diff --git a/src/llama-batch.cpp b/src/llama-batch.cpp
index 91b1d6078a252..c90dff8b82675 100644
--- a/src/llama-batch.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-batch.cpp
@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@ bool llama_batch_allocr::init(
 
                 // note: tracking the other way around is not necessary for now
                 //seq_cpl[s0][s1] = true;
+
+                has_cpl = true;
             }
         }
     }
@@ -459,9 +461,17 @@ llama_ubatch llama_batch_allocr::split_simple(uint32_t n_ubatch) {
     return ubatch_add(idxs, idxs.size(), false);
 }
 
-llama_ubatch llama_batch_allocr::split_equal(uint32_t n_ubatch) {
+llama_ubatch llama_batch_allocr::split_equal(uint32_t n_ubatch, bool sequential) {
+    if (sequential && has_cpl) {
+        LLAMA_LOG_ERROR("%s: sequential split is not supported when there are coupled sequences in the input batch\n", __func__);
+
+        return {};
+    }
+
     std::vector<seq_set_t> cur_seq_set;
 
+    llama_seq_id last_seq_id = -1;
+
     // determine the non-overlapping sequence sets participating in this ubatch
     for (int32_t i = 0; i < batch.n_tokens; ++i) {
         if (used[i]) {
@@ -478,9 +488,16 @@ llama_ubatch llama_batch_allocr::split_equal(uint32_t n_ubatch) {
             }
         }
 
+        // accept only increasing sequence ids
+        if (sequential) {
+            add = add && (cur_seq_set.empty() || batch.seq_id[i][0] == last_seq_id + 1);
+        }
+
         if (add) {
             cur_seq_set.push_back(seq_set[i]);
 
+            last_seq_id = batch.seq_id[i][0];
+
             if (cur_seq_set.size() > n_ubatch) {
                 break;
             }
diff --git a/src/llama-batch.h b/src/llama-batch.h
index d2c5376188a0b..459a00be70a04 100644
--- a/src/llama-batch.h
+++ b/src/llama-batch.h
@@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ class llama_batch_allocr {
     llama_ubatch split_simple(uint32_t n_ubatch);
 
     // make ubatches of equal-length sequences sets
-    llama_ubatch split_equal(uint32_t n_ubatch);
+    // if sequential == true, the tokens in the ubatch will have increasing sequential sequence ids
+    llama_ubatch split_equal(uint32_t n_ubatch, bool sequential);
 
     // sequence-set-wise split - each ubatch contains a single sequence-set
     llama_ubatch split_seq(uint32_t n_ubatch);
@@ -112,6 +113,9 @@ class llama_batch_allocr {
     using pos_set_t = std::set<llama_pos>;
     using seq_cpl_t = std::vector<bool>;
 
+    // helper flag to quickly determine if there are any coupled sequences in the batch
+    bool has_cpl;
+
     std::vector<pos_set_t> seq_pos; // seq_pos[s]: the set of positions in sequence s
     std::vector<seq_cpl_t> seq_cpl; // seq_cpl[s0][s1]: if sequence s0 is coupled to sequence s1
 
diff --git a/src/llama-kv-cache-unified-iswa.cpp b/src/llama-kv-cache-unified-iswa.cpp
index ee202cc710bd6..def5d3708d9de 100644
--- a/src/llama-kv-cache-unified-iswa.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-kv-cache-unified-iswa.cpp
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ llama_memory_context_ptr llama_kv_cache_unified_iswa::init_batch(llama_batch_all
 
         std::vector<llama_ubatch> ubatches;
         while (true) {
-            auto ubatch = balloc.split_equal(n_ubatch);
+            auto ubatch = balloc.split_equal(n_ubatch, false);
 
             if (ubatch.n_tokens == 0) {
                 break;
diff --git a/src/llama-memory-hybrid.cpp b/src/llama-memory-hybrid.cpp
index 03d974d852039..345e88bc175f4 100644
--- a/src/llama-memory-hybrid.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-memory-hybrid.cpp
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ llama_memory_context_ptr llama_memory_hybrid::init_batch(llama_batch_allocr & ba
                 // if all tokens are output, split by sequence
                 ubatch = balloc.split_seq(n_ubatch);
             } else {
-                ubatch = balloc.split_equal(n_ubatch);
+                ubatch = balloc.split_equal(n_ubatch, false);
             }
 
             if (ubatch.n_tokens == 0) {
diff --git a/src/llama-memory-recurrent.cpp b/src/llama-memory-recurrent.cpp
index 6ed84057ccfe2..ab393ca5ac2f7 100644
--- a/src/llama-memory-recurrent.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-memory-recurrent.cpp
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ llama_memory_context_ptr llama_memory_recurrent::init_batch(llama_batch_allocr &
                 // if all tokens are output, split by sequence
                 ubatch = balloc.split_seq(n_ubatch);
             } else {
-                ubatch = balloc.split_equal(n_ubatch);
+                ubatch = balloc.split_equal(n_ubatch, false);
             }
 
             if (ubatch.n_tokens == 0) {