diff --git a/vall_e.cpp/README.md b/vall_e.cpp/README.md
index 89bcdaa..cd8611e 100644
--- a/vall_e.cpp/README.md
+++ b/vall_e.cpp/README.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Probably something like:
 * [x] converted model to GGUF
 	* [ ] convert it without modifying any of the existing code
 * [x] basic framework
-	* [x] load the model
+	* [x] load the quantized model
 	* [x] orchestrate the required embeddings
 	* [x] juggle the output head / classifier properly
 * [ ] phonemize text
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ Probably something like:
 * [ ] load audio from disk
 * [ ] encode audio
 * [ ] sum embeddings for the `prom` and prior `resp`s
+* [x] `AR` sampling
 * [ ] `NAR-len` demasking sampling
 * [ ] `NAR` sampling
 * [ ] decode audio to disk
-* [ ] a functional CLI
-* [ ] quantize the model (properly)
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+* [ ] a functional CLI
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diff --git a/vall_e.cpp/vall_e.cpp b/vall_e.cpp/vall_e.cpp
index 19efd8e..bb8e540 100644
--- a/vall_e.cpp/vall_e.cpp
+++ b/vall_e.cpp/vall_e.cpp
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 	std::vector<std::vector<llama_token>> response_tokens = {
 		{922,395,869,869,354,989,762,762,762,610,975,626,626,866,609,442,762,762,762,610,610,610,610,212,869,869,51,336,352,352,352,570,148,893,76,535,568,568,270,568,568,560,597,86,744,744,744,203,738,408,1019,700,707,92,707,464,744,171,171,159,196,192,697,261,261,568,638,605,904,904,779,832,570,519,223,459,459,459,459,90,90,570,700,53,372,621,610,869,473,869,917,654,473,917,893,654,644,384,558,911,864,521,1,19,665},
 	};
-	std::string model_path = "./vall_e/Vall_E-238M-F16.gguf";
+	std::string model_path = "./vall_e/Vall_E-238M-Q8_0.gguf";
 
 	// load dynamic backends
 	ggml_backend_load_all();
@@ -207,48 +207,82 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 	// prepare batch
 	auto n_embd = llama_n_embd( model );
 	auto n_vocab = llama_n_vocab( model );
-	// float* embd = (float*) llama_get_embedding_weights( model )->data;
-	float* embds = (float*) (model->tok_embd->data);
+	llama_batch batch = llama_batch_init( ctx_params.n_ctx, n_embd, ctx_params.n_ctx );
+
+	// grab input embeddings	
+	std::vector<float> embds( n_embd * n_vocab );
+	auto* qtype = ggml_get_type_traits(model->tok_embd->type);
+	// dequantize if needed
+	if ( ggml_is_quantized(model->tok_embd->type) ) {
+		qtype->to_float(model->tok_embd->data, embds.data(), embds.size());
+	}
 
 	// to-do: derive these offsets from the tokenizer itself
-	float* text_embds = embds + (0 * n_embd); // <bos>
-	float* rvq_level_embd = embds + (17666 * n_embd); // <|RVQ:0>
-	float* len_embd = embds + (17674 * n_embd); // <|len:0|>
-	float* lang_embd = embds + (17686 * n_embd); // <|lang:en|>
-	float* task_embd = embds + (17692 * n_embd); // <|task:tts|>
-	float* sep_embd = embds + (17685 * n_embd); // <|sep|>
+	// to-do: clean this up, probably make it at parity to inputs_to_embeddings
+	int text_embd_start = 0; // <unk>
+	int rvq_level_embd_start = 17666; // <|RVQ:0>
+	int len_embd_start = 17674; // <|len:0|>
+	int lang_embd_start = 17686; // <|lang:en|>
+	int task_embd_start = 17692; // <|task:tts|>
+	int sep_embd_start = 17685; // <|sep|>
+	int prom_embd_start[] = {
+		256 + (1024 * 0), // <|P|0:0|>
+		256 + (1024 * 1), // <|P|1:0|>
+		256 + (1024 * 2), // <|P|2:0|>
+		256 + (1024 * 3), // <|P|3:0|>
+		256 + (1024 * 4), // <|P|4:0|>
+		256 + (1024 * 5), // <|P|5:0|>
+		256 + (1024 * 6), // <|P|6:0|>
+		256 + (1024 * 7), // <|P|7:0|>
+	};
+	int resp_embd_start[] = {
+		8448, // <|AR|0:0|>
+		9473, // <|NAR|0:0|>
+		10498 + (1024 * 0), // <|NAR|0:1|>
+		10498 + (1024 * 1), // <|NAR|1:2|>
+		10498 + (1024 * 2), // <|NAR|2:3|>
+		10498 + (1024 * 3), // <|NAR|3:4|>
+		10498 + (1024 * 4), // <|NAR|4:5|>
+		10498 + (1024 * 5), // <|NAR|5:6|>
+		10498 + (1024 * 6), // <|NAR|6:7|>
+	};
+
+	float* text_embds = &embds[text_embd_start * n_embd];
+	float* rvq_level_embd = &embds[rvq_level_embd_start * n_embd];
+	float* len_embd = &embds[len_embd_start * n_embd];
+	float* lang_embd = &embds[lang_embd_start * n_embd];
+	float* task_embd = &embds[task_embd_start * n_embd];
+	float* sep_embd = &embds[sep_embd_start * n_embd];
 
 	float* prom_embds[] = {
-		embds + (256 + (1024 * 0) * n_embd), // <|P|0:0|>
-		embds + (256 + (1024 * 1) * n_embd), // <|P|1:0|>
-		embds + (256 + (1024 * 2) * n_embd), // <|P|2:0|>
-		embds + (256 + (1024 * 3) * n_embd), // <|P|3:0|>
-		embds + (256 + (1024 * 4) * n_embd), // <|P|4:0|>
-		embds + (256 + (1024 * 5) * n_embd), // <|P|5:0|>
-		embds + (256 + (1024 * 6) * n_embd), // <|P|6:0|>
-		embds + (256 + (1024 * 7) * n_embd), // <|P|7:0|>
+		&embds[prom_embd_start[0] * n_embd],
+		&embds[prom_embd_start[1] * n_embd],
+		&embds[prom_embd_start[2] * n_embd],
+		&embds[prom_embd_start[3] * n_embd],
+		&embds[prom_embd_start[4] * n_embd],
+		&embds[prom_embd_start[5] * n_embd],
+		&embds[prom_embd_start[6] * n_embd],
+		&embds[prom_embd_start[7] * n_embd],
 	};
 	float* resps_embds[] = {
-		embds + (8448 * n_embd), // <|AR|0:0|>
-		embds + (9473 * n_embd), // <|NAR|0:0|>
-		embds + (10498 + (1024 * 0) * n_embd), // <|NAR|0:1|>
-		embds + (10498 + (1024 * 1) * n_embd), // <|NAR|1:2|>
-		embds + (10498 + (1024 * 2) * n_embd), // <|NAR|2:3|>
-		embds + (10498 + (1024 * 3) * n_embd), // <|NAR|3:4|>
-		embds + (10498 + (1024 * 4) * n_embd), // <|NAR|4:5|>
-		embds + (10498 + (1024 * 5) * n_embd), // <|NAR|5:6|>
-		embds + (10498 + (1024 * 6) * n_embd), // <|NAR|6:7|>
+		&embds[resp_embd_start[0] * n_embd],
+		&embds[resp_embd_start[1] * n_embd],
+		&embds[resp_embd_start[2] * n_embd],
+		&embds[resp_embd_start[3] * n_embd],
+		&embds[resp_embd_start[4] * n_embd],
+		&embds[resp_embd_start[5] * n_embd],
+		&embds[resp_embd_start[6] * n_embd],
+		&embds[resp_embd_start[7] * n_embd],
+		&embds[resp_embd_start[8] * n_embd],
 	};
-	
-	llama_batch batch = llama_batch_init( ctx_params.n_ctx, n_embd, ctx_params.n_ctx );
+
+	// insert into batch
 	{ 
 		// keeps track of the position for each sequence
 		size_t pos = 0;
 		
 		// insert text tokens
-		for ( auto& id : phoneme_tokens ) {
-			batch_add( batch, id, n_embd, text_embds, pos++, false );
-		}
+		for ( auto& id : phoneme_tokens ) batch_add( batch, id, n_embd, text_embds, pos++, false );
 		batch_add( batch, 0, n_embd, sep_embd, pos++, false );
 		pos = 0;
 		// insert lang token
@@ -262,18 +296,14 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 		// insert prom tokens
 		// to-do: handle summing
 		for ( auto l = 0; l < prompt_tokens.size(); ++l ) {
-			for ( auto& id : prompt_tokens[l] ) {
-				batch_add( batch, id, n_embd, prom_embds[l], pos++, false );
-			}
+			for ( auto& id : prompt_tokens[l] ) batch_add( batch, id, n_embd, prom_embds[l], pos++, false );
 		}
 		batch_add( batch, 0, n_embd, sep_embd, pos++, is_ar );
 		pos = 0;
 
 		// fill in masked tokens
 		if ( !is_ar ) {
-			for ( auto i = 0; i < response_tokens[0].size(); ++i ) {
-				batch_add( batch, response_tokens[0][i], n_embd, resps_embds[1], pos++, true );
-			}
+			for ( auto i = 0; i < response_tokens[0].size(); ++i ) batch_add( batch, response_tokens[0][i], n_embd, resps_embds[1], pos++, true );
 		}
 		pos = 0;
 	}
@@ -293,7 +323,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
 		// align to AR's classifier
 		// to-do: derive from tokenizer
-		int range[] = { 8448, 8448 + 1024 }; // { <|AR|0:0|>, <|AR|0:STOP|> }
+		int range[] = { resp_embd_start[0], resp_embd_start[1] };
 		auto* logits = llama_get_logits_ith( ctx, -1 );
 		for ( auto i = 0; i < n_vocab; ++i ) {
 			if ( i < range[0] || i >= range[1] ) {
@@ -305,7 +335,7 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 		auto t = llama_sampler_sample(smpl, ctx, -1);
 
 		// is stop token
-		if ( t == 9472 ) { // <|AR|0:STOP|>
+		if ( t == resp_embd_start[1] - 1 ) { // <|AR|0:STOP|>
 			break;
 		}