diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
index c63d929c187a8..482ba264dd3c5 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -663,7 +663,11 @@ def get_vocab_base_pre(self, tokenizer) -> str:
             res = "minerva-7b"
         if chkhsh == "8b5a93ed704057481f240da0be7e7dca721d7f8f4755263b6807227a2cbeae65":
             # ref: https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/stsb-roberta-base
-            res = "roberta-bpe"
+            # NOTE: The Roberta tokenizer is the same as GPT-2, but it always
+            #   adds the cls/sep tokens as bos/eos. This is handled as a
+            #   post-processor in tokenizers, so the chkhsh is different, but
+            #   it still maps to gpt-2 internally.
+            res = "gpt-2"
 
         if res is None:
             logger.warning("\n")
@@ -2544,7 +2548,7 @@ 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
 
@@ -2617,6 +2621,50 @@ 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