diff --git a/src/lerobot/policies/pi052/modeling_pi052.py b/src/lerobot/policies/pi052/modeling_pi052.py
index 73799cbc9..f38536994 100644
--- a/src/lerobot/policies/pi052/modeling_pi052.py
+++ b/src/lerobot/policies/pi052/modeling_pi052.py
@@ -1009,60 +1009,11 @@ class PI052Policy(PI05Policy):
             text_logits = lm_head(text_hidden.to(lm_head.weight.dtype))
             preds = text_logits.argmax(dim=-1)
 
-            # Train/inference parity check — run select_message on the
-            # *same* prompt prefix (the language up to but not including
-            # the supervised span) and capture the auto-regressive
-            # generation. The first generated token MUST match the
-            # training-side argmax at the prompt-end position (both are
-            # ``argmax lm_head(h_last_prompt)`` over identical context);
-            # any divergence is a parity bug (mask, dtype, KI routing
-            # difference). Later tokens can diverge because training
-            # uses teacher forcing while inference free-runs.
-            inference_outputs: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
-            for s in range(n):
-                row_labels = sub_labels[s]
-                sup_pos = (row_labels != -100).nonzero(as_tuple=True)[0]
-                if sup_pos.numel() == 0:
-                    inference_outputs.append({"first_token": None, "decoded": ""})
-                    continue
-                first_sup = int(sup_pos[0].item())
-                # Build a single-sample batch by *truncating* the token
-                # sequence to the prompt-only portion (length == first_sup),
-                # not by zero-masking. ``select_message`` reads the
-                # prompt-end hidden state via ``vlm_out[:, -1:]`` — the
-                # *last position* of the prefix — so a padded sequence
-                # would make it read a padding-token hidden state
-                # (PaliGemma's prior on those happens to be ``<loc>``,
-                # which would falsely flag a parity diverge). The real
-                # runtime feeds ``tokenizer(prompt)`` without padding,
-                # so we mirror that here.
-                prompt_tokens = sub[OBS_LANGUAGE_TOKENS][s : s + 1, :first_sup]
-                prompt_mask_orig = sub[OBS_LANGUAGE_ATTENTION_MASK][s : s + 1, :first_sup]
-                inf_batch: dict[str, Any] = {
-                    OBS_LANGUAGE_TOKENS: prompt_tokens,
-                    OBS_LANGUAGE_ATTENTION_MASK: prompt_mask_orig,
-                }
-                for k, v in sub.items():
-                    if isinstance(k, str) and k.startswith("observation.images."):
-                        inf_batch[k] = v[s : s + 1]
-                if "observation.state" in batch and torch.is_tensor(batch["observation.state"]):
-                    inf_batch["observation.state"] = batch["observation.state"][s : s + 1]
-                try:
-                    # Tight budget — we just want to see the model's
-                    # opening continuation, not the full sequence.
-                    decoded = self.select_message(
-                        inf_batch, max_new_tokens=24, temperature=0.0, top_p=1.0
-                    )
-                except Exception as exc:  # noqa: BLE001
-                    decoded = f"<inference failed: {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}>"
-                inference_outputs.append({"first_sup_pos": first_sup, "decoded": decoded})
-
             return {
                 "input_ids": lang_tokens.detach().cpu(),
                 "attention_mask": lang_masks.detach().cpu(),
                 "labels": sub_labels.detach().cpu(),
                 "predictions": preds.detach().cpu(),
-                "inference": inference_outputs,
             }
         finally:
             if was_training:
diff --git a/src/lerobot/scripts/lerobot_train.py b/src/lerobot/scripts/lerobot_train.py
index 0b0059955..2e9409ccb 100644
--- a/src/lerobot/scripts/lerobot_train.py
+++ b/src/lerobot/scripts/lerobot_train.py
@@ -224,7 +224,6 @@ def _print_debug_text_predictions(
     labels = debug["labels"]
     preds = debug["predictions"]
     attn = debug["attention_mask"]
-    inference = debug.get("inference") or []
 
     n = ids.shape[0]
     print(
@@ -251,7 +250,6 @@ def _print_debug_text_predictions(
 
         # Training-side teacher-forced argmax on the same prompt+target.
         n_sup = n_ok = 0
-        first_sup_pred: int | None = None
         teacher_chars: list[int] = []
         for i in range(1, real):
             label = sl[i]
@@ -259,8 +257,6 @@ def _print_debug_text_predictions(
                 continue
             n_sup += 1
             pred = int(sp[i - 1])
-            if first_sup_pred is None:
-                first_sup_pred = pred
             teacher_chars.append(pred)
             if label == pred:
                 n_ok += 1
@@ -272,28 +268,6 @@ def _print_debug_text_predictions(
             f"  training argmax (teacher-fed) : {teacher_text!r}   acc={n_ok}/{n_sup}={acc:.1%}",
             flush=True,
         )
-
-        # Inference-side autoregressive output from the same prompt prefix.
-        inf_entry = inference[s] if s < len(inference) else None
-        if inf_entry:
-            inf_decoded = inf_entry.get("decoded", "")
-            print(f"  inference (autoregressive)    : {inf_decoded!r}", flush=True)
-            # First-token parity: training-side argmax at the prompt-end
-            # position MUST equal inference's first generated token —
-            # both compute argmax(lm_head(h_last_prompt)) on identical
-            # context. Any divergence signals a training↔inference bug.
-            if first_sup_pred is not None and inf_decoded and not inf_decoded.startswith("<inference"):
-                inf_ids = tokenizer(inf_decoded, add_special_tokens=False)["input_ids"]
-                if inf_ids:
-                    inf_first = int(inf_ids[0])
-                    match = inf_first == first_sup_pred
-                    print(
-                        f"  first-token parity            : "
-                        f"train={first_sup_pred} ({tokenizer.decode([first_sup_pred])!r}) "
-                        f"vs infer={inf_first} ({tokenizer.decode([inf_first])!r})  "
-                        f"{'✓ MATCH' if match else '✗ DIVERGED — training/inference mismatch'}",
-                        flush=True,
-                    )
     print("=" * 60 + "\n", flush=True)
 
 
@@ -381,15 +355,26 @@ def train(cfg: TrainPipelineConfig, accelerator: "Accelerator | None" = None):
     # We set step_scheduler_with_optimizer=False to prevent accelerate from adjusting the lr_scheduler steps based on the num_processes
     # We set find_unused_parameters=True to handle models with conditional computation
     if accelerator is None:
-        from accelerate.utils import DistributedDataParallelKwargs
+        from datetime import timedelta
+
+        from accelerate.utils import DistributedDataParallelKwargs, InitProcessGroupKwargs
 
         ddp_kwargs = DistributedDataParallelKwargs(find_unused_parameters=True)
+        # Bump the c10d store-get / barrier timeout so the rank-0-only
+        # ``make_dataset`` block below doesn't trigger a barrier crash on
+        # large datasets. Default is 10 min (``store->get`` 600 s); a
+        # 32 k-episode v3 dataset (e.g. ``robocasa_pretrain_human300_v4``)
+        # spends >13 min on rank 0 building the episode/frame index
+        # while ranks 1-N idle at ``wait_for_everyone()`` and crash with
+        # ``DistBackendError: ... wait timeout after 600000ms``. 2 h is
+        # plenty of headroom; fast paths are unaffected.
+        ipg_kwargs = InitProcessGroupKwargs(timeout=timedelta(hours=2))
         # Accelerate auto-detects the device based on the available hardware and ignores the policy.device setting.
         # Force the device to be CPU when the active config's device is set to CPU (works for both policy and reward model training).
         force_cpu = cfg.trainable_config.device == "cpu"
         accelerator = Accelerator(
             step_scheduler_with_optimizer=False,
-            kwargs_handlers=[ddp_kwargs],
+            kwargs_handlers=[ddp_kwargs, ipg_kwargs],
             cpu=force_cpu,
         )