diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/ltx2/connectors.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/ltx2/connectors.py
index a49de4083342..8a00a0c6b452 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/ltx2/connectors.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/ltx2/connectors.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
-import torch.nn.functional as F
 
 from ...configuration_utils import ConfigMixin, register_to_config
 from ...loaders import PeftAdapterMixin
@@ -295,22 +294,21 @@ def forward(
                 )
 
             num_register_repeats = seq_len // self.num_learnable_registers
-            registers = torch.tile(self.learnable_registers, (num_register_repeats, 1))  # [seq_len, inner_dim]
+            registers = (
+                self.learnable_registers.unsqueeze(0).expand(num_register_repeats, -1, -1).reshape(seq_len, -1)
+            )  # [seq_len, inner_dim]
 
             binary_attn_mask = (attention_mask >= attn_mask_binarize_threshold).int()
             if binary_attn_mask.ndim == 4:
                 binary_attn_mask = binary_attn_mask.squeeze(1).squeeze(1)  # [B, 1, 1, L] --> [B, L]
 
-            hidden_states_non_padded = [hidden_states[i, binary_attn_mask[i].bool(), :] for i in range(batch_size)]
-            valid_seq_lens = [x.shape[0] for x in hidden_states_non_padded]
-            pad_lengths = [seq_len - valid_seq_len for valid_seq_len in valid_seq_lens]
-            padded_hidden_states = [
-                F.pad(x, pad=(0, 0, 0, p), value=0) for x, p in zip(hidden_states_non_padded, pad_lengths)
-            ]
-            padded_hidden_states = torch.cat([x.unsqueeze(0) for x in padded_hidden_states], dim=0)  # [B, L, D]
+            # Replace padding positions with learned registers using vectorized masking
+            mask = binary_attn_mask.unsqueeze(-1)  # [B, L, 1]
+            registers_expanded = registers.unsqueeze(0).expand(batch_size, -1, -1)  # [B, L, D]
+            hidden_states = mask * hidden_states + (1 - mask) * registers_expanded
 
-            flipped_mask = torch.flip(binary_attn_mask, dims=[1]).unsqueeze(-1)  # [B, L, 1]
-            hidden_states = flipped_mask * padded_hidden_states + (1 - flipped_mask) * registers
+            # Flip sequence: embeddings move to front, registers to back (from left padding layout)
+            hidden_states = torch.flip(hidden_states, dims=[1])
 
             # Overwrite attention_mask with an all-zeros mask if using registers.
             attention_mask = torch.zeros_like(attention_mask)
diff --git a/src/diffusers/pipelines/ltx2/pipeline_ltx2.py b/src/diffusers/pipelines/ltx2/pipeline_ltx2.py
index 73ebac0f173c..946360445e61 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/pipelines/ltx2/pipeline_ltx2.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/pipelines/ltx2/pipeline_ltx2.py
@@ -1189,6 +1189,10 @@ def __call__(
         num_warmup_steps = max(len(timesteps) - num_inference_steps * self.scheduler.order, 0)
         self._num_timesteps = len(timesteps)
 
+        # Set begin index to skip nonzero().item() call in scheduler initialization, which triggers GPU sync
+        self.scheduler.set_begin_index(0)
+        audio_scheduler.set_begin_index(0)
+
         # 6. Prepare micro-conditions
         # Pre-compute video and audio positional ids as they will be the same at each step of the denoising loop
         video_coords = self.transformer.rope.prepare_video_coords(