diff --git a/source/lib/src/gpu/tabulate.cu b/source/lib/src/gpu/tabulate.cu
index 6bab737739..0ab18aca3b 100644
--- a/source/lib/src/gpu/tabulate.cu
+++ b/source/lib/src/gpu/tabulate.cu
@@ -730,13 +730,16 @@ __global__ void tabulate_fusion_se_t_grad_grad_fifth_order_polynomial(
   FPTYPE sum = (FPTYPE)0.;
   for (int ii = 0; ii < nnei_i; ii++) {
     int mark_table_idx = -1;
+    // The cached table index and coefficients must have the same lifetime.
+    // Keeping var outside the neighbor loop makes a cache hit reuse initialized
+    // coefficients instead of a newly scoped, uninitialized local array.
+    FPTYPE var[6];
     for (int jj = 0; jj < nnei_j; jj++) {
       FPTYPE xx = em_x[block_idx * nnei_i * nnei_j + ii * nnei_j + jj];
       FPTYPE tmp = xx;
       FPTYPE dz_xx =
           dz_dy_dem_x[block_idx * nnei_i * nnei_j + ii * nnei_j + jj];
       FPTYPE dz_em = dz_dy_dem[block_idx * nnei_i * nnei_j + ii * nnei_j + jj];
-      FPTYPE var[6];
 
       int table_idx = 0;
       FPTYPE extrapolate_delta = (FPTYPE)0.;
diff --git a/source/lib/tests/test_tabulate_se_t.cc b/source/lib/tests/test_tabulate_se_t.cc
index aa1f2ee2f4..5b12fcbdcd 100644
--- a/source/lib/tests/test_tabulate_se_t.cc
+++ b/source/lib/tests/test_tabulate_se_t.cc
@@ -5324,6 +5324,58 @@ TEST_F(TestTabulateSeT, tabulate_fusion_se_a_grad_gpu) {
   }
 }
 
+TEST_F(TestTabulateSeT, grad_grad_gpu_reuses_same_table_interval) {
+  constexpr int test_nloc = 1;
+  constexpr int test_nnei_i = 1;
+  constexpr int test_nnei_j = 3;
+  // All inputs lie in the same stride-0 interval.  The GPU cache therefore
+  // must retain the coefficients loaded for the first neighbor.
+  std::vector<double> test_em_x = {0.011, 0.012, 0.019};
+  const auto stride0_interval = [this](const double value) {
+    EXPECT_GE(value, info[0]);
+    EXPECT_LT(value, info[1]);
+    return static_cast<int>((value - info[0]) / info[3]);
+  };
+  const int expected_interval = stride0_interval(test_em_x.front());
+  for (const double value : test_em_x) {
+    EXPECT_EQ(stride0_interval(value), expected_interval);
+  }
+  std::vector<double> test_dz_dy_dem_x = {0.5, -0.25, 0.75};
+  std::vector<double> test_dz_dy_dem = {-0.2, 0.4, 0.1};
+  std::vector<double> expected(last_layer_size);
+  deepmd::tabulate_fusion_se_t_grad_grad_cpu<double>(
+      expected.data(), table.data(), info.data(), test_em_x.data(),
+      test_em_x.data(), test_dz_dy_dem_x.data(), test_dz_dy_dem.data(),
+      test_nloc, test_nnei_i, test_nnei_j, last_layer_size);
+
+  std::vector<double> actual(last_layer_size);
+  double *actual_dev = nullptr, *table_dev = nullptr, *em_x_dev = nullptr,
+         *em_dev = nullptr, *dz_dy_dem_x_dev = nullptr,
+         *dz_dy_dem_dev = nullptr;
+  deepmd::malloc_device_memory_sync(actual_dev, actual);
+  deepmd::malloc_device_memory_sync(table_dev, table);
+  deepmd::malloc_device_memory_sync(em_x_dev, test_em_x);
+  deepmd::malloc_device_memory_sync(em_dev, test_em_x);
+  deepmd::malloc_device_memory_sync(dz_dy_dem_x_dev, test_dz_dy_dem_x);
+  deepmd::malloc_device_memory_sync(dz_dy_dem_dev, test_dz_dy_dem);
+
+  deepmd::tabulate_fusion_se_t_grad_grad_gpu<double>(
+      actual_dev, table_dev, info.data(), em_x_dev, em_dev, dz_dy_dem_x_dev,
+      dz_dy_dem_dev, test_nloc, test_nnei_i, test_nnei_j, last_layer_size);
+  deepmd::memcpy_device_to_host(actual_dev, actual);
+
+  for (int ii = 0; ii < last_layer_size; ++ii) {
+    EXPECT_NEAR(actual[ii], expected[ii], 1e-10);
+  }
+
+  deepmd::delete_device_memory(actual_dev);
+  deepmd::delete_device_memory(table_dev);
+  deepmd::delete_device_memory(em_x_dev);
+  deepmd::delete_device_memory(em_dev);
+  deepmd::delete_device_memory(dz_dy_dem_x_dev);
+  deepmd::delete_device_memory(dz_dy_dem_dev);
+}
+
 TEST_F(TestTabulateSeT, grad_gpu_partial_neighbor_tiles) {
   constexpr int test_nloc = 1;
   constexpr int test_nnei_i = 1;