diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c83e2e07f..e237bfd97 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,23 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+
+- **Graph-output pruning for export (`ComputeGraph.prunedToOutputs`).** A traced decoder surfaces
+  every leaf tensor (e.g. per-layer intermediates) as a graph output, so a StableHLO/IREE export
+  returns the logits plus dozens of dangling tensors — extra `func` returns and dead op subgraphs.
+  Adds `OutputDesignatedGraph` (skainet-compile-dag) to override the output set by node id, and
+  `ComputeGraph.prunedToOutputs(outputNodeIds)` (skainet-compile-opt) which designates those outputs
+  and runs `DeadCodeEliminationPass` so only the nodes feeding them survive. Exporters can now keep
+  just the logits. Adds `GraphPruningTest` (commonTest).
+
+### Changed
+
+- **SDPA causal mask uses a large finite fill (`-1e30`) instead of `-inf`.** The attention HLO
+  converter's causal path emitted `dense<0xFF800000>` (`-inf`) for the masked-fill select; it now
+  emits `-1.000000e+30`, matching `MultiHeadAttention.buildSlidingCausalMask` and avoiding a `-inf`
+  splat in the IR (numerically equivalent after softmax). (`AttentionOperationsConverter`)
+
 ## [0.32.2] - 2026-06-24
 
 ### Added
diff --git a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-dag/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/lang/graph/OutputDesignatedGraph.kt b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-dag/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/lang/graph/OutputDesignatedGraph.kt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ac51c3e8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-dag/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/lang/graph/OutputDesignatedGraph.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package sk.ainet.lang.graph
+
+/**
+ * A [ComputeGraph] view that overrides the set of *output* nodes to a caller-designated subset
+ * (by node id), delegating every other operation to [inner].
+ *
+ * By default a graph's outputs are inferred as the nodes with no outgoing edges
+ * ([ComputeGraph.getOutputNodes]). For a traced decoder that surfaces dangling intermediates
+ * (e.g. per-layer post-RoPE q/k tensors) as extra outputs, which then get emitted as additional
+ * `func` returns and dead subgraphs. Wrapping the graph here and feeding it to a dead-code pass
+ * lets an exporter keep only what's reachable from a chosen output (e.g. the decoder logits).
+ *
+ * See `ComputeGraph.prunedToOutputs` in skainet-compile-opt, which combines this with
+ * `DeadCodeEliminationPass` to physically remove the now-unreachable nodes before conversion.
+ */
+public class OutputDesignatedGraph(
+    private val inner: ComputeGraph,
+    private val outputNodeIds: Set<String>,
+) : ComputeGraph by inner {
+    override fun getOutputNodes(): List<GraphNode> =
+        inner.nodes.filter { it.id in outputNodeIds }
+}
diff --git a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/AttentionOperationsConverter.kt b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/AttentionOperationsConverter.kt
index 9f35ad021..b221e6764 100644
--- a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/AttentionOperationsConverter.kt
+++ b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-hlo/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/hlo/converters/AttentionOperationsConverter.kt
@@ -134,7 +134,10 @@ public class AttentionOperationsConverter : StableHloOperationConverter {
             ops += "$iotaK = stablehlo.iota dim = $sdAxis : $scoresI32Type"
             ops += "$keep = stablehlo.compare GE, $iotaQ, $iotaK : ($scoresI32Type, $scoresI32Type) -> $scoresI1Type"
             ops += "$zeros = stablehlo.constant dense<0.0> : $scoresType"
-            ops += "$ninf = stablehlo.constant dense<0xFF800000> : $scoresType"
+            // Masked-fill with a large finite negative (not -inf): matches
+            // MultiHeadAttention.buildSlidingCausalMask (-1e30) and avoids a -inf splat in the
+            // masked-fill select, which can trip downstream greedy constant-folding.
+            ops += "$ninf = stablehlo.constant dense<-1.000000e+30> : $scoresType"
             ops += "$maskAdd = stablehlo.select $keep, $zeros, $ninf : $scoresI1Type, $scoresType"
             ops += "$masked = stablehlo.add $scaled, $maskAdd : $scoresType"
             softmaxIn = masked
diff --git a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-opt/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/opt/GraphPruning.kt b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-opt/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/opt/GraphPruning.kt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a4b3e7cb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-opt/src/commonMain/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/opt/GraphPruning.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+package sk.ainet.compile.opt
+
+import sk.ainet.compile.opt.passes.DeadCodeEliminationPass
+import sk.ainet.lang.graph.ComputeGraph
+import sk.ainet.lang.graph.OutputDesignatedGraph
+
+/**
+ * Return a graph containing only the nodes that contribute to [outputNodeIds], with those nodes as
+ * the sole outputs.
+ *
+ * Designates [outputNodeIds] as the graph outputs (via [OutputDesignatedGraph]) and runs
+ * [DeadCodeEliminationPass] to drop every node not reachable backward from them. Use before a
+ * StableHLO / IREE export to keep only the desired result (e.g. a decoder's logits) and discard
+ * dangling intermediates the trace leaves as extra outputs — these would otherwise be emitted as
+ * additional `func` returns and dead op subgraphs that can crash downstream compilers
+ * (observed: an `iree-compile` constant-folding null-deref on a multi-position decoder graph).
+ *
+ * @throws IllegalArgumentException if [outputNodeIds] is empty.
+ */
+public fun ComputeGraph.prunedToOutputs(outputNodeIds: Set<String>): ComputeGraph {
+    require(outputNodeIds.isNotEmpty()) { "prunedToOutputs: outputNodeIds must not be empty" }
+    val designated = OutputDesignatedGraph(this, outputNodeIds)
+    return DeadCodeEliminationPass().apply(designated).graph
+}
diff --git a/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-opt/src/commonTest/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/opt/GraphPruningTest.kt b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-opt/src/commonTest/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/opt/GraphPruningTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5c0a32027
--- /dev/null
+++ b/skainet-compile/skainet-compile-opt/src/commonTest/kotlin/sk/ainet/compile/opt/GraphPruningTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+package sk.ainet.compile.opt
+
+import sk.ainet.lang.graph.DefaultComputeGraph
+import sk.ainet.lang.graph.GraphEdge
+import sk.ainet.lang.graph.GraphNode
+import sk.ainet.lang.tensor.ops.GenericOperation
+import sk.ainet.lang.tensor.ops.TensorSpec
+import kotlin.test.Test
+import kotlin.test.assertEquals
+import kotlin.test.assertFailsWith
+import kotlin.test.assertTrue
+
+/**
+ * Tests for [prunedToOutputs] — keeping only the nodes that feed a designated output and dropping
+ * every other leaf. This is the capability a decoder export needs: a traced graph surfaces
+ * dangling intermediates as extra outputs (every leaf with no outgoing edge), and only the logits
+ * should survive. (See DeadCodeEliminationPassTest's own comments: in a DAG, dead code only
+ * manifests once you can mark explicit outputs — which is exactly what this provides.)
+ */
+class GraphPruningTest {
+
+    private fun spec(name: String = "t", shape: List<Int> = listOf(1)) =
+        TensorSpec(name = name, shape = shape, dtype = "float32")
+
+    private fun constNode(id: String) = GraphNode(
+        id = id,
+        operation = GenericOperation("constant", mapOf("values" to listOf(1.0f)), "constant"),
+        inputs = emptyList(),
+        outputs = listOf(spec()),
+    )
+
+    private fun opNode(id: String, opName: String = "add") = GraphNode(
+        id = id,
+        operation = GenericOperation(opName),
+        inputs = listOf(spec()),
+        outputs = listOf(spec()),
+    )
+
+    @Test
+    fun keepsOnlyDesignatedOutputAndItsAncestors() {
+        // a → b (the logits we keep);  a → c (a dangling sibling leaf to drop).
+        val graph = DefaultComputeGraph()
+        val a = graph.addNode(constNode("a"))
+        val b = graph.addNode(opNode("b"))
+        val c = graph.addNode(opNode("c"))
+        graph.addEdge(GraphEdge("e1", a, b, tensorSpec = spec()))
+        graph.addEdge(GraphEdge("e2", a, c, tensorSpec = spec()))
+        // Default outputs are both leaves b and c.
+        assertEquals(setOf("b", "c"), graph.getOutputNodes().map { it.id }.toSet())
+
+        val pruned = graph.prunedToOutputs(setOf("b"))
+
+        // c (and only c) is gone; a and b remain; b is now the sole output.
+        assertEquals(setOf("a", "b"), pruned.nodes.map { it.id }.toSet())
+        assertEquals(listOf("b"), pruned.getOutputNodes().map { it.id })
+        assertEquals(1, pruned.edges.size)
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun keepsSharedAncestorsAcrossLiveAndDeadBranches() {
+        // a → b → out (keep);  a → c (drop). 'a' is a shared ancestor → must survive.
+        val graph = DefaultComputeGraph()
+        graph.addNode(constNode("a"))
+        graph.addNode(opNode("b"))
+        graph.addNode(opNode("out"))
+        graph.addNode(opNode("c"))
+        graph.addEdge(GraphEdge("e1", graph.nodes[0], graph.nodes[1], tensorSpec = spec()))
+        graph.addEdge(GraphEdge("e2", graph.nodes[1], graph.nodes[2], tensorSpec = spec()))
+        graph.addEdge(GraphEdge("e3", graph.nodes[0], graph.nodes[3], tensorSpec = spec()))
+
+        val pruned = graph.prunedToOutputs(setOf("out"))
+
+        assertEquals(setOf("a", "b", "out"), pruned.nodes.map { it.id }.toSet())
+        assertTrue(pruned.nodes.none { it.id == "c" })
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    fun emptyOutputSetIsRejected() {
+        val graph = DefaultComputeGraph()
+        graph.addNode(constNode("a"))
+        assertFailsWith<IllegalArgumentException> { graph.prunedToOutputs(emptySet()) }
+    }
+}