diff --git a/examples/llava/clip.cpp b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
index 7155832b4..3327cb266 100644
--- a/examples/llava/clip.cpp
+++ b/examples/llava/clip.cpp
@@ -1270,7 +1270,6 @@ 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;
-        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"));
@@ -1279,12 +1278,10 @@ struct clip_ctx * clip_model_load(const char * fname, const int verbosity = 1) {
             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");
+            if (hparams.hidden_size == 0 || hparams.n_head == 0 || hparams.n_layer == 0 || hparams.n_intermediate == 0 || hparams.image_size == 0 || hparams.patch_size == 0 || hparams.projection_dim == 0 || hparams.eps == 0) {
+                fprintf(stderr, "Error: Invalid hyperparameter values\n");
+                return false;
             }
-        } catch (const std::exception& e) {
-            fprintf(stderr, "Error while loading hyperparameters: %s\n", e.what());
-            return false;
         }
         try {
             int idx = get_key_idx(ctx, KEY_IMAGE_GRID_PINPOINTS);