diff --git a/requirements/requirements-inf.txt b/requirements/requirements-inf.txt
index e9f45a392e1d7d27bf12b78c146e69a9c578769e..afaa0e4080738c6dca50fb62e85f7bbf32d1f2d3 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-inf.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-inf.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
+google
 lm-eval>=0.2.0
+protobuf
 transformers
+transformers[sentencepiece]
diff --git a/tests/conftest.py b/tests/conftest.py
index cd34c9e1bf05bcf69f15bdbedf7c7ba6d088983e..3865b3498bec10902a7df1f27ab99b2a28bbeb85 100644
--- a/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/conftest.py
@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@
 
 import sys
 import pytest
+import os
 from os.path import abspath, dirname, join
 import torch
 import warnings
 
+# Set this environment variable for the T5 inference unittest(s) (e.g. google/t5-v1_1-small)
+os.environ['PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION'] = 'python'
+
 # allow having multiple repository checkouts and not needing to remember to rerun
 # 'pip install -e .[dev]' when switching between checkouts and running tests.
 git_repo_path = abspath(join(dirname(dirname(__file__)), "src"))
diff --git a/tests/unit/inference/test_inference.py b/tests/unit/inference/test_inference.py
index 037dc78eb9292e8cc512473102c859f139335196..9ff8fff43c98c70ab8bd250e5642761200e4f190 100644
--- a/tests/unit/inference/test_inference.py
+++ b/tests/unit/inference/test_inference.py
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ from unit.common import DistributedTest
 from packaging import version as pkg_version
 from deepspeed.ops.op_builder import OpBuilder
 from transformers import pipeline
+from transformers.models.t5.modeling_t5 import T5Block
+from transformers.models.roberta.modeling_roberta import RobertaLayer
 from huggingface_hub import HfApi
 
 rocm_version = OpBuilder.installed_rocm_version()
@@ -55,6 +57,7 @@ test_tasks = [
     "text-classification",
     "token-classification",
     "text-generation",
+    "text2text-generation",
 ]
 pytest.all_models = {
     task: [m.modelId for m in _all_models if m.pipeline_tag == task]
@@ -150,6 +153,8 @@ def query(model_w_task):
         return "My name is jean-baptiste and I live in montreal."
     elif task == "text-generation":
         return "DeepSpeed is the greatest"
+    elif task == "text2text-generation":
+        return "Is this review positive or negative? Review: this is the best cast iron skillet you will ever buy"
     else:
         NotImplementedError(f'query for task "{task}" is not implemented')
 
@@ -187,6 +192,11 @@ def text_generation_assert(x, y):
                                                           for res in y)
 
 
+def text2text_generation_assert(x, y):
+    return set(res["generated_text"] for res in x) == set(res["generated_text"]
+                                                          for res in y)
+
+
 @pytest.fixture
 def assert_fn(model_w_task):
     model, task = model_w_task
@@ -196,6 +206,7 @@ def assert_fn(model_w_task):
         "text-classification": text_classification_assert,
         "token-classification": token_classification_assert,
         "text-generation": text_generation_assert,
+        "text2text-generation": text2text_generation_assert,
     }
     assert_fn = assert_fn_dict.get(task, None)
     if assert_fn is None:
@@ -323,6 +334,67 @@ class TestMPSize(DistributedTest):
         assert assert_fn(bs_output, ds_output)
 
 
+@pytest.mark.seq_inference
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "model_w_task, injection_policy",
+    [
+        (("google/t5-v1_1-small",
+          "text2text-generation"),
+         {
+             T5Block: ('SelfAttention.o',
+                       'EncDecAttention.o',
+                       'DenseReluDense.wo')
+         }),
+        (("roberta-large",
+          "fill-mask"),
+         {
+             RobertaLayer: ('output.dense')
+         }),
+    ],
+    ids=["t5",
+         "roberta"],
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("dtype", [torch.float], ids=["fp32"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("enable_cuda_graph", [False], ids=["noCG"])
+class TestInjectionPolicy(DistributedTest):
+    world_size = [1, 2]
+
+    def test(
+        self,
+        model_w_task,
+        injection_policy,
+        query,
+        inf_kwargs,
+        assert_fn,
+        invalid_model_task_config,
+        dtype,
+        enable_cuda_graph,
+    ):
+        if invalid_model_task_config:
+            pytest.skip(invalid_model_task_config)
+
+        model, task = model_w_task
+        local_rank = int(os.getenv("LOCAL_RANK", "0"))
+        world_size = int(os.getenv("WORLD_SIZE", "2"))
+
+        # We have to load these large models on CPU with pipeline because not
+        # enough GPU memory
+        pipe = pipeline(task, model=model, device=-1, framework="pt")
+        bs_output = pipe(query, **inf_kwargs)
+
+        pipe.model = deepspeed.init_inference(pipe.model,
+                                              mp_size=world_size,
+                                              dtype=dtype,
+                                              injection_policy=injection_policy)
+        # Switch device to GPU so that input tensors are not on CPU
+        pipe.device = torch.device(f"cuda:{local_rank}")
+        ds_output = pipe(query, **inf_kwargs)
+
+        print(local_rank, "baseline", bs_output)
+        print(local_rank, "deepspeed", ds_output)
+        assert assert_fn(bs_output, ds_output)
+
+
 @pytest.mark.nightly
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "model_family, model_name",