diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/starcoder2.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/starcoder2.py
index 15e8f2af52cd..22189a517d31 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/starcoder2.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/starcoder2.py
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import SamplerOutput, get_sampler
 from vllm.model_executor.layers.vocab_parallel_embedding import (
     DEFAULT_VOCAB_PADDING_SIZE, ParallelLMHead, VocabParallelEmbedding)
-from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.weight_utils import default_weight_loader
+from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.weight_utils import (
+    default_weight_loader, maybe_remap_kv_scale_name)
 from vllm.model_executor.sampling_metadata import SamplingMetadata
 from vllm.sequence import IntermediateTensors
 
@@ -345,6 +346,10 @@ def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[Tuple[str,
                 weight_loader(param, loaded_weight, shard_id)
                 break
             else:
+                name = maybe_remap_kv_scale_name(name, params_dict)
+                if name is None:
+                    continue
+
                 if self.config.tie_word_embeddings and "lm_head.weight" in name:
                     continue
                 if is_pp_missing_parameter(name, self):