diff --git a/src/models/qwen3_5.rs b/src/models/qwen3_5.rs
index bd5a3efa..4508c6e2 100644
--- a/src/models/qwen3_5.rs
+++ b/src/models/qwen3_5.rs
@@ -2398,11 +2398,10 @@ pub fn sanitize_weights(mut weights: WeightMap, config: &Qwen35Config) -> Weight
 
         // Handle per-expert gate_proj/up_proj/down_proj naming variant.
         // Checkpoints that store experts under `experts.{e}.gate_proj.weight`
-        // instead of `experts.{e}.w1.weight` use this layout. The mapping
-        // mirrors the fused gate_up_proj path: gate->w1, up->w3, down->w2.
-        for (src_proj, dst_proj) in [("gate_proj", "w1"), ("up_proj", "w3"), ("down_proj", "w2")] {
-            // Skip if this target slot is already populated by the w1/w2/w3 pass above.
-            if weights.contains_key(format!("{}.{}.weight", base, dst_proj).as_str()) {
+        // instead of per-expert w1 weights use this layout. Keep the
+        // stacked names aligned with SwitchGLU::from_weights.
+        for proj in ["gate_proj", "up_proj", "down_proj"] {
+            if weights.contains_key(format!("{}.{}.weight", base, proj).as_str()) {
                 continue;
             }
 
@@ -2413,18 +2412,18 @@ pub fn sanitize_weights(mut weights: WeightMap, config: &Qwen35Config) -> Weight
             let mut e = 0;
             while let Some(w) = weights.remove(&format!(
                 "model.layers.{}.mlp.experts.{}.{}.weight",
-                l, e, src_proj
+                l, e, proj
             )) {
                 expert_weights.push(w);
                 if let Some(s) = weights.remove(&format!(
                     "model.layers.{}.mlp.experts.{}.{}.scales",
-                    l, e, src_proj
+                    l, e, proj
                 )) {
                     expert_scales.push(s);
                 }
                 if let Some(b) = weights.remove(&format!(
                     "model.layers.{}.mlp.experts.{}.{}.biases",
-                    l, e, src_proj
+                    l, e, proj
                 )) {
                     expert_biases.push(b);
                 }
@@ -2433,16 +2432,16 @@ pub fn sanitize_weights(mut weights: WeightMap, config: &Qwen35Config) -> Weight
 
             if !expert_weights.is_empty() {
                 let stacked = stack_arrays(&expert_weights, 0);
-                weights.insert(format!("{}.{}.weight", base, dst_proj), stacked);
+                weights.insert(format!("{}.{}.weight", base, proj), stacked);
 
                 if !expert_scales.is_empty() {
                     let stacked = stack_arrays(&expert_scales, 0);
-                    weights.insert(format!("{}.{}.scales", base, dst_proj), stacked);
+                    weights.insert(format!("{}.{}.scales", base, proj), stacked);
                 }
 
                 if !expert_biases.is_empty() {
                     let stacked = stack_arrays(&expert_biases, 0);
-                    weights.insert(format!("{}.{}.biases", base, dst_proj), stacked);
+                    weights.insert(format!("{}.{}.biases", base, proj), stacked);
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -2481,31 +2480,6 @@ pub fn sanitize_weights(mut weights: WeightMap, config: &Qwen35Config) -> Weight
         }
     }
 
-    // 8. Rename switch_mlp.{gate_proj,up_proj,down_proj} → switch_mlp.{w1,w3,w2}
-    // Pre-quantized MoE models use gate_proj/up_proj/down_proj naming,
-    // but SparseMoeBlock expects w1/w2/w3 naming.
-    let rename_map = [
-        ("switch_mlp.gate_proj.", "switch_mlp.w1."),
-        ("switch_mlp.up_proj.", "switch_mlp.w3."),
-        ("switch_mlp.down_proj.", "switch_mlp.w2."),
-    ];
-    let keys_to_rename: Vec<String> = weights
-        .keys()
-        .filter(|k| rename_map.iter().any(|(from, _)| k.contains(from)))
-        .cloned()
-        .collect();
-    for key in keys_to_rename {
-        for (from, to) in &rename_map {
-            if key.contains(from) {
-                let new_key = key.replace(from, to);
-                if let Some(v) = weights.remove(&key) {
-                    weights.insert(new_key, v);
-                }
-                break;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
     weights
 }
 
diff --git a/src/models/qwen3_5_tests.rs b/src/models/qwen3_5_tests.rs
index e61e9af4..f84a176b 100644
--- a/src/models/qwen3_5_tests.rs
+++ b/src/models/qwen3_5_tests.rs
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
 //! that need a real Qwen 3.5 model and are gated behind hardware availability.
 
 use super::qwen3_5::{
-    Qwen35Config, rebuild_with_zero_tail, sanitize_weights, zero_per_row_kv_tail,
+    Qwen35Config, rebuild_with_zero_tail, sanitize_weights,
+    zero_per_row_kv_tail,
 };
 use mlxcel_core::dtype;
 use mlxcel_core::layers::KVCache;
@@ -309,3 +310,34 @@ fn sanitize_weights_drops_lm_head_when_tied_embeddings() {
     );
     assert!(sanitized.contains_key("model.embed_tokens.weight"));
 }
+
+#[test]
+#[ignore = "requires serial MLX execution"]
+fn sanitize_weights_stacks_per_expert_switch_proj_names_for_loader() {
+    let root = "model.layers.0.mlp.experts";
+    let mut weights = WeightMap::new();
+    for expert in 0..2 {
+        for proj in ["gate_proj", "up_proj", "down_proj"] {
+            weights.insert(
+                format!("{root}.{expert}.{proj}.weight"),
+                mlxcel_core::from_slice_f32(&[expert as f32; 8], &[2, 4]),
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
+    let mut config = make_tiny_config();
+    config.num_experts = 2;
+    config.num_experts_per_tok = 1;
+    config.decoder_sparse_step = 1;
+    config.moe_intermediate_size = 2;
+    config.shared_expert_intermediate_size = 2;
+
+    let sanitized = sanitize_weights(weights, &config);
+
+    assert!(sanitized.contains_key("model.layers.0.mlp.switch_mlp.gate_proj.weight"));
+    assert!(sanitized.contains_key("model.layers.0.mlp.switch_mlp.up_proj.weight"));
+    assert!(sanitized.contains_key("model.layers.0.mlp.switch_mlp.down_proj.weight"));
+    assert!(!sanitized.contains_key("model.layers.0.mlp.switch_mlp.w1.weight"));
+    assert!(!sanitized.contains_key("model.layers.0.mlp.switch_mlp.w2.weight"));
+    assert!(!sanitized.contains_key("model.layers.0.mlp.switch_mlp.w3.weight"));
+}