diff --git a/rwkv_pip_package/pyproject.toml b/rwkv_pip_package/pyproject.toml
index d774bd13..5a0aff7a 100644
--- a/rwkv_pip_package/pyproject.toml
+++ b/rwkv_pip_package/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "rwkv"
-version = "0.7.3"
+version = "0.7.4"
 authors = [
   { name="Bo PENG" },
 ]
diff --git a/rwkv_pip_package/src/rwkv/model.py b/rwkv_pip_package/src/rwkv/model.py
index 45f2a295..2fb9510e 100644
--- a/rwkv_pip_package/src/rwkv/model.py
+++ b/rwkv_pip_package/src/rwkv/model.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def cuda_mm8_one(N: int, M: int, x, w, mx, rx, my, ry):
 ########################################################################################################
 
 class RWKV(MyModule):
-    def __init__(self, model, strategy, verbose = True, convert_and_save_and_exit = None):
+    def __init__(self, model, strategy, lora, verbose = True, convert_and_save_and_exit = None):
         super().__init__()
         if verbose:
             prxxx = lambda *args, **kwargs: print(*args, **kwargs)
@@ -102,6 +102,33 @@ def __init__(self, model, strategy, verbose = True, convert_and_save_and_exit =
             gc.collect()
             w = self.w
 
+            if lora.lora_r > 0:
+                prxxx(f'Loading lora ...')
+                # merge LoRA-only slim checkpoint into the main weights
+                w_lora = torch.load(lora.MODEL_LORA + '.pth', map_location='cpu')
+                for k in w_lora.keys():
+                    w[k] = w_lora[k]
+                # merge LoRA weights
+                keys = set(w.keys())
+                for k in keys:
+                    k: str
+                    if k.endswith('.weight'):
+                        prefix = k[:-len('.weight')]
+                        lora_A = prefix + '.lora_A'
+                        lora_B = prefix + '.lora_B'
+                        if lora_A in keys:
+                            assert lora_B in keys
+                            print(f'merging {lora_A} and {lora_B} into {k}')
+                            assert w[lora_B].shape[1] == w[lora_A].shape[0] == lora.lora_r
+                            # merging needs matmul, which is slow on cpu; work on gpu if possible
+                            if lora.RUN_DEVICE == 'cuda':
+                                w[k] = w[k].cuda()
+                                w[lora_A] = w[lora_A].cuda()
+                                w[lora_B] = w[lora_B].cuda()
+                            w[k] += w[lora_B] @ w[lora_A] * (lora.lora_alpha / lora.lora_r)
+                            del w[lora_A]
+                            del w[lora_B]
+
             ALREADY_CONVERTED = False
             if '_strategy' in w:
                 ALREADY_CONVERTED = True
diff --git a/v2/chat.py b/v2/chat.py
index d9ecf9c7..aba46181 100644
--- a/v2/chat.py
+++ b/v2/chat.py
@@ -49,6 +49,14 @@
 # args.strategy = 'cuda fp16i8 -> cpu fp32 *10'
 # args.strategy = 'cuda fp16i8 *10+'
 
+
+lora = types.SimpleNamespace()
+lora.MODEL_LORA = './cp/rwkv-10'
+lora.lora_r = 0 #r = 0 for no LORA
+lora.lora_alpha = 8
+lora.RUN_DEVICE = "cuda"
+
+
 os.environ["RWKV_JIT_ON"] = '1' # '1' or '0', please use torch 1.13+ and benchmark speed
 os.environ["RWKV_CUDA_ON"] = '0' # '1' to compile CUDA kernel (10x faster), requires c++ compiler & cuda libraries
 
@@ -119,7 +127,7 @@
 # Load Model
 
 print(f'Loading model - {args.MODEL_NAME}')
-model = RWKV(model=args.MODEL_NAME, strategy=args.strategy)
+model = RWKV(model=args.MODEL_NAME, strategy=args.strategy, lora=lora)
 if not PILE_v2_MODEL:
     pipeline = PIPELINE(model, f"{current_path}/20B_tokenizer.json")
     END_OF_TEXT = 0