diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index d54fa502c..4bba93a11 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -970,8 +970,6 @@ static void llama_model_load_internal(
 
     // prepare memory for the weights
     {
-        const auto & hparams = model.hparams;
-
         const uint32_t n_embd  = hparams.n_embd;
         const uint32_t n_layer = hparams.n_layer;
         const uint32_t n_vocab = hparams.n_vocab;