagleDrafterFactory for the test and clean up afterwards.
+
+    This fixture temporarily registers the mock factory with ModelFactoryRegistry,
+    allowing tests to use model_factory="MockEagleDrafter", and removes the
+    registration after the test completes.
+    """
+    ModelFactoryRegistry._registry["MockEagleDrafter"] = MockEagleDrafterFactory
+    yield
+    ModelFactoryRegistry._registry.pop("MockEagleDrafter", None)
+
+
+def test_build_ad_eagle(register_mock_eagle_factory):
+    """Test building Eagle model with AutoDeploy using MockEagleDrafterFactory.
+
+    This test uses the MockEagleDrafterFactory which builds MockEagle3ModelForCausalLM,
+    a mock model that generates random hidden states for standalone Eagle testing.
+    """
+    llm_extra_args = {
+        "model_factory": "MockEagleDrafter",
+        "transforms": {
+            "insert_cached_attention": {"backend": "flashinfer"},
+            "compile_model": {"backend": "torch-compile"},
+        },
+    }
+    experiment_config = get_small_model_config(EAGLE_MODEL_HUB_ID, **llm_extra_args)
+    experiment_config["args"]["runtime"] = "demollm"
+    experiment_config["args"]["world_size"] = 0
+    experiment_config["args"]["tokenizer"] = hf_id_to_local_model_dir(
+        "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct"
+    )
+
+    print(f"Experiment Config: {experiment_config}")
+    experiment_config = ExperimentConfig(**experiment_config)
+
+    main(experiment_config)
+
+
+def test_eagle_model_torch_export():
+    """Test that Eagle3Model can be exported with torch.export.
+
+    This validates that the model architecture is compatible with
+    torch.export for potential TensorRT compilation.
+
+    Note: We skip loading weights since torch.export only traces the computation
+    graph (model architecture), not the actual weight values. Random init is fine.
+    """
+    print("\n" + "=" * 80)
+    print("Test: EagleModel torch.export")
+    print("=" * 80)
+
+    eagle_model_path = hf_id_to_local_model_dir(EAGLE_MODEL_HUB_ID)
+    if eagle_model_path is None:
+        pytest.skip("Eagle model not found (LLM_MODELS_ROOT not set or model missing)")
+
+    eagle_path = Path(eagle_model_path)
+
+    # Setup
+    device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
+    dtype = torch.float16
+
+    # Use pretrained config (llama) - can provide it directly to instantiate Eagle3Model.
+    config_path = eagle_path / "config.json"
+    config = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(config_path)
+
+    # Create model with random weights (no need to load for export test)
+    model = Eagle3Model(config)
+    model.to(device)
+    model.eval()
+
+    # Create inputs for export
+    batch_size = 1
+    seq_len = 8
+    hidden_dim = config.hidden_size
+
+    input_ids = torch.randint(
+        0, config.vocab_size, (batch_size, seq_len), device=device, dtype=torch.long
+    )
+    position_ids = torch.arange(seq_len, device=device, dtype=torch.long).unsqueeze(0)
+    mock_hidden_states = torch.randn((batch_size, seq_len, hidden_dim), device=device, dtype=dtype)
+
+    print("Export input shapes:")
+    print(f"  input_ids: {input_ids.shape}")
+    print(f"  position_ids: {position_ids.shape}")
+    print(f"  hidden_states: {mock_hidden_states.shape}")
+
+    example_args = (
+        input_ids,
+        position_ids,
+        mock_hidden_states,
+    )
+
+    # Attempt torch.export
+    try:
+        exported_program = torch.export.export(model, args=example_args)
+        print("✅ torch.export successful!")
+        print("Graph module code preview (first 20 lines):")
+        code_lines = exported_program.graph_module.code.split("\n")[:20]
+        print("\n".join(code_lines))
+    except Exception as e:
+        pytest.fail(f"torch.export failed: {e}")
diff --git a/tests/unittest/_torch/auto_deploy/unit/singlegpu/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py b/tests/unittest/_torch/auto_deploy/unit/singlegpu/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py
index 81481e8f51..5b78647083 100644
--- a/tests/unittest/_torch/auto_deploy/unit/singlegpu/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py
+++ b/tests/unittest/_torch/auto_deploy/unit/singlegpu/test_ad_speculative_decoding.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ from test_common.llm_data import with_mocked_hf_download
 from tensorrt_llm.llmapi import DraftTargetDecodingConfig, KvCacheConfig
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("use_hf_speculative_model", [False, True])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("use_hf_speculative_model", [False])
 @with_mocked_hf_download
 def test_ad_speculative_decoding_smoke(use_hf_speculative_model: bool):
     """Test speculative decoding with AutoDeploy using the build_and_run_ad main()."""