diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
index 7043fa3759..b1d9b6f198 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
@@ -870,12 +870,6 @@ class GGUFWriter:
     def add_ssm_head_dim(self, value: int) -> None:
         self.add_uint32(Keys.SSM.HEAD_DIM.format(arch=self.arch), value)
 
-    def add_attn_head_count(self, count: int) -> None:
-        self.add_uint32(Keys.Attention.HEAD_COUNT.format(arch=self.arch), count)
-
-    def add_key_value_head_count(self, count: int) -> None:
-        self.add_uint32(Keys.Attention.HEAD_COUNT_KV.format(arch=self.arch), count)
-
     def add_tokenizer_model(self, model: str) -> None:
         self.add_string(Keys.Tokenizer.MODEL, model)