diff --git a/tests/collections/asr/decoding/test_multi_task_decoding.py b/tests/collections/asr/decoding/test_multi_task_decoding.py
index fa21b2f60328..463a0f57e6a3 100644
--- a/tests/collections/asr/decoding/test_multi_task_decoding.py
+++ b/tests/collections/asr/decoding/test_multi_task_decoding.py
@@ -292,3 +292,38 @@ def test_transformer_aed_greedy_infer_strips_prompt(prompted_inputs, decoder_nm,
     torch.testing.assert_close(
         untrimmed[decoder_input_ids.shape[1] :], best_path
     )  # stripped the prompt from the beggining
+
+def test_beam_xattn_u_dim_matches_prefix_plus_output(
+    prompted_inputs, decoder_nm, nnet, tokenizer
+):
+    decoder_input_ids, encoder_hidden_states, encoder_input_mask = prompted_inputs
+    decoder_input_ids = torch.tensor([[1, 0, 2, 3, 4]], dtype=torch.long)
+    *_, classifier = nnet
+
+    gen = TransformerAEDBeamInfer(
+        decoder_nm,
+        classifier,
+        tokenizer,
+        return_xattn_scores=True,
+    )
+    (packed_result,) = gen(
+        encoder_hidden_states=encoder_hidden_states,
+        encoder_input_mask=encoder_input_mask,
+        decoder_input_ids=decoder_input_ids,
+    )
+
+    prefix_len = decoder_input_ids.shape[1]
+    hyp = packed_result[0]
+
+    assert hyp.xatt_scores is not None
+    assert hyp.y_sequence is not None
+
+    output_len = hyp.y_sequence.shape[0]
+
+    for layer_idx, xatt in enumerate(hyp.xatt_scores):
+        u_dim = xatt.shape[1]
+        expected_u = prefix_len + output_len
+        assert u_dim == expected_u, (
+            f"Layer {layer_idx}: xatt U dim {u_dim} != "
+            f"prefix_len({prefix_len}) + output_len({output_len}) = {expected_u}"
+        )