diff --git a/src/llama-graph.h b/src/llama-graph.h
index d4d565754..8eae4f551 100644
--- a/src/llama-graph.h
+++ b/src/llama-graph.h
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ public:
 
     ggml_tensor * pos_bucket = nullptr; // I32 [n_batch, n_batch]
 
-    const llama_hparams & hparams;
+    const llama_hparams hparams;
 };
 
 class llm_graph_input_pos_bucket_kv : public llm_graph_input_i {
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ public:
 
     ggml_tensor * pos_bucket = nullptr; // I32 [n_kv, n_batch]
 
-    const llama_hparams & hparams;
+    const llama_hparams hparams;
 
     const llama_kv_cache_unified_context * mctx;
 };
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ public:
 
     ggml_tensor * out_ids; // I32 [n_outputs]
 
-    const llama_hparams & hparams;
-    const llama_cparams & cparams;
+    const llama_hparams hparams;
+    const llama_cparams cparams;
 
     const uint32_t n_outputs;
 };
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ public:
 
     ggml_tensor * mean; // F32 [n_batch, n_batch]
 
-    const llama_cparams & cparams;
+    const llama_cparams cparams;
 };
 
 class llm_graph_input_cls : public llm_graph_input_i {
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ public:
 
     ggml_tensor * cls; // I32 [n_batch]
 
-    const llama_cparams & cparams;
+    const llama_cparams cparams;
 };
 
 class llm_graph_input_rs : public llm_graph_input_i {
@@ -247,8 +247,8 @@ public:
     ggml_tensor * kq_mask     = nullptr; // F32 [n_tokens, n_batch, 1, 1]
     ggml_tensor * kq_mask_cnv = nullptr; //     [n_tokens, n_batch, 1, 1]
 
-    const llama_hparams & hparams;
-    const llama_cparams & cparams;
+    const llama_hparams hparams;
+    const llama_cparams cparams;
 };
 
 class llm_graph_input_attn_kv_unified : public llm_graph_input_i {
@@ -278,8 +278,11 @@ public:
     ggml_tensor * self_kq_mask     = nullptr; // F32 [n_kv, n_batch/n_stream, 1, n_stream]
     ggml_tensor * self_kq_mask_cnv = nullptr; //     [n_kv, n_batch/n_stream, 1, n_stream]
 
-    const llama_hparams & hparams;
-    const llama_cparams & cparams;
+    // note: these have to be copies because in order to be able to reuse a graph, its inputs
+    //       need to carry these parameters with them. otherwise, they can point to freed
+    //       llm_graph_params from a previous batch, causing stack-use-after-return
+    const llama_hparams hparams;
+    const llama_cparams cparams;
 
     const llama_kv_cache_unified_context * mctx;
 };
@@ -318,8 +321,8 @@ public:
     ggml_tensor * self_kq_mask_swa     = nullptr; // F32 [n_kv, n_batch/n_stream, 1, n_stream]
     ggml_tensor * self_kq_mask_swa_cnv = nullptr; //     [n_kv, n_batch/n_stream, 1, n_stream]
 
-    const llama_hparams & hparams;
-    const llama_cparams & cparams;
+    const llama_hparams hparams;
+    const llama_cparams cparams;
 
     const llama_kv_cache_unified_iswa_context * mctx;
 };