diff --git a/integrations/tensorflow/iree_tf_compiler/TFL/Passes.cpp b/integrations/tensorflow/iree_tf_compiler/TFL/Passes.cpp
index 6adf6768d96c..804d2e019d94 100644
--- a/integrations/tensorflow/iree_tf_compiler/TFL/Passes.cpp
+++ b/integrations/tensorflow/iree_tf_compiler/TFL/Passes.cpp
@@ -52,9 +52,13 @@ void buildTFLImportPassPipeline(OpPassManager &pm) {
   // Convert all TFL ops to TOSA ops
   //----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-  mlir::tosa::TOSATFTFLLegalizationPipelineOptions tosaOptions;
   pm.addPass(createLowerGlobalTensorsPass());
+
+  mlir::tosa::TOSATFTFLLegalizationPipelineOptions tosaOptions;
+  // Temporary work-around for https://github.com/google/iree/issues/8974
+  tosaOptions.dequantize_tfl_softmax = true;
   mlir::tosa::createTFTFLtoTOSALegalizationPipeline(pm, tosaOptions);
+
   pm.nest<func::FuncOp>().addPass(mlir::tosa::createStripQuantTypesPass());
   pm.addPass(createCanonicalizerPass());
   pm.addPass(createReconcileUnrealizedCastsPass());
diff --git a/integrations/tensorflow/test/python/iree_tfl_tests/mobilebert_tf2_quant_test.py b/integrations/tensorflow/test/python/iree_tfl_tests/mobilebert_tf2_quant_test.py
index fa95b2322018..259aa1f386a5 100644
--- a/integrations/tensorflow/test/python/iree_tfl_tests/mobilebert_tf2_quant_test.py
+++ b/integrations/tensorflow/test/python/iree_tfl_tests/mobilebert_tf2_quant_test.py
@@ -35,11 +35,16 @@ def generate_inputs(self, input_details):
   def compare_results(self, iree_results, tflite_results, details):
     super(MobileBertTest, self).compare_results(iree_results, tflite_results,
                                                 details)
-    # We have confirmed in large scale accuracy tests that differences this large is acceptable.
+    # We have confirmed in large scale accuracy tests that differences as large
+    # as 5.0 is acceptable. We later further relaxed from 5.0 to 7.0 in
+    # https://github.com/google/iree/pull/9337 when quantized Softmax got
+    # de-quantized, which should be numerically correct albeit not bit-exact.
+    # The actual observed max error was ~ 6.36. The value 7.0 is that rounded up
+    # to the next integer.
     self.assertTrue(
-        np.isclose(iree_results[0], tflite_results[0], atol=5.0).all())
+        np.isclose(iree_results[0], tflite_results[0], atol=7.0).all())
     self.assertTrue(
-        np.isclose(iree_results[1], tflite_results[1], atol=5.0).all())
+        np.isclose(iree_results[1], tflite_results[1], atol=7.0).all())
 
   def test_compile_tflite(self):
     self.compile_and_execute()