diff --git a/tools/qdq-translator/CHANGELOG.md b/tools/qdq-translator/CHANGELOG.md
index a0d9d04..7126b6d 100644
--- a/tools/qdq-translator/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/tools/qdq-translator/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 # NVIDIA QDQ Translator change log
 
 Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format.
+
+## Unreleased
+
+- Added support for translating models with a standalone DequantizeLinear connected to an int8/uint8 graph input.
+- Skip the onnxoptimizer ``fuse_bn_into_conv`` pass when any BatchNormalization parameter is fp16, to avoid graph decomposition (see https://github.com/onnx/optimizer/blob/master/onnxoptimizer/passes/fuse_bn_into_conv.h#L40).
+
 ## v0.2.0 (2023-08-09)
 
 - Added "infer_mul_scales" arg for handling Mul op.
diff --git a/tools/qdq-translator/qdq_translator.py b/tools/qdq-translator/qdq_translator.py
index 0dbe4ab..37254f0 100644
--- a/tools/qdq-translator/qdq_translator.py
+++ b/tools/qdq-translator/qdq_translator.py
@@ -288,12 +288,39 @@ def extract_qdq_scales(quantize_node: gs.Node, dequantize_node: gs.Node):
         assert (quant_scales == dequant_scales).all()
         return quant_scales
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _remove_input_dq(graph: gs.Graph, precision_config: Dict[str, float]):
+        """Strip DequantizeLinear nodes that consume an int8/uint8 graph input directly."""
+        gin_names = {i.name for i in graph.inputs}
+        for dq in list(graph.nodes):
+            if dq.op != "DequantizeLinear":
+                continue
+            x = dq.inputs[0]
+            if not (isinstance(x, gs.Variable) and x.name in gin_names
+                    and len(x.inputs) == 0 and x.dtype in (np.int8, np.uint8)):
+                continue
+            dq_out = dq.outputs[0]
+            if isinstance(dq.inputs[1], gs.Constant):
+                dq_scale = dq.inputs[1].values
+            else:
+                dq_scale = dq.inputs[1].inputs[0].attrs["value"].values
+            if len(dq.inputs) > 2 and isinstance(dq.inputs[2], gs.Constant):
+                assert (dq.inputs[2].values == 0).all()
+            precision_config[x.name] = float(dq_scale)
+            # Flip to float dtype so downstream consumers pass ONNX type checks; binding-side int8 is reasserted via TRT flags + precision_config.
+            x.dtype = dq_out.dtype
+            for node in graph.nodes:
+                QATModelParser.node_replace_input(node, dq_out.name, x, None, None)
+            QATModelParser.graph_replace_output(graph, dq_out.name, x)
+            dq.outputs.clear()
+
     @staticmethod
     def extract_precision_config(graph: gs.Graph, calibration_type: str):
         precision_config = {}
         # Check for all zero weighted inputs of QuantizeLinear and
         # Conv nodes and add to this set to skip for the later check
         zero_check_skip = set()
+        QATModelParser._remove_input_dq(graph, precision_config)
         for node in graph.nodes:
             if node.op != "QuantizeLinear":
                 if node.op in ("Conv", "ConvTranspose", "Gemm"):
@@ -578,6 +605,17 @@ def parse(model_path: str, output_dir: str, post_opt_passes: List[str],
 
         model = onnx.shape_inference.infer_shapes(model)
         graph = gs.import_onnx(model)
+        if 'fuse_bn_into_conv' in post_opt_passes:
+            has_bn_fp16 = any(
+                n.op == 'BatchNormalization'
+                and any(isinstance(c, gs.Constant) and c.values.dtype == np.float16 for c in n.inputs)
+                for n in graph.nodes
+            )
+            if has_bn_fp16:
+                logging.warning(
+                    'Skipping fuse_bn_into_conv: onnxoptimizer decomposes BN with fp16 params '
+                    '(see https://github.com/onnx/optimizer/blob/master/onnxoptimizer/passes/fuse_bn_into_conv.h#L40).')
+                post_opt_passes = [p for p in post_opt_passes if p != 'fuse_bn_into_conv']
         if rename_node_outputs:
             for node in graph.nodes:
                 for idx, out in enumerate(node.outputs):