diff --git a/src/llama-graph.cpp b/src/llama-graph.cpp
index 727e119e334f6..c4bdd66039277 100644
--- a/src/llama-graph.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-graph.cpp
@@ -769,9 +769,8 @@ ggml_tensor * llm_graph_context::build_moe_ffn(
     cur = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, cur, n_embd, 1, n_tokens);
 
     if (weight_before_ffn) {
-        // TODO: this is a workaround as we don't yet have a repeat op that takes custom dim (ggml_repeat_4d)
-        ggml_tensor * repeated = ggml_new_tensor_3d(ctx0, cur->type, n_embd, n_expert_used, n_tokens);
-        repeated = ggml_repeat(ctx0, cur, repeated); // [n_embd, n_expert_used, n_tokens]
+        // repeat cur to [n_embd, n_expert_used, n_tokens]
+        ggml_tensor * repeated = ggml_repeat_4d(ctx0, cur, n_embd, n_expert_used, n_tokens, 1);
         cur = ggml_mul(ctx0, repeated, weights);
         cb(cur, "ffn_moe_weighted", il);
     }