diff --git a/convert-hf-to-gguf.py b/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
index 1b060e4e6eef0..98b50d15017d0 100755
--- a/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
+++ b/convert-hf-to-gguf.py
@@ -1317,6 +1317,17 @@ def set_gguf_parameters(self):
                 self.gguf_writer.add_rope_scaling_type(gguf.RopeScalingType.LINEAR)
                 self.gguf_writer.add_rope_scaling_factor(self.hparams["rope_scaling"]["factor"])
 
+        tokenizer_config_file = self.dir_model / 'tokenizer_config.json'
+        if tokenizer_config_file.is_file():
+            with open(tokenizer_config_file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                tokenizer_config_json = json.load(f)
+                if "add_prefix_space" in tokenizer_config_json:
+                    self.gguf_writer.add_add_space_prefix(tokenizer_config_json["add_prefix_space"])
+
+        # Apply to granite small models only
+        if self.hparams.get("vocab_size", 32000) == 49152:
+            self.gguf_writer.add_add_bos_token(False)
+
     @staticmethod
     def permute(weights: Tensor, n_head: int, n_head_kv: int | None):
         if n_head_kv is not None and n_head != n_head_kv:
@@ -1331,9 +1342,9 @@ def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iter
         n_head = self.hparams["num_attention_heads"]
         n_kv_head = self.hparams.get("num_key_value_heads")
 
-        if name.endswith("q_proj.weight"):
+        if name.endswith(("q_proj.weight", "q_proj.bias")):
             data_torch = LlamaModel.permute(data_torch, n_head, n_head)
-        if name.endswith("k_proj.weight"):
+        if name.endswith(("k_proj.weight", "k_proj.bias")):
             data_torch = LlamaModel.permute(data_torch, n_head, n_kv_head)
 
         # process the experts separately
diff --git a/llama.cpp b/llama.cpp
index 10c9e47dd62ef..468a7cb25fa50 100644
--- a/llama.cpp
+++ b/llama.cpp
@@ -2028,8 +2028,9 @@ struct llama_layer {
     struct ggml_tensor * ffn_up_shexp;
 
     // ff bias
-    struct ggml_tensor * ffn_down_b; // b2
-    struct ggml_tensor * ffn_up_b;   // b3
+    struct ggml_tensor * ffn_gate_b = nullptr;
+    struct ggml_tensor * ffn_down_b = nullptr; // b2
+    struct ggml_tensor * ffn_up_b   = nullptr; // b3
     struct ggml_tensor * ffn_act;
 
     // mamba proj
@@ -4058,7 +4059,9 @@ static void llm_load_hparams(
                     switch (hparams.n_layer) {
                         case 22: model.type = e_model::MODEL_1B; break;
                         case 26: model.type = e_model::MODEL_3B; break;
-                        case 32: model.type = hparams.n_vocab < 40000 ? e_model::MODEL_7B : e_model::MODEL_8B; break;
+                        // granite uses a vocab with len 49152
+                        case 32: model.type = hparams.n_vocab == 49152 ? e_model::MODEL_3B : (hparams.n_vocab < 40000 ? e_model::MODEL_7B : e_model::MODEL_8B); break;
+                        case 36: model.type = e_model::MODEL_8B; break; // granite
                         case 40: model.type = e_model::MODEL_13B; break;
                         case 48: model.type = e_model::MODEL_34B; break;
                         case 60: model.type = e_model::MODEL_30B; break;
@@ -4328,6 +4331,8 @@ static void llm_load_hparams(
                     case 30: model.type = e_model::MODEL_3B; break;
                     case 32: model.type = e_model::MODEL_7B; break;
                     case 40: model.type = e_model::MODEL_15B; break;
+                    case 52: model.type = e_model::MODEL_20B; break; // granite
+                    case 88: model.type = e_model::MODEL_34B; break; // granite
                     default: model.type = e_model::MODEL_UNKNOWN;
                 }
             } break;
@@ -4590,6 +4595,11 @@ static void llm_load_vocab(
         } else {
             if (tokenizer_model == "gpt2") {
                 vocab.type = LLAMA_VOCAB_TYPE_BPE;
+
+                const int add_space_prefix_keyidx = gguf_find_key(ctx, kv(LLM_KV_TOKENIZER_ADD_PREFIX).c_str());
+                if (add_space_prefix_keyidx != -1) {
+                    vocab.add_space_prefix = gguf_get_val_bool(ctx, add_space_prefix_keyidx);
+                }
             } else {
                 LLAMA_LOG_WARN("%s: unknown tokenizer: '%s'", __func__, tokenizer_model.c_str());
                 LLAMA_LOG_WARN("%s: using default tokenizer: 'llama'", __func__);
@@ -5211,6 +5221,11 @@ static bool llm_load_tensors(
                             layer.ffn_gate = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE, "weight", i), {n_embd,   n_ff});
                             layer.ffn_down = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN, "weight", i), {  n_ff, n_embd});
                             layer.ffn_up   = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP,   "weight", i), {n_embd,   n_ff});
+
+                            // optional MLP bias
+                            layer.ffn_gate_b = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE, "bias", i), {n_ff}, llama_model_loader::TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED);
+                            layer.ffn_down_b = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_DOWN, "bias", i), {n_embd}, llama_model_loader::TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED);
+                            layer.ffn_up_b   = ml.create_tensor(ctx_split, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_UP,   "bias", i), {n_ff}, llama_model_loader::TENSOR_NOT_REQUIRED);
                         } else {
                             layer.ffn_gate_inp = ml.create_tensor(ctx_layer, tn(LLM_TENSOR_FFN_GATE_INP, "weight", i), {n_embd, n_expert});
 
@@ -7483,9 +7498,9 @@ struct llm_build_context {
                 cb(cur, "ffn_norm", il);
 
                 cur = llm_build_ffn(ctx0, cur,
-                        model.layers[il].ffn_up,   NULL,
-                        model.layers[il].ffn_gate, NULL,
-                        model.layers[il].ffn_down, NULL,
+                        model.layers[il].ffn_up,   model.layers[il].ffn_up_b,
+                        model.layers[il].ffn_gate, model.layers[il].ffn_gate_b,
+                        model.layers[il].ffn_down, model.layers[il].ffn_down_b,
                         NULL,
                         LLM_FFN_SILU, LLM_FFN_PAR, cb, il);
                 cb(cur, "ffn_out", il);