diff --git a/examples/llm_ptq/hf_ptq.py b/examples/llm_ptq/hf_ptq.py
index 25052b61a..4657c0f32 100755
--- a/examples/llm_ptq/hf_ptq.py
+++ b/examples/llm_ptq/hf_ptq.py
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@
 from accelerate.hooks import remove_hook_from_module
 from example_utils import apply_kv_cache_quant, get_model, get_processor, get_tokenizer, is_enc_dec
 from transformers import (
+    AutoConfig,
     AutoModelForCausalLM,
+    AutoProcessor,
     PreTrainedTokenizer,
     PreTrainedTokenizerFast,
     WhisperProcessor,
@@ -39,6 +41,7 @@
     export_tensorrt_llm_checkpoint,
     get_model_type,
 )
+from modelopt.torch.export.model_utils import is_multimodal_model
 from modelopt.torch.quantization.config import need_calibration
 from modelopt.torch.quantization.plugins.accelerate import init_quantized_weights
 from modelopt.torch.quantization.utils import is_quantized
@@ -567,19 +570,26 @@ def output_decode(generated_ids, input_shape):
 
         export_path = args.export_path
 
-        if hasattr(full_model, "language_model"):
-            # Save original model config and the preprocessor config to the export path for VLMs.
-            from transformers import AutoConfig, AutoProcessor
+        # Check if the model is a multimodal/VLM model
+        is_vlm = is_multimodal_model(full_model)
 
-            print(f"Saving original model and processor configs to {export_path}")
+        if is_vlm:
+            # Save original model config and the processor config to the export path for VLMs.
+            print(f"Saving original model config to {export_path}")
 
             AutoConfig.from_pretrained(
                 args.pyt_ckpt_path, trust_remote_code=args.trust_remote_code
             ).save_pretrained(export_path)
 
-            AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
-                args.pyt_ckpt_path, trust_remote_code=args.trust_remote_code
-            ).save_pretrained(export_path)
+            # Try to save processor config if available
+            try:
+                print(f"Saving processor config to {export_path}")
+                AutoProcessor.from_pretrained(
+                    args.pyt_ckpt_path, trust_remote_code=args.trust_remote_code
+                ).save_pretrained(export_path)
+            except Exception as e:
+                print(f"Warning: Could not save processor config: {e}")
+                print("This is normal for some VLM architectures that don't use AutoProcessor")
 
         if model_type == "mllama":
             full_model_config = model.config
diff --git a/modelopt/torch/export/model_utils.py b/modelopt/torch/export/model_utils.py
index 4bd4762e7..5ce630168 100755
--- a/modelopt/torch/export/model_utils.py
+++ b/modelopt/torch/export/model_utils.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
         {MODEL_NAME_TO_TYPE=}
 """
 
-__all__ = ["get_model_type"]
+__all__ = ["get_model_type", "is_multimodal_model"]
 
 
 def get_model_type(model):
@@ -69,3 +69,43 @@ def get_model_type(model):
         if k.lower() in type(model).__name__.lower():
             return v
     return None
+
+
+def is_multimodal_model(model):
+    """Check if a model is a Vision-Language Model (VLM) or multimodal model.
+
+    This function detects various multimodal model architectures by checking for:
+    - Standard vision configurations (vision_config)
+    - Language model attributes (language_model)
+    - Specific multimodal model types (phi4mm)
+    - Vision LoRA configurations
+    - Audio processing capabilities
+    - Image embedding layers
+
+    Args:
+        model: The HuggingFace model instance to check
+
+    Returns:
+        bool: True if the model is detected as multimodal, False otherwise
+
+    Examples:
+        >>> model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct")
+        >>> is_multimodal_model(model)
+        True
+
+        >>> model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("microsoft/Phi-4-multimodal-instruct")
+        >>> is_multimodal_model(model)
+        True
+    """
+    config = model.config
+
+    return (
+        hasattr(config, "vision_config")  # Standard vision config (e.g., Qwen2.5-VL)
+        or hasattr(model, "language_model")  # Language model attribute (e.g., LLaVA)
+        or getattr(config, "model_type", "") == "phi4mm"  # Phi-4 multimodal
+        or hasattr(config, "vision_lora")  # Vision LoRA configurations
+        or hasattr(config, "audio_processor")  # Audio processing capabilities
+        or (
+            hasattr(config, "embd_layer") and hasattr(config.embd_layer, "image_embd_layer")
+        )  # Image embedding layers
+    )