diff --git a/hls4ml/model/optimizer/passes/infer_precision.py b/hls4ml/model/optimizer/passes/infer_precision.py
index 919bc0c3c..98779a7e8 100644
--- a/hls4ml/model/optimizer/passes/infer_precision.py
+++ b/hls4ml/model/optimizer/passes/infer_precision.py
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ def _infer_precision(self, node, types_to_infer):
         if node_class in ['ParametrizedActivation']:
             return self._infer_par_act_precision(node, types_to_infer)
 
+        if node_class in ['PReLU']:
+            return self._infer_prelu_act_precision(node, types_to_infer)
         # What about quantized activation layer? Setting it to 'auto' manually will break it here. We should prevent
         # this in config_from_* functions
 
@@ -567,9 +569,24 @@ def _infer_par_act_precision(self, node, types_to_infer):
         # For threshold relu, set the parameter precision to be the input precision by default;
         # for other parametrized activations, just allow the default precision to be used.
         # Can override these values in the configuration by explicitly setting them.
-        if 'param_t' in inferred_types and self.get_attr('activation').lower() == 'thresholdedrelu':
+        if 'param_t' in types_to_infer and node.get_attr('activation').lower() == 'thresholdedrelu':
             in_type = node.get_input_variable().type.precision
-            node.attributes['param_t'].type = in_type
+            node.attributes['param_t'].precision = in_type
+            inferred_types.append('param_t')
+
+        return inferred_types
+
+    def _infer_prelu_act_precision(self, node, types_to_infer):
+        inferred_types = []
+
+        # For PReLU, set the parameter precision to be the input precision by default;
+        # As the parameters are stored as a weight tensor, need to update that precision as well.
+        if 'param_t' in types_to_infer and node.get_attr('activation').lower() == 'prelu':
+
+            in_type = node.get_input_variable().type.precision
+            node.attributes['param_t'].precision = in_type
+            node.weights['param'].update_precision(node.types['param_t'].precision)
+
             inferred_types.append('param_t')
 
         return inferred_types
diff --git a/test/pytest/test_activations.py b/test/pytest/test_activations.py
index d1ccba512..5a605070a 100644
--- a/test/pytest/test_activations.py
+++ b/test/pytest/test_activations.py
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
-from tensorflow.keras.layers import ELU, Activation, Input, LeakyReLU, ReLU, ThresholdedReLU
+import tensorflow as tf
+from tensorflow.keras.layers import ELU, Activation, Input, LeakyReLU, PReLU, ReLU, ThresholdedReLU
 from tensorflow.keras.models import Model
 
 import hls4ml
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@
         (ELU(alpha=1.25), 'elu'),
         (Activation('selu'), 'selu'),
         # Tensorflow exception of multi-dimensional PReLU (8, 8, 3)
-        # (PReLU(alpha_initializer='zeros'), 'prelu'),
+        (PReLU(alpha_initializer=tf.initializers.constant(0.25)), 'prelu'),
         (Activation('softplus'), 'softplus'),
         (Activation('softsign'), 'softsign'),
         (Activation(activation='tanh'), 'tanh'),
@@ -35,6 +36,9 @@
     ],
 )
 def test_activations(backend, activation, name, shape, io_type):
+
+    if name == "prelu" and shape == (8, 8, 3):
+        return
     # Subtract 0.5 to include negative values
     X = np.random.rand(1000, *shape) - 0.5