diff --git a/src/llmcompressor/args/dataset_arguments.py b/src/llmcompressor/args/dataset_arguments.py
index 86bd88fd91..60705744e2 100644
--- a/src/llmcompressor/args/dataset_arguments.py
+++ b/src/llmcompressor/args/dataset_arguments.py
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from typing import Callable
 
+from datasets import Dataset, DatasetDict
+from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
+
 
 @dataclass
 class DVCDatasetArguments:
@@ -101,12 +104,13 @@ class DatasetArguments(CustomDatasetArguments):
     arguments to be able to specify them on the command line
     """
 
-    dataset: str | None = field(
+    dataset: str | Dataset | DatasetDict | DataLoader | None = field(
         default=None,
         metadata={
             "help": (
-                "The name of the dataset to use (via the datasets library). "
-                "Supports input as a string or DatasetDict from HF"
+                "The dataset to use for calibration. Supports a dataset name "
+                "(str, via the datasets library), a DatasetDict from HF, or a "
+                "pre-built PyTorch DataLoader."
             )
         },
     )
diff --git a/src/llmcompressor/datasets/utils.py b/src/llmcompressor/datasets/utils.py
index 69d1b47415..3478f08055 100644
--- a/src/llmcompressor/datasets/utils.py
+++ b/src/llmcompressor/datasets/utils.py
@@ -100,16 +100,24 @@ def _get_split_name(inp_str):
 def get_calibration_dataloader(
     dataset_args: DatasetArguments,
     processor: Processor,
-) -> torch.utils.data.DataLoader:
+) -> DataLoader | None:
     """
     Get the dataloader used for oneshot calibration.
+
+    If dataset_args.dataset is already a PyTorch DataLoader,
+    it is returned directly, bypassing dataset loading and tokenization.
+
     :param dataset_args: DatasetArguments that contains the dataset parameters.
     :param processor: Processor or the tokenizer of the model.
-    :return: PyTorch dataloader object that contains the calibration dataset.
+    :return: PyTorch dataloader object that contains the calibration
+        dataset, or None for data-free flows.
     """
     if dataset_args.dataset is None:
         # weight-only quantization or dynamic quantization
-        return
+        return None
+
+    if isinstance(dataset_args.dataset, DataLoader):
+        return dataset_args.dataset
 
     datasets = get_processed_dataset(
         dataset_args=dataset_args,
diff --git a/src/llmcompressor/entrypoints/oneshot.py b/src/llmcompressor/entrypoints/oneshot.py
index 34fc06bd43..9ab1df68e9 100644
--- a/src/llmcompressor/entrypoints/oneshot.py
+++ b/src/llmcompressor/entrypoints/oneshot.py
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ def oneshot(
     clear_sparse_session: bool = False,
     stage: str | None = None,
     # Dataset arguments
-    dataset: str | Dataset | DatasetDict | None = None,
+    dataset: str | Dataset | DatasetDict | DataLoader | None = None,
     dataset_config_name: str | None = None,
     dataset_path: str | None = None,
     splits: str | list[str] | dict[str, str] | None = None,
@@ -340,8 +340,10 @@ def oneshot(
     :param stage: The stage of the recipe to use for oneshot.
 
     # Dataset arguments
-    :param dataset: The name of the dataset to use (via the datasets
-        library).
+    :param dataset: The dataset to use for calibration. Can be a dataset name
+        (str, via the datasets library), a HuggingFace Dataset or DatasetDict,
+        or a pre-built PyTorch DataLoader. When a DataLoader is passed, the
+        internal dataset-to-dataloader conversion is skipped.
     :param dataset_config_name: The configuration name of the dataset
         to use.
     :param dataset_path: Path to a custom dataset. Supports json, csv, dvc.
@@ -393,7 +395,6 @@ def oneshot(
     :param sequential_prefetch: When using the sequential pipeline, prefetch the
         next batch in a background thread to overlap onload with forward. Default
         False; set True for faster calibration when GPU memory allows.
-
     # Miscellaneous arguments
     :param output_dir: Path to save the output model after calibration.
         Nothing is saved if None.