diff --git a/examples/qualcomm/oss_scripts/llama/llama.py b/examples/qualcomm/oss_scripts/llama/llama.py
index 99f346eccbc..db533986119 100755
--- a/examples/qualcomm/oss_scripts/llama/llama.py
+++ b/examples/qualcomm/oss_scripts/llama/llama.py
@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ def permute(w, heads):
     for llama_instance in llama_instance_list:
         llama_instance.load_state_dict(
             state_dict,
-            strict=False,
+            strict=True,
             assign=True,
         )
     end_load_ts = time.time()