diff --git a/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/references/mmmu.yaml b/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/references/mmmu.yaml
index c612e0182c..b6e8cb1321 100644
--- a/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/references/mmmu.yaml
+++ b/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/references/mmmu.yaml
@@ -29,3 +29,5 @@ mistral/Mistral-Large-3-675B:
   - accuracy: 47
 Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct:
   - accuracy: 55.11
+mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503:
+  - accuracy: 57.0
diff --git a/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py b/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py
index 6c657f9521..6d53fa892a 100644
--- a/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py
+++ b/tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py
@@ -345,3 +345,28 @@ class TestQwen3VL(LlmapiAccuracyTestHarness):
         ) as llm:
             task = MMMU(self.MODEL_NAME)
             task.evaluate(llm, sampling_params=self.sampling_params)
+
+
+class TestMistralSmall24B(LlmapiAccuracyTestHarness):
+    MODEL_NAME = "mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503"
+    MODEL_PATH = f"{llm_models_root()}/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503"
+    MAX_NUM_TOKENS = 16384
+
+    # NOTE: MMMU adds <|endoftext|> to the stop token.
+    sampling_params = SamplingParams(
+        max_tokens=MMMU.MAX_OUTPUT_LEN,
+        truncate_prompt_tokens=MMMU.MAX_INPUT_LEN,
+        stop="<|endoftext|>",
+    )
+
+    @pytest.mark.skip_less_device_memory(80000)
+    def test_auto_dtype(self):
+        kv_cache_config = KvCacheConfig(free_gpu_memory_fraction=0.75)
+        with LLM(
+            self.MODEL_PATH,
+            kv_cache_config=kv_cache_config,
+            enable_chunked_prefill=True,
+            max_num_tokens=self.MAX_NUM_TOKENS,
+        ) as llm:
+            task = MMMU(self.MODEL_NAME)
+            task.evaluate(llm, sampling_params=self.sampling_params)
diff --git a/tests/integration/defs/test_e2e.py b/tests/integration/defs/test_e2e.py
index b55eeb8359..a5acfabb43 100644
--- a/tests/integration/defs/test_e2e.py
+++ b/tests/integration/defs/test_e2e.py
@@ -2536,9 +2536,6 @@ def test_ptp_quickstart_advanced_mixed_precision(llm_root, llm_venv):
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("use_cuda_graph", [False, True])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("modality", ["image", "video", "mixture_text_image"])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model_name,model_path", [
-    pytest.param("mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct",
-                 "Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503",
-                 marks=pytest.mark.skip_less_device_memory(80000)),
     pytest.param(
         "Nano-v2-VLM",
         "Nano-v2-VLM",
@@ -2588,21 +2585,11 @@ def test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal(llm_root, llm_venv, model_name, model_path,
         }
     }
 
-    expected_keywords = {
-        "mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct": {
-            "image": [
-                ["dramatic", "seascape", "ocean", "turbulent", "waves", "dark"],
-                ["scenic", "rock", "landscape", "monolith", "formation"],
-                [
-                    "multi-lane", "highway", "moderate", "traffic", "flow",
-                    "vehicles", "congestion"
-                ],
-            ],
-            "mixture_text_image":
-            [["invention", "person", "scientists", "Lick", "engineers"],
-             ["landscape", "trees", "road", "depicts", "scenic"]]
-        },
-    }
+    # TODO: remove this entire test if there are no plans to extend them for Nano v2 VL.
+    expected_keywords = {}
+
+    if modality not in expected_keywords[model_name]:
+        pytest.skip(f"{modality=} not supported for {model_name}")
 
     cmd = [
         str(example_root / "quickstart_multimodal.py"),
@@ -2620,19 +2607,13 @@ def test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal(llm_root, llm_venv, model_name, model_path,
     if use_cuda_graph:
         cmd.append("--use_cuda_graph")
 
-    output = llm_venv.run_cmd(cmd, caller=check_output)
+    _ = llm_venv.run_cmd(cmd, caller=check_output)
 
-    match_ratio = 4.0 / 5
-    parsed_outputs = parse_output(output)
-    for prompt_output, prompt_keywords in zip(
-            parsed_outputs, expected_keywords[model_name][modality]):
-        matches = [
-            keyword in prompt_output.lower() for keyword in prompt_keywords
-        ]
-        obs_match_ratio = 1. * sum(matches) / len(matches)
-        assert obs_match_ratio >= match_ratio, f"Incorrect output!\nGenerated \"{prompt_output}\"\nExpected keywords \"{prompt_keywords}\"\n Matched keywords: {matches}\n Observed match ratio {obs_match_ratio} below threshold {match_ratio}\n\nParsed output for all prompts: {parsed_outputs}"
-
-    print("All answers are correct!")
+    # NOTE: we deliberately do not check the LLM outputs with keyword matching ratios as in the
+    # other tests, as it can be brittle and cause flakiness in CI.
+    # This test now becomes a smoke / functional test.
+    # Proper accuracy tests should be added to
+    # `tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py`.
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("modality", ["image", "video"])
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core.txt b/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core.txt
index d7aedd6be4..3ced7b395f 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core.txt
+++ b/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core.txt
@@ -741,9 +741,6 @@ test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced_8gpus_chunked_prefill_sq_22k[Llama-4-M
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced_8gpus_chunked_prefill_sq_22k[Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-FP8-llama4-models/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-FP8-True]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced_8gpus_chunked_prefill_sq_22k[Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-FP4-llama4-models/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-FP4-True]
 test_e2e.py::test_relaxed_acceptance_quickstart_advanced_deepseek_r1_8gpus[DeepSeek-R1-DeepSeek-R1/DeepSeek-R1]
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-image-True]
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-image-False]
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-mixture_text_image-True]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal_kv_cache_reuse[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-0.6-image]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal_chunked_prefill[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-0.6-image]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal_phi4mm[phi4-multimodal-instruct-multimodals/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct-audio]
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core_sanity.txt b/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core_sanity.txt
index 58a4436a70..3d2f6fde86 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core_sanity.txt
+++ b/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core_sanity.txt
@@ -280,9 +280,6 @@ test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced[Llama3.2-11B-BF16-llama-3.2-models/Lla
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced[Qwen3-30B-A3B-Qwen3/Qwen3-30B-A3B]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_bert[TRTLLM-BertForSequenceClassification-bert/bert-base-uncased-yelp-polarity]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_bert[VANILLA-BertForSequenceClassification-bert/bert-base-uncased-yelp-polarity]
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-image-False]
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-image-True]
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-mixture_text_image-True]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_scaffolding[DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-DeepSeek-R1/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced_deepseek_r1_w4afp8_8gpus[DeepSeek-R1-W4AFP8-DeepSeek-R1/DeepSeek-R1-W4AFP8]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_star_attention_example[Llama3.1-8B-BF16-llama-3.1-model/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B]
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_nim.txt b/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_nim.txt
index cc8cbef8c3..0b26975d26 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_nim.txt
+++ b/tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_nim.txt
@@ -258,9 +258,6 @@ test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced_8gpus_chunked_prefill_sq_22k[Llama-4-M
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced_8gpus_chunked_prefill_sq_22k[Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-FP8-llama4-models/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-FP8-True]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_advanced_8gpus_chunked_prefill_sq_22k[Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-FP4-llama4-models/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-FP4-True]
 test_e2e.py::test_relaxed_acceptance_quickstart_advanced_deepseek_r1_8gpus[DeepSeek-R1-DeepSeek-R1/DeepSeek-R1]
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-image-True]
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-image-False]
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-mixture_text_image-True]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal_phi4mm[phi4-multimodal-instruct-multimodals/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct-audio]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal_phi4mm[phi4-multimodal-instruct-multimodals/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct-image]
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal_phi4mm[phi4-multimodal-instruct-multimodals/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct-image_audio]
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml b/tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml
index fd5cda5779..adae47f626 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml
+++ b/tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ l0_h100:
   - accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekV3Lite::test_chunked_prefill[quant_dtype=fp8-kv_cache_reuse=True-fp8kv=True-overlap_scheduler=True]
   - accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestDeepSeekV3Lite::test_dummy_load_format
   - accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py::TestGemma3_27BInstruct::test_fp8_prequantized
+  - accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py::TestMistralSmall24B::test_auto_dtype
   - accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwen3_8B::test_fp8_block_scales[latency]
   - accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwen3_8B::test_dummy_load_format
   - accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwen3_30B_A3B::test_fp8[latency-torch_compile=False]
@@ -284,8 +285,6 @@ l0_h100:
   - accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestStarcoder2_3B::test_auto_dtype
   - accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestStarcoder2_7B::test_auto_dtype
   - accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestStarcoder2_15B::test_auto_dtype
-  - test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-image-True]
-  - test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-mixture_text_image-True]
   - test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal_kv_cache_reuse[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-0.6-image]
   - test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal_chunked_prefill[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-0.6-image]
   - examples/test_mistral.py::test_mistral_with_bf16_lora_torch[mistral-7b-v0.1]
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt b/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
index 2f24805aea..dcef1eabea 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
+++ b/tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
@@ -317,8 +317,6 @@ examples/test_phi.py::test_llm_phi_quantization_1gpu[Phi-3-small-128k-instruct-f
 examples/test_multimodal.py::test_llm_multimodal_general[Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-pp:1-tp:1-bfloat16-bs:8-cpp_e2e:False-nb:1] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5644684)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestLlama3_1NemotronNano8Bv1::test_fp8_prequantized SKIP (https://nvbugs/5640697)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwQ_32B::test_auto_dtype_tp4 SKIP (https://nvbugs/5640697)
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-image-True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5648560)
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-image-False] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5648560)
 examples/test_multimodal.py::test_llm_multimodal_general[nougat-base-pp:1-tp:1-bfloat16-bs:8-cpp_e2e:False-nb:1] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5568052)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py::TestNVILA_8B::test_auto_dtype SKIP (https://nvbugs/5648441)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py::TestVILA1_5_3B::test_auto_dtype SKIP (https://nvbugs/5648441)
@@ -357,7 +355,6 @@ accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwen3NextInstruct::test_nvfp4[tp1-cutlass]
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwen3NextInstruct::test_nvfp4[tp4ep1-cutlass] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5702795)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwen3NextInstruct::test_nvfp4[tp4ep4-cutlass] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5702795)
 accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwen3NextInstruct::test_nvfp4[tp4ep4-trtllm] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5702795)
-test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503-mixture_text_image-True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5648560)
 test_e2e.py::test_ptp_quickstart_multimodal_2gpu[mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct-Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5648560)
 accuracy/test_cli_flow.py::TestGpt2::test_weight_only[int4] SKIP (https://nvbugs/5705193)
 accuracy/test_cli_flow.py::TestGpt2::test_int8_kv_cache SKIP (https://nvbugs/5705193)