diff --git a/nemo_curator/modules/fuzzy_dedup.py b/nemo_curator/modules/fuzzy_dedup.py
index 5ef465407..c487b3e97 100644
--- a/nemo_curator/modules/fuzzy_dedup.py
+++ b/nemo_curator/modules/fuzzy_dedup.py
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ def _get_output_map_from_text_bytes_per_bucket(
     ):
         # String bytes limit for cuDF
         # https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf/issues/13733
-        max_text_bytes_per_part = int(np.iinfo(np.int32).max * 1.2)
+        max_text_bytes_per_part = int(np.iinfo(np.int32).max * 3)
 
         self._logger.info(f"max_text_bytes_per_part = {max_text_bytes_per_part}")
         # Increasing in an attempt to prevent hitting
diff --git a/nemo_curator/scripts/fuzzy_deduplication/compute_minhashes.py b/nemo_curator/scripts/fuzzy_deduplication/compute_minhashes.py
index 01baee051..362d47c0a 100644
--- a/nemo_curator/scripts/fuzzy_deduplication/compute_minhashes.py
+++ b/nemo_curator/scripts/fuzzy_deduplication/compute_minhashes.py
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ def main(args):
             print(f"Processed {args.num_files}... quitting")
             break
 
+        print(args.input_meta)
         files = get_all_files_paths_under(root=data_path, recurse_subdirectories=False)
         files = [f for f in files if f.endswith(".jsonl")]
         df = read_data(
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ def main(args):
             backend="cudf",
             files_per_partition=args.files_per_partition,
             add_filename=False,
+            input_meta=args.input_meta,
         )[[id_field, text_field]]
 
         if num_files is not None:
@@ -120,6 +122,7 @@ def attach_args(parser=None):
         help="Random seed used for intializing the hash "
         "functions used to compute the MinHashes"
     )
+    argumentHelper.add_arg_input_meta()
     parser.add_argument(
         "--char-ngram",
         type=int,
diff --git a/nemo_curator/utils/distributed_utils.py b/nemo_curator/utils/distributed_utils.py
index ef69963cf..dff34b954 100644
--- a/nemo_curator/utils/distributed_utils.py
+++ b/nemo_curator/utils/distributed_utils.py
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@ def read_single_partition(
         read_kwargs = {"lines": filetype == "jsonl"}
         if backend == "cudf":
             read_f = cudf.read_json
+            if input_meta is not None:
+                read_kwargs["prune_columns"] = True
         else:
             read_kwargs["dtype"] = False
             read_f = pd.read_json
diff --git a/nemo_curator/utils/fuzzy_dedup_utils/shuffle_utils.py b/nemo_curator/utils/fuzzy_dedup_utils/shuffle_utils.py
index 9d1915603..4567f6e26 100644
--- a/nemo_curator/utils/fuzzy_dedup_utils/shuffle_utils.py
+++ b/nemo_curator/utils/fuzzy_dedup_utils/shuffle_utils.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def get_shuffle_part_ids_df(
     num_workers=0,
 ):
     sizes = agg_df[size_col].values
-    max_text_bytes_per_part = int(np.iinfo(np.int32).max // 1.2)
+    max_text_bytes_per_part = int(np.iinfo(np.int32).max * 3)
 
     # Adjust max_text_bytes_per_part if the number of output
     # partitions is small compared to the number of workers.