diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index 14048d726..de0321919 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -8537,12 +8537,6 @@ struct llm_build_context {
                 Vcur = ggml_add(ctx0, Vcur, model.layers[il].bv);
                 cb(Vcur, "Vcur", il);
 
-                // these nodes are added to the graph together so that they are not reordered
-                // by doing so, the number of splits in the graph is reduced
-                ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, Qcur);
-                ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, Kcur);
-                ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, Vcur);
-
                 Qcur = ggml_rope_custom(
                     ctx0, ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, Qcur, n_embd_head, n_head, n_tokens), inp_pos,
                     n_rot, rope_type, 0, n_orig_ctx, freq_base, freq_scale,