diff --git a/run.c b/run.c
index 59b8b29..614f18b 100644
--- a/run.c
+++ b/run.c
@@ -50,11 +50,6 @@ typedef struct {
     float* wcls;
 } TransformerWeights;
 
-typedef struct {
-    float prob;
-    int index;
-} ProbIndex; // struct used when sorting probabilities during top-p sampling
-
 typedef struct {
     // current wave of activations
     float *x; // activation at current time stamp (dim,)
@@ -67,7 +62,6 @@ typedef struct {
     float *v; // value (dim,)
     float *att; // buffer for scores/attention values (n_heads, seq_len)
     float *logits; // output logits
-    ProbIndex *probindex; // buffer used in top-p sampling
     // kv cache
     float* key_cache;   // (layer, seq_len, dim)
     float* value_cache; // (layer, seq_len, dim)
@@ -86,13 +80,12 @@ void malloc_run_state(RunState* s, Config* p) {
     s->v = calloc(kv_dim, sizeof(float));
     s->att = calloc(p->n_heads * p->seq_len, sizeof(float));
     s->logits = calloc(p->vocab_size, sizeof(float));
-    s->probindex = calloc(p->vocab_size, sizeof(ProbIndex));
     s->key_cache = calloc(p->n_layers * p->seq_len * kv_dim, sizeof(float));
     s->value_cache = calloc(p->n_layers * p->seq_len * kv_dim, sizeof(float));
     // ensure all mallocs went fine
     if (!s->x || !s->xb || !s->xb2 || !s->hb || !s->hb2 || !s->q
      || !s->k || !s->v || !s->att || !s->logits || !s->key_cache
-     || !s->value_cache || !s->probindex) {
+     || !s->value_cache) {
         fprintf(stderr, "malloc failed!\n");
         exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
     }
@@ -109,7 +102,6 @@ void free_run_state(RunState* s) {
     free(s->v);
     free(s->att);
     free(s->logits);
-    free(s->probindex);
     free(s->key_cache);
     free(s->value_cache);
 }
@@ -499,6 +491,11 @@ float random_f32() { // random float32 in [0,1)
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // sampling can be done in a few ways: greedy argmax, sampling, top-p sampling
 
+typedef struct {
+    float prob;
+    int index;
+} ProbIndex; // struct used when sorting probabilities during top-p sampling
+
 int argmax(float* probabilities, int n) {
     // return the index that has the highest probability
     int max_i = 0;
@@ -654,6 +651,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
     // create and init the application RunState
     RunState state;
     malloc_run_state(&state, &config);
+    ProbIndex *probindex = malloc(config.vocab_size * sizeof(ProbIndex)); // buffer used in top-p sampling
 
     // process the prompt, if any
     int *prompt_tokens = NULL;
@@ -693,7 +691,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
                     next = sample(state.logits, config.vocab_size);
                 } else {
                     // top-p (nucleus) sampling, clamping the least likely tokens to zero
-                    next = sample_topp(state.logits, config.vocab_size, topp, state.probindex);
+                    next = sample_topp(state.logits, config.vocab_size, topp, probindex);
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -734,6 +732,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
 
     // memory and file handles cleanup
     free_run_state(&state);
+    free(probindex);
     for (int i = 0; i < config.vocab_size; i++) { free(vocab[i]); }
     free(vocab);
     free(vocab_scores);