diff --git a/src/models/exaone4.cpp b/src/models/exaone4.cpp
index 863268abc..a06819a67 100644
--- a/src/models/exaone4.cpp
+++ b/src/models/exaone4.cpp
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 #include "models.h"
 
 void llama_model_exaone4::load_arch_hparams(llama_model_loader & ml) {
+    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_NEXTN_PREDICT_LAYERS, hparams.n_layer_nextn, false);
+    GGML_ASSERT(hparams.n_layer_nextn < hparams.n_layer_all && "n_layer_nextn must be < n_layer");
+
     if (hparams.n_layer() == 64) {    // 32B
         hparams.swa_type = LLAMA_SWA_TYPE_STANDARD;
         hparams.n_swa = 4096;
@@ -15,9 +18,6 @@ void llama_model_exaone4::load_arch_hparams(llama_model_loader & ml) {
 
     ml.get_key(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_SLIDING_WINDOW,    hparams.n_swa, false);
     ml.get_key(LLM_KV_ATTENTION_LAYERNORM_RMS_EPS, hparams.f_norm_rms_eps);
-    ml.get_key(LLM_KV_NEXTN_PREDICT_LAYERS,        hparams.n_layer_nextn, false);
-
-    GGML_ASSERT(hparams.n_layer_nextn < hparams.n_layer_all && "n_layer_nextn must be < n_layer");
 
     switch (hparams.n_layer()) {
         case 30: type = LLM_TYPE_1_2B; break;