diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
index 7b433ee6dc375..ecd69be6bbb07 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -2628,7 +2628,7 @@ def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iter
             return [(self.map_tensor_name(name), data_torch)]
 
 
-@Model.register("BertModel", "CamembertModel", "RobertaModel")
+@Model.register("BertModel", "CamembertModel")
 class BertModel(Model):
     model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.BERT
 
@@ -2701,6 +2701,51 @@ def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iter
         return [(self.map_tensor_name(name), data_torch)]
 
 
+@Model.register("RobertaModel")
+class RobertaModel(BertModel):
+    model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.BERT
+
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        # we need the pad_token_id to know how to chop down position_embd matrix
+        if (pad_token_id := self.hparams.get("pad_token_id")) is not None:
+            self._position_offset = 1 + pad_token_id
+            if "max_position_embeddings" in self.hparams:
+                self.hparams["max_position_embeddings"] -= self._position_offset
+        else:
+            self._position_offset = None
+
+    def set_vocab(self):
+        """Support BPE tokenizers for roberta models"""
+        bpe_tok_path = self.dir_model / "tokenizer.json"
+        if bpe_tok_path.exists():
+            self._set_vocab_gpt2()
+            self.gguf_writer.add_add_bos_token(True)
+            self.gguf_writer.add_add_eos_token(True)
+
+            # we need this to validate the size of the token_type embeddings
+            # though currently we are passing all zeros to the token_type embeddings
+            # "Sequence A" or "Sequence B"
+            self.gguf_writer.add_token_type_count(self.hparams.get("type_vocab_size", 1))
+
+        else:
+            return super().set_vocab()
+
+    def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iterable[tuple[str, Tensor]]:
+        # if name starts with "roberta.", remove the prefix
+        # e.g. https://huggingface.co/BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3/tree/main
+        if name.startswith("roberta."):
+            name = name[8:]
+
+        # position embeddings start at pad_token_id + 1, so just chop down the weight tensor
+        if name == "embeddings.position_embeddings.weight":
+            if self._position_offset is not None:
+                data_torch = data_torch[self._position_offset:,:]
+
+        return super().modify_tensors(data_torch, name, bid)
+
+
 @Model.register("NomicBertModel")
 class NomicBertModel(BertModel):
     model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.NOMIC_BERT
diff --git a/src/llama.cpp b/src/llama.cpp
index cec15a00589d4..b442781a062eb 100644
--- a/src/llama.cpp
+++ b/src/llama.cpp
@@ -6592,7 +6592,8 @@ static void llm_load_vocab(
                     tokenizer_pre == "jina-v1-en" ||
                     tokenizer_pre == "jina-v2-es" ||
                     tokenizer_pre == "jina-v2-de" ||
-                    tokenizer_pre == "jina-v2-code") {
+                    tokenizer_pre == "jina-v2-code" ||
+                    tokenizer_pre == "roberta-bpe") {
                 vocab.type_pre = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_GPT2;
             } else if (
                     tokenizer_pre == "refact") {