diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1601079a4..a74929c82 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -188,11 +188,14 @@ ggml.o: ggml.c ggml.h
 utils.o: utils.cpp utils.h
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c utils.cpp -o utils.o
 
+llama.o: llama.cpp llama.h
+	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -c llama.cpp -o llama.o
+
 clean:
 	rm -f *.o main quantize
 
-main: main.cpp ggml.o utils.o
-	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) main.cpp ggml.o utils.o -o main $(LDFLAGS)
+main: main.cpp ggml.o utils.o llama.o
+	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) main.cpp ggml.o llama.o utils.o -o main $(LDFLAGS)
 	./main -h
 
 quantize: quantize.cpp ggml.o utils.o
diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..034666327
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,682 @@
+#include "llama.h"
+#include "ggml.h"
+
+#include <cassert>
+#include <cmath>
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <cstring>
+#include <fstream>
+#include <map>
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+// determine number of model parts based on the dimension
+static const std::map<int, int> LLAMA_N_PARTS = {
+    { 4096, 1 },
+    { 5120, 2 },
+    { 6656, 4 },
+    { 8192, 8 },
+};
+
+
+// load the model's weights from a file
+bool llama_model_load(const std::string & fname, llama_model & model, gpt_vocab & vocab, int n_ctx) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "%s: loading model from '%s' - please wait ...\n", __func__, fname.c_str());
+
+    std::vector<char> f_buf(1024*1024);
+
+    auto fin = std::ifstream(fname, std::ios::binary);
+    fin.rdbuf()->pubsetbuf(f_buf.data(), f_buf.size());
+    if (!fin) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: failed to open '%s'\n", __func__, fname.c_str());
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    // verify magic
+    {
+        uint32_t magic;
+        fin.read((char *) &magic, sizeof(magic));
+        if (magic != 0x67676d6c) {
+            fprintf(stderr, "%s: invalid model file '%s' (bad magic)\n", __func__, fname.c_str());
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    int n_ff = 0;
+    int n_parts = 0;
+
+    // load hparams
+    {
+        auto & hparams = model.hparams;
+
+        fin.read((char *) &hparams.n_vocab, sizeof(hparams.n_vocab));
+        //fin.read((char *) &hparams.n_ctx,   sizeof(hparams.n_ctx));
+        fin.read((char *) &hparams.n_embd,  sizeof(hparams.n_embd));
+        fin.read((char *) &hparams.n_mult,  sizeof(hparams.n_mult));
+        fin.read((char *) &hparams.n_head,  sizeof(hparams.n_head));
+        fin.read((char *) &hparams.n_layer, sizeof(hparams.n_layer));
+        fin.read((char *) &hparams.n_rot,   sizeof(hparams.n_rot));
+        fin.read((char *) &hparams.f16,     sizeof(hparams.f16));
+
+        hparams.n_ctx = n_ctx;
+
+        n_ff = ((2*(4*hparams.n_embd)/3 + hparams.n_mult - 1)/hparams.n_mult)*hparams.n_mult;
+        n_parts = LLAMA_N_PARTS.at(hparams.n_embd);
+
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: n_vocab = %d\n", __func__, hparams.n_vocab);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: n_ctx   = %d\n", __func__, hparams.n_ctx);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: n_embd  = %d\n", __func__, hparams.n_embd);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: n_mult  = %d\n", __func__, hparams.n_mult);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: n_head  = %d\n", __func__, hparams.n_head);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: n_layer = %d\n", __func__, hparams.n_layer);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: n_rot   = %d\n", __func__, hparams.n_rot);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: f16     = %d\n", __func__, hparams.f16);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: n_ff    = %d\n", __func__, n_ff);
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: n_parts = %d\n", __func__, n_parts);
+    }
+
+    // load vocab
+    {
+        std::string word;
+        for (int i = 0; i < model.hparams.n_vocab; i++) {
+            uint32_t len;
+            fin.read((char *) &len, sizeof(len));
+
+            word.resize(len);
+            fin.read((char *) word.data(), len);
+
+            vocab.token_to_id[word] = i;
+            vocab.id_to_token[i] = word;
+
+            //if (i < 30000) {
+            //    fprintf(stderr, "%s: vocab[%d] = '%s'\n", __func__, i, word.c_str());
+            //}
+        }
+    }
+
+    // for the big tensors, we have the option to store the data in 16-bit floats or quantized
+    // in order to save memory and also to speed up the computation
+    ggml_type wtype = GGML_TYPE_COUNT;
+    switch (model.hparams.f16) {
+        case 0: wtype = GGML_TYPE_F32;  break;
+        case 1: wtype = GGML_TYPE_F16;  break;
+        case 2: wtype = GGML_TYPE_Q4_0; break;
+        case 3: wtype = GGML_TYPE_Q4_1; break;
+        default:
+                {
+                    fprintf(stderr, "%s: invalid model file '%s' (bad f16 value %d)\n",
+                            __func__, fname.c_str(), model.hparams.f16);
+                    return false;
+                }
+    }
+
+    const ggml_type wtype2 = GGML_TYPE_F32;
+
+    auto & ctx = model.ctx;
+
+    size_t ctx_size = 0;
+
+    {
+        const auto & hparams = model.hparams;
+
+        const int n_embd  = hparams.n_embd;
+        const int n_layer = hparams.n_layer;
+        const int n_ctx   = hparams.n_ctx;
+        const int n_vocab = hparams.n_vocab;
+
+        ctx_size += n_embd*n_vocab*ggml_type_sizef(wtype); // tok_embeddings
+
+        ctx_size += n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32); // norm
+
+        ctx_size += n_embd*n_vocab*ggml_type_sizef(wtype); // output
+
+        ctx_size += n_layer*(n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32)); // attention_norm
+
+        ctx_size += n_layer*(n_embd*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(wtype)); // wq
+        ctx_size += n_layer*(n_embd*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(wtype)); // wk
+        ctx_size += n_layer*(n_embd*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(wtype)); // wv
+        ctx_size += n_layer*(n_embd*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(wtype)); // wo
+
+        ctx_size += n_layer*(n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32)); // ffn_norm
+
+        ctx_size += n_layer*(n_ff*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(wtype)); // w1
+        ctx_size += n_layer*(n_ff*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(wtype)); // w2
+        ctx_size += n_layer*(n_ff*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(wtype)); // w3
+
+        ctx_size += n_ctx*n_layer*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32); // memory_k
+        ctx_size += n_ctx*n_layer*n_embd*ggml_type_sizef(GGML_TYPE_F32); // memory_v
+
+        ctx_size += (5 + 10*n_layer)*256; // object overhead
+
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: ggml ctx size = %6.2f MB\n", __func__, ctx_size/(1024.0*1024.0));
+    }
+
+    // create the ggml context
+    {
+        struct ggml_init_params params = {
+            /*.mem_size   =*/ ctx_size,
+            /*.mem_buffer =*/ NULL,
+        };
+
+        model.ctx = ggml_init(params);
+        if (!model.ctx) {
+            fprintf(stderr, "%s: ggml_init() failed\n", __func__);
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // prepare memory for the weights
+    {
+        const auto & hparams = model.hparams;
+
+        const int n_embd  = hparams.n_embd;
+        const int n_layer = hparams.n_layer;
+        const int n_ctx   = hparams.n_ctx;
+        const int n_vocab = hparams.n_vocab;
+
+        model.layers.resize(n_layer);
+
+        model.tok_embeddings = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, wtype, n_embd, n_vocab);
+
+        model.norm   = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_embd);
+        model.output = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, wtype,         n_embd, n_vocab);
+
+        // map by name
+        model.tensors["tok_embeddings.weight"] = model.tok_embeddings;
+
+        model.tensors["norm.weight"]   = model.norm;
+        model.tensors["output.weight"] = model.output;
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < n_layer; ++i) {
+            auto & layer = model.layers[i];
+
+            layer.attention_norm = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_embd);
+
+            layer.wq = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, wtype, n_embd, n_embd);
+            layer.wk = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, wtype, n_embd, n_embd);
+            layer.wv = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, wtype, n_embd, n_embd);
+            layer.wo = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, wtype, n_embd, n_embd);
+
+            layer.ffn_norm = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_embd);
+
+            layer.w1 = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, wtype, n_embd,   n_ff);
+            layer.w2 = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, wtype,   n_ff, n_embd);
+            layer.w3 = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx, wtype, n_embd,   n_ff);
+
+            // map by name
+            model.tensors["layers." + std::to_string(i) + ".attention_norm.weight"] = layer.attention_norm;
+
+            model.tensors["layers." + std::to_string(i) + ".attention.wq.weight"] = layer.wq;
+            model.tensors["layers." + std::to_string(i) + ".attention.wk.weight"] = layer.wk;
+            model.tensors["layers." + std::to_string(i) + ".attention.wv.weight"] = layer.wv;
+            model.tensors["layers." + std::to_string(i) + ".attention.wo.weight"] = layer.wo;
+
+            model.tensors["layers." + std::to_string(i) + ".ffn_norm.weight"] = layer.ffn_norm;
+
+            model.tensors["layers." + std::to_string(i) + ".feed_forward.w1.weight"] = layer.w1;
+            model.tensors["layers." + std::to_string(i) + ".feed_forward.w2.weight"] = layer.w2;
+            model.tensors["layers." + std::to_string(i) + ".feed_forward.w3.weight"] = layer.w3;
+        }
+    }
+
+    // key + value memory
+    {
+        const auto & hparams = model.hparams;
+
+        const int n_embd  = hparams.n_embd;
+        const int n_layer = hparams.n_layer;
+        const int n_ctx   = hparams.n_ctx;
+
+        const int n_mem      = n_layer*n_ctx;
+        const int n_elements = n_embd*n_mem;
+
+        model.memory_k = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_elements);
+        model.memory_v = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_elements);
+
+        const size_t memory_size = ggml_nbytes(model.memory_k) + ggml_nbytes(model.memory_v);
+
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: memory_size = %8.2f MB, n_mem = %d\n", __func__, memory_size/1024.0/1024.0, n_mem);
+    }
+
+    const size_t file_offset = fin.tellg();
+
+    fin.close();
+
+    std::vector<uint8_t> tmp;
+
+    for (int i = 0; i < n_parts; ++i) {
+        const int part_id = i;
+        //const int part_id = n_parts - i - 1;
+
+        std::string fname_part = fname;
+        if (i > 0) {
+            fname_part += "." + std::to_string(i);
+        }
+
+        fprintf(stderr, "%s: loading model part %d/%d from '%s'\n", __func__, i+1, n_parts, fname_part.c_str());
+
+        fin = std::ifstream(fname_part, std::ios::binary);
+        fin.rdbuf()->pubsetbuf(f_buf.data(), f_buf.size());
+        fin.seekg(file_offset);
+
+        // load weights
+        {
+            int n_tensors = 0;
+            size_t total_size = 0;
+
+            fprintf(stderr, "%s: ", __func__);
+
+            while (true) {
+                int32_t n_dims;
+                int32_t length;
+                int32_t ftype;
+
+                fin.read(reinterpret_cast<char *>(&n_dims), sizeof(n_dims));
+                fin.read(reinterpret_cast<char *>(&length), sizeof(length));
+                fin.read(reinterpret_cast<char *>(&ftype),  sizeof(ftype));
+
+                if (fin.eof()) {
+                    break;
+                }
+
+                int32_t nelements = 1;
+                int32_t ne[2] = { 1, 1 };
+                for (int i = 0; i < n_dims; ++i) {
+                    fin.read(reinterpret_cast<char *>(&ne[i]), sizeof(ne[i]));
+                    nelements *= ne[i];
+                }
+
+                std::string name(length, 0);
+                fin.read(&name[0], length);
+
+                if (model.tensors.find(name.data()) == model.tensors.end()) {
+                    fprintf(stderr, "%s: unknown tensor '%s' in model file\n", __func__, name.data());
+                    return false;
+                }
+
+                // split_type = 0: split by columns
+                // split_type = 1: split by rows
+                int split_type = 0;
+
+                // split_type = 0:
+                // regex:
+                //   - tok_embeddings.*
+                //   - layers.*.attention.wo.weight
+                //   - layers.*.feed_forward.w2.weight
+
+                // split_type = 1:
+                // regex:
+                //   - output.*
+                //   - layers.*.attention.wq.weight
+                //   - layers.*.attention.wk.weight
+                //   - layers.*.attention.wv.weight
+                //   - layers.*.feed_forward.w1.weight
+                //   - layers.*.feed_forward.w3.weight
+                if (name.find("tok_embeddings") != std::string::npos) {
+                    split_type = 0;
+                } else if (name.find("layers") != std::string::npos) {
+                    if (name.find("attention.wo.weight") != std::string::npos) {
+                        split_type = 0;
+                    } else if (name.find("feed_forward.w2.weight") != std::string::npos) {
+                        split_type = 0;
+                    } else {
+                        split_type = 1;
+                    }
+                } else if (name.find("output") != std::string::npos) {
+                    split_type = 1;
+                }
+
+                auto tensor = model.tensors[name.data()];
+
+                if (n_dims == 1) {
+                    if (ggml_nelements(tensor) != nelements) {
+                        fprintf(stderr, "%s: tensor '%s' has wrong size in model file\n", __func__, name.data());
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    if (ggml_nelements(tensor)/n_parts != nelements) {
+                        fprintf(stderr, "%s: tensor '%s' has wrong size in model file\n", __func__, name.data());
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (n_dims == 1) {
+                    if (tensor->ne[0] != ne[0] || tensor->ne[1] != ne[1]) {
+                        fprintf(stderr, "%s: tensor '%s' has wrong shape in model file: got [%d, %d], expected [%d, %d]\n",
+                                __func__, name.data(), tensor->ne[0], tensor->ne[1], ne[0], ne[1]);
+                        return false;
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    if (split_type == 0) {
+                        if (tensor->ne[0]/n_parts != ne[0] || tensor->ne[1] != ne[1]) {
+                            fprintf(stderr, "%s: tensor '%s' has wrong shape in model file: got [%d, %d], expected [%d, %d]\n",
+                                    __func__, name.data(), tensor->ne[0]/n_parts, tensor->ne[1], ne[0], ne[1]);
+                            return false;
+                        }
+                    } else {
+                        if (tensor->ne[0] != ne[0] || tensor->ne[1]/n_parts != ne[1]) {
+                            fprintf(stderr, "%s: tensor '%s' has wrong shape in model file: got [%d, %d], expected [%d, %d]\n",
+                                    __func__, name.data(), tensor->ne[0], tensor->ne[1]/n_parts, ne[0], ne[1]);
+                            return false;
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+
+                if (0) {
+                    static const char * ftype_str[] = { "f32", "f16", "q4_0", "q4_1", };
+                    fprintf(stderr, "%24s - [%5d, %5d], type = %6s, split = %d\n", name.data(), ne[0], ne[1], ftype_str[ftype], split_type);
+                }
+
+                size_t bpe = 0;
+
+                switch (ftype) {
+                    case 0: bpe = ggml_type_size(GGML_TYPE_F32);  break;
+                    case 1: bpe = ggml_type_size(GGML_TYPE_F16);  break;
+                    case 2: bpe = ggml_type_size(GGML_TYPE_Q4_0); assert(ne[0] % 64 == 0); break;
+                    case 3: bpe = ggml_type_size(GGML_TYPE_Q4_1); assert(ne[0] % 64 == 0); break;
+                    default:
+                            {
+                                fprintf(stderr, "%s: unknown ftype %d in model file\n", __func__, ftype);
+                                return false;
+                            }
+                };
+
+                if (n_dims == 1 || n_parts == 1) {
+                    if ((nelements*bpe)/ggml_blck_size(tensor->type) != ggml_nbytes(tensor)) {
+                        fprintf(stderr, "%s: tensor '%s' has wrong size in model file: got %zu, expected %zu\n",
+                                __func__, name.data(), ggml_nbytes(tensor), nelements*bpe);
+                        return false;
+                    }
+
+                    if (part_id == 0) {
+                        fin.read(reinterpret_cast<char *>(tensor->data), ggml_nbytes(tensor));
+                    } else {
+                        fin.seekg(ggml_nbytes(tensor), std::ios::cur);
+                    }
+
+                    total_size += ggml_nbytes(tensor);
+                } else {
+                    if ((nelements*bpe)/ggml_blck_size(tensor->type) != ggml_nbytes(tensor)/n_parts) {
+                        fprintf(stderr, "%s: tensor '%s' has wrong size in model file: got %zu, expected %zu\n",
+                                __func__, name.data(), ggml_nbytes(tensor)/n_parts, nelements*bpe);
+                        return false;
+                    }
+
+                    if (split_type == 0) {
+                        const int np0 = ne[0];
+
+                        const size_t row_size = (tensor->ne[0]/ggml_blck_size(tensor->type))*ggml_type_size(tensor->type);
+                        assert(row_size == tensor->nb[1]);
+
+                        for (int i1 = 0; i1 < ne[1]; ++i1) {
+                            const size_t offset_row = i1*row_size;
+                            const size_t offset = offset_row + ((part_id*np0)/ggml_blck_size(tensor->type))*ggml_type_size(tensor->type);
+                            fin.read(reinterpret_cast<char *>(tensor->data) + offset, row_size/n_parts);
+                        }
+                    } else {
+                        const int np1 = ne[1];
+
+                        const size_t row_size = (tensor->ne[0]/ggml_blck_size(tensor->type))*ggml_type_size(tensor->type);
+
+                        for (int i1 = 0; i1 < ne[1]; ++i1) {
+                            const size_t offset_row = (i1 + part_id*np1)*row_size;
+                            fin.read(reinterpret_cast<char *>(tensor->data) + offset_row, row_size);
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    total_size += ggml_nbytes(tensor)/n_parts;
+                }
+
+                //fprintf(stderr, "%42s - [%5d, %5d], type = %6s, %6.2f MB\n", name.data(), ne[0], ne[1], ftype == 0 ? "float" : "f16", ggml_nbytes(tensor)/1024.0/1024.0);
+                if (++n_tensors % 8 == 0) {
+                    fprintf(stderr, ".");
+                    fflush(stderr);
+                }
+            }
+
+            fprintf(stderr, " done\n");
+
+            fprintf(stderr, "%s: model size = %8.2f MB / num tensors = %d\n", __func__, total_size/1024.0/1024.0, n_tensors);
+        }
+
+        fin.close();
+    }
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+// evaluate the transformer
+//
+//   - model:     the model
+//   - n_threads: number of threads to use
+//   - n_past:    the context size so far
+//   - embd_inp:  the embeddings of the tokens in the context
+//   - embd_w:    the predicted logits for the next token
+//
+// The GPT-J model requires about 16MB of memory per input token.
+//
+bool llama_eval(
+        const llama_model & model,
+        const int n_threads,
+        const int n_past,
+        const std::vector<gpt_vocab::id> & embd_inp,
+              std::vector<float>         & embd_w,
+              size_t                     & mem_per_token) {
+    const int N = embd_inp.size();
+
+    const auto & hparams = model.hparams;
+
+    const int n_embd  = hparams.n_embd;
+    const int n_layer = hparams.n_layer;
+    const int n_ctx   = hparams.n_ctx;
+    const int n_head  = hparams.n_head;
+    const int n_vocab = hparams.n_vocab;
+    const int n_rot   = hparams.n_embd/hparams.n_head;
+
+    const int d_key = n_embd/n_head;
+
+     // TODO: check if this size scales with n_ctx linearly and remove constant. somehow I feel it wasn't the case
+    // static size_t buf_size = hparams.n_ctx*1024*1024;
+    static size_t buf_size = 512u*1024*1024;
+    static void * buf = malloc(buf_size);
+
+    if (mem_per_token > 0 && mem_per_token*N > buf_size) {
+        const size_t buf_size_new = 1.1*(mem_per_token*N); // add 10% to account for ggml object overhead
+        //fprintf(stderr, "\n%s: reallocating buffer from %zu to %zu bytes\n", __func__, buf_size, buf_size_new);
+
+        // reallocate
+        buf_size = buf_size_new;
+        buf = realloc(buf, buf_size);
+        if (buf == nullptr) {
+            fprintf(stderr, "%s: failed to allocate %zu bytes\n", __func__, buf_size);
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+
+    struct ggml_init_params params = {
+        /*.mem_size   =*/ buf_size,
+        /*.mem_buffer =*/ buf,
+    };
+
+    struct ggml_context * ctx0 = ggml_init(params);
+    ggml_cgraph gf = {};
+    gf.n_threads = n_threads;
+
+    struct ggml_tensor * embd = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_I32, N);
+    memcpy(embd->data, embd_inp.data(), N*ggml_element_size(embd));
+
+    struct ggml_tensor * inpL = ggml_get_rows(ctx0, model.tok_embeddings, embd);
+
+    for (int il = 0; il < n_layer; ++il) {
+        struct ggml_tensor * inpSA = inpL;
+
+        struct ggml_tensor * cur;
+
+        // norm
+        {
+            cur = ggml_rms_norm(ctx0, inpL);
+
+            // cur = attention_norm*cur
+            cur = ggml_mul(ctx0,
+                        ggml_repeat(ctx0, model.layers[il].attention_norm, cur),
+                        cur);
+        }
+
+        // self-attention
+        {
+            struct ggml_tensor * Qcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].wq, cur);
+            struct ggml_tensor * Kcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].wk, cur);
+            struct ggml_tensor * Vcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].wv, cur);
+
+            // store key and value to memory
+            if (N >= 1) {
+                struct ggml_tensor * k = ggml_view_1d(ctx0, model.memory_k, N*n_embd, (ggml_element_size(model.memory_k)*n_embd)*(il*n_ctx + n_past));
+                struct ggml_tensor * v = ggml_view_1d(ctx0, model.memory_v, N*n_embd, (ggml_element_size(model.memory_v)*n_embd)*(il*n_ctx + n_past));
+
+                ggml_build_forward_expand(&gf, ggml_cpy(ctx0, Kcur, k));
+                ggml_build_forward_expand(&gf, ggml_cpy(ctx0, Vcur, v));
+            }
+
+            // Q = Qcur.contiguous().view(n_embd/n_head, n_head, N).permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
+            struct ggml_tensor * Q =
+                ggml_permute(ctx0,
+                        ggml_rope(ctx0,
+                            ggml_cpy(ctx0,
+                                Qcur,
+                                ggml_new_tensor_3d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_embd/n_head, n_head, N)),
+                            n_past, n_rot, 0),
+                        0, 2, 1, 3);
+
+            // K = Kmem.view(n_embd/n_head, n_head, n_past + N).permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
+            struct ggml_tensor * K =
+                ggml_permute(ctx0,
+                        ggml_rope(ctx0,
+                            ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0,
+                                ggml_view_1d(ctx0, model.memory_k, (n_past + N)*n_embd, il*n_ctx*ggml_element_size(model.memory_k)*n_embd),
+                                n_embd/n_head, n_head, n_past + N),
+                            n_past, n_rot, 1),
+                        0, 2, 1, 3);
+
+            // K * Q
+            struct ggml_tensor * KQ = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, K, Q);
+
+            // KQ_scaled = KQ / sqrt(n_embd/n_head)
+            struct ggml_tensor * KQ_scaled =
+                ggml_scale(ctx0,
+                        KQ,
+                        ggml_new_f32(ctx0, 1.0f/sqrt(float(n_embd)/n_head))
+                        );
+
+            // KQ_masked = mask_past(KQ_scaled)
+            struct ggml_tensor * KQ_masked = ggml_diag_mask_inf(ctx0, KQ_scaled, n_past);
+
+            // KQ = soft_max(KQ_masked)
+            struct ggml_tensor * KQ_soft_max = ggml_soft_max(ctx0, KQ_masked);
+
+            // V_trans = Vmem.view(n_embd/n_head, n_head, n_past + N).permute(1, 2, 0, 3).contiguous()
+            struct ggml_tensor * V_trans =
+                ggml_permute(ctx0,
+                        ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0,
+                            ggml_view_1d(ctx0, model.memory_v, (n_past + N)*n_embd, il*n_ctx*ggml_element_size(model.memory_v)*n_embd),
+                            n_embd/n_head, n_head, n_past + N),
+                        1, 2, 0, 3);
+
+            // KQV = transpose(V) * KQ_soft_max
+            struct ggml_tensor * KQV = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, V_trans, KQ_soft_max);
+
+            // KQV_merged = KQV.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
+            struct ggml_tensor * KQV_merged = ggml_permute(ctx0, KQV, 0, 2, 1, 3);
+
+            // cur = KQV_merged.contiguous().view(n_embd, N)
+            cur = ggml_cpy(ctx0,
+                    KQV_merged,
+                    ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_embd, N));
+
+            // projection (no bias)
+            cur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0,
+                    model.layers[il].wo,
+                    cur);
+        }
+
+        struct ggml_tensor * inpFF = ggml_add(ctx0, cur, inpSA);
+
+        // feed-forward network
+        {
+            // norm
+            {
+                cur = ggml_rms_norm(ctx0, inpFF);
+
+                // cur = ffn_norm*cur
+                cur = ggml_mul(ctx0,
+                        ggml_repeat(ctx0, model.layers[il].ffn_norm, cur),
+                        cur);
+            }
+
+            struct ggml_tensor * tmp = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0,
+                    model.layers[il].w3,
+                    cur);
+
+
+            cur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0,
+                    model.layers[il].w1,
+                    cur);
+
+            // SILU activation
+            cur = ggml_silu(ctx0, cur);
+
+            cur = ggml_mul(ctx0, cur, tmp);
+
+            cur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0,
+                    model.layers[il].w2,
+                    cur);
+        }
+
+        cur  = ggml_add(ctx0, cur, inpFF);
+
+        // input for next layer
+        inpL = cur;
+    }
+
+    // norm
+    {
+        inpL = ggml_rms_norm(ctx0, inpL);
+
+        // inpL = norm*inpL
+        inpL = ggml_mul(ctx0,
+                    ggml_repeat(ctx0, model.norm, inpL),
+                    inpL);
+    }
+
+    // lm_head
+    {
+        inpL = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.output, inpL);
+    }
+
+    // logits -> probs
+    //inpL = ggml_soft_max(ctx0, inpL);
+
+    // run the computation
+    ggml_build_forward_expand(&gf, inpL);
+    ggml_graph_compute       (ctx0, &gf);
+
+    //if (n_past%100 == 0) {
+    //    ggml_graph_print   (&gf);
+    //    ggml_graph_dump_dot(&gf, NULL, "gpt-2.dot");
+    //}
+
+    //embd_w.resize(n_vocab*N);
+    //memcpy(embd_w.data(), ggml_get_data(inpL), sizeof(float)*n_vocab*N);
+
+    // return result for just the last token
+    embd_w.resize(n_vocab);
+    memcpy(embd_w.data(), (float *) ggml_get_data(inpL) + (n_vocab*(N-1)), sizeof(float)*n_vocab);
+
+    if (mem_per_token == 0) {
+        mem_per_token = ggml_used_mem(ctx0)/N;
+    }
+    //fprintf(stderr, "used_mem = %zu\n", ggml_used_mem(ctx0));
+
+    ggml_free(ctx0);
+
+    return true;
+}
diff --git a/llama.h b/llama.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ceab22bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/llama.h
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+#pragma once
+
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+#include <map>
+
+#include "utils.h"
+
+// default hparams (LLaMA 7B)
+struct llama_hparams {
+    int32_t n_vocab = 32000;
+    int32_t n_ctx   = 512;   // this is provided as user input?
+    int32_t n_embd  = 4096;
+    int32_t n_mult  = 256;
+    int32_t n_head  = 32;
+    int32_t n_layer = 32;
+    int32_t n_rot   = 64;
+    int32_t f16     = 1;
+};
+
+struct llama_layer {
+    // normalization
+    struct ggml_tensor * attention_norm;
+
+    // attention
+    struct ggml_tensor * wq;
+    struct ggml_tensor * wk;
+    struct ggml_tensor * wv;
+    struct ggml_tensor * wo;
+
+    // normalization
+    struct ggml_tensor * ffn_norm;
+
+    // ff
+    struct ggml_tensor * w1;
+    struct ggml_tensor * w2;
+    struct ggml_tensor * w3;
+};
+
+struct llama_model {
+    llama_hparams hparams;
+
+    struct ggml_tensor * tok_embeddings;
+
+    struct ggml_tensor * norm;
+    struct ggml_tensor * output;
+
+    std::vector<llama_layer> layers;
+
+    // key + value memory
+    struct ggml_tensor * memory_k;
+    struct ggml_tensor * memory_v;
+
+    //
+    struct ggml_context * ctx;
+    std::map<std::string, struct ggml_tensor *> tensors;
+};
+
+bool llama_model_load(const std::string & fname, llama_model & model, gpt_vocab & vocab, int n_ctx);
+bool llama_eval(
+        const llama_model & model,
+        const int n_threads,
+        const int n_past,
+        const std::vector<gpt_vocab::id> & embd_inp,
+              std::vector<float>         & embd_w,
+              size_t                     & mem_per_token);