diff --git a/astrai/trainer/train_context.py b/astrai/trainer/train_context.py
index 05d5dbb..ac62be5 100644
--- a/astrai/trainer/train_context.py
+++ b/astrai/trainer/train_context.py
@@ -238,20 +238,23 @@ class TrainContextBuilder:
             tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(self._param_path)
             reward_model = cfg.reward_model_fn()
 
+            group_size = strategy_kwargs.get("group_size", 1)
+            rollout_batch_size = group_size * max(1, cfg.batch_per_device)
+            max_seq_len = getattr(context.model.config, "max_len", None)
+
             scheduler = InferenceScheduler(
                 model=context.model,
                 tokenizer=tokenizer,
-                max_batch_size=strategy_kwargs.get("group_size", 8)
-                * max(1, cfg.batch_size or 1),
-                max_seq_len=getattr(context.model.config, "max_len", None),
-                max_prompt_len=getattr(context.model.config, "max_len", 4096),
+                max_batch_size=rollout_batch_size,
+                max_seq_len=max_seq_len,
+                max_prompt_len=max_seq_len or 4096,
             )
 
             generator = RolloutGenerator(
                 scheduler=scheduler,
                 tokenizer=tokenizer,
                 max_tokens=cfg.rollout_max_tokens,
-                group_size=strategy_kwargs.get("group_size", 8),
+                group_size=group_size,
                 temperature=cfg.rollout_temperature,
                 top_k=cfg.rollout_top_k,
                 top_p=cfg.rollout_top_p,
diff --git a/tests/trainer/test_online_e2e.py b/tests/trainer/test_online_e2e.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..827781e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/trainer/test_online_e2e.py
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+"""End-to-end integration test for online DPO rollout."""
+
+import os
+from functools import partial
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+from torch.utils.data import Dataset
+
+from astrai.config import TrainConfig
+from astrai.model.transformer import AutoRegressiveLM
+from astrai.trainer.rollout import BaseRewardModel
+from astrai.trainer.schedule import SchedulerFactory
+from astrai.trainer.trainer import Trainer
+
+
+class PromptDataset(Dataset):
+    """Toy prompt-only dataset for online RL rollout."""
+
+    def __init__(self, n=4, seq_len=8, vocab_size=1000):
+        self.n = n
+        self.seq_len = seq_len
+        self.vocab_size = vocab_size
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return self.n
+
+    def __getitem__(self, idx):
+        return {
+            "input_ids": torch.randint(3, self.vocab_size, (self.seq_len,)),
+            "attention_mask": torch.ones(self.seq_len, dtype=torch.bool),
+        }
+
+
+class LengthRewardModel(BaseRewardModel):
+    """Rewards each response by its (non-pad) token count.
+
+    Enough for DPO to distinguish chosen/rejected from the rollout group.
+    """
+
+    def score(self, prompts, responses):
+        B = len(prompts)
+        G = len(responses[0]) if B else 0
+        rewards = torch.zeros(B, G)
+        for i in range(B):
+            for g in range(G):
+                rewards[i, g] = float(len(responses[i][g]))
+        return rewards
+
+
+def _model_fn(model_config):
+    return AutoRegressiveLM(model_config).to(dtype=torch.float32)
+
+
+def _optimizer_fn(m):
+    return torch.optim.AdamW(m.parameters(), lr=1e-4)
+
+
+def _scheduler_fn(optim):
+    return SchedulerFactory.create(
+        "cosine", optim, warmup_steps=1, lr_decay_steps=4, min_rate=0.05
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.integration
+def test_online_dpo_end_to_end(base_test_env):
+    """Run one epoch of online DPO with KV-cache-backed rollout."""
+    test_dir = base_test_env["test_dir"]
+    device = base_test_env["device"]
+    tokenizer = base_test_env["tokenizer"]
+    model_config = base_test_env["transformer_config"]
+
+    # base_test_env already wrote config.json into test_dir; we only need
+    # to drop the tokenizer files so AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained works.
+    tokenizer.save_pretrained(test_dir)
+
+    model_fn = partial(_model_fn, model_config)
+    optimizer_fn = _optimizer_fn
+    scheduler_fn = _scheduler_fn
+
+    dataset = PromptDataset(n=4, seq_len=8, vocab_size=model_config.vocab_size)
+
+    train_config = TrainConfig(
+        strategy="online_dpo",
+        model_fn=model_fn,
+        dataset=dataset,
+        optimizer_fn=optimizer_fn,
+        scheduler_fn=scheduler_fn,
+        ckpt_dir=os.path.join(test_dir, "ckpt"),
+        log_dir=os.path.join(test_dir, "logs"),
+        n_epoch=1,
+        batch_per_device=2,
+        ckpt_interval=100,
+        grad_accum_steps=1,
+        random_seed=42,
+        device_type=device,
+        nprocs=1,
+        parallel_mode="none",
+        extra_kwargs={"beta": 0.1, "group_size": 2},
+        rollout_interval=1,
+        rollout_temperature=1.0,
+        rollout_top_k=0,
+        rollout_top_p=1.0,
+        rollout_max_tokens=4,
+        reward_model_fn=LengthRewardModel,
+        collate_fn=None,
+    )
+
+    trainer = Trainer(train_config)
+    trainer.train(param_path=test_dir)
+
+    assert os.path.isdir(os.path.join(test_dir, "ckpt"))