diff --git a/modules/sub_quadratic_attention.py b/modules/sub_quadratic_attention.py
index 497568eb..ae4ee4bb 100644
--- a/modules/sub_quadratic_attention.py
+++ b/modules/sub_quadratic_attention.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def _summarize_chunk(
     scale: float,
 ) -> AttnChunk:
     attn_weights = torch.baddbmm(
-        torch.empty(1, 1, 1, device=query.device, dtype=query.dtype),
+        torch.zeros(1, 1, 1, device=query.device, dtype=query.dtype),
         query,
         key.transpose(1,2),
         alpha=scale,
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ def _get_attention_scores_no_kv_chunking(
     scale: float,
 ) -> Tensor:
     attn_scores = torch.baddbmm(
-        torch.empty(1, 1, 1, device=query.device, dtype=query.dtype),
+        torch.zeros(1, 1, 1, device=query.device, dtype=query.dtype),
         query,
         key.transpose(1,2),
         alpha=scale,