diff --git a/src/transformers/generation/candidate_generator.py b/src/transformers/generation/candidate_generator.py
index 6fe71a44655..1ab5ea527e4 100644
--- a/src/transformers/generation/candidate_generator.py
+++ b/src/transformers/generation/candidate_generator.py
@@ -171,6 +171,9 @@ class AssistedCandidateGenerator(CandidateGenerator):
                     "Please pass in `min_length` into `.generate()` instead"
                 )
 
+        # We need to roll back the cache in assisted generation, only DynamicCache is supported
+        self.generation_config.cache_implementation = None
+
     def get_candidates(self, input_ids: torch.LongTensor) -> Tuple[torch.LongTensor, Optional[torch.FloatTensor]]:
         """
         Fetches the candidates to be tried for the current input.
diff --git a/src/transformers/generation/utils.py b/src/transformers/generation/utils.py
index 8918487696e..a5e53a294ba 100644
--- a/src/transformers/generation/utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/generation/utils.py
@@ -1779,6 +1779,20 @@ class GenerationMixin:
             cache_name = "cache_params"
         else:
             cache_name = "past_key_values"
+
+        # TODO(joao): support static caches in assisted generation. assisted generation needs to roll back caches,
+        # which is only supported in dynamic caches atm
+        if (
+            assistant_model is not None
+            and generation_config.cache_implementation is not None
+            and self._supports_default_dynamic_cache()
+        ):
+            logger.warning_once(
+                "An assistant model is provided, using a dynamic cache instead of a cache of type="
+                f"'{generation_config.cache_implementation}'."
+            )
+            generation_config.cache_implementation = None
+
         if (model_kwargs.get(cache_name) is not None) and is_torchdynamo_compiling():
             raise ValueError(
                 "Passing `past_key_values` is not supported when compiling `model.generate` with torch.compile -- you "
diff --git a/src/transformers/models/gemma2/modeling_gemma2.py b/src/transformers/models/gemma2/modeling_gemma2.py
index 53e08df4ce5..ce2ee1ef1a6 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/gemma2/modeling_gemma2.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/gemma2/modeling_gemma2.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ from torch import nn
 from torch.nn import BCEWithLogitsLoss, CrossEntropyLoss, MSELoss
 
 from ...activations import ACT2FN
-from ...cache_utils import Cache
+from ...cache_utils import Cache, HybridCache
 from ...modeling_outputs import (
     BaseModelOutputWithPast,
     CausalLMOutputWithPast,
@@ -591,10 +591,9 @@ class Gemma2PreTrainedModel(PreTrainedModel):
     _skip_keys_device_placement = ["past_key_values"]
     _supports_flash_attn_2 = True
     _supports_sdpa = True
-    _supports_cache_class = False
+    _supports_cache_class = True
     _supports_quantized_cache = False
     _supports_static_cache = True
-    _is_stateful = True
 
     def _init_weights(self, module):
         std = self.config.initializer_range
@@ -841,7 +840,7 @@ class Gemma2Model(Gemma2PreTrainedModel):
         dtype, device = input_tensor.dtype, input_tensor.device
         min_dtype = torch.finfo(dtype).min
         sequence_length = input_tensor.shape[1]
-        if past_key_values is not None:
+        if isinstance(past_key_values, HybridCache):
             target_length = past_key_values.get_max_length()
         else:
             target_length = attention_mask.shape[-1] if attention_mask is not None else input_tensor.shape[1]