diff --git a/examples/llama/load_weights.py b/examples/llama/load_weights.py
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+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates
+
+import json
+import torch
+
+from typing import Callable, Dict, Optional
+
+
+def load_weights(
+    stage_module: torch.nn.Module,
+    weight_index_file: Optional[str] = "pytorch_model.bin.index.json",
+):
+    """
+    Load weights from Hugging Face checkpoints into a stage module.
+
+    This is a utility for Hugging Face ModelHub checkpoints that comes with an
+    index file and multiple binary files.  The index file indicates which
+    parameter is saved in which binary. An example can be found at:
+    https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf/tree/main
+
+    Please download the following files in the same directory as this script:
+    - pytorch_model.bin.index.json
+    - pytorch_model-00001-of-00002.bin
+    - pytorch_model-00002-of-00002.bin
+    """
+
+    state_dict = stage_module.state_dict()
+    updated_states = dict()
+
+    # Get the weight map -- a map from parameter name to file it is saved in
+    f = open(weight_index_file)
+    js = json.load(f)
+    weight_map = js["weight_map"]
+
+    # Figure the set of binary files we'd need to open in order to fill the
+    # state dict of the stage module. It will be a subset of all the binary
+    # files because the stage module is a partition of the full model.
+    needed_files = set()
+    for param in state_dict.keys():
+        # The file a param is saved in
+        file = weight_map.setdefault(param, None)
+        if file:
+            needed_files.add(file)
+
+    # Now we load the needed binary files
+    for file in needed_files:
+        checkpoint = torch.load(file, weights_only=True)
+        for param in state_dict.keys():
+            file_having_param = weight_map[param]
+            if file_having_param is None:
+                print(f"Cannot find checkpoint file for {param}, skipping")
+            elif file_having_param == file:
+                state_dict[param] = checkpoint[param]
+                updated_states.setdefault(param, None)
+
+    # Check if the module's state dict will be fully updated from checkpoint
+    if state_dict.keys() == updated_states.keys():
+        print("Fully updated state dict")
+    else:
+        print("Partially updated state dict")
+
+    # Now load the weights into the stage module
+    # We use `assign=True` because otherwise the properties of the tensors in
+    # the current module are preserved.
+    stage_module.load_state_dict(state_dict, assign=True)
+
+
+def init_buffers(
+    stage_module: torch.nn.Module,
+    init_callbacks: Dict[str, Callable],
+    device: torch.device,
+    dtype: Optional[torch.dtype] = None,
+):
+    """
+    Initialize buffers of `stage_module` per the callback in `init_callbacks`.
+    `init_callbacks` is a dictionary from a buffer's FQN to its init function.
+    """
+    for name, buf in stage_module.named_buffers():
+        if name in init_callbacks:
+            cb = init_callbacks[name]
+            buf_val = cb(device)
+            if dtype:
+                buf_val = buf_val.to(dtype)
+            # Find the parent module
+            splits = name.split(".")
+            mod = stage_module
+            for atom in splits[: -1]:
+                mod = getattr(mod, atom)
+            mod.register_buffer(
+                splits[-1], buf_val, persistent=False,
+            )
+            print(f"Initialized buffer {name}, {buf_val.dtype}, {buf_val.device}")
+
diff --git a/examples/llama/meta_init.py b/examples/llama/meta_init.py
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+# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates
+
+"""
+This script shows how to create llama model in "meta" device mode, partition it
+into pipeline stages, and materialize each stage modules from Hugging Face
+checkpoints.
+
+Before running the script, please download the following files in the same
+directory as this script:
+- pytorch_model.bin.index.json
+- pytorch_model-00001-of-00002.bin
+- pytorch_model-00002-of-00002.bin
+
+Download link:
+https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf/tree/main
+
+How to run this script:
+$ python meta_init.py
+
+I haven't used a distributed runtime, because I only want to showcase how to
+load each stage module. Feel free to modify the script to run in a distributed
+way by distributing the for loop at [Note 3].
+"""
+
+import os
+import torch
+from torch.distributed.pipelining import pipeline, SplitPoint
+from torch._subclasses.fake_tensor import FakeTensorMode
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+
+from load_weights import load_weights, init_buffers
+
+# Grab the model in meta/fake mode
+fake_mode = FakeTensorMode(allow_non_fake_inputs=True)
+
+with torch.device("meta"):
+    llama = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+        "meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf"
+    )
+
+llama.eval()
+print(llama)
+
+# Cast the model to FakeTensor with real device (from meta device) because
+# there is autocast code in llama.  Autocast functions based on device of
+# tensor. So we'd need to give it a real device instead of meta device.
+with fake_mode:
+    # [Note 1]: set device to "cuda" if you are using GPUs
+    llama.to_empty(device="cpu")
+
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf")
+tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token
+prompts = (
+    "How do you", "I like to",
+)
+
+inputs = tokenizer(prompts, return_tensors="pt", padding=True)
+real_ids = inputs["input_ids"]
+# The example input needs to FakeTensor too
+fake_ids = fake_mode.from_tensor(real_ids)
+
+# Beginning of distributed
+# [Note 2]: change world size here
+world_size = 2
+print(f"{world_size=}")
+
+# Cut model by equal number of layers per rank
+layers_per_rank = llama.config.num_hidden_layers // world_size
+print(f"layers_per_rank = {layers_per_rank}")
+split_spec = {
+    f"model.layers.{i * layers_per_rank}": SplitPoint.BEGINNING
+    for i in range(1, world_size)
+}
+
+# Convert model into a pipeline
+pipe = pipeline(
+    llama,
+    mb_args=(fake_ids,),
+    mb_kwargs={"output_attentions": False, "output_hidden_states": False, "use_cache": False,},
+    split_spec=split_spec,
+)
+
+# Materialize each stage
+# [Note 3]: remove this for loop if you are running this script in a
+# distributed manner
+for rank in range(world_size):
+    stage_module = pipe.get_stage_module(rank)
+    print(f"Loading weights into stage {rank}")
+    load_weights(stage_module)
+    if hasattr(llama, "buf_init_callbacks"):
+        init_buffers(stage_module, llama.buf_init_callbacks, "cpu", torch.float16)
+    stage_module.print_readable()
+