diff --git a/candle-core/src/quantized/mod.rs b/candle-core/src/quantized/mod.rs
index e87072bbd..d852d5041 100644
--- a/candle-core/src/quantized/mod.rs
+++ b/candle-core/src/quantized/mod.rs
@@ -439,6 +439,25 @@ impl QMatMul {
     pub fn from_qtensor(qtensor: QTensor) -> Result<Self> {
         Self::from_arc(std::sync::Arc::new(qtensor))
     }
+
+    pub fn dequantize_f16(&self) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        match self {
+            Self::QTensor(t) => t.dequantize_f16(&t.device()),
+            Self::Tensor(t) => t.to_dtype(DType::F16),
+            Self::TensorF16(t) => Ok(t.clone()),
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn forward_via_f16(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let w = self.dequantize_f16()?;
+        let in_dtype = xs.dtype();
+        let w = match *xs.dims() {
+            [b1, b2, _, _] => w.broadcast_left((b1, b2))?.t()?,
+            [bsize, _, _] => w.broadcast_left(bsize)?.t()?,
+            _ => w.t()?,
+        };
+        xs.to_dtype(DType::F16)?.matmul(&w)?.to_dtype(in_dtype)
+    }
 }
 
 impl crate::CustomOp1 for QTensor {