Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE implements the technique to transmit to a network entity a report that includes an indication of a desired demodulator or precoding per precoding resource block group (PRG) for a group of one or more PRGs. The UE then demodulates downlink (DL) transmissions, transmitted from the network entity on the group of one or more PRGs, in accordance with the indication included in the report.