diff --git a/convert-hf-to-gguf-update.py b/convert-hf-to-gguf-update.py
index 27983fadf..45404b32b 100755
--- a/convert-hf-to-gguf-update.py
+++ b/convert-hf-to-gguf-update.py
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ models = [
     {"name": "mpt",            "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/mosaicml/mpt-7b", },
     {"name": "starcoder",      "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder2-3b", },
     {"name": "gpt-2",          "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/openai-community/gpt2", },
+    {"name": "stablelm",       "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b", },
     {"name": "refact",         "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/smallcloudai/Refact-1_6-base", },
     {"name": "command-r",      "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/CohereForAI/c4ai-command-r-v01", },
     {"name": "qwen2",          "tokt": TOKENIZER_TYPE.BPE, "repo": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen1.5-7B", },
diff --git a/convert-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
index cd1750aa3..bd303150a 100755
--- a/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -446,6 +446,9 @@ class Model:
         if chkhsh == "3ce83efda5659b07b1ad37ca97ca5797ea4285d9b9ab0dc679e4a720c9da7454":
             # ref: https://huggingface.co/openai-community/gpt2
             res = "gpt-2"
+        if chkhsh == "32d85c31273f8019248f2559fed492d929ea28b17e51d81d3bb36fff23ca72b3":
+            # ref: https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stablelm-2-1_6b
+            res = "stablelm2"
         if chkhsh == "6221ad2852e85ce96f791f476e0b390cf9b474c9e3d1362f53a24a06dc8220ff":
             # ref: https://huggingface.co/smallcloudai/Refact-1_6-base
             res = "refact"
diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index 1409a05da..06ff4da61 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -4463,6 +4463,9 @@ static void llm_load_vocab(
             } else if (
                 tokenizer_pre == "qwen2") {
                 vocab.type_pre = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_QWEN2;
+            } else if (
+                tokenizer_pre == "stablelm2") {
+                vocab.type_pre = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_STABLELM2;
             } else if (
                 tokenizer_pre == "olmo") {
                 vocab.type_pre = LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_OLMO;
@@ -12363,6 +12366,7 @@ struct llm_tokenizer_bpe {
                             "'s|'t|'re|'ve|'m|'ll|'d| ?\\p{L}+| ?\\p{N}+| ?[^\\s\\p{L}\\p{N}]+|\\s+(?!\\S)",
                         });
                         break;
+                    case LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_STABLELM2:
                     case LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_QWEN2:
                         word_collection = unicode_regex_split(text, {
                             // original regex from tokenizer.json
diff --git a/llama.h b/llama.h
index 612e32c4e..b7bf2afcb 100644
--- a/llama.h
+++ b/llama.h
@@ -81,9 +81,10 @@ extern "C" {
         LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_GPT2           = 7,
         LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_REFACT         = 8,
         LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_COMMAND_R      = 9,
-        LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_QWEN2          = 10,
-        LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_OLMO           = 11,
-        LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_DBRX           = 12,
+        LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_STABLELM2      = 10,
+        LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_QWEN2          = 11,
+        LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_OLMO           = 12,
+        LLAMA_VOCAB_PRE_TYPE_DBRX           = 13,
     };
 
     // note: these values should be synchronized with ggml_rope