diff --git a/calibration/calibrate_model.sh b/calibration/calibrate_model.sh
index 5acca0149..55b1f5e34 100755
--- a/calibration/calibrate_model.sh
+++ b/calibration/calibrate_model.sh
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ create_measure_config() {
 
     if [[ $model_name_lower =~ ^mixtral ]]; then
         tmp_config="{\"method\": \"HOOKS\",\"mode\": \"MEASURE\",\"observer\": \"maxabs\",\"allowlist\": {\"types\": [], \"names\":  []},\"blocklist\": {\"types\": [], \"names\":  [\"self_attn\", \"lm_head\"]},\"quantize_weight\": false,\"dump_stats_path\": \"$1/$2/$3/inc_output\"}"
-    elif [[ $model_name_lower =~ ^deepseek ]]; then
+    elif [[ $model_name_lower =~ ^deepseek && ! $model_name_lower =~ distill ]]; then
         tmp_config="{\"method\": \"HOOKS\",\"mode\": \"MEASURE\",\"observer\": \"maxabs\",\"allowlist\": {\"types\": [], \"names\":  []},\"blocklist\": {\"types\": [], \"names\":  [\"lm_head\", \"mlp\\\.gate\\\b\"]},\"quantize_weight\": false,\"dump_stats_path\": \"$1/$2/$3/inc_output\"}"
     else
         tmp_config="{\"method\": \"HOOKS\",\"mode\": \"MEASURE\",\"observer\": \"maxabs\",\"allowlist\": {\"types\": [], \"names\":  []},\"blocklist\": {\"types\": [], \"names\":  []},\"quantize_weight\": false,\"dump_stats_path\": \"$1/$2/$3/inc_output\"}"
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ create_quant_config() {
         else
             tmp_config="{\"mode\": \"QUANTIZE\",\"observer\": \"maxabs\",\"scale_method\": \"maxabs_hw\",\"allowlist\": {\"types\": [],\"names\": []},\"blocklist\": {\"types\": [],\"names\": [\"self_attn\", \"lm_head\"]},\"dump_stats_path\": \"$1/$2/$3/inc_output\"}"
         fi
-    elif [[ $model_name_lower =~ ^deepseek ]]; then
+    elif [[ $model_name_lower =~ ^deepseek && ! $model_name_lower =~ distill ]]; then
         tmp_config="{\"mode\": \"QUANTIZE\",\"observer\": \"maxabs\",\"scale_method\": \"maxabs_hw\", \"scale_format\": \"scalar\", \"allowlist\": {\"types\": [],\"names\": []},\"blocklist\": {\"types\": [],\"names\": [\"lm_head\", \"mlp\\\.gate\\\b\"]},\"dump_stats_path\": \"$1/$2/$3/inc_output\"}"
     else
         tmp_config="{\"mode\": \"QUANTIZE\",\"observer\": \"maxabs\",\"scale_method\": \"maxabs_hw\",\"allowlist\": {\"types\": [],\"names\": []},\"blocklist\": {\"types\": [],\"names\": []},\"dump_stats_path\": \"$1/$2/$3/inc_output\"}"
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ else
 fi
 
 
-if  [[ "$model_name_lower" == *"deepseek"* ]]; then
+if  [[ "$model_name_lower" == *"deepseek"* && "$model_name_lower" != *distill* ]]; then
     EXTRA_FLAGS_STEP_2+="--block-quant --expert-parallel "
     EXTRA_ENVS_STEP_2="VLLM_HPU_FORCE_CHANNEL_FP8=0"
     EXTRA_FLAGS_STEP_3+="--deepseek "