diff --git a/examples/convert-llama2c-to-ggml/convert-llama2c-to-ggml.cpp b/examples/convert-llama2c-to-ggml/convert-llama2c-to-ggml.cpp
index 469d6e3de3006..449f6d791e780 100644
--- a/examples/convert-llama2c-to-ggml/convert-llama2c-to-ggml.cpp
+++ b/examples/convert-llama2c-to-ggml/convert-llama2c-to-ggml.cpp
@@ -49,10 +49,10 @@ typedef struct {
     // float* freq_cis_real; // (seq_len, dim/2)
     // float* freq_cis_imag; // (seq_len, dim/2)
     // (optional) classifier weights for the logits, on the last layer
-    //float* wcls;
+    float* wcls;
 } TransformerWeights;
 
-void malloc_weights(TransformerWeights* w, Config* p) {
+void malloc_weights(TransformerWeights* w, Config* p, bool shared_weights) {
     // we calloc instead of malloc to keep valgrind happy
     w->token_embedding_table = new float[p->vocab_size * p->dim]();
     printf("[%s:AK] Allocating [%d] x [%d] = [%d] float space for w->token_embedding_table\n",__func__,p->vocab_size , p->dim, p->vocab_size * p->dim);
@@ -86,9 +86,16 @@ void malloc_weights(TransformerWeights* w, Config* p) {
 
     w->rms_final_weight = new float[p->dim]();
     printf("[%s:AK] Allocating [%d] float space for w->rms_final_weight\n",__func__,p->dim);
+
+    if (shared_weights) {
+        w->wcls = NULL;
+    } else {
+        w->wcls = new float[p->vocab_size * p->dim]();
+        printf("[%s:AK] Allocating [%d] x [%d] = [%d] float space for w->wcls\n",__func__,p->vocab_size , p->dim, p->vocab_size * p->dim);
+    }
 }
 
-int checkpoint_init_weights(TransformerWeights *w, Config* p, FILE* f) {
+int checkpoint_init_weights(TransformerWeights *w, Config* p, FILE* f, bool shared_weights) {
     if (fread(w->token_embedding_table, sizeof(float), p->vocab_size * p->dim, f) != static_cast<size_t>(p->vocab_size * p->dim)) return 1;
     if (fread(w->rms_att_weight, sizeof(float), p->n_layers * p->dim, f) != static_cast<size_t>(p->n_layers * p->dim)) return 1;
     if (fread(w->wq, sizeof(float), p->n_layers * p->dim * p->dim, f) != static_cast<size_t>(p->n_layers * p->dim * p->dim)) return 1;
@@ -100,6 +107,22 @@ int checkpoint_init_weights(TransformerWeights *w, Config* p, FILE* f) {
     if (fread(w->w2, sizeof(float), p->n_layers * p->hidden_dim * p->dim, f) != static_cast<size_t>(p->n_layers * p->hidden_dim * p->dim)) return 1;
     if (fread(w->w3, sizeof(float), p->n_layers * p->dim * p->hidden_dim, f) != static_cast<size_t>(p->n_layers * p->dim * p->hidden_dim)) return 1;
     if (fread(w->rms_final_weight, sizeof(float), p->dim, f) != static_cast<size_t>(p->dim)) return 1;
+
+    // Skip freq_cis_real & freq_cis_imag
+    int head_size = p->dim / p->n_heads;
+    fseek(f, p->seq_len * head_size * sizeof(float), SEEK_CUR);
+
+    if (!shared_weights && fread(w->wcls, sizeof(float), p->vocab_size * p->dim, f) != static_cast<size_t>(p->vocab_size * p->dim)) return 1;
+
+    // Check we didn't forget to read anything
+    auto curr = ftell(f);
+    fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END);
+    auto end = ftell(f);
+    if (curr != end) {
+        printf("Error: failed to read the checkpoint file to the end (curr = %ld, end =  %ld)\n", curr, end);
+        return 1;
+    }
+
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -115,6 +138,7 @@ void free_weights(TransformerWeights* w) {
     delete w->w2;
     delete w->w3;
     delete w->rms_final_weight;
+    if (w->wcls) delete w->wcls;
 }
 
 void print_sample_weights(TransformerWeights *w){
@@ -131,6 +155,7 @@ void print_sample_weights(TransformerWeights *w){
     printf("%f\n", w->w2[0]);
     printf("%f\n", w->w3[0]);
     printf("%f\n", w->rms_att_weight[0]);
+    if (w->wcls) printf("%f\n", w->wcls[0]);
 }
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
@@ -617,7 +642,7 @@ void save_as_llama_model(struct llama_vocab * vocab, struct my_llama_model * mod
 //    // w->token_embedding_table -> model->tok_embeddings
 //    // float*                   -> struct ggml_tensor
 //    stuff_karpathy_weights_into_gg(model->tok_embeddings, w->token_embedding_table);
-//    stuff_karpathy_weights_into_gg(model->output, w->token_embedding_table);
+//    stuff_karpathy_weights_into_gg(model->output, w->wcls ? w->wcls : w->token_embedding_table);
 //
 //    stuff_karpathy_weights_into_gg(model->norm, w->rms_final_weight);
 //    //print_row(model->norm, 0);
@@ -791,9 +816,12 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         if (!file) { printf("Unable to open the checkpoint file %s!\n", params.fn_llama2c_model); return 1; }
         // read in the config header
         if(fread(&config, sizeof(Config), 1, file) != 1) { return 1; }
+        auto shared_weights = config.vocab_size > 0;
+        config.vocab_size = abs(config.vocab_size);
+
         // read in the Transformer weights
-        malloc_weights(&weights, &config);
-        if(checkpoint_init_weights(&weights, &config, file)) { return 1; }
+        malloc_weights(&weights, &config, shared_weights);
+        if(checkpoint_init_weights(&weights, &config, file, shared_weights)) { return 1; }
         fclose(file);
     }