diff --git a/muh/include/muh/tuning/tuning_batched_topk.cuh b/muh/include/muh/tuning/tuning_batched_topk.cuh
index 754c30cb..97d102af 100644
--- a/muh/include/muh/tuning/tuning_batched_topk.cuh
+++ b/muh/include/muh/tuning/tuning_batched_topk.cuh
@@ -4,7 +4,14 @@
 // CCCL: extends topk with batch-level parallelism
 //
 // vllm relevance: multi-sequence parallel decode top-k sampling
-// SMEM risk: same as topk (handled by bits_per_pass)
+// SMEM risk: histogram SMEM = (1 << bits) * sizeof(int) * max_batches
+//   bits=11: 2048*4*batches — even at batches=1, keys_tile + 8192 can overflow
+//   bits=8: 256*4*batches — much safer
+//   Decision: use bits=8 (same as radix_sort) for all key sizes on BI-V100.
+//
+// SMEM layout: keys_tile (union with values_tile) + histogram per batch
+//   total = threads * items * max(key_size, value_size) + (1<<bits) * 4 * batches
+//   Must be ≤ 49152
 
 #pragma once
 
@@ -25,16 +32,34 @@ struct policy_selector {
 
   constexpr BatchedTopkPolicy operator()(const hardware_capability& hw) const {
     auto base = topk::policy_selector{key_size}(hw);
-    
-    // Batches per block: limited by SMEM
-    // Each batch needs: bits_per_pass buckets * sizeof(int) for histogram
-    int buckets = 1 << base.bits_per_pass;
-    int hist_smem = buckets * 4;  // sizeof(int)
-    int max_batches = hw.max_shared_memory_per_block / hist_smem;
+
+    // Force bits=8 for BI-V100 (same decision as radix_sort)
+    // bits=11 → 2048 buckets → histogram SMEM explodes with batching
+    int bits = 8;
+    int buckets = 1 << bits;  // 256
+    int hist_smem_per_batch = buckets * 4;  // 1024 bytes per batch
+
+    // keys_tile for base policy
+    int keys_tile = base.threads_per_block * base.items_per_thread * key_size;
+
+    // Max batches: (SMEM - keys_tile) / hist_per_batch
+    int remaining_smem = hw.max_shared_memory_per_block - keys_tile;
+    int max_batches = remaining_smem > 0 ? remaining_smem / hist_smem_per_batch : 1;
     if (max_batches < 1) max_batches = 1;
     if (max_batches > 32) max_batches = 32;  // cap for occupancy
 
-    return {base, max_batches};
+    // Verify total SMEM
+    int total_smem = keys_tile + hist_smem_per_batch * max_batches;
+    while (total_smem > hw.max_shared_memory_per_block && max_batches > 1) {
+      max_batches--;
+      total_smem = keys_tile + hist_smem_per_batch * max_batches;
+    }
+
+    // Override base bits_per_pass to 8
+    topk::TopkPolicy adjusted_base = base;
+    adjusted_base.bits_per_pass = bits;
+
+    return {adjusted_base, max_batches};
   }
 };