diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/model_loader.py b/vllm/model_executor/model_loader.py
index 82c8dfa7..e7580f21 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/model_loader.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/model_loader.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from vllm.model_executor.weight_utils import (get_quant_config,
 # TODO(woosuk): Lazy-load the model classes.
 _MODEL_REGISTRY = {
     "AquilaModel": AquilaForCausalLM,
+    "AquilaForCausalLM": AquilaForCausalLM,  # AquilaChat2
     "BaiChuanForCausalLM": BaiChuanForCausalLM,  # baichuan-7b
     "BaichuanForCausalLM": BaichuanForCausalLM,  # baichuan-13b
     "BloomForCausalLM": BloomForCausalLM,
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/aquila.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/aquila.py
index 33280d9a..3fece0e2 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/models/aquila.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/models/aquila.py
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@ class AquilaAttention(nn.Module):
             rotary_dim=self.head_dim,
             base=self.rope_theta,
             max_position=self.max_position_embeddings,
+            num_kv_heads=self.num_kv_heads,
         )
 
     def forward(
@@ -177,7 +178,7 @@ class AquilaDecoderLayer(nn.Module):
         self.self_attn = AquilaAttention(
             hidden_size=self.hidden_size,
             num_heads=config.num_attention_heads,
-            num_kv_heads=config.num_attention_heads,
+            num_kv_heads=config.num_key_value_heads,
             rope_theta=rope_theta,
             max_position_embeddings=max_position_embeddings,
         )
@@ -308,7 +309,7 @@ class AquilaForCausalLM(nn.Module):
         q_proj_shard_size = (self.config.hidden_size // tp_size)
         kv_proj_shard_size = (self.config.hidden_size //
                               self.config.num_attention_heads *
-                              self.config.num_attention_heads // tp_size)
+                              self.config.num_key_value_heads // tp_size)
         attention_weight_specs = [
             # (weight_name, shard_size, offset)
             ("q_proj", q_proj_shard_size, 0),
diff --git a/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/aquila.py b/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/aquila.py
index 944e8f0e..86a6f2ba 100644
--- a/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/aquila.py
+++ b/vllm/transformers_utils/configs/aquila.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ class AquilaConfig(PretrainedConfig):
         intermediate_size=11008,
         num_hidden_layers=32,
         num_attention_heads=32,
+        num_key_value_heads=None,
         hidden_act="silu",
         max_position_embeddings=2048,
         initializer_range=0.006,
@@ -49,6 +50,11 @@ class AquilaConfig(PretrainedConfig):
         self.hidden_size = hidden_size
         self.intermediate_size = intermediate_size
         self.num_hidden_layers = num_hidden_layers
+        # for backward compatibility
+        if num_key_value_heads is None:
+            num_key_value_heads = num_attention_heads
+
+        self.num_key_value_heads = num_key_value_heads
         self.num_attention_heads = num_attention_heads
         self.hidden_act = hidden_act
         self.initializer_range = initializer_range