diff --git a/examples/common.cpp b/examples/common.cpp
index 8eb633e58f4..31cdc0f0e53 100644
--- a/examples/common.cpp
+++ b/examples/common.cpp
@@ -10,129 +10,6 @@
 #include <regex>
 #include <sstream>
 
-// Function to check if the next argument exists
-static std::string get_next_arg(int& i, int argc, char** argv, const std::string& flag, gpt_params& params) {
-    if (i + 1 < argc && argv[i + 1][0] != '-') {
-        return argv[++i];
-    } else {
-        fprintf(stderr, "error: %s requires one argument.\n", flag.c_str());
-        gpt_print_usage(argc, argv, params);
-        exit(0);
-    }
-}
-
-bool gpt_params_parse(int argc, char ** argv, gpt_params & params) {
-    for (int i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
-        std::string arg = argv[i];
-
-        if (arg == "-s" || arg == "--seed") {
-            params.seed = std::stoi(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "-t" || arg == "--threads") {
-            params.n_threads = std::stoi(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "-p" || arg == "--prompt") {
-            params.prompt = get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params);
-        } else if (arg == "-n" || arg == "--n_predict") {
-            params.n_predict = std::stoi(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "-np" || arg == "--n_parallel") {
-            params.n_parallel = std::stoi(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "--top_k") {
-            params.top_k = std::stoi(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "--top_p") {
-            params.top_p = std::stof(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "--temp") {
-            params.temp = std::stof(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "--repeat-last-n") {
-            params.repeat_last_n = std::stoi(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "--repeat-penalty") {
-            params.repeat_penalty = std::stof(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "-b" || arg == "--batch_size") {
-            params.n_batch= std::stoi(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "-c" || arg == "--context") {
-            params.n_ctx= std::stoi(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "-ngl" || arg == "--gpu-layers" || arg == "--n-gpu-layers") {
-            params.n_gpu_layers = std::stoi(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "--ignore-eos") {
-            params.ignore_eos = true;
-        } else if (arg == "-m" || arg == "--model") {
-            params.model = get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params);
-        } else if (arg == "-i" || arg == "--interactive") {
-            params.interactive = true;
-        } else if (arg == "-ip" || arg == "--interactive-port") {
-            params.interactive = true;
-            params.interactive_port = std::stoi(get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params));
-        } else if (arg == "-h" || arg == "--help") {
-            gpt_print_usage(argc, argv, params);
-            exit(0);
-        } else if (arg == "-f" || arg == "--file") {
-            get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params);
-            std::ifstream file(argv[i]);
-            if (!file) {
-                fprintf(stderr, "error: failed to open file '%s'\n", argv[i]);
-                break;
-            }
-            std::copy(std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(file), std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(), back_inserter(params.prompt));
-            if (params.prompt.back() == '\n') {
-                params.prompt.pop_back();
-            }
-        } else if (arg == "-tt" || arg == "--token_test") {
-            params.token_test = get_next_arg(i, argc, argv, arg, params);
-        }
-        else {
-            fprintf(stderr, "error: unknown argument: %s\n", arg.c_str());
-            gpt_print_usage(argc, argv, params);
-            exit(0);
-        }
-    }
-
-    return true;
-}
-
-void gpt_print_usage(int /*argc*/, char ** argv, const gpt_params & params) {
-    fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s [options]\n", argv[0]);
-    fprintf(stderr, "\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "options:\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -h, --help            show this help message and exit\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -s SEED, --seed SEED  RNG seed (default: -1)\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -t N, --threads N     number of threads to use during computation (default: %d)\n", params.n_threads);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -p PROMPT, --prompt PROMPT\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "                        prompt to start generation with (default: random)\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -f FNAME, --file FNAME\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "                        load prompt from a file\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -tt TOKEN_TEST, --token_test TOKEN_TEST\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "                        test tokenization\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -n N, --n_predict N   number of tokens to predict (default: %d)\n", params.n_predict);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  --top_k N             top-k sampling (default: %d)\n", params.top_k);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  --top_p N             top-p sampling (default: %.1f)\n", params.top_p);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  --temp N              temperature (default: %.1f)\n", params.temp);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  --repeat-last-n N     last n tokens to consider for penalize (default: %d, 0 = disabled)\n", params.repeat_last_n);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  --repeat-penalty N    penalize repeat sequence of tokens (default: %.2f, 1.0 = disabled)\n", (double)params.repeat_penalty);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -b N, --batch_size N  batch size for prompt processing (default: %d)\n", params.n_batch);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -c N, --context N     context / KV cache size (default: %d)\n", params.n_ctx);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  --ignore-eos          ignore EOS token during generation\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -ngl N, --gpu-layers N  number of layers to offload to GPU on supported models (default: %d)\n", params.n_gpu_layers);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -m FNAME, --model FNAME\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "                        model path (default: %s)\n", params.model.c_str());
-    fprintf(stderr, "\n");
-}
-
-std::string gpt_random_prompt(std::mt19937 & rng) {
-    const int r = rng() % 10;
-    switch (r) {
-        case 0: return "So";
-        case 1: return "Once upon a time";
-        case 2: return "When";
-        case 3: return "The";
-        case 4: return "After";
-        case 5: return "If";
-        case 6: return "import";
-        case 7: return "He";
-        case 8: return "She";
-        case 9: return "They";
-    }
-
-    return "The";
-}
-
 std::string trim(const std::string & s) {
     std::regex e("^\\s+|\\s+$");
     return std::regex_replace(s, e, "");
@@ -152,252 +29,6 @@ void gpt_vocab::add_special_token(const std::string & token) {
     special_tokens.push_back(token);
 }
 
-std::map<std::string, int32_t> json_parse(const std::string & fname) {
-    std::map<std::string, int32_t> result;
-
-    // read file into string
-    std::string json;
-    {
-        std::ifstream ifs(fname);
-        if (!ifs) {
-            fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open %s\n", fname.c_str());
-            exit(1);
-        }
-
-        json = std::string((std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(ifs)),
-                (std::istreambuf_iterator<char>()));
-    }
-
-    if (json[0] != '{') {
-        return result;
-    }
-
-    // parse json
-    {
-        bool has_key  = false;
-        bool in_token = false;
-
-        std::string str_key = "";
-        std::string str_val = "";
-
-        int n = json.size();
-        for (int i = 1; i < n; ++i) {
-            if (!in_token) {
-                if (json[i] == ' ') continue;
-                if (json[i] == '"') {
-                    in_token = true;
-                    continue;
-                }
-            } else {
-                if (json[i] == '\\' && i+1 < n) {
-                    if (has_key == false) {
-                        str_key += json[i];
-                    } else {
-                        str_val += json[i];
-                    }
-                    ++i;
-                } else if (json[i] == '"') {
-                    if (has_key == false) {
-                        has_key = true;
-                        ++i;
-                        while (json[i] == ' ') ++i;
-                        ++i; // :
-                        while (json[i] == ' ') ++i;
-                        if (json[i] != '\"') {
-                            while (json[i] != ',' && json[i] != '}') {
-                                str_val += json[i++];
-                            }
-                            has_key = false;
-                        } else {
-                            in_token = true;
-                            continue;
-                        }
-                    } else {
-                        has_key = false;
-                    }
-
-                    str_key = ::replace(str_key, "\\u0120", " " ); // \u0120 -> space
-                    str_key = ::replace(str_key, "\\u010a", "\n"); // \u010a -> new line
-                    str_key = ::replace(str_key, "\\\"",    "\""); // \\\"   -> "
-
-                    try {
-                        result[str_key] = std::stoi(str_val);
-                    } catch (...) {
-                        //fprintf(stderr, "%s: ignoring key '%s' with value '%s'\n", fname.c_str(), str_key.c_str(), str_val.c_str());
-
-                    }
-                    str_key = "";
-                    str_val = "";
-                    in_token = false;
-                    continue;
-                }
-                if (has_key == false) {
-                    str_key += json[i];
-                } else {
-                    str_val += json[i];
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    return result;
-}
-
-void gpt_split_words(std::string str, std::vector<std::string>& words) {
-    const std::string pattern = R"('s|'t|'re|'ve|'m|'ll|'d| ?[[:alpha:]]+| ?[[:digit:]]+| ?[^\s[:alpha:][:digit:]]+|\s+(?!\S)|\s+)";
-    const std::regex re(pattern);
-    std::smatch m;
-
-    while (std::regex_search(str, m, re)) {
-        for (auto x : m) {
-            words.push_back(x);
-        }
-        str = m.suffix();
-    }
-}
-
-std::vector<gpt_vocab::id> gpt_tokenize(const gpt_vocab & vocab, const std::string & text) {
-    std::vector<std::string> words;
-
-    // first split the text into words
-    {
-        std::string str = text;
-
-        // Generate the subpattern from the special_tokens vector if it's not empty
-        if (!vocab.special_tokens.empty()) {
-            const std::regex escape(R"([\[\\\^\$\.\|\?\*\+\(\)\{\}])");
-            std::string special_tokens_subpattern;
-            for (const auto & token : vocab.special_tokens) {
-                if (!special_tokens_subpattern.empty()) {
-                    special_tokens_subpattern += "|";
-                }
-                special_tokens_subpattern += std::regex_replace(token, escape, R"(\$&)");
-            }
-
-            std::regex re(special_tokens_subpattern);
-            std::smatch m;
-            // Split the text by special tokens.
-            while (std::regex_search(str, m, re)) {
-                // Split the substrings in-between special tokens into words.
-                gpt_split_words(m.prefix(), words);
-                // Add matched special tokens as words.
-                for (auto x : m) {
-                    words.push_back(x);
-                }
-                str = m.suffix();
-            }
-            // Remaining text without special tokens will be handled below.
-        }
-
-        gpt_split_words(str, words);
-    }
-
-    // find the longest token that forms each word in words:
-    std::vector<gpt_vocab::id> tokens;
-    for (const auto & word : words) {
-        for (int i = 0; i < (int) word.size(); ){
-            for (int j = word.size() - 1; j >= i; j--){
-                auto cand = word.substr(i, j-i+1);
-                auto it = vocab.token_to_id.find(cand);
-                if (it != vocab.token_to_id.end()){ // word.substr(i, j-i+1) in vocab
-                    tokens.push_back(it->second);
-                    i = j + 1;
-                    break;
-                }
-                else if (j == i){ // word.substr(i, 1) has no matching
-                    fprintf(stderr, "%s: unknown token '%s'\n", __func__, word.substr(i, 1).data());
-                    i++;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    return tokens;
-}
-
-static std::vector<gpt_vocab::id> parse_tokens_from_string(const std::string& input, char delimiter) {
-    std::vector<gpt_vocab::id> output;
-    std::stringstream ss(input);
-    std::string token;
-
-    while (std::getline(ss, token, delimiter)) {
-        output.push_back(std::stoi(token));
-    }
-
-    return output;
-}
-
-static std::map<std::string, std::vector<gpt_vocab::id>> extract_tests_from_file(const std::string & fpath_test){
-    if (fpath_test.empty()){
-        fprintf(stderr, "%s : No test file found.\n", __func__);
-        return std::map<std::string, std::vector<gpt_vocab::id>>();
-    }
-
-    std::map<std::string, std::vector<gpt_vocab::id>> tests;
-
-    auto fin = std::ifstream(fpath_test, std::ios_base::in);
-    const char * delimeter = " => ";
-    const char del_tok = ',';
-    std::string line;
-    while (std::getline(fin, line)) {
-        size_t delimiterPos = line.find(delimeter);
-        if (delimiterPos != std::string::npos) {
-            std::string text = line.substr(0, delimiterPos);
-            std::string s_tokens = line.substr(delimiterPos + std::strlen(delimeter));
-            tests[text] = parse_tokens_from_string(s_tokens, del_tok);
-        }
-    }
-    return tests;
-}
-
-void test_gpt_tokenizer(gpt_vocab & vocab, const std::string & fpath_test){
-    std::map<std::string, std::vector<gpt_vocab::id>> tests = extract_tests_from_file(fpath_test);
-
-    size_t n_fails = 0;
-
-    for (const auto & test : tests) {
-        std::vector<gpt_vocab::id> tokens = gpt_tokenize(vocab, test.first);
-
-        if (tokens != test.second){
-            n_fails++;
-
-            // print out failure cases
-            fprintf(stderr, "%s : failed test: '%s'\n", __func__, test.first.c_str());
-            fprintf(stderr, "%s : tokens in hf:   ", __func__);
-            for (const auto & t : test.second) {
-                fprintf(stderr, "%s(%d), ", vocab.id_to_token[t].c_str(), t);
-            }
-            fprintf(stderr, "\n");
-            fprintf(stderr, "%s : tokens in ggml: ", __func__);
-            for (const auto & t : tokens) {
-                fprintf(stderr, "%s(%d), ", vocab.id_to_token[t].c_str(), t);
-            }
-            fprintf(stderr, "\n");
-        }
-    }
-
-    fprintf(stderr, "%s : %zu tests failed out of %zu tests.\n", __func__, n_fails, tests.size());
-}
-
-bool gpt_vocab_init(const std::string & fname, gpt_vocab & vocab) {
-    printf("%s: loading vocab from '%s'\n", __func__, fname.c_str());
-
-    vocab.token_to_id = ::json_parse(fname);
-
-    for (const auto & kv : vocab.token_to_id) {
-        vocab.id_to_token[kv.second] = kv.first;
-    }
-
-    printf("%s: vocab size = %d\n", __func__, (int) vocab.token_to_id.size());
-
-    // print the vocabulary
-    //for (auto kv : vocab.token_to_id) {
-    //    printf("'%s' -> %d\n", kv.first.data(), kv.second);
-    //}
-
-    return true;
-}
-
 gpt_vocab::id gpt_sample_top_k_top_p(
         const gpt_vocab & vocab,
         const float * logits,
diff --git a/examples/common.h b/examples/common.h
index 8f99df7dd32..aa18b23a359 100644
--- a/examples/common.h
+++ b/examples/common.h
@@ -11,42 +11,6 @@
 #include <fstream>
 #include <sstream>
 
-//
-// GPT CLI argument parsing
-//
-
-struct gpt_params {
-    int32_t seed         = -1;   // RNG seed
-    int32_t n_threads    = std::min(4, (int32_t) std::thread::hardware_concurrency());
-    int32_t n_predict    = 200;  // new tokens to predict
-    int32_t n_parallel   = 1;    // number of parallel streams
-    int32_t n_batch      = 32;   // batch size for prompt processing
-    int32_t n_ctx        = 2048; // context size (this is the KV cache max size)
-    int32_t n_gpu_layers = 0;    // number of layers to offlload to the GPU
-
-    bool ignore_eos = false; // ignore EOS token when generating text
-
-    // sampling parameters
-    int32_t top_k          = 40;
-    float   top_p          = 0.9f;
-    float   temp           = 0.9f;
-    int32_t repeat_last_n  = 64;
-    float   repeat_penalty = 1.00f;
-
-    std::string model      = "models/gpt-2-117M/ggml-model.bin"; // model path
-    std::string prompt     = "";
-    std::string token_test = "";
-
-    bool    interactive      = false;
-    int32_t interactive_port = -1;
-};
-
-bool gpt_params_parse(int argc, char ** argv, gpt_params & params);
-
-void gpt_print_usage(int argc, char ** argv, const gpt_params & params);
-
-std::string gpt_random_prompt(std::mt19937 & rng);
-
 //
 // Vocab utils
 //
@@ -69,39 +33,6 @@ struct gpt_vocab {
     void add_special_token(const std::string & token);
 };
 
-// poor-man's JSON parsing
-std::map<std::string, int32_t> json_parse(const std::string & fname);
-
-std::string convert_to_utf8(const std::wstring & input);
-
-std::wstring convert_to_wstring(const std::string & input);
-
-void gpt_split_words(std::string str, std::vector<std::string>& words);
-
-// split text into tokens
-//
-// ref: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/a74da5d99abaaba920de8131d64da2862a8f213b/src/encoder.py#L53
-//
-// Regex (Python):
-// r"""'s|'t|'re|'ve|'m|'ll|'d| ?\p{L}+| ?\p{N}+| ?[^\s\p{L}\p{N}]+|\s+(?!\S)|\s+"""
-//
-// Regex (C++):
-// R"('s|'t|'re|'ve|'m|'ll|'d| ?[[:alpha:]]+| ?[[:digit:]]+| ?[^\s[:alpha:][:digit:]]+|\s+(?!\S)|\s+)"
-//
-std::vector<gpt_vocab::id> gpt_tokenize(const gpt_vocab & vocab, const std::string & text);
-
-// test outputs of gpt_tokenize
-//
-//   - compare with tokens generated by the huggingface tokenizer
-//   - test cases are chosen based on the model's main language (under 'prompt' directory)
-//   - if all sentences are tokenized identically, print 'All tests passed.'
-//   - otherwise, print sentence, huggingface tokens, ggml tokens
-//
-void test_gpt_tokenizer(gpt_vocab & vocab, const std::string & fpath_test);
-
-// load the tokens from encoder.json
-bool gpt_vocab_init(const std::string & fname, gpt_vocab & vocab);
-
 // sample next token given probabilities for each embedding
 //
 //   - consider only the top K tokens
diff --git a/scripts/sync-ggml-am.sh b/scripts/sync-ggml-am.sh
index 924f67ee5b5..1bf9996e3f0 100755
--- a/scripts/sync-ggml-am.sh
+++ b/scripts/sync-ggml-am.sh
@@ -78,8 +78,6 @@ while read c; do
         src/ggml-vulkan/* \
         include/ggml*.h \
         include/gguf*.h \
-        examples/common.h \
-        examples/common.cpp \
         examples/common-ggml.h \
         examples/common-ggml.cpp \
         LICENSE \
diff --git a/scripts/sync-ggml.sh b/scripts/sync-ggml.sh
index 00162daa05b..715d40f43fc 100755
--- a/scripts/sync-ggml.sh
+++ b/scripts/sync-ggml.sh
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ cp -rpv ../ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/*  ./ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/
 cp -rpv ../ggml/include/ggml*.h ./ggml/include/
 cp -rpv ../ggml/include/gguf*.h ./ggml/include/
 
-cp -rpv ../ggml/examples/common.h        ./examples/common.h
-cp -rpv ../ggml/examples/common.cpp      ./examples/common.cpp
 cp -rpv ../ggml/examples/common-ggml.h   ./examples/common-ggml.h
 cp -rpv ../ggml/examples/common-ggml.cpp ./examples/common-ggml.cpp