diff --git a/csrc/host_ir/evaluator.cpp b/csrc/host_ir/evaluator.cpp
index c464f904560..5da37322588 100644
--- a/csrc/host_ir/evaluator.cpp
+++ b/csrc/host_ir/evaluator.cpp
@@ -376,9 +376,15 @@ void HostIrEvaluator::handle(Communication* communication) {
          communication->type() == CommunicationType::Reduce)
         ? root_val
         : -1;
-    // For Reduce, non-roots may have no output; use input for cache key
+    // For Broadcast and Reduce, non-roots may have no output; use input for
+    // cache key
     at::Tensor cache_buffer =
         output_tensor.defined() ? output_tensor : input_tensor;
+    // For Reduce specifically, use the input tensor for the cache key
+    // since the output doesn't need to be symmetric
+    if (communication->type() == CommunicationType::Reduce) {
+      cache_buffer = input_tensor;
+    }
     SymmetricMemoryHandle* multicast_handle = multicast_handle_cache_.get(
         {.buffer = cache_buffer, .expr = communication, .root = cache_root});
     postWithCudaBackend(
diff --git a/csrc/multidevice/cuda_p2p.cpp b/csrc/multidevice/cuda_p2p.cpp
index a31cee0c1b8..d96b033744d 100644
--- a/csrc/multidevice/cuda_p2p.cpp
+++ b/csrc/multidevice/cuda_p2p.cpp
@@ -857,7 +857,6 @@ void waitAllreduceWithCudaBackend(
 
 void postReduceWithCudaBackend(
     Communication* communication,
-    at::Tensor input,
     at::Tensor output,
     SymmetricMemoryForReduce* reduce_handle,
     CUstream stream,
@@ -875,7 +874,7 @@ void postReduceWithCudaBackend(
       "Only SUM reduction is supported for multimem reduce; got ",
       communication->reduceOp());
   NVF_CHECK(
-      input.scalar_type() == at::kFloat &&
+      reduce_handle->inputBuffer().scalar_type() == at::kFloat &&
           (!output.defined() || output.scalar_type() == at::kFloat),
       "Only float32 is supported for multimem reduce.");
 
@@ -886,14 +885,6 @@ void postReduceWithCudaBackend(
       "size=",
       size);
 
-  // Copy input to symmetric buffer
-  NVFUSER_CUDA_RT_SAFE_CALL(cudaMemcpyAsync(
-      reduce_handle->inputBuffer().data_ptr(),
-      input.data_ptr(),
-      size,
-      cudaMemcpyDeviceToDevice,
-      stream));
-
   const int64_t world_size = communicator.size();
   // All ranks signal ready by writing kInProgress to their own semaphore
   NVFUSER_CUDA_SAFE_CALL(cuStreamWriteValue32(
@@ -923,10 +914,10 @@ void postReduceWithCudaBackend(
         cuStreamBatchMemOp(stream, world_size - 1, ops.data(), 0));
 
     // Root launches the ld_reduce kernel
-    void* dst = output.defined() ? output.data_ptr()
-                                 : reduce_handle->inputBuffer().data_ptr();
+    NVF_ERROR(
+        output.defined(), "Output must be defined for reduce on the root");
     launchMulticastReduceKernel(
-        reduce_handle->multicastPtr(), dst, size, stream);
+        reduce_handle->multicastPtr(), output.data_ptr(), size, stream);
 
     // Root signals completion by writing kIdle to all non-root semaphores
     std::vector<CUstreamBatchMemOpParams> write_complete_ops(world_size - 1);
@@ -1267,7 +1258,7 @@ void postWithCudaBackend(
           dynamic_cast<SymmetricMemoryForReduce*>(symmetric_memory_handle);
       NVF_ERROR(reduce_handle != nullptr, "Invalid reduce handle");
       postReduceWithCudaBackend(
-          communication, input, output, reduce_handle, stream, root);
+          communication, output, reduce_handle, stream, root);
       break;
     }
     default:
diff --git a/csrc/multidevice/ipc_handle.cpp b/csrc/multidevice/ipc_handle.cpp
index e6855b15d1d..a489210e8f6 100644
--- a/csrc/multidevice/ipc_handle.cpp
+++ b/csrc/multidevice/ipc_handle.cpp
@@ -280,17 +280,14 @@ void* SymmetricMemoryForAllreduce::semaphoreUnicastPtr(
 SymmetricMemoryForReduce::SymmetricMemoryForReduce(
     Communication* communication,
     int64_t root,
-    at::Tensor output_buffer)
-    : size_bytes_(output_buffer.numel() * output_buffer.element_size()) {
+    at::Tensor buffer)
+    : size_bytes_(buffer.numel() * buffer.element_size()) {
   std::string name_suffix =
       "for_Communication" + std::to_string(communication->name());
   std::string store_key_prefix = "nvls_reduce_" + name_suffix;
 
-  at::Tensor input_sym = SymmetricTensor::allocate(
-      output_buffer.sizes(),
-      output_buffer.scalar_type(),
-      output_buffer.device());
-  input_sym_tensor_ = std::make_unique<SymmetricTensor>(input_sym);
+  // We assume the input buffer is already a symmetric tensor
+  input_sym_tensor_ = std::make_unique<SymmetricTensor>(buffer);
   input_sym_tensor_->setupRemoteHandles(store_key_prefix + "_input_unicast");
 
   MulticastProtocol protocol = getMulticastProtocol();
@@ -303,7 +300,7 @@ SymmetricMemoryForReduce::SymmetricMemoryForReduce(
   at::Tensor semaphore = SymmetricTensor::allocate(
       /*sizes=*/at::IntArrayRef({1}),
       /*dtype=*/at::ScalarType::Int,
-      /*device=*/output_buffer.device());
+      /*device=*/buffer.device());
 
   // Initialize the semaphore to kIdle
   IpcSemaphore init_value = IpcSemaphore::kIdle;
diff --git a/tests/cpp/test_multidevice_stream_parallel_type.cpp b/tests/cpp/test_multidevice_stream_parallel_type.cpp
index 05870e31f03..fd713d48621 100644
--- a/tests/cpp/test_multidevice_stream_parallel_type.cpp
+++ b/tests/cpp/test_multidevice_stream_parallel_type.cpp
@@ -764,6 +764,12 @@ TEST_P(RSMatmulTest, ReduceScatterReduceBased) {
   C->axis(1)->parallelize(ParallelType::DIDx);
   C->axis(0)->parallelize(ParallelType::Stream);
 
+  // Set the matmul's output to be symmetric in order to use NVLS multimem
+  // reduce.
+  if (communicator_backend == CommunicatorBackend::kCuda) {
+    C_unreduced->setMemoryType(MemoryType::Symmetric);
+  }
+
   MultiDeviceExecutorParams params;
   params.lower.communicator_backend = communicator_backend;
   params.lower.offset_stream_indexing_by_rank = false; // Will fail if true