diff --git a/.github/workflows/native_s3_huggingface.yml b/.github/workflows/native_s3_huggingface.yml
index 5d26195de03..3c54d028e18 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/native_s3_huggingface.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/native_s3_huggingface.yml
@@ -216,14 +216,16 @@ jobs:
           aws s3 sync extensions/tokenizers/jnilib/$DJL_VERSION/linux-aarch64 s3://djl-ai/publish/tokenizers/${TOKENIZERS_VERSION}/jnilib/$DJL_VERSION/linux-aarch64/
           aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id E371VB8JQ6NRVY --paths "/tokenizers/${TOKENIZERS_VERSION}/jnilib/*"
 
-  build-tokenizers-jni-cu124:
+  build-tokenizers-jni-cu122:
     if: github.repository == 'deepjavalibrary/djl'
     runs-on: [ self-hosted, g5 ]
     timeout-minutes: 30
     needs: create-runners
     container:
-      image: nvidia/cuda:12.4.1-cudnn-devel-ubuntu20.04
+      image: nvidia/cuda:12.2.2-cudnn8-devel-ubuntu20.04
       options: --gpus all --runtime=nvidia
+    env:
+      CUDA_VERSION: cu122
     steps:
       - name: Install Environment
         run: |
@@ -254,9 +256,8 @@ jobs:
             ${{ runner.os }}-gradle-
       - name: Release JNI prep
         run: |
-          CUDA_VERSION=cu124
           . "$HOME/.cargo/env"
-          ./gradlew :extensions:tokenizers:compileJNI -Pcuda=$CUDA_VERSION
+          ./gradlew :extensions:tokenizers:compileJNI -Pcuda=${{ env.CUDA_VERSION }}
           ./gradlew -Pjni :extensions:tokenizers:test
       - name: Configure AWS Credentials
         uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v2
@@ -268,13 +269,13 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           DJL_VERSION=$(awk -F '=' '/djl / {gsub(/ ?"/, "", $2); print $2}' gradle/libs.versions.toml)
           TOKENIZERS_VERSION="$(awk -F '=' '/tokenizers/ {gsub(/ ?"/, "", $2); print $2}' gradle/libs.versions.toml)"
-          aws s3 sync extensions/tokenizers/jnilib/$DJL_VERSION/linux-x86_64/cu124 s3://djl-ai/publish/tokenizers/${TOKENIZERS_VERSION}/jnilib/$DJL_VERSION/linux-x86_64/cu124/
+          aws s3 sync extensions/tokenizers/jnilib/$DJL_VERSION/linux-x86_64/${{ env.CUDA_VERSION }} s3://djl-ai/publish/tokenizers/${TOKENIZERS_VERSION}/jnilib/${DJL_VERSION}/linux-x86_64/${{ env.CUDA_VERSION }}/
           aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id E371VB8JQ6NRVY --paths "/tokenizers/${TOKENIZERS_VERSION}/jnilib/*"
 
   stop-runners:
     if: ${{ github.repository == 'deepjavalibrary/djl' && always() }}
     runs-on: [ self-hosted, scheduler ]
-    needs: [ create-runners, build-tokenizer-jni-aarch64, build-tokenizers-jni-cu124 ]
+    needs: [ create-runners, build-tokenizer-jni-aarch64, build-tokenizers-jni-cu122 ]
     steps:
       - name: Stop all instances
         run: |
diff --git a/extensions/tokenizers/build.sh b/extensions/tokenizers/build.sh
index c3cbf793d70..58c4df4f017 100755
--- a/extensions/tokenizers/build.sh
+++ b/extensions/tokenizers/build.sh
@@ -29,8 +29,10 @@ javac -sourcepath src/main/java/ src/main/java/ai/djl/huggingface/tokenizers/jni
 javac -sourcepath src/main/java/ src/main/java/ai/djl/engine/rust/RustLibrary.java -h build/include -d build/classes
 
 RUST_MANIFEST=rust/Cargo.toml
-if [ -x "$(command -v nvcc)" ]; then
-  cargo build --manifest-path $RUST_MANIFEST --release --features cuda,flash-attn,cublaslt
+if [[ "$FLAVOR" = "cpu"* ]]; then
+  cargo build --manifest-path $RUST_MANIFEST --release
+elif [[ "$FLAVOR" = "cu"* && "$FLAVOR" > "cu121" ]]; then
+  cargo build --manifest-path $RUST_MANIFEST --release --features cuda,cublaslt,flash-attn
 else
   cargo build --manifest-path $RUST_MANIFEST --release
 fi
diff --git a/extensions/tokenizers/src/main/java/ai/djl/huggingface/tokenizers/jni/LibUtils.java b/extensions/tokenizers/src/main/java/ai/djl/huggingface/tokenizers/jni/LibUtils.java
index 684504de47a..2caa6e9312e 100644
--- a/extensions/tokenizers/src/main/java/ai/djl/huggingface/tokenizers/jni/LibUtils.java
+++ b/extensions/tokenizers/src/main/java/ai/djl/huggingface/tokenizers/jni/LibUtils.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ public final class LibUtils {
     private static final Pattern VERSION_PATTERN =
             Pattern.compile(
                     "(\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+(-[a-z]+)?)-(\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+)(-SNAPSHOT)?(-\\d+)?");
-    private static final String FLAVOR_CU124 = "cu124";
+    private static final int[] SUPPORTED_CUDA_VERSIONS = {122};
 
     private static EngineException exception;
 
@@ -89,8 +89,39 @@ private static Path copyJniLibrary(String[] libs) {
         Platform platform = Platform.detectPlatform("tokenizers");
         String os = platform.getOsPrefix();
         String classifier = platform.getClassifier();
-        String flavor = platform.getFlavor();
         String version = platform.getVersion();
+        String flavor = Utils.getEnvOrSystemProperty("TOKENIZERS_FLAVOR");
+        boolean override = flavor != null && !flavor.isEmpty();
+        if (override) {
+            logger.info("Uses override TOKENIZERS_FLAVOR: {}", flavor);
+        } else {
+            if (Utils.isOfflineMode() || "win".equals(os)) {
+                flavor = "cpu";
+            } else {
+                flavor = platform.getFlavor();
+            }
+        }
+
+        // Find the highest matching CUDA version
+        if (flavor.startsWith("cu")) {
+            int cudaVersion = Integer.parseInt(flavor.substring(2, 5));
+            boolean match = false;
+            for (int v : SUPPORTED_CUDA_VERSIONS) {
+                if (override && cudaVersion == v) {
+                    match = true;
+                    break;
+                } else if (cudaVersion >= v) {
+                    flavor = "cu" + v;
+                    match = true;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            if (!match) {
+                logger.warn("No matching cuda flavor for {} found: {}.", classifier, flavor);
+                flavor = "cpu"; // Fallback to CPU
+            }
+        }
+
         Path dir = cacheDir.resolve(version + '-' + flavor + '-' + classifier);
         Path path = dir.resolve(LIB_NAME);
         logger.debug("Using cache dir: {}", dir);
@@ -98,8 +129,13 @@ private static Path copyJniLibrary(String[] libs) {
             return dir.toAbsolutePath();
         }
 
-        // For Linux cuda 12.x, download JNI library
-        if (flavor.startsWith("cu12") && !"win".equals(os)) {
+        // Copy JNI library from classpath
+        if (copyJniLibraryFromClasspath(libs, cacheDir, dir, classifier, flavor)) {
+            return dir.toAbsolutePath();
+        }
+
+        // Download JNI library
+        if (flavor.startsWith("cu")) {
             Matcher matcher = VERSION_PATTERN.matcher(version);
             if (!matcher.matches()) {
                 throw new EngineException("Unexpected version: " + version);
@@ -107,11 +143,14 @@ private static Path copyJniLibrary(String[] libs) {
             String jniVersion = matcher.group(1);
             String djlVersion = matcher.group(3);
 
-            downloadJniLib(dir, path, djlVersion, jniVersion, classifier, FLAVOR_CU124);
+            downloadJniLib(dir, path, djlVersion, jniVersion, classifier, flavor);
             return dir.toAbsolutePath();
         }
+        return null;
+    }
 
-        // Extract JNI library from classpath
+    private static boolean copyJniLibraryFromClasspath(
+            String[] libs, Path cacheDir, Path dir, String classifier, String flavor) {
         Path tmp = null;
         try {
             Files.createDirectories(cacheDir);
@@ -126,14 +165,15 @@ private static Path copyJniLibrary(String[] libs) {
                 }
             }
             Utils.moveQuietly(tmp, dir);
-            return dir.toAbsolutePath();
+            return true;
         } catch (IOException e) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot copy jni files", e);
+            logger.error("Cannot copy jni files", e);
         } finally {
             if (tmp != null) {
                 Utils.deleteQuietly(tmp);
             }
         }
+        return false;
     }
 
     private static void downloadJniLib(