diff --git a/fairseq2n/python/src/fairseq2n/bindings/data/data_pipeline.cc b/fairseq2n/python/src/fairseq2n/bindings/data/data_pipeline.cc
index 176d03929..07307e5eb 100644
--- a/fairseq2n/python/src/fairseq2n/bindings/data/data_pipeline.cc
+++ b/fairseq2n/python/src/fairseq2n/bindings/data/data_pipeline.cc
@@ -403,6 +403,32 @@ def_data_pipeline(py::module_ &data_module)
             py::arg("bucket_sizes"),
             py::arg("selector") = std::nullopt,
             py::arg("drop_remainder") = false)
+        .def(
+            "collate",
+            [](
+                data_pipeline_builder &self,
+                std::optional<std::int64_t> maybe_pad_idx,
+                std::int64_t pad_to_multiple,
+                std::optional<std::vector<collate_options_override>> maybe_opt_overrides,
+                std::size_t num_parallel_calls) -> data_pipeline_builder &
+            {
+                auto opts = collate_options()
+                    .maybe_pad_idx(maybe_pad_idx).pad_to_multiple(pad_to_multiple);
+
+                std::vector<collate_options_override> opt_overrides{};
+                if (maybe_opt_overrides)
+                    opt_overrides = *std::move(maybe_opt_overrides);
+
+                map_fn f = collater(opts, std::move(opt_overrides));
+
+                self = std::move(self).map(std::move(f), num_parallel_calls);
+
+                return self;
+            },
+            py::arg("pad_idx") = std::nullopt,
+            py::arg("pad_to_multiple") = 1,
+            py::arg("overrides") = std::nullopt,
+            py::arg("num_parallel_calls") = 1)
         .def(
             "filter",
             [](data_pipeline_builder &self, predicate_fn fn) -> data_pipeline_builder &
diff --git a/src/fairseq2/data/data_pipeline.py b/src/fairseq2/data/data_pipeline.py
index 063e3b676..edd8434ec 100644
--- a/src/fairseq2/data/data_pipeline.py
+++ b/src/fairseq2/data/data_pipeline.py
@@ -33,8 +33,9 @@ class DataPipeline(Iterable[Any]):
 
         The pipeline state can be persisted to the disk, allowing it to be resumed later.
         It is a Python Iterable, but it also contains the iterator states.
-        Calling `iter` a second time while the first iterator is still being used
-        will segfault or worse.
+
+        Calling `iter` twice will create two iterators reading from the same dataloader,
+        and sharing the same state, so it will behave inconcistently.
         """
 
         def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[Any]:
@@ -155,6 +156,18 @@ def bucket_by_length(
         ) -> Self:
             """Combine examples of similar shape into batches."""
 
+        def collate(
+            self,
+            pad_idx: Optional[int] = None,
+            pad_to_multiple: int = 1,
+            overrides: Optional[Sequence["CollateOptionsOverride"]] = None,
+        ) -> Self:
+            """Concatenate a list of inputs into a single inputs.
+
+            This is equivalent to calling `.map(Collater())`.
+            See :py:class:`fairseq2.data.Collater` for details.
+            """
+
         def filter(self, predicate: Callable[[Any], Any]) -> Self:
             """Filter examples from data pipeline and keep only those who match
             ``predicate``.
diff --git a/tests/unit/data/test_collater.py b/tests/unit/data/test_collater.py
index 8bb08bd73..c2cc13c08 100644
--- a/tests/unit/data/test_collater.py
+++ b/tests/unit/data/test_collater.py
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
 import torch
 from torch.nn.functional import pad
 
-from fairseq2.data import CollateOptionsOverride, Collater
-from tests.common import assert_close, assert_equal, device
+from fairseq2.data import CollateOptionsOverride, Collater, read_sequence
+from tests.common import assert_close, assert_equal, device, python_devel_only
 
 
 class TestCollater:
@@ -378,3 +378,51 @@ def test_init_raises_error_when_pad_idx_is_none_and_pad_to_multiple_is_greater_t
             match=r"^`pad_idx` of the selector 'foo' must be set when `pad_to_multiple` is greater than 1\.$",
         ):
             Collater(overrides=[CollateOptionsOverride("foo", pad_to_multiple=2)])
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(python_devel_only(), reason="fairseq2n 0.2.0")
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("pad_to_multiple,pad_size", [(1, 0), (2, 0), (3, 2), (8, 4)])
+def test_collate_works_when_input_has_sequence_tensors(
+    pad_to_multiple: int, pad_size: int
+) -> None:
+    bucket1 = [
+        torch.full((4, 2), 0, device=device, dtype=torch.int64),
+        torch.full((4, 2), 1, device=device, dtype=torch.int64),
+        torch.full((4, 2), 2, device=device, dtype=torch.int64),
+    ]
+
+    bucket2 = [
+        [{"foo1": 0, "foo2": 1}, {"foo3": 2, "foo4": 3}],
+        [{"foo1": 4, "foo2": 5}, {"foo3": 6, "foo4": 7}],
+        [{"foo1": 8, "foo2": 9}, {"foo3": 0, "foo4": 1}],
+    ]
+
+    expected1_seqs = torch.tensor(
+        [
+            [[0, 0], [0, 0], [0, 0], [0, 0]],
+            [[1, 1], [1, 1], [1, 1], [1, 1]],
+            [[2, 2], [2, 2], [2, 2], [2, 2]],
+        ],
+        device=device,
+        dtype=torch.int64,
+    )
+    expected1_seqs = pad(expected1_seqs, (0, 0, 0, pad_size), value=3)
+    expected1_seq_lens = torch.tensor([4, 4, 4], device=device, dtype=torch.int64)
+
+    expected2 = [
+        {"foo1": [0, 4, 8], "foo2": [1, 5, 9]},
+        {"foo3": [2, 6, 0], "foo4": [3, 7, 1]},
+    ]
+
+    data = (
+        read_sequence([bucket1, bucket2])
+        .collate(pad_idx=3, pad_to_multiple=pad_to_multiple)
+        .and_return()
+    )
+    output1, output2 = list(data)
+
+    assert_close(output1["seqs"], expected1_seqs)
+    assert_equal(output1["seq_lens"], expected1_seq_lens)
+    assert output1["is_ragged"] == False
+
+    assert output2 == expected2