diff --git a/llms/mlx_lm/LORA.md b/llms/mlx_lm/LORA.md
index 2d0dcf60..15676360 100644
--- a/llms/mlx_lm/LORA.md
+++ b/llms/mlx_lm/LORA.md
@@ -222,6 +222,17 @@ data formats. Here are examples of these formats:
 }
 ```
 
+
+The format for the `arguments` field in a function varies for different models.
+Common formats include JSON strings and dictionaries. The example provided
+follows the format used by
+[OpenAI](https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning/fine-tuning-examples)
+and [Mistral
+AI](https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-finetune?tab=readme-ov-file#instruct).
+A dictionary format is used in Hugging Face's [chat
+templates](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/chat_templating#a-complete-tool-use-example).
+Refer to the documentation for the model you are fine-tuning for more details.
+
 </details>
 
 `completions`:
@@ -241,7 +252,7 @@ each line not expected by the loader will be ignored.
 
 > [!NOTE]
 > Each example in the datasets must be on a single line. Do not put more than
-> one example per line and do not split an example accross multiple lines.
+> one example per line and do not split an example across multiple lines.
 
 ### Hugging Face Datasets
 
diff --git a/llms/mlx_lm/convert.py b/llms/mlx_lm/convert.py
index a3f43f71..9bac77a5 100644
--- a/llms/mlx_lm/convert.py
+++ b/llms/mlx_lm/convert.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def configure_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
     )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--dtype",
-        help="Type to save the parameters, ignored if -q is given.",
+        help="Type to save the non-quantized parameters.",
         type=str,
         choices=["float16", "bfloat16", "float32"],
         default="float16",
diff --git a/llms/mlx_lm/models/gemma2.py b/llms/mlx_lm/models/gemma2.py
index ccc327a8..64951ae4 100644
--- a/llms/mlx_lm/models/gemma2.py
+++ b/llms/mlx_lm/models/gemma2.py
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ class MLP(nn.Module):
         self.up_proj = nn.Linear(dim, hidden_dim, bias=False)
 
     def __call__(self, x) -> mx.array:
-        return self.down_proj(nn.gelu(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x))
+        return self.down_proj(nn.gelu_approx(self.gate_proj(x)) * self.up_proj(x))
 
 
 class TransformerBlock(nn.Module):
diff --git a/llms/mlx_lm/models/mamba.py b/llms/mlx_lm/models/mamba.py
index d2740dc1..84f498e9 100644
--- a/llms/mlx_lm/models/mamba.py
+++ b/llms/mlx_lm/models/mamba.py
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ class Model(nn.Module):
 
     def sanitize(self, weights):
         for k, v in weights.items():
-            if "conv1d.weight" in k and v.ndim == 3:
+            if "conv1d.weight" in k and v.shape[-1] != 1:
                 weights[k] = v.moveaxis(2, 1)
         return weights
 
diff --git a/llms/mlx_lm/models/recurrent_gemma.py b/llms/mlx_lm/models/recurrent_gemma.py
index 06a307a6..5595d311 100644
--- a/llms/mlx_lm/models/recurrent_gemma.py
+++ b/llms/mlx_lm/models/recurrent_gemma.py
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ class Model(nn.Module):
 
     def sanitize(self, weights):
         for k, v in weights.items():
-            if "conv_1d.weight" in k and v.ndim == 3:
+            if "conv_1d.weight" in k and v.shape[-1] != 1:
                 weights[k] = v.moveaxis(2, 1)
         if "lm_head.weight" not in weights:
             self.pop("lm_head")
diff --git a/llms/mlx_lm/utils.py b/llms/mlx_lm/utils.py
index 4f872982..92741b68 100644
--- a/llms/mlx_lm/utils.py
+++ b/llms/mlx_lm/utils.py
@@ -720,7 +720,7 @@ def convert(
     model, config, tokenizer = fetch_from_hub(model_path, lazy=True)
 
     weights = dict(tree_flatten(model.parameters()))
-    dtype = mx.float16 if quantize else getattr(mx, dtype)
+    dtype = getattr(mx, dtype)
     weights = {k: v.astype(dtype) for k, v in weights.items()}
 
     if quantize and dequantize: