diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_async_eplb.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_async_eplb.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index d7167161b0059..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_async_eplb.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -euxo pipefail
-
-# args: [THRESHOLD] [NUM_QUESTIONS] [START_PORT]
-THRESHOLD=${1:-0.25}
-NUM_Q=${2:-1319}
-PORT=${3:-8030}
-OUT_DIR=${OUT_DIR:-/tmp/vllm-scheduled}
-mkdir -p "${OUT_DIR}"
-
-wait_for_server() {
-  local port=$1
-  timeout 600 bash -c '
-    until curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:'"$port"'/health" > /dev/null; do
-      sleep 1
-    done'
-}
-
-MODEL="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V2-lite"
-
-# Set BACKENDS based on platform
-if command -v rocm-smi &> /dev/null || [[ -d /opt/rocm ]] || [[ -n "${ROCM_PATH:-}" ]]; then
-  # ROCm platform
-  BACKENDS=("allgather_reducescatter")
-  # Disable MOE padding for ROCm since it is causing eplb to fail
-  export VLLM_ROCM_MOE_PADDING=0
-else
-  # Non-ROCm platform (CUDA/other)
-  BACKENDS=("deepep_high_throughput" "deepep_low_latency")
-fi
-
-cleanup() {
-  if [[ -n "${SERVER_PID:-}" ]] && kill -0 "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null; then
-    kill "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
-    for _ in {1..20}; do
-      kill -0 "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null || break
-      sleep 0.5
-    done
-    kill -9 "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
-  fi
-}
-trap cleanup EXIT
-
-for BACK in "${BACKENDS[@]}"; do
-  VLLM_DEEP_GEMM_WARMUP=skip \
-  VLLM_ALL2ALL_BACKEND=$BACK \
-  vllm serve "$MODEL" \
-    --enforce-eager \
-    --tensor-parallel-size 2 \
-    --data-parallel-size 2 \
-    --enable-expert-parallel \
-    --enable-eplb \
-    --eplb-config '{"window_size":200,"step_interval":600,"use_async":true}' \
-    --trust-remote-code \
-    --max-model-len 2048 \
-    --port $PORT &
-  SERVER_PID=$!
-  wait_for_server $PORT
-
-  TAG=$(echo "$MODEL" | tr '/: \\n' '_____')
-  OUT="${OUT_DIR}/${TAG}_${BACK}_async_eplb.json"
-  python3 tests/evals/gsm8k/gsm8k_eval.py --host http://127.0.0.1 --port $PORT --num-questions ${NUM_Q} --save-results ${OUT}
-  python3 - <<PY
-import json; acc=json.load(open('${OUT}'))['accuracy']
-print(f"${MODEL} ${BACK}: accuracy {acc:.3f}")
-assert acc >= ${THRESHOLD}, f"${MODEL} ${BACK} accuracy {acc}"
-PY
-
-  cleanup
-  SERVER_PID=
-  sleep 1
-  PORT=$((PORT+1))
-done
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_eplb.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_eplb.sh
index 693418da6093e..8106f50f18f66 100644
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_eplb.sh
+++ b/.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_eplb.sh
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ for BACK in "${BACKENDS[@]}"; do
     --data-parallel-size 2 \
     --enable-expert-parallel \
     --enable-eplb \
-    --eplb-config '{"window_size":200,"step_interval":600}' \
     --trust-remote-code \
     --max-model-len 2048 \
     --port $PORT &
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen3_next_mtp_async_eplb.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen3_next_mtp_async_eplb.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 937a43d1a3221..0000000000000
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen3_next_mtp_async_eplb.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -euxo pipefail
-
-# args: [THRESHOLD] [NUM_QUESTIONS] [START_PORT]
-THRESHOLD=${1:-0.25}
-NUM_Q=${2:-1319}
-PORT=${3:-8040}
-OUT_DIR=${OUT_DIR:-/tmp/vllm-scheduled}
-mkdir -p "${OUT_DIR}"
-
-wait_for_server() {
-  local port=$1
-  timeout 600 bash -c '
-    until curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:'"$port"'/health" > /dev/null; do
-      sleep 1
-    done'
-}
-
-MODEL="Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct"
-
-# Set BACKENDS based on platform
-if command -v rocm-smi &> /dev/null || [[ -d /opt/rocm ]] || [[ -n "${ROCM_PATH:-}" ]]; then
-  # ROCm platform
-  BACKENDS=("allgather_reducescatter")
-  # Disable MOE padding for ROCm since it is causing eplb to fail
-  export VLLM_ROCM_MOE_PADDING=0
-else
-  # Non-ROCm platform (CUDA/other)
-  BACKENDS=("deepep_high_throughput" "deepep_low_latency")
-fi
-
-cleanup() {
-  if [[ -n "${SERVER_PID:-}" ]] && kill -0 "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null; then
-    kill "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
-    for _ in {1..20}; do
-      kill -0 "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null || break
-      sleep 0.5
-    done
-    kill -9 "${SERVER_PID}" 2>/dev/null || true
-  fi
-}
-trap cleanup EXIT
-
-for BACK in "${BACKENDS[@]}"; do
-  VLLM_DEEP_GEMM_WARMUP=skip \
-  VLLM_ALL2ALL_BACKEND=$BACK \
-  vllm serve "$MODEL" \
-    --enforce-eager \
-    --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
-    --enable-expert-parallel \
-    --enable-eplb \
-    --eplb-config '{"window_size":200,"step_interval":600,"use_async":true}' \
-    --speculative-config '{"method":"qwen3_next_mtp","num_speculative_tokens":1}' \
-    --trust-remote-code \
-    --max-model-len 2048 \
-    --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
-    --port $PORT &
-  SERVER_PID=$!
-  wait_for_server $PORT
-
-  TAG=$(echo "$MODEL" | tr '/: \\n' '_____')
-  OUT="${OUT_DIR}/${TAG}_${BACK}.json"
-  python3 tests/evals/gsm8k/gsm8k_eval.py --host http://127.0.0.1 --port $PORT --num-questions ${NUM_Q} --save-results ${OUT}
-  python3 - <<PY
-import json; acc=json.load(open('${OUT}'))['accuracy']
-print(f"${MODEL} ${BACK}: accuracy {acc:.3f}")
-assert acc >= ${THRESHOLD}, f"${MODEL} ${BACK} accuracy {acc}"
-PY
-
-  cleanup
-  SERVER_PID=
-  sleep 1
-  PORT=$((PORT+1))
-done
diff --git a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
index 8fc3587f7813c..750e7c038351c 100644
--- a/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
+++ b/.buildkite/test-pipeline.yaml
@@ -1379,22 +1379,4 @@ steps:
   num_gpus: 2
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace"
   commands:
-  - bash .buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen30b_a3b_fp8_block_ep_eplb.sh 0.8 200 8020 2 1
-
-- label: DeepSeek V2-Lite Async EPLB Accuracy
-  timeout_in_minutes: 60
-  gpu: h100
-  optional: true
-  num_gpus: 4
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace"
-  commands:
-  - bash .buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_async_eplb.sh 0.25 1319 8030
-
-- label: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct MTP Async EPLB Accuracy
-  timeout_in_minutes: 60
-  gpu: h100
-  optional: true
-  num_gpus: 4
-  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace"
-  commands:
-  - bash .buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen3_next_mtp_async_eplb.sh 0.8 1319 8040
+  - bash .buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen30b_a3b_fp8_block_ep_eplb.sh 0.8 200 8020 2 1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vllm/distributed/eplb/rebalance_execute.py b/vllm/distributed/eplb/rebalance_execute.py
index 55856d940f001..376dad8a72ef1 100644
--- a/vllm/distributed/eplb/rebalance_execute.py
+++ b/vllm/distributed/eplb/rebalance_execute.py
@@ -322,6 +322,9 @@ async def transfer_layer(
     num_local_physical_experts = next(iter(expert_weights[0])).shape[0]
     assert new_global_expert_indices.shape == (num_moe_layers, num_physical_experts)
     assert num_physical_experts == ep_size * num_local_physical_experts
+    # A buffer to hold the expert weights in one layer during the exchange.
+    # NOTE: Currently we assume the same weights across different layers
+    # have the same shape.
 
     is_unchanged, is_received_locally, experts_recv_loc = move_to_buffer(
         num_local_experts=num_local_physical_experts,