diff --git a/convert-starcoder-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-starcoder-hf-to-gguf.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# HF falcon--> gguf conversion
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import os
+import struct
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Any
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer  # type: ignore[import]
+
+if 'NO_LOCAL_GGUF' not in os.environ:
+    sys.path.insert(1, str(Path(__file__).parent / 'gguf-py' / 'gguf'))
+import gguf
+
+
+def bytes_to_unicode():
+    # ref: https://github.com/openai/gpt-2/blob/master/src/encoder.py
+    """
+    Returns list of utf-8 byte and a corresponding list of unicode strings.
+    The reversible bpe codes work on unicode strings.
+    This means you need a large # of unicode characters in your vocab if you want to avoid UNKs.
+    When you're at something like a 10B token dataset you end up needing around 5K for decent coverage.
+    This is a significant percentage of your normal, say, 32K bpe vocab.
+    To avoid that, we want lookup tables between utf-8 bytes and unicode strings.
+    And avoids mapping to whitespace/control characters the bpe code barfs on.
+    """
+    bs = list(range(ord("!"), ord("~")+1))+list(range(ord("¡"), ord("¬")+1))+list(range(ord("®"), ord("ÿ")+1))
+    cs = bs[:]
+    n = 0
+    for b in range(2**8):
+        if b not in bs:
+            bs.append(b)
+            cs.append(2**8+n)
+            n += 1
+    return dict(zip(bs, (chr(n) for n in cs)))
+
+
+def count_model_parts(dir_model: Path) -> int:
+    num_parts = 0
+    for filename in os.listdir(dir_model):
+        if filename.startswith("pytorch_model-"):
+            num_parts += 1
+
+    if num_parts > 0:
+        print("gguf: found " + str(num_parts) + " model parts")
+    return num_parts
+
+
+def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Convert a StarCoder model to a GGML compatible file")
+    parser.add_argument("--vocab-only", action="store_true", help="extract only the vocab")
+    parser.add_argument("--outfile",    type=Path,           help="path to write to; default: based on input")
+    parser.add_argument("model",        type=Path,           help="directory containing model file, or model file itself (*.bin)")
+    parser.add_argument("ftype",        type=int,            help="output format - use 0 for float32, 1 for float16", choices=[0, 1], default = 1)
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+args = parse_args()
+
+dir_model = args.model
+ftype = args.ftype
+if not dir_model.is_dir():
+    print(f'Error: {args.model} is not a directory', file = sys.stderr)
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# possible tensor data types
+#   ftype == 0 -> float32
+#   ftype == 1 -> float16
+
+# map from ftype to string
+ftype_str = ["f32", "f16"]
+
+if args.outfile is not None:
+    fname_out = args.outfile
+else:
+    # output in the same directory as the model by default
+    fname_out = dir_model / f'ggml-model-{ftype_str[ftype]}.gguf'
+
+print("gguf: loading model "+dir_model.name)
+
+with open(dir_model / "config.json", "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    hparams = json.load(f)
+
+if hparams["architectures"][0] != "GPTBigCodeForCausalLM":
+    print("Model architecture not supported: " + hparams["architectures"][0])
+
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# get number of model parts
+num_parts = count_model_parts(dir_model)
+
+ARCH=gguf.MODEL_ARCH.STARCODER
+gguf_writer = gguf.GGUFWriter(fname_out, gguf.MODEL_ARCH_NAMES[ARCH])
+
+print("gguf: get model metadata")
+
+block_count = hparams["n_layer"]
+
+gguf_writer.add_name("StarCoder")
+gguf_writer.add_context_length(2048) # not in config.json
+gguf_writer.add_tensor_data_layout("jploski") # qkv tensor transform
+gguf_writer.add_embedding_length(hparams["n_embd"])
+gguf_writer.add_feed_forward_length(4 * hparams["n_embd"])
+gguf_writer.add_block_count(block_count)
+gguf_writer.add_head_count(hparams["n_head"])
+if "n_head_kv" in hparams:
+    gguf_writer.add_head_count_kv(hparams["n_head_kv"])
+else:
+    gguf_writer.add_head_count_kv(1)
+gguf_writer.add_layer_norm_eps(hparams["layer_norm_epsilon"])
+gguf_writer.add_file_type(ftype)
+
+# TOKENIZATION
+
+print("gguf: get tokenizer metadata")
+
+tokens: list[bytearray] = []
+scores: list[float] = []
+toktypes: list[int] = []
+
+tokenizer_json_file = dir_model / 'tokenizer.json'
+if not tokenizer_json_file.is_file():
+    print(f'Error: Missing {tokenizer_json_file}', file = sys.stderr)
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# gpt2 tokenizer
+gguf_writer.add_tokenizer_model("gpt2")
+
+with open(tokenizer_json_file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+    tokenizer_json = json.load(f)
+
+print("gguf: get gpt2 tokenizer vocab")
+
+# The number of tokens in tokenizer.json can differ from the expected vocab size.
+# This causes downstream issues with mismatched tensor sizes when running the inference
+vocab_size = hparams["vocab_size"] if "vocab_size" in hparams else len(tokenizer_json["model"]["vocab"])
+
+# ref: https://github.com/cmp-nct/ggllm.cpp/blob/master/falcon_convert.py
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(dir_model)
+
+reverse_vocab = {id: encoded_tok for encoded_tok, id in tokenizer.vocab.items()}
+byte_encoder = bytes_to_unicode()
+byte_decoder = {v: k for k, v in byte_encoder.items()}
+
+for i in range(vocab_size):
+    if i in reverse_vocab:
+        try:
+            text = bytearray([byte_decoder[c] for c in reverse_vocab[i]])
+        except KeyError:
+            text = bytearray()
+            for c in reverse_vocab[i]:
+                if ord(c) < 256:  # single byte character
+                    text.append(byte_decoder[ord(c)])
+                else:  # multibyte special token character
+                    text.extend(c.encode('utf-8'))
+    else:
+        print(f"Key {i} not in tokenizer vocabulary. Padding with an arbitrary token.")
+        pad_token = f"[PAD{i}]".encode("utf8")
+        text = bytearray(pad_token)
+
+    tokens.append(text)
+    scores.append(0.0)                      # dymmy
+    toktypes.append(gguf.TokenType.NORMAL)  # dummy
+
+gguf_writer.add_token_list(tokens)
+gguf_writer.add_token_scores(scores)
+gguf_writer.add_token_types(toktypes)
+
+special_vocab = gguf.SpecialVocab(dir_model, load_merges = True)
+special_vocab.add_to_gguf(gguf_writer)
+
+# TENSORS
+
+tensor_map = gguf.get_tensor_name_map(ARCH,block_count)
+
+# params for qkv transform
+n_head    = hparams["n_head"]
+n_head_kv = hparams["n_head_kv"] if "n_head_kv" in hparams else 1
+
+head_dim = hparams["n_embd"] // n_head
+
+# tensor info
+print("gguf: get tensor metadata")
+
+if num_parts == 0:
+    part_names = iter(("pytorch_model.bin",))
+else:
+    part_names = (
+        f"pytorch_model-{n:05}-of-{num_parts:05}.bin" for n in range(1, num_parts + 1)
+    )
+
+for part_name in part_names:
+    if args.vocab_only:
+        break
+    print("gguf: loading model part '" + part_name + "'")
+    model_part = torch.load(dir_model / part_name, map_location="cpu")
+
+    for name in model_part.keys():
+        data = model_part[name]
+
+        old_dtype = data.dtype
+
+        # convert any unsupported data types to float32
+        if data.dtype != torch.float16 and data.dtype != torch.float32:
+            data = data.to(torch.float32)
+
+        data = data.squeeze().numpy()
+
+        # map tensor names
+        new_name = tensor_map.get_name(name, try_suffixes = (".weight", ".bias"))
+        if new_name is None:
+            print("Can not map tensor '" + name + "'")
+            sys.exit()
+
+        n_dims = len(data.shape)
+        data_dtype = data.dtype
+
+        # if f32 desired, convert any float16 to float32
+        if ftype == 0 and data_dtype == np.float16:
+            data = data.astype(np.float32)
+
+        # TODO: Why cant we use these float16 as-is? There should be not reason to store float16 as float32
+        if ftype == 1 and data_dtype == np.float16 and n_dims == 1:
+            data = data.astype(np.float32)
+
+        # if f16 desired, convert any float32 2-dim weight tensors to float16
+        if ftype == 1 and data_dtype == np.float32 and name.endswith(".weight") and n_dims == 2:
+            data = data.astype(np.float16)
+
+        print(name, "=>", new_name + ", n_dims = " + str(n_dims) + ", " + str(old_dtype) + " --> " + str(data.dtype))
+
+        gguf_writer.add_tensor(new_name, data)
+
+
+print("gguf: write header")
+gguf_writer.write_header_to_file()
+print("gguf: write metadata")
+gguf_writer.write_kv_data_to_file()
+if not args.vocab_only:
+    print("gguf: write tensors")
+    gguf_writer.write_tensors_to_file()
+
+gguf_writer.close()
+
+print(f"gguf: model successfully exported to '{fname_out}'")
+print("")
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf.py b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf.py
index 97792943c..ba9bcf04d 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf.py
@@ -174,6 +174,16 @@ MODEL_TENSOR_NAMES: dict[MODEL_ARCH, dict[MODEL_TENSOR, str]] = {
         MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP:        "blk.{bid}.ffn_up",
     },
     MODEL_ARCH.STARCODER: {
+        MODEL_TENSOR.TOKEN_EMBD:    "token_embd",
+        MODEL_TENSOR.POS_EMBD:      "position_embd",
+        MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT_NORM:   "output_norm",
+        MODEL_TENSOR.OUTPUT:        "output",
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_NORM:     "blk.{bid}.attn_norm",
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_QKV:      "blk.{bid}.attn_qkv",
+        MODEL_TENSOR.ATTN_OUT:      "blk.{bid}.attn_output",
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_NORM:      "blk.{bid}.ffn_norm",
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_UP:        "blk.{bid}.ffn_up",
+        MODEL_TENSOR.FFN_DOWN:      "blk.{bid}.ffn_up",
     },
     MODEL_ARCH.GPT2: {
         # TODO