diff --git a/examples/export-lora/README.md b/examples/export-lora/README.md
index 91c33c34acaa93..7dce99c9a9e613 100644
--- a/examples/export-lora/README.md
+++ b/examples/export-lora/README.md
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ For example:
 
 ```bash
 ./bin/llama-export-lora \
-    -m open-llama-3b-v2-q8_0.gguf \
-    -o open-llama-3b-v2-q8_0-english2tokipona-chat.gguf \
-    --lora lora-open-llama-3b-v2-q8_0-english2tokipona-chat-LATEST.gguf
+    -m open-llama-3b-v2.gguf \
+    -o open-llama-3b-v2-english2tokipona-chat.gguf \
+    --lora lora-open-llama-3b-v2-english2tokipona-chat-LATEST.gguf
 ```
 
 Multiple LORA adapters can be applied by passing multiple `--lora FNAME` or `--lora-scaled FNAME S` command line parameters:
diff --git a/examples/export-lora/export-lora.cpp b/examples/export-lora/export-lora.cpp
index 3176d6e26ef8b5..c7e5ca78845ee2 100644
--- a/examples/export-lora/export-lora.cpp
+++ b/examples/export-lora/export-lora.cpp
@@ -10,6 +10,12 @@
 
 static bool g_verbose = false;
 
+struct tensor_transformation {
+    struct ggml_tensor * in;
+    struct ggml_tensor * out;
+    bool is_copy;
+};
+
 static std::string get_kv_str(struct gguf_context * ctx_gguf, const std::string & key){
     int id = gguf_find_key(ctx_gguf, key.c_str());
     return id < 0 ? "" : std::string(gguf_get_val_str(ctx_gguf, id));
@@ -198,8 +204,7 @@ struct lora_merge_ctx {
         }
 
         // mapping base tensor to out tensor (same shape with base, but different type)
-        // if out_tensor == nullptr, we only copy it
-        std::vector<std::pair<struct ggml_tensor *, struct ggml_tensor *>> base_to_out_tensors;
+        std::vector<tensor_transformation> trans;
         for (auto & it : base_model.tensors) {
             bool t_a = true;
             bool t_b = true;
@@ -212,14 +217,22 @@ struct lora_merge_ctx {
                 // only copy
                 struct ggml_tensor * cpy_tensor = ggml_dup_tensor(ctx_out_ggml, base_tensor);
                 ggml_set_name(cpy_tensor, base_tensor->name);
-                base_to_out_tensors.push_back(std::make_pair(cpy_tensor, nullptr));
+                trans.push_back({
+                    cpy_tensor,
+                    cpy_tensor,
+                    true,
+                });
                 gguf_add_tensor(ctx_out, cpy_tensor);
             } else if (t_a && t_b) {
                 // need merging
                 struct ggml_tensor * out_tensor = ggml_new_tensor(
                     ctx_out_ggml, get_out_tensor_type(base_tensor), GGML_MAX_DIMS, base_tensor->ne);
                 ggml_set_name(out_tensor, base_tensor->name);
-                base_to_out_tensors.push_back(std::make_pair(base_tensor, out_tensor));
+                trans.push_back({
+                    base_tensor,
+                    out_tensor,
+                    false,
+                });
                 gguf_add_tensor(ctx_out, out_tensor);
             } else {
                 throw std::runtime_error("tensor " + it.first + " missing either lora_a or lora_b");
@@ -234,12 +247,12 @@ struct lora_merge_ctx {
 
         // process base model tensors
         size_t n_merged = 0;
-        for (auto & it : base_to_out_tensors) {
-            if (it.second != nullptr) {
-                merge_tensor(it.first, it.second);
+        for (auto & it : trans) {
+            if (!it.is_copy) {
+                merge_tensor(it.in, it.out);
                 n_merged++;
             } else {
-                copy_tensor(it.first);
+                copy_tensor(it.in);
             }
         }
 
@@ -252,7 +265,7 @@ struct lora_merge_ctx {
         }
 
         printf("%s : merged %ld tensors with lora adapters\n", __func__, n_merged);
-        printf("%s : wrote %ld tensors to output file\n", __func__, base_to_out_tensors.size());
+        printf("%s : wrote %ld tensors to output file\n", __func__, trans.size());
     }
 
     void copy_tensor(struct ggml_tensor * base) {
@@ -285,6 +298,10 @@ struct lora_merge_ctx {
         for (size_t i = 0; i < adapters.size(); ++i) {
             auto t_a = adapters[i]->get_tensor(name_lora_a);
             auto t_b = adapters[i]->get_tensor(name_lora_b);
+            // TODO: add support for quantized lora
+            if (ggml_is_quantized(t_a->type) || ggml_is_quantized(t_b->type)) {
+                throw std::runtime_error("quantized LoRA adapters is not supported, please retry with f16 or f32");
+            }
             inp_a[i] = ggml_dup_tensor(ctx, t_a);
             inp_b[i] = ggml_dup_tensor(ctx, t_b);
         }
diff --git a/ggml/include/ggml.h b/ggml/include/ggml.h
index 62374004919433..c3bfb485c6b60b 100644
--- a/ggml/include/ggml.h
+++ b/ggml/include/ggml.h
@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@
 #define GGML_EXIT_SUCCESS 0
 #define GGML_EXIT_ABORTED 1
 
+#define GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX 2
+
 #define GGUF_MAGIC "GGUF"
 
 #define GGUF_VERSION 3
@@ -1453,8 +1455,8 @@ extern "C" {
             struct ggml_tensor  * b);
 
     // rotary position embedding
-    // if mode & 1 == 1, skip n_past elements (NOT SUPPORTED)
-    // if mode & 2 == 1, GPT-NeoX style
+    // if (mode & 1) - skip n_past elements (NOT SUPPORTED)
+    // if (mode & GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX) - GPT-NeoX style
     //
     // b is an int32 vector with size a->ne[2], it contains the positions
     GGML_API struct ggml_tensor * ggml_rope(
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cann/aclnn_ops.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-cann/aclnn_ops.cpp
index 8c4132f5bb7ad7..a4ec8418e2ab35 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cann/aclnn_ops.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cann/aclnn_ops.cpp
@@ -2881,7 +2881,7 @@ void ggml_cann_rope(ggml_backend_cann_context& ctx, ggml_tensor* dst) {
     ggml_rope_yarn_corr_dims(n_dims, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, beta_fast,
                              beta_slow, corr_dims);
 
-    const bool is_neox = mode & 2;
+    const bool is_neox = mode & GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX;
 
     // init cos/sin cache
     ggml_cann_pool_alloc sin_allocator(
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/rope.cu b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/rope.cu
index 99ec1dd98ca9c7..88f586d689cfd3 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/rope.cu
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-cuda/rope.cu
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ void ggml_cuda_op_rope(ggml_backend_cuda_context & ctx, ggml_tensor * dst) {
     memcpy(&beta_fast,   (int32_t *) dst->op_params +  9, sizeof(float));
     memcpy(&beta_slow,   (int32_t *) dst->op_params + 10, sizeof(float));
 
-    const bool is_neox = mode & 2;
+    const bool is_neox = mode & GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX;
 
     const int32_t * pos = (const int32_t *) src1_d;
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-metal.m b/ggml/src/ggml-metal.m
index aad189430ab0b3..995f1934bc73bc 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-metal.m
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-metal.m
@@ -2313,7 +2313,7 @@ static enum ggml_status ggml_metal_graph_compute(
                         memcpy(&beta_fast,   (int32_t *) dst->op_params +  9, sizeof(float));
                         memcpy(&beta_slow,   (int32_t *) dst->op_params + 10, sizeof(float));
 
-                        const bool is_neox = mode & 2;
+                        const bool is_neox = mode & GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX;
 
                         id<MTLComputePipelineState> pipeline = nil;
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/rope.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/rope.cpp
index c7545bcc1a8a9c..1f06f78fa3d919 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/rope.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-sycl/rope.cpp
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ void ggml_sycl_op_rope(
     memcpy(&beta_fast,   (int32_t *) dst->op_params +  9, sizeof(float));
     memcpy(&beta_slow,   (int32_t *) dst->op_params + 10, sizeof(float));
 
-    const bool is_neox = mode & 2;
+    const bool is_neox = mode & GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX;
 
     const int32_t * pos = (const int32_t *) src1_dd;
 
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan.cpp
index 86732837254f0c..c0504e43429be0 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan.cpp
@@ -4053,7 +4053,7 @@ static vk_pipeline ggml_vk_op_get_pipeline(ggml_backend_vk_context * ctx, const
     case GGML_OP_ROPE:
         {
             const int mode = ((const int32_t *) dst->op_params)[2];
-            const bool is_neox = mode & 2;
+            const bool is_neox = mode & GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX;
 
             if (is_neox) {
                 if (src0->type == GGML_TYPE_F32 && dst->type == GGML_TYPE_F32) {
diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml.c b/ggml/src/ggml.c
index c5dc86989b67ed..c94fded2a9cb68 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml.c
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml.c
@@ -14095,7 +14095,7 @@ static void ggml_compute_forward_rope_f32(
     float corr_dims[2];
     ggml_rope_yarn_corr_dims(n_dims, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, beta_fast, beta_slow, corr_dims);
 
-    const bool is_neox = mode & 2;
+    const bool is_neox = mode & GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX;
 
     const float * freq_factors = NULL;
     if (src2 != NULL) {
@@ -14220,7 +14220,7 @@ static void ggml_compute_forward_rope_f16(
     float corr_dims[2];
     ggml_rope_yarn_corr_dims(n_dims, n_ctx_orig, freq_base, beta_fast, beta_slow, corr_dims);
 
-    const bool is_neox = mode & 2;
+    const bool is_neox = mode & GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX;
 
     const float * freq_factors = NULL;
     if (src2 != NULL) {
diff --git a/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/op_rope_f16.comp b/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/op_rope_f16.comp
index 1a4058b3f1f107..0ecfb2eab527c7 100644
--- a/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/op_rope_f16.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/op_rope_f16.comp
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ void main() {
     const uint i2 = gl_WorkGroupID.y;
     const uint i1 = gl_WorkGroupID.x;
 
-    const bool is_neox = (pcs.mode & 2) != 0;
+    const bool is_neox = (pcs.mode & GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX) != 0;
 
     float corr_dims[2];
     rope_yarn_corr_dims(pcs.n_dims, pcs.n_ctx_orig, pcs.freq_base, pcs.beta_fast, pcs.beta_slow, corr_dims);
diff --git a/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/op_rope_f32.comp b/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/op_rope_f32.comp
index 65e03827a2660e..cec0fd9a5d10c1 100644
--- a/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/op_rope_f32.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/op_rope_f32.comp
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ void main() {
     const uint i2 = gl_WorkGroupID.y;
     const uint i1 = gl_WorkGroupID.x;
 
-    const bool is_neox = (pcs.mode & 2) != 0;
+    const bool is_neox = (pcs.mode & GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX) != 0;
 
     float corr_dims[2];
     rope_yarn_corr_dims(pcs.n_dims, pcs.n_ctx_orig, pcs.freq_base, pcs.beta_fast, pcs.beta_slow, corr_dims);
diff --git a/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/rope_common.comp b/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/rope_common.comp
index 7b9394cb2fffc5..df4702896d46f2 100644
--- a/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/rope_common.comp
+++ b/ggml/src/kompute-shaders/rope_common.comp
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #include "common.comp"
 
+#define GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX 2
+
 // TODO: use a local size of 32 or more (Metal uses 1024)
 layout(local_size_x = 1) in;
 
diff --git a/include/llama.h b/include/llama.h
index ce07f4fac8f100..3c28cf0b509fb3 100644
--- a/include/llama.h
+++ b/include/llama.h
@@ -95,13 +95,10 @@ extern "C" {
         LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_CODESHELL      = 22,
     };
 
-    // note: these values should be synchronized with ggml_rope
-    // TODO: maybe move this enum to ggml.h (ggml_rope_type)
     enum llama_rope_type {
         LLAMA_ROPE_TYPE_NONE = -1,
-        LLAMA_ROPE_TYPE_NORM =  0,
-        LLAMA_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX =  2,
-        LLAMA_ROPE_TYPE_GLM  =  4,
+        LLAMA_ROPE_TYPE_NORM = 0,
+        LLAMA_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX = GGML_ROPE_TYPE_NEOX,
     };
 
     enum llama_token_type { //TODO: remove, required until per token attributes are available from GGUF file