diff --git a/ml/backend/ggml/ggml.go b/ml/backend/ggml/ggml.go
index a597abedb..6d9020450 100644
--- a/ml/backend/ggml/ggml.go
+++ b/ml/backend/ggml/ggml.go
@@ -134,13 +134,7 @@ func New(r *os.File, params ml.BackendParams) (ml.Backend, error) {
 	cpuDeviceBufferTypes := deviceBufferType{C.ggml_backend_dev_by_type(C.GGML_BACKEND_DEVICE_TYPE_CPU), cpuBufferTypes}
 	input := cpuDeviceBufferTypes
 
-	var blocks int
-	for key, value := range meta.KV() {
-		if strings.HasSuffix(key, ".block_count") {
-			blocks += int(value.(uint32))
-		}
-	}
-
+	blocks := int(meta.KV().BlockCount())
 	assignLayer := func(i int) (temp deviceBufferType) {
 		if i >= params.NumGPULayers {
 			return cpuDeviceBufferTypes
@@ -206,7 +200,7 @@ func New(r *os.File, params ml.BackendParams) (ml.Backend, error) {
 		return nil
 	}
 
-	hasPart := func(s string, parts ...string) bool {
+	contains := func(s string, parts ...string) bool {
 		split := strings.Split(s, ".")
 		for _, part := range parts {
 			if slices.Contains(split, part) {
@@ -219,10 +213,12 @@ func New(r *os.File, params ml.BackendParams) (ml.Backend, error) {
 
 	for _, t := range meta.Tensors().Items() {
 		switch {
-		case hasPart(t.Name, "position_embd", "token_embd", "token_norm_embd", "token_types"):
+		case contains(t.Name, "position_embd", "token_embd", "token_norm_embd", "token_types"):
 			createTensor(tensor{source: t}, input.bts)
-		case hasPart(t.Name, "cls", "output", "output_norm"):
+		case contains(t.Name, "cls", "output", "output_norm"):
 			createTensor(tensor{source: t}, output.bts)
+		case strings.HasPrefix(t.Name, "v.") || strings.HasPrefix(t.Name, "mm."):
+			createTensor(tensor{source: t}, input.bts)
 		default:
 			if i := func() int {
 				if fields := strings.FieldsFunc(t.Name, func(r rune) bool { return !unicode.IsNumber(r) }); len(fields) > 0 {