diff --git a/mlx_vlm/models/qwen2_vl/language.py b/mlx_vlm/models/qwen2_vl/language.py
index 614bc3d..cebcd22 100644
--- a/mlx_vlm/models/qwen2_vl/language.py
+++ b/mlx_vlm/models/qwen2_vl/language.py
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ def __post_init__(self):
         if self.num_key_value_heads is None:
             self.num_key_value_heads = self.num_attention_heads
 
+        if self.rope_scaling:
+            required_keys = {"mrope_section", "type"}
+            if not all(key in self.rope_scaling for key in required_keys):
+                raise ValueError(f"rope_scaling must contain keys {required_keys}")
+
+            if not self.rope_scaling["type"] == "mrope":
+                raise ValueError(f"rope_scaling type must be 'mrope'")
+
     @classmethod
     def from_dict(cls, params):
         return cls(
@@ -253,7 +261,7 @@ def __call__(
         inputs_embeds: Optional[mx.array] = None,
     ):
         if inputs_embeds is None:
-            h = self.embed_tokens(inputs).astype(mx.float32)
+            h = self.embed_tokens(inputs)
         else:
             h = inputs_embeds
 
diff --git a/mlx_vlm/models/qwen2_vl/qwen2_vl.py b/mlx_vlm/models/qwen2_vl/qwen2_vl.py
index dcdbbef..8746eee 100644
--- a/mlx_vlm/models/qwen2_vl/qwen2_vl.py
+++ b/mlx_vlm/models/qwen2_vl/qwen2_vl.py
@@ -142,13 +142,11 @@ def sanitize(self, weights):
         def transform_key(key):
             if "vision_tower" not in key:
                 key = key.replace("visual", "vision_tower")
-            if "language_model.model" not in key and key.split(".")[0] not in [
-                "lm_head",
-                "language_model",
-            ]:
-                key = key.replace("model", "language_model.model")
-            if "lm_head" in key and key.split(".")[0] == "lm_head":
-                key = key.replace("lm_head", "language_model.lm_head")
+            if "language_model" not in key:
+                if "model" in key:
+                    key = key.replace("model", "language_model.model")
+                elif "lm_head" in key:
+                    key = key.replace("lm_head", "language_model.lm_head")
             return key
 
         return {transform_key(k): v for k, v in weights.items()}
diff --git a/mlx_vlm/tests/test_models.py b/mlx_vlm/tests/test_models.py
index db92cb6..56c6366 100644
--- a/mlx_vlm/tests/test_models.py
+++ b/mlx_vlm/tests/test_models.py
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ def vision_test_runner(
         num_channels,
         image_size: tuple,
         vision_feature_layer=-2,
+        **kwargs,
     ):
         self.assertEqual(vision_tower.model_type, model_type)
 
@@ -62,10 +63,11 @@ def vision_test_runner(
         )
 
         # Perform a forward pass
-        *_, hidden_states = vision_tower(input_tensor, output_hidden_states=True)
-        # Check the output tensor shape
+        hidden_states = vision_tower(input_tensor, output_hidden_states=True, **kwargs)
+
+        # Check vision hidden feature layer's shape matches the expected hidden size
         self.assertEqual(
-            hidden_states[vision_feature_layer][-1][-1].shape, (vision_hidden_size,)
+            hidden_states[vision_feature_layer].shape[-1], vision_hidden_size
         )
 
     def test_llava_bunny(self):
@@ -618,6 +620,66 @@ def test_phi3_v(self):
             (config.vision_config.image_size, config.vision_config.image_size),
         )
 
+    def test_qwen2_vl(self):
+        from mlx_vlm.models import qwen2_vl
+
+        text_config = qwen2_vl.TextConfig(
+            model_type="qwen2_vl",
+            hidden_size=32,
+            num_hidden_layers=4,
+            intermediate_size=37,
+            num_attention_heads=4,
+            rms_norm_eps=1e-6,
+            vocab_size=152064,
+            num_key_value_heads=4,
+            max_position_embeddings=512,
+            rope_theta=10000,
+            rope_scaling={"type": "mrope", "mrope_section": [2, 1, 1]},
+            tie_word_embeddings=False,
+        )
+
+        vision_config = qwen2_vl.VisionConfig(
+            model_type="qwen2_vl",
+            depth=2,
+            embed_dim=32,
+            hidden_size=32,
+            image_size=224,
+            num_heads=4,
+            patch_size=14,
+            mlp_ratio=4,
+            in_channels=3,
+            spatial_merge_size=1,
+            temporal_patch_size=2,
+        )
+
+        config = qwen2_vl.ModelConfig(
+            model_type="qwen2_vl",
+            text_config=text_config,
+            vision_config=vision_config,
+            rope_scaling=text_config.rope_scaling,
+            image_token_index=151655,
+            vocab_size=32000,
+        )
+
+        model = qwen2_vl.Model(config)
+
+        self.language_test_runner(
+            model.language_model,
+            config.text_config.model_type,
+            config.text_config.vocab_size,
+            config.text_config.num_hidden_layers,
+        )
+
+        self.vision_test_runner(
+            model.vision_tower,
+            config.vision_config.model_type,
+            config.vision_config.hidden_size,
+            config.vision_config.in_channels,
+            (config.vision_config.image_size, config.vision_config.image_size),
+            vision_feature_layer=-1,
+            grid_thw=mx.ones((1, 3)),  # image temporals shape (num_images, 3)
+        )
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()