diff --git a/examples/quantize/quantize.cpp b/examples/quantize/quantize.cpp
index 2e2c62bf..9e4bcd6d 100644
--- a/examples/quantize/quantize.cpp
+++ b/examples/quantize/quantize.cpp
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ static bool try_parse_ftype(const std::string & ftype_str_in, llama_ftype & ftyp
 //
 [[noreturn]]
 static void usage(const char * executable) {
-    printf("usage: %s [--help] [--allow-requantize] [--leave-output-tensor] [--pure] [--imatrix] [--hide-imatrix] [--include-weights] [--exclude-weights] [--output-tensor-type] [--token-embedding-type] [--attn-q-type] [--attn-k-type] [--attn-v-type] [--attn-qkv-type] [--attn-output-type] [--ffn-gate-type] [--ffn-down-type] [--ffn-up-type] [--keep-split] [--override-kv] model-f32.gguf [model-quant.gguf] type [nthreads]\n\n", executable);
+    printf("usage: %s [--help] [--allow-requantize] [--leave-output-tensor] [--pure] [--imatrix] [--hide-imatrix] [--include-weights] [--exclude-weights] [--output-tensor-type] [--token-embedding-type] [--ffn-gate-inp-type] [--attn-q-type] [--attn-k-type] [--attn-v-type] [--attn-qkv-type] [--attn-output-type] [--ffn-gate-type] [--ffn-down-type] [--ffn-up-type] [--keep-split] [--override-kv] model-f32.gguf [model-quant.gguf] type [nthreads]\n\n", executable);
     printf("  --allow-requantize: Allows requantizing tensors that have already been quantized. Warning: This can severely reduce quality compared to quantizing from 16bit or 32bit\n");
     printf("  --leave-output-tensor: Will leave output.weight un(re)quantized. Increases model size but may also increase quality, especially when requantizing\n");
     printf("  --pure: Disable k-quant mixtures and quantize all tensors to the same type\n");
@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@ static void usage(const char * executable) {
     printf("  --exclude-weights tensor_name: use importance matrix for this/these tensor(s)\n");
     printf("  --output-tensor-type ggml_type: use this ggml_type for the output.weight tensor.\n");
     printf("  --token-embedding-type ggml_type: use this ggml_type for the token_embd.weight tensor.\n\n");
+    printf("  --ffn-gate-inp-type ggml_type: use this ggml_type for the ffn_gate_inp tensors.\n\n");
     printf("  --custom-q regex1=type1,regex2=type2...: use this to specify custom quantization type rules.\n\n");
     printf("  --repack Repack all tensors to the corresponding _r4/8 variant if available.\n\n");
     printf("  --repack-pattern Comma separated list of regexs to use for matching tensor names to be repacked.\n\n");
@@ -375,6 +376,12 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
             } else {
                 usage(argv[0]);
             }
+        } else if (strcmp(argv[arg_idx], "--ffn-gate-inp-type") == 0) {
+            if (arg_idx < argc-1) {
+                params.ffn_gate_inp_type = parse_ggml_type(argv[++arg_idx]);
+            } else {
+                usage(argv[0]);
+            }
         } else if (strcmp(argv[arg_idx], "--attn-q-type") == 0) {
             if (arg_idx < argc-1) {
                 params.attn_q_type = parse_ggml_type(argv[++arg_idx]);
diff --git a/include/llama.h b/include/llama.h
index d6759f16..31d82949 100644
--- a/include/llama.h
+++ b/include/llama.h
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ extern "C" {
         enum ggml_type ffn_gate_type;        // feedforward network gate type
         enum ggml_type ffn_down_type;        // feedforward network down type
         enum ggml_type ffn_up_type;          // feedforward network up type
+        enum ggml_type ffn_gate_inp_type;    // routed experts probabilities typy (relevant for MoE models only)
         bool allow_requantize;               // allow quantizing non-f32/f16 tensors
         bool quantize_output_tensor;         // quantize output.weight
         bool only_copy;                      // only copy tensors - ftype, allow_requantize and quantize_output_tensor are ignored
diff --git a/src/llama-quantize.cpp b/src/llama-quantize.cpp
index 14d61971..d35f89e5 100644
--- a/src/llama-quantize.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-quantize.cpp
@@ -1245,7 +1245,12 @@ static void llama_model_quantize_internal(const std::string & fname_inp, const s
 
         // do not quantize expert gating tensors
         // NOTE: can't use LLM_TN here because the layer number is not known
-        quantize &= name.find("ffn_gate_inp.weight") == std::string::npos;
+        if (name.find("ffn_gate_inp.weight") != std::string::npos) {
+            if (params->ffn_gate_inp_type == GGML_TYPE_COUNT || params->ffn_gate_inp_type == tensor->type) {
+                quantize = false;
+            }
+        }
+        //quantize &= name.find("ffn_gate_inp.weight") == std::string::npos;
 
         // do not quantize positional embeddings and token types (BERT)
         quantize &= name != LLM_TN(model.arch)(LLM_TENSOR_POS_EMBD,    "weight");
@@ -1328,6 +1333,9 @@ static void llama_model_quantize_internal(const std::string & fname_inp, const s
             if (params->output_tensor_type < GGML_TYPE_COUNT && strcmp(tensor->name, "output.weight") == 0) {
                 new_type = params->output_tensor_type;
             }
+            if (params->ffn_gate_inp_type < GGML_TYPE_COUNT && name.find("ffn_gate_inp.weight") != std::string::npos) {
+                new_type = params->ffn_gate_inp_type;
+            }
             if (params->attn_q_type < GGML_TYPE_COUNT && strcmp(tensor->name, "attn_q.weight") == 0) {
                 new_type = params->attn_q_type;
             }
diff --git a/src/llama.cpp b/src/llama.cpp
index da90b19c..b78adf90 100644
--- a/src/llama.cpp
+++ b/src/llama.cpp
@@ -3863,6 +3863,7 @@ struct llama_model_quantize_params llama_model_quantize_default_params() {
         /*.ffn_gate_type               =*/ GGML_TYPE_COUNT,
         /*.ffn_down_type               =*/ GGML_TYPE_COUNT,
         /*.ffn_up_type                 =*/ GGML_TYPE_COUNT,
+        /*.ffn_gat_inp_type            =*/ GGML_TYPE_COUNT,
         /*.allow_requantize            =*/ false,
         /*.quantize_output_tensor      =*/ true,
         /*.only_copy                   =*/ false,