diff --git a/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/distributed_model.py b/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/distributed_model.py
index 5c90f50f..c46d3241 100644
--- a/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/distributed_model.py
+++ b/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/distributed_model.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from exo.shared.types.worker.shards import PipelineShardMetadata
 from exo.worker.download.download_utils import build_model_path
 from exo.worker.engines.mflux.config import get_config_for_model
 from exo.worker.engines.mflux.config.model_config import ImageModelConfig
-from exo.worker.engines.mflux.pipefusion import create_model, get_adapter_for_model
+from exo.worker.engines.mflux.pipefusion import get_adapter_for_model
 from exo.worker.engines.mflux.pipefusion.adapter import ModelAdapter
 from exo.worker.engines.mflux.pipefusion.distributed_denoising import (
     DistributedDenoising,
@@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ class DistributedImageModel:
         config = get_config_for_model(model_id)
         adapter = get_adapter_for_model(config)
 
-        # Create the model using the factory registry
-        model = create_model(config, model_id, local_path, quantize)
+        # Create the model using the adapter
+        model = adapter.create_model(model_id, local_path, quantize)
 
         if group is not None:
             # Apply pipeline parallelism by wrapping the transformer
diff --git a/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/__init__.py b/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/__init__.py
index 53e6cbdf..f8ddfabd 100644
--- a/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/__init__.py
+++ b/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/__init__.py
@@ -1,16 +1,14 @@
 """
-Adapter and model factory registries.
+Adapter registry for model-specific operations.
 
-This module provides registry patterns for managing model adapters and
-model factories, allowing new model families to be added without modifying
-core code.
+This module provides a registry pattern for managing model adapters,
+allowing new model families to be added without modifying core code.
+
+Each adapter is responsible for both model creation and model-specific
+distributed inference operations.
 """
 
-from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Callable
-
-from mflux.config.model_config import ModelConfig
-from mflux.models.flux.variants.txt2img.flux import Flux1
+from typing import Callable
 
 from exo.worker.engines.mflux.config.model_config import ImageModelConfig
 from exo.worker.engines.mflux.pipefusion.adapter import ModelAdapter
@@ -51,63 +49,3 @@ def register_adapter(model_family: str, factory: AdapterFactory) -> None:
         factory: A callable that takes an ImageModelConfig and returns a ModelAdapter
     """
     _ADAPTER_REGISTRY[model_family] = factory
-
-
-# =============================================================================
-# Model Factory Registry
-# =============================================================================
-
-# Type alias for model factory functions
-# Takes (model_id, local_path, quantize) and returns a model instance
-ModelFactory = Callable[[str, Path, int | None], Any]
-
-
-def _create_flux_model(model_id: str, local_path: Path, quantize: int | None) -> Flux1:
-    """Create a Flux1 model instance."""
-    return Flux1(
-        model_config=ModelConfig.from_name(model_name=model_id, base_model=None),
-        local_path=str(local_path),
-        quantize=quantize,
-    )
-
-
-# Registry maps model_family string to model factory
-_MODEL_REGISTRY: dict[str, ModelFactory] = {
-    "flux": _create_flux_model,
-}
-
-
-def create_model(
-    config: ImageModelConfig,
-    model_id: str,
-    local_path: Path,
-    quantize: int | None = None,
-) -> Any:
-    """Create a model instance for a model configuration.
-
-    Args:
-        config: The model configuration
-        model_id: The model identifier (e.g., "black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell")
-        local_path: Path to the local model weights
-        quantize: Optional quantization bit width
-
-    Returns:
-        A model instance for the model family
-
-    Raises:
-        ValueError: If no factory is registered for the model family
-    """
-    factory = _MODEL_REGISTRY.get(config.model_family)
-    if factory is None:
-        raise ValueError(f"No model factory found for model family: {config.model_family}")
-    return factory(model_id, local_path, quantize)
-
-
-def register_model_factory(model_family: str, factory: ModelFactory) -> None:
-    """Register a new model factory for a model family.
-
-    Args:
-        model_family: The model family identifier (e.g., "flux", "fibo", "qwen")
-        factory: A callable that takes (model_id, local_path, quantize) and returns a model
-    """
-    _MODEL_REGISTRY[model_family] = factory
diff --git a/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/adapter.py b/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/adapter.py
index 0841601f..10bc12a8 100644
--- a/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/adapter.py
+++ b/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/adapter.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from enum import Enum
+from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Protocol
 
 import mlx.core as mx
@@ -29,6 +30,24 @@ class ModelAdapter(Protocol):
         """Return the model configuration."""
         ...
 
+    def create_model(
+        self,
+        model_id: str,
+        local_path: Path,
+        quantize: int | None = None,
+    ) -> Any:
+        """Create the underlying mflux model instance.
+
+        Args:
+            model_id: The model identifier (e.g., "black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell")
+            local_path: Path to the local model weights
+            quantize: Optional quantization bit width
+
+        Returns:
+            The mflux model instance (e.g., Flux1, Fibo, Qwen)
+        """
+        ...
+
     def compute_embeddings(
         self,
         hidden_states: mx.array,
diff --git a/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/flux_adapter.py b/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/flux_adapter.py
index 90f394bc..d4cc5db3 100644
--- a/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/flux_adapter.py
+++ b/src/exo/worker/engines/mflux/pipefusion/flux_adapter.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
+from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any
 
 import mlx.core as mx
+from mflux.config.model_config import ModelConfig
 from mflux.config.runtime_config import RuntimeConfig
 from mflux.models.flux.model.flux_transformer.common.attention_utils import (
     AttentionUtils,
@@ -9,6 +11,7 @@ from mflux.models.flux.model.flux_transformer.joint_transformer_block import (
     JointTransformerBlock,
 )
 from mflux.models.flux.model.flux_transformer.transformer import Transformer
+from mflux.models.flux.variants.txt2img.flux import Flux1
 
 from exo.worker.engines.mflux.config.model_config import ImageModelConfig
 from exo.worker.engines.mflux.pipefusion.adapter import BlockWrapperMode
@@ -31,6 +34,19 @@ class FluxModelAdapter:
     def config(self) -> ImageModelConfig:
         return self._config
 
+    def create_model(
+        self,
+        model_id: str,
+        local_path: Path,
+        quantize: int | None = None,
+    ) -> Flux1:
+        """Create a Flux1 model instance."""
+        return Flux1(
+            model_config=ModelConfig.from_name(model_name=model_id, base_model=None),
+            local_path=str(local_path),
+            quantize=quantize,
+        )
+
     def compute_embeddings(
         self,
         hidden_states: mx.array,