diff --git a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
index bd33f430625a..02e7a3a8f60f 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
+++ b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
@@ -314,11 +314,17 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph::build_vit(
             std::function<ggml_tensor *(ggml_tensor *, const clip_layer &)> add_pos,
             const build_vit_opts & opts
         ) {
+    // batch dim: inp is [n_embd, n_pos] (B==1) or [n_embd, n_pos, B] (multi-tile encode)
+    const int64_t B = inp->ne[2];
+
     if (learned_pos_embd) {
         inp = ggml_add(ctx0, inp, learned_pos_embd);
         cb(inp, "pos_embed", -1);
     }
 
+    // flatten batch; unflatten again in attention
+    inp = ggml_reshape_2d(ctx0, inp, n_embd, n_pos * B);
+
     ggml_tensor * inpL = inp;
 
     // pre-layernorm
@@ -348,20 +354,24 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph::build_vit(
                     cur = ggml_add(ctx0, cur, layer.qkv_b);
                 }
 
-                Qcur = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, cur, d_head, n_head, n_pos,
-                    /* nb1    */ ggml_row_size(cur->type, d_head),
-                    /* nb2    */ cur->nb[1],
-                    /* offset */ 0);
-
-                Kcur = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, cur, d_head, n_head, n_pos,
-                    /* nb1    */ ggml_row_size(cur->type, d_head),
-                    /* nb2    */ cur->nb[1],
-                    /* offset */ ggml_row_size(cur->type, n_embd));
-
-                Vcur = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, cur, d_head, n_head, n_pos,
-                    /* nb1    */ ggml_row_size(cur->type, d_head),
-                    /* nb2    */ cur->nb[1],
-                    /* offset */ ggml_row_size(cur->type, 2 * n_embd));
+                // Q/K/V as [d_head, n_head, n_pos, B], the batch stride is cur->nb[1]*n_pos.
+                Qcur = ggml_view_4d(ctx0, cur, d_head, n_head, n_pos, B,
+                /* nb1    */ ggml_row_size(cur->type, d_head),
+                /* nb2    */ cur->nb[1],
+                /* nb3    */ cur->nb[1] * n_pos,
+                /* offset */ 0);
+
+                Kcur = ggml_view_4d(ctx0, cur, d_head, n_head, n_pos, B,
+                /* nb1    */ ggml_row_size(cur->type, d_head),
+                /* nb2    */ cur->nb[1],
+                /* nb3    */ cur->nb[1] * n_pos,
+                /* offset */ ggml_row_size(cur->type, n_embd));
+
+                Vcur = ggml_view_4d(ctx0, cur, d_head, n_head, n_pos, B,
+                /* nb1    */ ggml_row_size(cur->type, d_head),
+                /* nb2    */ cur->nb[1],
+                /* nb3    */ cur->nb[1] * n_pos,
+                /* offset */ ggml_row_size(cur->type, 2 * n_embd));
 
                 if (layer.q_norm) {
                     GGML_ASSERT(layer.q_norm->ne[0] == Qcur->ne[0]);
@@ -406,9 +416,9 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph::build_vit(
                     }
                 }
 
-                Qcur = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, Qcur, d_head, n_head,    n_pos);
-                Kcur = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, Kcur, d_head, n_head_kv, n_pos);
-                Vcur = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, Vcur, d_head, n_head_kv, n_pos);
+                Qcur = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx0, Qcur, d_head, n_head,    n_pos, B);
+                Kcur = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx0, Kcur, d_head, n_head_kv, n_pos, B);
+                Vcur = ggml_reshape_4d(ctx0, Vcur, d_head, n_head_kv, n_pos, B);
 
                 if (norm_per_head) {
                     if (layer.q_norm) {
@@ -438,6 +448,7 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph::build_vit(
                 cb(Vcur, "Vcur_normed", il);
             }
 
+            // build_attn returns a flat 2D [n_embd, n_pos*B]
             cur = build_attn(layer.o_w, layer.o_b,
                 Qcur, Kcur, Vcur, opts.attn_mask, kq_scale, il);
             cb(cur, "attn_out", il);
@@ -509,6 +520,10 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph::build_vit(
     if (model.post_ln_w) {
         inpL = build_norm(inpL, model.post_ln_w, model.post_ln_b, norm_t, eps, -1);
     }
+
+    // restore the batch dim
+    GGML_ASSERT(inpL->ne[1] % B == 0);
+    inpL = ggml_reshape_3d(ctx0, inpL, n_embd, inpL->ne[1] / B, B);
     return inpL;
 }