diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index 62db9397cfb88..04f71d024d9ca 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -7419,7 +7419,7 @@ static bool llm_load_tensors(
 
                         layer.ffn_norm = ml.create_tensor(ctx_layer, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_NORM, "weight", i), {n_embd});
 
-                        if ((uint32_t) i < hparams.n_layer_dense_lead) {
+                        if (i < (int) hparams.n_layer_dense_lead) {
                             layer.ffn_gate = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE, "weight", i), {n_embd,   n_ff});
                             layer.ffn_down = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN, "weight", i), {  n_ff, n_embd});
                             layer.ffn_up   = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP,   "weight", i), {n_embd,   n_ff});