diff --git a/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/cuda/sdp_utils.cpp b/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/cuda/sdp_utils.cpp
index 8fa2a506f35f3..202fe5a256499 100644
--- a/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/cuda/sdp_utils.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/cuda/sdp_utils.cpp
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ bool can_use_flash_attention(sdp_params const& params, bool debug) {
     constexpr auto dense_constraints = array_of<bool (*)(sdp_params const&, bool)>(
         check_batch_size_and_num_heads_dense,
         check_nonzero_sequence_lengths_dense,
-        check_last_dim_stride_equals_1_dense);
+        check_last_dim_stride_equals_1_dense<true /*ignore_singleton_dim=*/>);
     for (auto& constraint : dense_constraints) {
       if (!constraint(params, debug)) {
         return false;
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ bool can_use_mem_efficient_attention(sdp_params const& params, bool debug) {
     constexpr auto dense_constraints = array_of<bool (*)(sdp_params const&, bool)>(
         check_batch_size_and_num_heads_dense,
         check_nonzero_sequence_lengths_dense,
-        check_last_dim_stride_equals_1_dense);
+        check_last_dim_stride_equals_1_dense<false /*ignore_singleton_dim=*/>);
     for (auto& constraint : dense_constraints) {
       if (!constraint(params, debug)) {
         return false;
diff --git a/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/sdp_utils_cpp.cpp b/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/sdp_utils_cpp.cpp
index 85b0d304cdf03..f2159f8f0fdbd 100644
--- a/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/sdp_utils_cpp.cpp
+++ b/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/sdp_utils_cpp.cpp
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ bool use_flash_attention_cpp(sdp_params const& params, bool debug) {
       check_attn_mask_shape,
       check_head_dim_size_cpp,
       check_nonzero_sequence_lengths_dense,
-      check_last_dim_stride_equals_1_dense);
+      check_last_dim_stride_equals_1_dense<false /*ignore_singleton_dim*/>);
   for (auto& constraint : constraints) {
     if (!constraint(params, debug)) {
       return false;
diff --git a/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/sdp_utils_cpp.h b/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/sdp_utils_cpp.h
index 2099ca01a1c26..d5d136c79609e 100644
--- a/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/sdp_utils_cpp.h
+++ b/aten/src/ATen/native/transformers/sdp_utils_cpp.h
@@ -431,6 +431,7 @@ inline bool check_nonzero_sequence_lengths_dense(sdp_params const& params, bool
   return true;
 }
 
+template<bool ignore_singleton_dim>
 inline bool check_last_dim_stride_equals_1_dense(sdp_params const& params, bool debug) {
   // The stride checking for NestedTensors is done within the kernel
   // And .contiguous will be called if needed
@@ -439,6 +440,13 @@ inline bool check_last_dim_stride_equals_1_dense(sdp_params const& params, bool
   // fused_attention have stride 1
   bool qkv_strides_equal_1 = params.query.sym_stride(-1) == 1 &&
       params.key.sym_stride(-1) == 1 && params.value.sym_stride(-1) == 1;
+
+  // https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/116333
+  // If the head_dim is size 1 the stride won't matter, but we
+  // check this condition before padding the head_dim to 1
+  if (ignore_singleton_dim){
+    qkv_strides_equal_1 = qkv_strides_equal_1 || params.query.sym_size(-1) == 1;
+  }
   bool mask_stride_equal_1 = params.attn_mask.has_value()
       ? params.attn_mask.value().sym_stride(-1) == 1
       : true;
diff --git a/test/test_transformers.py b/test/test_transformers.py
index 7b5039b85eceb..a3577248baa16 100644
--- a/test/test_transformers.py
+++ b/test/test_transformers.py
@@ -2121,6 +2121,16 @@ def test_mem_eff_attention_non_contig_mask_bug(self, device):
         max_diff = (out - out_contig).abs().mean()
         self.assertTrue(max_diff.item() < 1e-7)
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(not PLATFORM_SUPPORTS_FLASH_ATTENTION, "Fused SDPA was not built for this system")
+    def test_singelton_head_dim_stride_ne_1(self, device):
+        query = torch.tensor([[[[1, 2]]]], dtype=torch.float16, device=device)
+        query = query.transpose(-1, -2)
+        key = torch.tensor([[[[1]]]], dtype=torch.float16, device=device)
+        value = torch.tensor([[[[1]]]], dtype=torch.float16, device=device)
+
+        with torch.backends.cuda.sdp_kernel(enable_math=False, enable_flash=True, enable_mem_efficient=False):
+            scaled_dot_product_attention(query, key, value)
+
     @unittest.skipIf(not PLATFORM_SUPPORTS_MEM_EFF_ATTENTION, "Fused SDPA was not built for this system")
     @parametrize("type", ["dense", "nested"])
     @parametrize("is_contiguous", [True, False])