diff --git a/src/llama-batch.cpp b/src/llama-batch.cpp
index 80f1592e9..d55625da1 100644
--- a/src/llama-batch.cpp
+++ b/src/llama-batch.cpp
@@ -503,3 +503,49 @@ void llama_batch_ext_free(struct llama_batch_ext * batch) {
     }
     delete batch;
 }
+
+// deprecated
+struct llama_batch llama_batch_init(int32_t n_tokens_alloc, int32_t embd, int32_t n_seq_max) {
+    llama_batch batch = {
+        /*n_tokens       =*/ 0,
+        /*tokens         =*/ nullptr,
+        /*embd           =*/ nullptr,
+        /*pos            =*/ nullptr,
+        /*n_seq_id       =*/ nullptr,
+        /*seq_id         =*/ nullptr,
+        /*logits         =*/ nullptr,
+    };
+
+    if (embd) {
+        batch.embd = (float *) malloc(sizeof(float) * n_tokens_alloc * embd);
+    } else {
+        batch.token = (llama_token *) malloc(sizeof(llama_token) * n_tokens_alloc);
+    }
+
+    batch.pos      = (llama_pos *)     malloc(sizeof(llama_pos)      * n_tokens_alloc);
+    batch.n_seq_id = (int32_t *)       malloc(sizeof(int32_t)        * n_tokens_alloc);
+    batch.seq_id   = (llama_seq_id **) malloc(sizeof(llama_seq_id *) * (n_tokens_alloc + 1));
+    for (int i = 0; i < n_tokens_alloc; ++i) {
+        batch.seq_id[i] = (llama_seq_id *) malloc(sizeof(llama_seq_id) * n_seq_max);
+    }
+    batch.seq_id[n_tokens_alloc] = nullptr;
+
+    batch.logits   = (int8_t *)        malloc(sizeof(int8_t)         * n_tokens_alloc);
+
+    return batch;
+}
+
+// deprecated
+void llama_batch_free(struct llama_batch batch) {
+    if (batch.token)    free(batch.token);
+    if (batch.embd)     free(batch.embd);
+    if (batch.pos)      free(batch.pos);
+    if (batch.n_seq_id) free(batch.n_seq_id);
+    if (batch.seq_id) {
+        for (int i = 0; batch.seq_id[i] != nullptr; ++i) {
+            free(batch.seq_id[i]);
+        }
+        free(batch.seq_id);
+    }
+    if (batch.logits)   free(batch.logits);
+}