diff --git a/tests/foundationals/latent_diffusion/conftest.py b/tests/foundationals/latent_diffusion/conftest.py
index 8e05561f8..787be04bb 100644
--- a/tests/foundationals/latent_diffusion/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/foundationals/latent_diffusion/conftest.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import pytest
-import torch
 from diffusers.models.unets.unet_2d_condition import UNet2DConditionModel
 from diffusers.pipelines.stable_diffusion.pipeline_stable_diffusion import StableDiffusionPipeline
 from diffusers.pipelines.stable_diffusion_xl.pipeline_stable_diffusion_xl import StableDiffusionXLPipeline
@@ -93,25 +92,6 @@ def refiners_sdxl(
     )
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(scope="module", params=["SD1.5", "SDXL"])
-def refiners_autoencoder(
-    request: pytest.FixtureRequest,
-    refiners_sd15_autoencoder: SD1Autoencoder,
-    refiners_sdxl_autoencoder: SDXLAutoencoder,
-    test_dtype_fp32_bf16_fp16: torch.dtype,
-) -> SD1Autoencoder | SDXLAutoencoder:
-    model_version = request.param
-    match (model_version, test_dtype_fp32_bf16_fp16):
-        case ("SD1.5", _):
-            return refiners_sd15_autoencoder
-        case ("SDXL", torch.float16):
-            return refiners_sdxl_autoencoder
-        case ("SDXL", _):
-            return refiners_sdxl_autoencoder
-        case _:
-            raise ValueError(f"Unknown model version: {model_version}")
-
-
 @pytest.fixture(scope="module")
 def diffusers_sd15_pipeline(
     sd15_diffusers_runwayml_path: str,
diff --git a/tests/foundationals/latent_diffusion/test_autoencoders.py b/tests/foundationals/latent_diffusion/test_autoencoders.py
index d21ac3ee8..561007cfc 100644
--- a/tests/foundationals/latent_diffusion/test_autoencoders.py
+++ b/tests/foundationals/latent_diffusion/test_autoencoders.py
@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@
 from tests.utils import ensure_similar_images
 
 from refiners.fluxion.utils import no_grad
-from refiners.foundationals.latent_diffusion.auto_encoder import LatentDiffusionAutoencoder
+from refiners.foundationals.latent_diffusion import (
+    LatentDiffusionAutoencoder,
+    SD1Autoencoder,
+    SDXLAutoencoder,
+)
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="module")
@@ -16,17 +20,24 @@ def sample_image() -> Image.Image:
     if not test_image.is_file():
         warn(f"could not reference image at {test_image}, skipping")
         pytest.skip(allow_module_level=True)
-    img = Image.open(test_image)  # type: ignore
+    img = Image.open(test_image)
     assert img.size == (512, 512)
     return img
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(scope="module")
+@pytest.fixture(scope="module", params=["SD1.5", "SDXL"])
 def autoencoder(
-    refiners_autoencoder: LatentDiffusionAutoencoder,
+    request: pytest.FixtureRequest,
+    refiners_sd15_autoencoder: SD1Autoencoder,
+    refiners_sdxl_autoencoder: SDXLAutoencoder,
     test_device: torch.device,
+    test_dtype_fp32_bf16_fp16: torch.dtype,
 ) -> LatentDiffusionAutoencoder:
-    return refiners_autoencoder.to(test_device)
+    model_version = request.param
+    if model_version == "SDXL" and test_dtype_fp32_bf16_fp16 == torch.float16:
+        pytest.skip("SDXL autoencoder does not support float16")
+    ae = refiners_sd15_autoencoder if model_version == "SD1.5" else refiners_sdxl_autoencoder
+    return ae.to(device=test_device, dtype=test_dtype_fp32_bf16_fp16)
 
 
 @no_grad()
@@ -34,7 +45,7 @@ def test_encode_decode_image(autoencoder: LatentDiffusionAutoencoder, sample_ima
     encoded = autoencoder.image_to_latents(sample_image)
     decoded = autoencoder.latents_to_image(encoded)
 
-    assert decoded.mode == "RGB"  # type: ignore
+    assert decoded.mode == "RGB"
 
     # Ensure no saturation. The green channel (band = 1) must not max out.
     assert max(iter(decoded.getdata(band=1))) < 255  # type: ignore
@@ -53,7 +64,7 @@ def test_encode_decode_images(autoencoder: LatentDiffusionAutoencoder, sample_im
 
 @no_grad()
 def test_tiled_autoencoder(autoencoder: LatentDiffusionAutoencoder, sample_image: Image.Image):
-    sample_image = sample_image.resize((2048, 2048))  # type: ignore
+    sample_image = sample_image.resize((2048, 2048))
 
     with autoencoder.tiled_inference(sample_image, tile_size=(512, 512)):
         encoded = autoencoder.tiled_image_to_latents(sample_image)
@@ -64,7 +75,7 @@ def test_tiled_autoencoder(autoencoder: LatentDiffusionAutoencoder, sample_image
 
 @no_grad()
 def test_tiled_autoencoder_rectangular_tiles(autoencoder: LatentDiffusionAutoencoder, sample_image: Image.Image):
-    sample_image = sample_image.resize((2048, 2048))  # type: ignore
+    sample_image = sample_image.resize((2048, 2048))
 
     with autoencoder.tiled_inference(sample_image, tile_size=(512, 1024)):
         encoded = autoencoder.tiled_image_to_latents(sample_image)
@@ -75,7 +86,7 @@ def test_tiled_autoencoder_rectangular_tiles(autoencoder: LatentDiffusionAutoenc
 
 @no_grad()
 def test_tiled_autoencoder_large_tile(autoencoder: LatentDiffusionAutoencoder, sample_image: Image.Image):
-    sample_image = sample_image.resize((1024, 1024))  # type: ignore
+    sample_image = sample_image.resize((1024, 1024))
 
     with autoencoder.tiled_inference(sample_image, tile_size=(2048, 2048)):
         encoded = autoencoder.tiled_image_to_latents(sample_image)
@@ -87,7 +98,7 @@ def test_tiled_autoencoder_large_tile(autoencoder: LatentDiffusionAutoencoder, s
 @no_grad()
 def test_tiled_autoencoder_rectangular_image(autoencoder: LatentDiffusionAutoencoder, sample_image: Image.Image):
     sample_image = sample_image.crop((0, 0, 300, 500))
-    sample_image = sample_image.resize((sample_image.width * 4, sample_image.height * 4))  # type: ignore
+    sample_image = sample_image.resize((sample_image.width * 4, sample_image.height * 4))
 
     with autoencoder.tiled_inference(sample_image, tile_size=(512, 512)):
         encoded = autoencoder.tiled_image_to_latents(sample_image)