diff --git a/backends/exllamav2/model.py b/backends/exllamav2/model.py
index 4745241..27fe33f 100644
--- a/backends/exllamav2/model.py
+++ b/backends/exllamav2/model.py
@@ -120,7 +120,6 @@ class ExllamaV2Container(BaseModelContainer):
         self.config.max_seq_len = 4096
 
         self.config.prepare()
-        print(self.config.max_seq_len)
 
         # Check if the model arch is compatible with various exl2 features
         self.config.arch_compat_overrides()
diff --git a/backends/exllamav3/model.py b/backends/exllamav3/model.py
index ce27a85..ee409d3 100644
--- a/backends/exllamav3/model.py
+++ b/backends/exllamav3/model.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import asyncio
 import gc
 import pathlib
+import traceback
 from typing import (
     Any,
     AsyncIterator,
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ from common.health import HealthManager
 from common.multimodal import MultimodalEmbeddingWrapper
 from common.sampling import BaseSamplerRequest
 from common.templating import PromptTemplate, find_prompt_template
-from common.transformers_utils import GenerationConfig
+from common.transformers_utils import GenerationConfig, TokenizerConfig
 from common.utils import coalesce, unwrap
 from endpoints.core.types.model import ModelCard, ModelCardParameters
 
@@ -60,6 +61,8 @@ class ExllamaV3Container(BaseModelContainer):
     tokenizer: Tokenizer
     config: Config
     generator: Optional[AsyncGenerator] = None
+    generation_config: Optional[GenerationConfig] = None
+    tokenizer_config: Optional[TokenizerConfig] = None
 
     # Class-specific vars
     gpu_split: List[float] | None = None
@@ -96,6 +99,30 @@ class ExllamaV3Container(BaseModelContainer):
         self.model = Model.from_config(self.config)
         self.tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_config(self.config)
 
+        # Load generation config overrides
+        generation_config_path = model_directory / "generation_config.json"
+        if generation_config_path.exists():
+            try:
+                self.generation_config = await GenerationConfig.from_file(
+                    model_directory
+                )
+            except Exception:
+                logger.error(traceback.format_exc())
+                logger.warning(
+                    "Skipping generation config load because of an unexpected error."
+                )
+
+        # Load tokenizer config overrides
+        tokenizer_config_path = model_directory / "tokenizer_config.json"
+        if tokenizer_config_path.exists():
+            try:
+                self.tokenizer_config = await TokenizerConfig.from_file(model_directory)
+            except Exception:
+                logger.error(traceback.format_exc())
+                logger.warning(
+                    "Skipping tokenizer config load because of an unexpected error."
+                )
+
         # Fallback to 4096 since exl3 can't fetch from HF's config.json
         self.max_seq_len = unwrap(kwargs.get("max_seq_len"), 4096)
 
@@ -689,7 +716,9 @@ class ExllamaV3Container(BaseModelContainer):
 
         prompts = [prompt]
         stop_conditions = params.stop
-        add_bos_token = params.add_bos_token
+        add_bos_token = unwrap(
+            params.add_bos_token, self.tokenizer_config.add_bos_token, True
+        )
 
         # Fetch EOS tokens from generation_config if they exist
         eos_tokens = (