diff --git a/docs/docs/sglang-diffusion/api/cli.mdx b/docs/docs/sglang-diffusion/api/cli.mdx
index a869f96b2..316bfcca9 100644
--- a/docs/docs/sglang-diffusion/api/cli.mdx
+++ b/docs/docs/sglang-diffusion/api/cli.mdx
@@ -143,10 +143,14 @@ For a native text encoder:
 
 The same contract applies to every weighted component: path routing is generic,
 while quantized materialization is capability-based. Native auxiliary loaders
-that only understand unquantized state dicts reject quantization metadata before
-model construction. See [Quantized Component Repositories](../quantization#quantized-component-repositories)
+whose current materializer expects plain state dicts reject unsupported
+quantization metadata before model construction. See
+[Quantized Component Repositories](../quantization#quantized-component-repositories)
 for the current component matrix.
 
+Component overrides accept a local component directory, a standalone Hub
+repository, or a Hub component subfolder written as `owner/repo/subfolder`.
+
 For supported realtime causal video models, `--kv-cache-quant {off|int4|int2}`
 compresses completed KV-cache chunks independently of transformer weight
 quantization. It is lossy and disabled by default.
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/pipelines_core/composed_pipeline_base.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/pipelines_core/composed_pipeline_base.py
index 9641f5795..5c6b0c201 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/pipelines_core/composed_pipeline_base.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/runtime/pipelines_core/composed_pipeline_base.py
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.platforms import current_platform
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.server_args import ServerArgs
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.utils.hf_diffusers_utils import (
     maybe_download_model,
+    prepare_diffusers_component_path_for_loading,
     verify_model_config_and_directory,
 )
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.utils.logging_utils import init_logger
@@ -349,8 +350,9 @@ class ComposedPipelineBase(ABC):
     ) -> str:
         override_path = server_args.component_paths.get(module_name)
         if override_path is not None:
-            # overridden with args like --vae-path
-            component_model_path = maybe_download_model(override_path)
+            component_model_path = prepare_diffusers_component_path_for_loading(
+                override_path
+            )
         else:
             component_model_path = os.path.join(self.model_path, load_module_name)
 
diff --git a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/unit/test_hf_diffusers_utils.py b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/unit/test_hf_diffusers_utils.py
index 408cc5599..bffa1e2f8 100644
--- a/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/unit/test_hf_diffusers_utils.py
+++ b/python/sglang/multimodal_gen/test/unit/test_hf_diffusers_utils.py
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 import json
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from unittest.mock import patch
 
 import modelscope
 import pytest
 from huggingface_hub.errors import LocalEntryNotFoundError
 
+from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.pipelines_core.composed_pipeline_base import (
+    ComposedPipelineBase,
+)
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.utils import hf_diffusers_utils
 from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.utils.hf_diffusers_utils import (
     _check_index_files_for_missing_shards,
@@ -14,6 +19,35 @@ from sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.utils.hf_diffusers_utils import (
 from sglang.srt.environ import envs
 
 
+def test_component_override_resolves_hub_subfolder_before_loading(tmp_path):
+    repo_root = tmp_path / "FLUX.1-dev-bnb-4bit"
+    component_root = repo_root / "text_encoder_2"
+    component_root.mkdir(parents=True)
+    pipeline = SimpleNamespace(model_path="/base")
+    server_args = SimpleNamespace(
+        component_paths={
+            "text_encoder_2": "diffusers/FLUX.1-dev-bnb-4bit/text_encoder_2"
+        }
+    )
+
+    with patch(
+        "sglang.multimodal_gen.runtime.utils.hf_diffusers_utils.maybe_download_model",
+        return_value=str(repo_root),
+    ) as download:
+        component_path = ComposedPipelineBase._resolve_component_path(
+            pipeline,
+            server_args,
+            "text_encoder_2",
+            "text_encoder_2",
+        )
+
+    assert component_path == str(component_root)
+    download.assert_called_once_with(
+        "diffusers/FLUX.1-dev-bnb-4bit",
+        allow_patterns=["text_encoder_2/**", "text_encoder_2/*"],
+    )
+
+
 def _write_model_index(root):
     (root / "model_index.json").write_text(
         json.dumps(