diff --git a/common/arg.cpp b/common/arg.cpp
index 4469612cd..79405b59e 100644
--- a/common/arg.cpp
+++ b/common/arg.cpp
@@ -2729,7 +2729,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         }
     ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LOAD_MODE"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
-        {"--tensor-read-lazy"}, "MODE",
+        {"-lzm", "--lazy-mode"}, "MODE",
         "on-demand reading of certain tensors, for example per-layer embeddings (default: auto)\n"
         "- on: read the rows of such tensors from disk on demand instead of keeping them resident (requires mmap)\n"
         "- auto: on, but only for tensors larger than 4 GiB\n"
@@ -2740,7 +2740,7 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
             else if (value == "off")  { params.lazy_mode = LLAMA_LAZY_MODE_OFF;  }
             else { throw std::invalid_argument("invalid value"); }
         }
-    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_TENSOR_READ_LAZY"));
+    ).set_env("LLAMA_ARG_LAZY_MODE"));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--numa"}, "TYPE",
         "attempt optimizations that help on some NUMA systems\n"
diff --git a/tools/cli/README.md b/tools/cli/README.md
index 163ee4fba..b874d0207 100644
--- a/tools/cli/README.md
+++ b/tools/cli/README.md
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 | `--mmap, --no-mmap` | DEPRECATED in favor of `--load-mode`: whether to memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MMAP) |
 | `-dio, --direct-io, -ndio, --no-direct-io` | DEPRECATED in favor of `--load-mode`: use DirectIO if available<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DIO) |
 | `-lm, --load-mode MODE` | model loading mode (default: auto)<br/>- auto: mmap, unless a device does not support it<br/>- none: no special loading mode<br/>- mmap: memory-map model (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>- mlock: force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>- mmap+mlock: mmap + force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>- dio: use DirectIO if available<br/><br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_LOAD_MODE) |
-| `--tensor-read-lazy MODE` | on-demand reading of certain tensors, for example per-layer embeddings (default: auto)<br/>- on: read the rows of such tensors from disk on demand instead of keeping them resident (requires mmap)<br/>- auto: on, but only for tensors larger than 4 GiB<br/>- off: always keep them resident<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_TENSOR_READ_LAZY) |
+| `-lzm, --lazy-mode MODE` | on-demand reading of certain tensors, for example per-layer embeddings (default: auto)<br/>- on: read the rows of such tensors from disk on demand instead of keeping them resident (requires mmap)<br/>- auto: on, but only for tensors larger than 4 GiB<br/>- off: always keep them resident<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_LAZY_MODE) |
 | `--numa TYPE` | attempt optimizations that help on some NUMA systems<br/>- distribute: spread execution evenly over all nodes<br/>- isolate: only spawn threads on CPUs on the node that execution started on<br/>- numactl: use the CPU map provided by numactl<br/>if run without this previously, it is recommended to drop the system page cache before using this<br/>see https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/1437<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NUMA) |
 | `-dev, --device <dev1,dev2,..>` | comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading (none = don't offload)<br/>use --list-devices to see a list of available devices<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DEVICE) |
 | `--list-devices` | print list of available devices and exit |
diff --git a/tools/completion/README.md b/tools/completion/README.md
index 0cd86bac7..145be77e3 100644
--- a/tools/completion/README.md
+++ b/tools/completion/README.md
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ llama-completion.exe -m models\gemma-1.1-7b-it.Q4_K_M.gguf --ignore-eos -n -1
 | `--mmap, --no-mmap` | DEPRECATED in favor of `--load-mode`: whether to memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MMAP) |
 | `-dio, --direct-io, -ndio, --no-direct-io` | DEPRECATED in favor of `--load-mode`: use DirectIO if available<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DIO) |
 | `-lm, --load-mode MODE` | model loading mode (default: auto)<br/>- auto: mmap, unless a device does not support it<br/>- none: no special loading mode<br/>- mmap: memory-map model (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>- mlock: force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>- mmap+mlock: mmap + force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>- dio: use DirectIO if available<br/><br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_LOAD_MODE) |
-| `--tensor-read-lazy MODE` | on-demand reading of certain tensors, for example per-layer embeddings (default: auto)<br/>- on: read the rows of such tensors from disk on demand instead of keeping them resident (requires mmap)<br/>- auto: on, but only for tensors larger than 4 GiB<br/>- off: always keep them resident<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_TENSOR_READ_LAZY) |
+| `-lzm, --lazy-mode MODE` | on-demand reading of certain tensors, for example per-layer embeddings (default: auto)<br/>- on: read the rows of such tensors from disk on demand instead of keeping them resident (requires mmap)<br/>- auto: on, but only for tensors larger than 4 GiB<br/>- off: always keep them resident<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_LAZY_MODE) |
 | `--numa TYPE` | attempt optimizations that help on some NUMA systems<br/>- distribute: spread execution evenly over all nodes<br/>- isolate: only spawn threads on CPUs on the node that execution started on<br/>- numactl: use the CPU map provided by numactl<br/>if run without this previously, it is recommended to drop the system page cache before using this<br/>see https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/1437<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NUMA) |
 | `-dev, --device <dev1,dev2,..>` | comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading (none = don't offload)<br/>use --list-devices to see a list of available devices<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DEVICE) |
 | `--list-devices` | print list of available devices and exit |
diff --git a/tools/llama-bench/README.md b/tools/llama-bench/README.md
index a1404d2e3..8adc56514 100644
--- a/tools/llama-bench/README.md
+++ b/tools/llama-bench/README.md
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ test parameters:
   -nkvo, --no-kv-offload <0|1>              (default: 0)
   -fa, --flash-attn <on|off|auto>           (default: auto)
   -dev, --device <dev0/dev1/...>            (default: auto)
-  --tensor-read-lazy <on|auto|off>          (default: auto)
+  -lzm, --lazy-mode <on|auto|off>           (default: auto)
   -mmp, --mmap <0|1>                        (DEPRECATED IN FAVOUR OF --load-mode)
   -dio, --direct-io <0|1>                   (DEPRECATED IN FAVOUR OF --load-mode)
   -embd, --embeddings <0|1>                 (default: 0)
diff --git a/tools/llama-bench/llama-bench.cpp b/tools/llama-bench/llama-bench.cpp
index 1b4bbde4d..1fff21f70 100644
--- a/tools/llama-bench/llama-bench.cpp
+++ b/tools/llama-bench/llama-bench.cpp
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ static const char * lazy_mode_str(llama_lazy_mode mode) {
         case LLAMA_LAZY_MODE_ON:
             return "on";
         default:
-            GGML_ABORT("invalid tensor read lazy mode");
+            GGML_ABORT("invalid lazy mode");
     }
 }
 
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ static void print_usage(int /* argc */, char ** argv) {
     printf("  -fa, --flash-attn <on|off|auto>                   (default: %s)\n", join(transform_to_str(cmd_params_defaults.flash_attn, llama_flash_attn_type_name), ",").c_str());
     printf("  -dev, --device <dev0/dev1/...>                    (default: auto)\n");
     printf("  -lm, --load-mode <auto|none|mmap|mlock|mmap+mlock|dio> (default: %s)\n", join(transform_to_str(cmd_params_defaults.load_mode, llama_load_mode_name), ",").c_str());
-    printf("  --tensor-read-lazy <on|auto|off>                  (default: %s)\n", join(transform_to_str(cmd_params_defaults.lazy_mode, lazy_mode_str), ",").c_str());
+    printf("  -lzm, --lazy-mode <on|auto|off>                   (default: %s)\n", join(transform_to_str(cmd_params_defaults.lazy_mode, lazy_mode_str), ",").c_str());
     printf("  -mmp, --mmap <0|1>                                (DEPRECATED IN FAVOUR OF --load-mode)\n");
     printf("  -dio, --direct-io <0|1>                           (DEPRECATED IN FAVOUR OF --load-mode)\n");
     printf("  -embd, --embeddings <0|1>                         (default: %s)\n", join(cmd_params_defaults.embeddings, ",").c_str());
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ static cmd_params parse_cmd_params(int argc, char ** argv) {
                     break;
                 }
                 params.load_mode.insert(params.load_mode.end(), modes.begin(), modes.end());
-            } else if (arg == "--tensor-read-lazy") {
+            } else if (arg == "-lzm" || arg == "--lazy-mode") {
                 if (++i >= argc) {
                     invalid_param = true;
                     break;
diff --git a/tools/server/README.md b/tools/server/README.md
index 3c2228f34..c6e907ba9 100644
--- a/tools/server/README.md
+++ b/tools/server/README.md
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ For the full list of features, please refer to [server's changelog](https://gith
 | `--mmap, --no-mmap` | DEPRECATED in favor of `--load-mode`: whether to memory-map model. (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_MMAP) |
 | `-dio, --direct-io, -ndio, --no-direct-io` | DEPRECATED in favor of `--load-mode`: use DirectIO if available<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DIO) |
 | `-lm, --load-mode MODE` | model loading mode (default: auto)<br/>- auto: mmap, unless a device does not support it<br/>- none: no special loading mode<br/>- mmap: memory-map model (if mmap disabled, slower load but may reduce pageouts if not using mlock)<br/>- mlock: force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>- mmap+mlock: mmap + force system to keep model in RAM rather than swapping or compressing<br/>- dio: use DirectIO if available<br/><br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_LOAD_MODE) |
-| `--tensor-read-lazy MODE` | on-demand reading of certain tensors, for example per-layer embeddings (default: auto)<br/>- on: read the rows of such tensors from disk on demand instead of keeping them resident (requires mmap)<br/>- auto: on, but only for tensors larger than 4 GiB<br/>- off: always keep them resident<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_TENSOR_READ_LAZY) |
+| `-lzm, --lazy-mode MODE` | on-demand reading of certain tensors, for example per-layer embeddings (default: auto)<br/>- on: read the rows of such tensors from disk on demand instead of keeping them resident (requires mmap)<br/>- auto: on, but only for tensors larger than 4 GiB<br/>- off: always keep them resident<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_LAZY_MODE) |
 | `--numa TYPE` | attempt optimizations that help on some NUMA systems<br/>- distribute: spread execution evenly over all nodes<br/>- isolate: only spawn threads on CPUs on the node that execution started on<br/>- numactl: use the CPU map provided by numactl<br/>if run without this previously, it is recommended to drop the system page cache before using this<br/>see https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/issues/1437<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_NUMA) |
 | `-dev, --device <dev1,dev2,..>` | comma-separated list of devices to use for offloading (none = don't offload)<br/>use --list-devices to see a list of available devices<br/>(env: LLAMA_ARG_DEVICE) |
 | `--list-devices` | print list of available devices and exit |