diff --git a/examples/llava/clip.cpp b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
index 5dfb333d1..940b373c4 100644
--- a/examples/llava/clip.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
@@ -1270,15 +1270,22 @@ struct clip_ctx * clip_model_load(const char * fname, const int verbosity = 1) {
         // load vision model
         auto & vision_model = new_clip->vision_model;
         auto & hparams = vision_model.hparams;
-        hparams.hidden_size    = get_u32(ctx, format(KEY_N_EMBD, "vision"));
-        hparams.n_head         = get_u32(ctx, format(KEY_N_HEAD, "vision"));
-        hparams.n_intermediate = get_u32(ctx, format(KEY_N_FF, "vision"));
-        hparams.n_layer        = get_u32(ctx, format(KEY_N_BLOCK, "vision"));
-        hparams.image_size     = get_u32(ctx, KEY_IMAGE_SIZE);
-        hparams.patch_size     = get_u32(ctx, KEY_PATCH_SIZE);
-        hparams.projection_dim = get_u32(ctx, format(KEY_PROJ_DIM, "vision"));
-        hparams.eps            = get_f32(ctx, format(KEY_LAYER_NORM_EPS, "vision"));
-
+        try{
+            hparams.hidden_size    = get_u32(ctx, format(KEY_N_EMBD, "vision"));
+            hparams.n_head         = get_u32(ctx, format(KEY_N_HEAD, "vision"));
+            hparams.n_intermediate = get_u32(ctx, format(KEY_N_FF, "vision"));
+            hparams.n_layer        = get_u32(ctx, format(KEY_N_BLOCK, "vision"));
+            hparams.image_size     = get_u32(ctx, KEY_IMAGE_SIZE);
+            hparams.patch_size     = get_u32(ctx, KEY_PATCH_SIZE);
+            hparams.projection_dim = get_u32(ctx, format(KEY_PROJ_DIM, "vision"));
+            hparams.eps            = get_f32(ctx, format(KEY_LAYER_NORM_EPS, "vision"));
+            if (hparams.hidden_size == 0 || hparams.n_head == 0 || hparams.n_layer == 0 || hparams.n_intermediate || hparams.image_size == 0 || hparams.patch_size || hparams.projection_dim || hparams.eps) {
+                throw std::invalid_argument("Invalid hyperparameter values");
+            }
+        } catch (const std::exception& e) {
+            std::cerr << "Error while loading hyperparameters: " << e.what() << std::endl;
+            return false;
+        }
         try {
             int idx = get_key_idx(ctx, KEY_IMAGE_GRID_PINPOINTS);
             int n = gguf_get_arr_n(ctx, idx);