diff --git a/nanochat/flash_attention.py b/nanochat/flash_attention.py
index 5d27e5f..7c99149 100644
--- a/nanochat/flash_attention.py
+++ b/nanochat/flash_attention.py
@@ -69,29 +69,29 @@ def _sdpa_attention(q, k, v, window_size, enable_gqa):
     if (window < 0 or window >= Tq) and Tq == Tk:
         return F.scaled_dot_product_attention(q, k, v, is_causal=True, enable_gqa=enable_gqa)
 
+    device = q.device
+
     # Single token generation
     if Tq == 1:
+        if window >= 0 and window < Tk:
+            # window is "left" tokens we need to include (window + 1) keys total
+            start = max(0, Tk - (window + 1))
+            k = k[:, :, start:, :]
+            v = v[:, :, start:, :]
         return F.scaled_dot_product_attention(q, k, v, is_causal=False, enable_gqa=enable_gqa)
+    
+    # Need explicit mask for sliding window/chunk inference
+    # For chunk inference (Tq != Tk), is_causal is not aligned to cache position => build an explicit bool mask
+    row_idx = (Tk - Tq) + torch.arange(Tq, device=device).unsqueeze(1)
+    col_idx = torch.arange(Tk, device=device).unsqueeze(0)
+    mask = col_idx <= row_idx
 
-    # Need explicit mask
-    device = q.device
-    if Tq == Tk:
-        # Causal + sliding window
-        mask = torch.tril(torch.ones(Tq, Tk, device=device, dtype=torch.bool))
-        if window > 0 and window < Tq:
-            row_idx = torch.arange(Tq, device=device).unsqueeze(1)
-            col_idx = torch.arange(Tk, device=device).unsqueeze(0)
-            mask = mask & ((row_idx - col_idx) <= window)
-    else:
-        # Chunk inference: attend to prefix + causal within chunk
-        prefix_len = Tk - Tq
-        mask = torch.zeros(Tq, Tk, device=device, dtype=torch.bool)
-        mask[:, :prefix_len] = True
-        mask[:, prefix_len:] = torch.tril(torch.ones(Tq, Tq, device=device, dtype=torch.bool))
-
+    # sliding window (left)
+    if window >= 0 and window < Tk:
+        mask = mask & ((row_idx - col_idx) <= window)
+    
     return F.scaled_dot_product_attention(q, k, v, attn_mask=mask, enable_gqa=enable_gqa)
 
-
 # =============================================================================
 # Public API: Same interface as FA3
 # =============================================================================