lazy-guy12/chess-llama · Conversion to GGUF?

Greetings! I thought it might be a good exercise to try to convert this to GGUF so I could load it into LM Studio and work on a Chat Template, but my llm-foo is pretty weak ...

Trying:

 python convert_hf_to_gguf.py ../chess-llama/ --outfile ../chess-llama/chess-llama.gguf --outtype f32

And getting the BPE pre-tokenizer error:

WARNING:hf-to-gguf:**************************************************************************************
WARNING:hf-to-gguf:** WARNING: The BPE pre-tokenizer was not recognized!
WARNING:hf-to-gguf:**          There are 2 possible reasons for this:
WARNING:hf-to-gguf:**          - the model has not been added to convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py yet
WARNING:hf-to-gguf:**          - the pre-tokenization config has changed upstream
WARNING:hf-to-gguf:**          Check your model files and convert_hf_to_gguf_update.py and update them accordingly.
WARNING:hf-to-gguf:** ref:     https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/6920
WARNING:hf-to-gguf:**
WARNING:hf-to-gguf:** chkhsh:  1d31edaec3792849684a17d700a4036411e90feab86f1ad1525b2a414ce9fd19
WARNING:hf-to-gguf:**************************************************************************************

I tried hard-coding llama-bpe and llama4 which allows the model the compile but includes the warning:

WARNING:gguf.vocab:Adding merges requested but no merges found, output may be non-functional.

Which is reflected by LM Studio when trying to load the model:

lmstudio-llama-cpp: failed to load model. Error: error loading model: error loading model vocabulary: cannot find tokenizer merges in model file

Wondering if you had any guidance / direction to offer?