diff --git a/gpt4all-backend/gptj.cpp b/gpt4all-backend/gptj.cpp
index a66a34a6..0ec5d61c 100644
--- a/gpt4all-backend/gptj.cpp
+++ b/gpt4all-backend/gptj.cpp
@@ -375,37 +375,31 @@ bool gptj_eval(
 
         // self-attention
         {
-            struct ggml_tensor * Qcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].c_attn_q_proj_w, cur);
-            struct ggml_tensor * Kcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].c_attn_k_proj_w, cur);
-            struct ggml_tensor * Vcur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].c_attn_v_proj_w, cur);
+            struct ggml_tensor * Qcur = ggml_rope(ctx0, ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].c_attn_q_proj_w, cur), n_embd/n_head, n_head, N), n_past, n_rot, 0, 0);
+            struct ggml_tensor * Kcur = ggml_rope(ctx0, ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].c_attn_k_proj_w, cur), n_embd/n_head, n_head, N), n_past, n_rot, 0, 0);
 
             // store key and value to memory
             {
+                struct ggml_tensor * Vcur = ggml_transpose(ctx0, ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, model.layers[il].c_attn_v_proj_w, cur));
+
                 struct ggml_tensor * k = ggml_view_1d(ctx0, model.kv_self.k, N*n_embd, (ggml_element_size(model.kv_self.k)*n_embd)*(il*n_ctx + n_past));
-                struct ggml_tensor * v = ggml_view_1d(ctx0, model.kv_self.v, N*n_embd, (ggml_element_size(model.kv_self.v)*n_embd)*(il*n_ctx + n_past));
+                struct ggml_tensor * v = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, model.kv_self.v, N, n_embd,
+                        (   n_ctx)*ggml_element_size(model.kv_self.v),
+                        (il*n_ctx)*ggml_element_size(model.kv_self.v)*n_embd + n_past*ggml_element_size(model.kv_self.v));
 
                 ggml_build_forward_expand(&gf, ggml_cpy(ctx0, Kcur, k));
                 ggml_build_forward_expand(&gf, ggml_cpy(ctx0, Vcur, v));
             }
 
             // Q = Qcur.contiguous().view(n_embd/n_head, n_head, N).permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
-            struct ggml_tensor * Q =
-                ggml_permute(ctx0,
-                        ggml_rope(ctx0,
-                            ggml_cpy(ctx0,
-                                Qcur,
-                                ggml_new_tensor_3d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_embd/n_head, n_head, N)),
-                            n_past, n_rot, 0, 0),
-                        0, 2, 1, 3);
+            struct ggml_tensor * Q = ggml_permute(ctx0, Qcur, 0, 2, 1, 3);
 
             // K = Kmem.view(n_embd/n_head, n_head, n_past + N).permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
             struct ggml_tensor * K =
                 ggml_permute(ctx0,
-                        ggml_rope(ctx0,
-                            ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0,
-                                ggml_view_1d(ctx0, model.kv_self.k, (n_past + N)*n_embd, il*n_ctx*ggml_element_size(model.kv_self.k)*n_embd),
-                                n_embd/n_head, n_head, n_past + N),
-                            n_past, n_rot, 1, 0),
+                        ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0,
+                            ggml_view_1d(ctx0, model.kv_self.k, (n_past + N)*n_embd, il*n_ctx*ggml_element_size(model.kv_self.k)*n_embd),
+                            n_embd/n_head, n_head, n_past + N),
                         0, 2, 1, 3);
 
             // K * Q
@@ -425,17 +419,15 @@ bool gptj_eval(
             struct ggml_tensor * KQ_soft_max = ggml_soft_max(ctx0, KQ_masked);
 
             // V_trans = Vmem.view(n_embd/n_head, n_head, n_past + N).permute(1, 2, 0, 3).contiguous()
-            struct ggml_tensor * V_trans =
-                ggml_cpy(ctx0,
-                        ggml_permute(ctx0,
-                            ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0,
-                                ggml_view_1d(ctx0, model.kv_self.v, (n_past + N)*n_embd, il*n_ctx*ggml_element_size(model.kv_self.v)*n_embd),
-                                n_embd/n_head, n_head, n_past + N),
-                            1, 2, 0, 3),
-                        ggml_new_tensor_3d(ctx0, model.kv_self.v->type, n_past + N, n_embd/n_head, n_head));
+            struct ggml_tensor * V =
+                ggml_view_3d(ctx0, model.kv_self.v,
+                        n_past + N, n_embd/n_head, n_head,
+                        n_ctx*ggml_element_size(model.kv_self.v),
+                        n_ctx*ggml_element_size(model.kv_self.v)*n_embd/n_head,
+                        il*n_ctx*ggml_element_size(model.kv_self.v)*n_embd);
 
             // KQV = transpose(V) * KQ_soft_max
-            struct ggml_tensor * KQV = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, V_trans, KQ_soft_max);
+            struct ggml_tensor * KQV = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, V, KQ_soft_max);
 
             // KQV_merged = KQV.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
             struct ggml_tensor * KQV_merged = ggml_permute(ctx0, KQV, 0, 2, 1, 3);