diff --git a/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/transformers/convert.py b/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/transformers/convert.py
index cac49836548..3ec10b6ac48 100644
--- a/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/transformers/convert.py
+++ b/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/transformers/convert.py
@@ -735,6 +735,8 @@ def _optimize_pre(model):
     if model.config.model_type == "qwen2":
         from ipex_llm.transformers.models.qwen2 import merge_qkv
         model.apply(merge_qkv)
+        from ipex_llm.transformers.models.qwen2 import padding_mlp
+        model.apply(padding_mlp)
     if model.config.model_type == "qwen2_moe":
         from ipex_llm.transformers.models.qwen2_moe import merge_qkv
         model.apply(merge_qkv)
diff --git a/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/transformers/models/qwen2.py b/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/transformers/models/qwen2.py
index 6d209aa5567..80cd4299030 100644
--- a/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/transformers/models/qwen2.py
+++ b/python/llm/src/ipex_llm/transformers/models/qwen2.py
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@
 from ipex_llm.transformers.kv import DynamicFp8Cache, DynamicNormalCache
 from ipex_llm.utils.common import invalidInputError
 
-from transformers.models.qwen2.modeling_qwen2 import Qwen2Attention, apply_rotary_pos_emb, repeat_kv
+from transformers.models.qwen2.modeling_qwen2 import Qwen2Attention, Qwen2MLP
+from transformers.models.qwen2.modeling_qwen2 import apply_rotary_pos_emb, repeat_kv
 from transformers.models.qwen2.modeling_qwen2 import _prepare_4d_causal_attention_mask_for_sdpa
 from transformers.models.qwen2.modeling_qwen2 import _prepare_4d_causal_attention_mask
 from transformers.modeling_outputs import BaseModelOutputWithPast
@@ -288,6 +289,37 @@ def merge_qkv(module: torch.nn.Module):
         del module.q_proj, module.k_proj, module.v_proj
 
 
+def padding_mlp(module: torch.nn.Module):
+    # for qwen 1.5 14B
+    if isinstance(module, Qwen2MLP):
+        hidden_size = module.hidden_size
+        intermediate_size = module.intermediate_size
+        padding_intermediate_size = (intermediate_size + 256 - 1) // 256 * 256
+        if intermediate_size % 256 == 0:
+            return
+
+        gate_weight = module.gate_proj.weight.data
+        new_gate_weight = torch.zeros([padding_intermediate_size, hidden_size],
+                                      dtype=gate_weight.dtype, device=gate_weight.device)
+        new_gate_weight[:intermediate_size, :] = gate_weight
+        module.gate_proj.out_features = padding_intermediate_size
+        module.gate_proj.weight = torch.nn.Parameter(new_gate_weight, requires_grad=False)
+
+        up_weight = module.up_proj.weight.data
+        new_up_weight = torch.zeros([padding_intermediate_size, hidden_size],
+                                    dtype=up_weight.dtype, device=up_weight.device)
+        new_up_weight[:intermediate_size, :] = up_weight
+        module.up_proj.out_features = padding_intermediate_size
+        module.up_proj.weight = torch.nn.Parameter(new_up_weight, requires_grad=False)
+
+        down_weight = module.down_proj.weight.data
+        new_down_weight = torch.zeros([hidden_size, padding_intermediate_size],
+                                      dtype=down_weight.dtype, device=down_weight.device)
+        new_down_weight[:, :intermediate_size] = down_weight
+        module.down_proj.in_features = padding_intermediate_size
+        module.down_proj.weight = torch.nn.Parameter(new_down_weight, requires_grad=False)
+
+
 def qwen2_attention_forward(
     self,
     hidden_states: torch.Tensor,