diff --git a/examples/baby-llama/baby-llama.cpp b/examples/baby-llama/baby-llama.cpp
index e7d2ad592..65bb238a0 100644
--- a/examples/baby-llama/baby-llama.cpp
+++ b/examples/baby-llama/baby-llama.cpp
@@ -1533,16 +1533,17 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
 
         int n_past = 0;
 
-        ggml_cgraph gf = {};
+        struct ggml_cgraph * gf = NULL;
+        gf = ggml_new_graph_custom(ctx0, LLAMA_TRAIN_MAX_NODES, true);
 
         get_example_targets_batch(ctx0, 64*ex+0,  tokens_input, targets);
 
-        struct ggml_tensor * logits = forward_batch(&model, &kv_self, ctx0, &gf, tokens_input, n_tokens, n_past, n_batch);
+        struct ggml_tensor * logits = forward_batch(&model, &kv_self, ctx0, gf, tokens_input, n_tokens, n_past, n_batch);
         // struct ggml_tensor * e = cross_entropy_loss(ctx0, targets, logits);
         struct ggml_tensor * e = square_error_loss(ctx0, targets, logits);
 
-        ggml_build_forward_expand(&gf, e);
-        ggml_graph_compute_helper(work_buffer, &gf, /*n_threads*/ 1);
+        ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, e);
+        ggml_graph_compute_helper(work_buffer, gf, /*n_threads*/ 1);
 
         float error_before_opt = ggml_get_f32_1d(e, 0);
 
@@ -1552,8 +1553,8 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         opt_params_lbfgs.lbfgs.n_iter = 16;
         ggml_opt(ctx0, opt_params_lbfgs, e);
         //
-        ggml_build_forward_expand(&gf, e);
-        ggml_graph_compute_helper(work_buffer, &gf, /*n_threads*/ 1);
+        ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, e);
+        ggml_graph_compute_helper(work_buffer, gf, /*n_threads*/ 1);
 
         float error_after_opt = ggml_get_f32_1d(e, 0);
 
@@ -1600,13 +1601,14 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
             };
             struct ggml_context * ctx0 = ggml_init(params);
 
-            ggml_cgraph gf = {};
+            struct ggml_cgraph * gf = NULL;
+            gf = ggml_new_graph_custom(ctx0, LLAMA_TRAIN_MAX_NODES, true);
 
             int n_past = 0;
-            struct ggml_tensor * logits = forward(&model, &kv_self, ctx0, &gf, tokens_input, sample_ctx, n_past);
+            struct ggml_tensor * logits = forward(&model, &kv_self, ctx0, gf, tokens_input, sample_ctx, n_past);
 
-            ggml_build_forward_expand(&gf, logits);
-            ggml_graph_compute_helper(work_buffer, &gf, /*n_threads*/ 1);
+            ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, logits);
+            ggml_graph_compute_helper(work_buffer, gf, /*n_threads*/ 1);
 
             struct ggml_tensor * best_samples = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_I32, sample_ctx);
             struct ggml_tensor * probs        = ggml_new_tensor_2d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, n_vocab, sample_ctx);