diff --git a/examples/models/llama/export_llama_lib.py b/examples/models/llama/export_llama_lib.py
index f21fed657f7..dc7f763fade 100644
--- a/examples/models/llama/export_llama_lib.py
+++ b/examples/models/llama/export_llama_lib.py
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@
 from executorch.devtools.backend_debug import print_delegation_info
 
 from executorch.devtools.etrecord import generate_etrecord
+from executorch.examples.models.llama.hf_download import (
+    download_and_convert_hf_checkpoint,
+)
 from executorch.exir.passes.init_mutable_pass import InitializedMutableBufferPass
 
 from executorch.extension.llm.export.builder import DType, LLMEdgeManager
@@ -99,6 +102,11 @@
     "smollm2",
 ]
 TORCHTUNE_DEFINED_MODELS = ["llama3_2_vision"]
+HUGGING_FACE_REPO_IDS = {
+    "qwen2_5": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B",
+    "phi_4_mini": "microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct",
+    "smollm2": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM-135M",
+}
 
 
 class WeightType(Enum):
@@ -526,6 +534,22 @@ def canonical_path(path: Union[str, Path], *, dir: bool = False) -> str:
 
 
 def export_llama(args) -> str:
+    # If a checkpoint isn't provided for an HF OSS model, download and convert the
+    # weights first.
+    if not args.checkpoint and args.model in HUGGING_FACE_REPO_IDS:
+        repo_id = HUGGING_FACE_REPO_IDS[args.model]
+        if args.model == "qwen2_5":
+            from executorch.examples.models.qwen2_5 import convert_weights
+        elif args.model == "phi_4_mini":
+            from executorch.examples.models.phi_4_mini import convert_weights
+        elif args.model == "smollm2":
+            from executorch.examples.models.smollm2 import convert_weights
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Converting weights to meta format for {args.model} is not yet supported"
+            )
+        args.checkpoint = download_and_convert_hf_checkpoint(repo_id, convert_weights)
+
     if args.profile_path is not None:
         try:
             from executorch.util.python_profiler import CProfilerFlameGraph
diff --git a/examples/models/llama/hf_download.py b/examples/models/llama/hf_download.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b09dc5125d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/models/llama/hf_download.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+# All rights reserved.
+# Copyright 2025 Arm Limited and/or its affiliates.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Callable
+
+from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
+
+
+def download_and_convert_hf_checkpoint(
+    repo_id: str, convert_weights: Callable[[str, str], None]
+) -> str:
+    """
+    Downloads and converts to Meta format a HuggingFace checkpoint.
+
+    Args:
+        repo_id: Id of the HuggingFace repo, e.g. "Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B".
+        convert_weights: Weight conversion function taking in path to the downloaded HuggingFace
+            files and the desired output path.
+
+    Returns:
+        The output path of the Meta checkpoint converted from HuggingFace.
+    """
+
+    # Build cache path.
+    cache_subdir = "meta_checkpoints"
+    cache_dir = Path.home() / ".cache" / cache_subdir
+    cache_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+    # Use repo name to name the converted file.
+    model_name = repo_id.replace("/", "_")
+    converted_path = cache_dir / f"{model_name}.pth"
+
+    if converted_path.exists():
+        print(f"✔ Using cached converted model: {converted_path}")
+        return converted_path
+
+    # 1. Download weights from Hugging Face.
+    print("⬇ Downloading and converting checkpoint...")
+    checkpoint_path = snapshot_download(
+        repo_id=repo_id,
+    )
+
+    # 2. Convert weights to Meta format.
+    convert_weights(checkpoint_path, converted_path)
+    return converted_path
diff --git a/examples/models/llama/install_requirements.sh b/examples/models/llama/install_requirements.sh
index cca6ede1d79..b9e0f9210c5 100755
--- a/examples/models/llama/install_requirements.sh
+++ b/examples/models/llama/install_requirements.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # Install tokenizers for hf .json tokenizer.
 # Install snakeviz for cProfile flamegraph
 # Install lm-eval for Model Evaluation with lm-evalution-harness.
-pip install tiktoken sentencepiece tokenizers snakeviz lm_eval==0.4.5 blobfile
+pip install huggingface_hub tiktoken torchtune sentencepiece tokenizers snakeviz lm_eval==0.4.5 blobfile
 
 # Call the install helper for further setup
 python examples/models/llama/install_requirement_helper.py
diff --git a/examples/models/phi_4_mini/__init__.py b/examples/models/phi_4_mini/__init__.py
index 056f2c26314..eec1086580a 100644
--- a/examples/models/phi_4_mini/__init__.py
+++ b/examples/models/phi_4_mini/__init__.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 from executorch.examples.models.llama.model import Llama2Model
+from executorch.examples.models.phi_4_mini.convert_weights import convert_weights
 
 
 class Phi4MiniModel(Llama2Model):
@@ -11,4 +12,5 @@ def __init__(self, **kwargs):
 
 __all__ = [
     "Phi4MiniModel",
+    "convert_weights",
 ]
diff --git a/examples/models/phi_4_mini/convert_weights.py b/examples/models/phi_4_mini/convert_weights.py
index b75f359d772..18f82957f94 100644
--- a/examples/models/phi_4_mini/convert_weights.py
+++ b/examples/models/phi_4_mini/convert_weights.py
@@ -51,21 +51,10 @@ def phi_4_tune_to_meta(state_dict: Dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> Dict[str, torch.T
     return converted_state_dict
 
 
-def main():
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
-        description="Convert Phi-4-mini weights to Meta format."
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "input_dir",
-        type=str,
-        help="Path to directory containing checkpoint files",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument("output", type=str, help="Path to the output checkpoint")
-
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
+def convert_weights(input_dir: str, output_file: str) -> None:
+    # Don't necessarily need to use TorchTune checkpointer, can just aggregate checkpoint files by ourselves.
     checkpointer = FullModelHFCheckpointer(
-        checkpoint_dir=args.input_dir,
+        checkpoint_dir=input_dir,
         checkpoint_files=[
             "model-00001-of-00002.safetensors",
             "model-00002-of-00002.safetensors",
@@ -76,12 +65,26 @@ def main():
 
     print("Loading checkpoint...")
     sd = checkpointer.load_checkpoint()
-
     print("Converting checkpoint...")
     sd = phi_4_tune_to_meta(sd["model"])
+    print("Saving checkpoint...")
+    torch.save(sd, output_file)
+    print("Done.")
 
-    torch.save(sd, args.output)
-    print(f"Checkpoint saved to {args.output}")
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Convert Phi-4-mini weights to Meta format."
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "input_dir",
+        type=str,
+        help="Path to directory containing checkpoint files",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("output", type=str, help="Path to the output checkpoint")
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    convert_weights(args.input_dir, args.output)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/examples/models/qwen2_5/__init__.py b/examples/models/qwen2_5/__init__.py
index 03fc5aa2b30..ec2af1edd78 100644
--- a/examples/models/qwen2_5/__init__.py
+++ b/examples/models/qwen2_5/__init__.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
 from executorch.examples.models.llama.model import Llama2Model
+from executorch.examples.models.qwen2_5.convert_weights import convert_weights
 
 
 class Qwen2_5Model(Llama2Model):
@@ -11,4 +12,5 @@ def __init__(self, **kwargs):
 
 __all__ = [
     "Qwen2_5Model",
+    "convert_weights",
 ]
diff --git a/examples/models/qwen2_5/convert_weights.py b/examples/models/qwen2_5/convert_weights.py
index 9aada5b3e90..9df1e07a8b8 100644
--- a/examples/models/qwen2_5/convert_weights.py
+++ b/examples/models/qwen2_5/convert_weights.py
@@ -53,22 +53,10 @@ def qwen_2_tune_to_meta(state_dict: Dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> Dict[str, torch.
     return converted_state_dict
 
 
-def main():
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
-        description="Convert Qwen2 weights to Meta format."
-    )
-    parser.add_argument(
-        "input_dir",
-        type=str,
-        help="Path to directory containing checkpoint files",
-    )
-    parser.add_argument("output", type=str, help="Path to the output checkpoint")
-
-    args = parser.parse_args()
-
+def convert_weights(input_dir: str, output_file: str) -> None:
     # Don't necessarily need to use TorchTune checkpointer, can just aggregate checkpoint files by ourselves.
     checkpointer = FullModelHFCheckpointer(
-        checkpoint_dir=args.input_dir,
+        checkpoint_dir=input_dir,
         checkpoint_files=["model.safetensors"],
         output_dir=".",
         model_type="QWEN2",
@@ -76,12 +64,26 @@ def main():
 
     print("Loading checkpoint...")
     sd = checkpointer.load_checkpoint()
-
     print("Converting checkpoint...")
     sd = qwen_2_tune_to_meta(sd["model"])
+    print("Saving checkpoint...")
+    torch.save(sd, output_file)
+    print("Done.")
 
-    torch.save(sd, args.output)
-    print(f"Checkpoint saved to {args.output}")
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Convert Qwen2 weights to Meta format."
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "input_dir",
+        type=str,
+        help="Path to directory containing checkpoint files",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("output", type=str, help="Path to the output checkpoint")
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    convert_weights(args.input_dir, args.output)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/examples/models/smollm2/__init__ b/examples/models/smollm2/__init__.py
similarity index 62%
rename from examples/models/smollm2/__init__
rename to examples/models/smollm2/__init__.py
index 3d01bf9eb42..3f973e2c786 100644
--- a/examples/models/smollm2/__init__
+++ b/examples/models/smollm2/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 # This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
 # LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
-from executorch.example.models.llama.model import Llama2Model
+from executorch.examples.models.llama.model import Llama2Model
+from executorch.examples.models.smollm2.convert_weights import convert_weights
 
 
 class SmolLM2Model(Llama2Model):
@@ -11,4 +12,5 @@ def __init__(self, **kwargs):
 
 __all__ = [
     "SmolLM2Model",
+    "convert_weights",
 ]
diff --git a/examples/models/smollm2/convert_weights.py b/examples/models/smollm2/convert_weights.py
index db80bd47b8c..59b83d3e3a3 100644
--- a/examples/models/smollm2/convert_weights.py
+++ b/examples/models/smollm2/convert_weights.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 _SMOLLM_FROM_META = {
     "tok_embeddings.weight": "tok_embeddings.weight",
     "norm.weight": "norm.scale",
-    "output.weight": "output.weight",
     "layers.{}.attention.wk.weight": "layers.{}.attn.k_proj.weight",
     "layers.{}.attention.wq.weight": "layers.{}.attn.q_proj.weight",
     "layers.{}.attention.wv.weight": "layers.{}.attn.v_proj.weight",
@@ -41,10 +40,31 @@ def smollm_tune_to_meta(state_dict: Dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> Dict[str, torch.
     for key, value in state_dict.items():
         new_key = get_mapped_key(key, inverted_mapping_dict)
         converted_state_dict[new_key] = value
+    converted_state_dict["output.weight"] = converted_state_dict[
+        "tok_embeddings.weight"
+    ]
 
     return converted_state_dict
 
 
+def convert_weights(input_dir: str, output_file: str) -> None:
+    # Don't necessarily need to use TorchTune checkpointer, can just aggregate checkpoint files by ourselves.
+    checkpointer = FullModelHFCheckpointer(
+        checkpoint_dir=input_dir,
+        checkpoint_files=["model.safetensors"],
+        output_dir=".",
+        model_type="LLAMA3",
+    )
+
+    print("Loading checkpoint...")
+    sd = checkpointer.load_checkpoint()
+    print("Converting checkpoint...")
+    sd = smollm_tune_to_meta(sd["model"])
+    print("Saving checkpoint...")
+    torch.save(sd, output_file)
+    print("Done.")
+
+
 def main():
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
         description="Convert SmolLM weights to Meta format."
@@ -57,23 +77,7 @@ def main():
     parser.add_argument("output", type=str, help="Path to the output checkpoint")
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
-
-    # Don't necessarily need to use TorchTune checkpointer, can just aggregate checkpoint files by ourselves.
-    checkpointer = FullModelHFCheckpointer(
-        checkpoint_dir=args.input_dir,
-        checkpoint_files=["model.safetensors"],
-        output_dir=".",
-        model_type="LLAMA",
-    )
-
-    print("Loading checkpoint...")
-    sd = checkpointer.load_checkpoint()
-
-    print("Converting checkpoint...")
-    sd = smollm_tune_to_meta(sd["model"])
-
-    torch.save(sd, args.output)
-    print(f"Checkpoint saved to {args.output}")
+    convert_weights(args.input_dir, args.output)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":