diff --git a/src/maxtext/optimizers/optimizers.py b/src/maxtext/optimizers/optimizers.py
index 7e85d8f595..2ae7e5f8e5 100644
--- a/src/maxtext/optimizers/optimizers.py
+++ b/src/maxtext/optimizers/optimizers.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 import jax.numpy as jnp
 
 import optax
-from maxtext.utils import max_logging
 from optax.contrib._muon import muon
 from maxtext.utils.muon_utils import get_muon_weight_dimension_numbers
 
@@ -140,8 +139,7 @@ def do_update():
       return inner_opt.update(updates, state["inner_state"], params, **extra_args)
 
     def skip_update():
-      # use callback to work with jax.jit and jax.lax.cond for logging
-      jax.debug.callback(lambda c: max_logging.warning(f"Step {c}: Optimizer step skipped due to spike."), count)
+      # b/500923599: Investigate logging compatible with jax.jit, jax.lax.cond, and Pathway
       inner_updates = jax.tree_util.tree_map(jnp.zeros_like, updates)
       return inner_updates, state["inner_state"]
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/deepseek_scan_engram_test.py b/tests/unit/deepseek_scan_engram_test.py
index a84e6909fa..ff51c5c62f 100644
--- a/tests/unit/deepseek_scan_engram_test.py
+++ b/tests/unit/deepseek_scan_engram_test.py
@@ -53,15 +53,26 @@ class TestDeepSeekScanEngram(unittest.TestCase):
       "first_num_dense_layers=5",
       "base_num_decoder_layers=10",
       "num_decoder_layers=10",
+      "base_emb_dim=64",
+      "base_mlp_dim=64",
+      "base_moe_mlp_dim=64",
+      "base_num_query_heads=2",
+      "base_num_kv_heads=2",
+      "head_dim=32",
+      "indexer_head_dim=32",
+      "qk_nope_head_dim=32",
+      "qk_rope_head_dim=16",
+      "v_head_dim=32",
+      "vocab_size=128",
       "mhc_expansion_rate=4",
       "attention=dot_product",
-      "per_device_batch_size=2",
+      "per_device_batch_size=1",
       "max_target_length=8",
       "max_prefill_predict_length=8",
       "enable_checkpointing=False",
       "engram_num_heads=1",
-      "engram_head_dim=32",
-      "engram_vocab_bases=[226240,226240]",
+      "engram_head_dim=8",
+      "engram_vocab_bases=[128,128]",
       "engram_max_ngram_size=3",
       "engram_kernel_size=4",
       "hf_access_token=dummy",
@@ -78,7 +89,7 @@ class MockTokenizer:
       pad_token_id = 0
 
       def __len__(self):
-        return 1000
+        return 128
 
       def __call__(self, x):
         return jnp.ones_like(x)