diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/yolo-v8/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/yolo-v8/main.rs
index 3ab7414b..05944ed4 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/yolo-v8/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/yolo-v8/main.rs
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ extern crate accelerate_src;
 mod coco_classes;
 
 use candle::{DType, Device, IndexOp, Result, Tensor, D};
-use candle_nn::{batch_norm, conv2d_no_bias, BatchNorm, Conv2d, Conv2dConfig, Module, VarBuilder};
+use candle_nn::{
+    batch_norm, conv2d, conv2d_no_bias, BatchNorm, Conv2d, Conv2dConfig, Module, VarBuilder,
+};
 use clap::Parser;
 use image::{DynamicImage, ImageBuffer};
 
@@ -179,8 +181,7 @@ impl C2f {
 impl Module for C2f {
     fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
         let ys = self.cv1.forward(xs)?;
-        let ys_1 = ys.dim(1)?;
-        let mut ys = vec![ys.i((.., 0..ys_1 / 2))?, ys.i((.., ys_1 / 2..))?];
+        let mut ys = ys.chunk(2, 1)?;
         for m in self.bottleneck.iter() {
             ys.push(m.forward(ys.last().unwrap())?)
         }
@@ -349,7 +350,9 @@ impl DarkNet {
 
     fn forward(&self, xs: &Tensor) -> Result<(Tensor, Tensor, Tensor)> {
         let x1 = self.b1_1.forward(&self.b1_0.forward(xs)?)?;
-        let x2 = self.b2_1.forward(&self.b2_0.forward(&x1)?)?;
+        let x2 = self
+            .b2_2
+            .forward(&self.b2_1.forward(&self.b2_0.forward(&x1)?)?)?;
         let x3 = self.b3_1.forward(&self.b3_0.forward(&x2)?)?;
         let x4 = self.b4_1.forward(&self.b4_0.forward(&x3)?)?;
         let x5 = self.b5.forward(&x4)?;
@@ -529,7 +532,7 @@ impl DetectionHead {
     ) -> Result<(ConvBlock, ConvBlock, Conv2d)> {
         let block0 = ConvBlock::load(vb.pp("0"), filter, c1, 3, 1, None)?;
         let block1 = ConvBlock::load(vb.pp("1"), c1, c1, 3, 1, None)?;
-        let conv = conv2d_no_bias(c1, nc, 1, Default::default(), vb.pp("2"))?;
+        let conv = conv2d(c1, nc, 1, Default::default(), vb.pp("2"))?;
         Ok((block0, block1, conv))
     }
 
@@ -541,7 +544,7 @@ impl DetectionHead {
     ) -> Result<(ConvBlock, ConvBlock, Conv2d)> {
         let block0 = ConvBlock::load(vb.pp("0"), filter, c2, 3, 1, None)?;
         let block1 = ConvBlock::load(vb.pp("1"), c2, c2, 3, 1, None)?;
-        let conv = conv2d_no_bias(c2, 4 * ch, 1, Default::default(), vb.pp("2"))?;
+        let conv = conv2d(c2, 4 * ch, 1, Default::default(), vb.pp("2"))?;
         Ok((block0, block1, conv))
     }
 
@@ -579,7 +582,6 @@ impl DetectionHead {
 
         let dbox = dist2bbox(&self.dfl.forward(&box_)?, &anchors.unsqueeze(0)?)?;
         let dbox = dbox.broadcast_mul(&strides)?;
-
         Tensor::cat(&[dbox, candle_nn::ops::sigmoid(&cls)?], 1)
     }
 }
@@ -652,22 +654,22 @@ pub fn draw_rect(
 }
 
 pub fn report(pred: &Tensor, img: DynamicImage, w: usize, h: usize) -> Result<DynamicImage> {
-    let (npreds, pred_size) = pred.dims2()?;
-    let nclasses = pred_size - 5;
+    let (pred_size, npreds) = pred.dims2()?;
+    let nclasses = pred_size - 4;
     // The bounding boxes grouped by (maximum) class index.
     let mut bboxes: Vec<Vec<Bbox>> = (0..nclasses).map(|_| vec![]).collect();
     // Extract the bounding boxes for which confidence is above the threshold.
     for index in 0..npreds {
-        let pred = Vec::<f32>::try_from(pred.get(index)?)?;
-        let confidence = pred[4];
+        let pred = Vec::<f32>::try_from(pred.i((.., index))?)?;
+        let confidence = *pred[4..].iter().max_by(|x, y| x.total_cmp(y)).unwrap();
         if confidence > CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD {
             let mut class_index = 0;
             for i in 0..nclasses {
-                if pred[5 + i] > pred[5 + class_index] {
+                if pred[4 + i] > pred[4 + class_index] {
                     class_index = i
                 }
             }
-            if pred[class_index + 5] > 0. {
+            if pred[class_index + 4] > 0. {
                 let bbox = Bbox {
                     xmin: pred[0] - pred[2] / 2.,
                     ymin: pred[1] - pred[3] / 2.,
@@ -767,7 +769,6 @@ pub fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
         };
         let image = (image.unsqueeze(0)?.to_dtype(DType::F32)? * (1. / 255.))?;
         let predictions = model.forward(&image)?.squeeze(0)?;
-        let predictions = predictions.t()?;
         println!("generated predictions {predictions:?}");
         let image = report(&predictions, original_image, 640, 640)?;
         image_name.set_extension("pp.jpg");
diff --git a/candle-transformers/Cargo.toml b/candle-transformers/Cargo.toml
index 94aef29a..92b1137a 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/candle-transformers/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,10 +12,8 @@ readme = "README.md"
 [dependencies]
 accelerate-src = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 candle = { path = "../candle-core", version = "0.1.2", package = "candle-core" }
-hf-hub = { workspace = true}
 candle-nn = { path = "../candle-nn", version = "0.1.2" }
 intel-mkl-src = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-tokenizers = { workspace = true, features = ["onig"] }
 rand = { workspace = true }
 wav = { workspace = true }