diff --git a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
index abdb778f7a..52ea542dec 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
+++ b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
@@ -1175,10 +1175,11 @@ struct clip_graph {
             cb(K, "resampler_K", -1);
             cb(V, "resampler_V", -1);
 
+            float resampler_kq_scale = 1.0f/ sqrtf(float(d_head));
             embeddings = build_attn(
                 model.mm_model_attn_o_w,
                 model.mm_model_attn_o_b,
-                Q, K, V, nullptr, kq_scale, -1);
+                Q, K, V, nullptr, resampler_kq_scale, -1);
             cb(embeddings, "resampler_attn_out", -1);
         }
         // layernorm