diff --git a/curated_transformers/generation/auto_generator.py b/curated_transformers/generation/auto_generator.py
index d6277015..36e6df3e 100644
--- a/curated_transformers/generation/auto_generator.py
+++ b/curated_transformers/generation/auto_generator.py
@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ class AutoGenerator(AutoModel[GeneratorWrapper]):
     """
 
     @classmethod
-    def download_to_cache(
+    def from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         cls,
         *,
         name: str,
         revision: str = "main",
     ):
         generator_cls = _resolve_generator_class(name)
-        generator_cls.download_to_cache(name=name, revision=revision)
+        generator_cls.from_hf_hub_to_cache(name=name, revision=revision)
 
     @classmethod
     def from_hf_hub(
diff --git a/curated_transformers/generation/default_generator.py b/curated_transformers/generation/default_generator.py
index 299e7da1..16d6c9b6 100644
--- a/curated_transformers/generation/default_generator.py
+++ b/curated_transformers/generation/default_generator.py
@@ -59,14 +59,14 @@ def __init__(
         )
 
     @classmethod
-    def download_to_cache(
+    def from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         cls: Type[Self],
         *,
         name: str,
         revision: str = "main",
     ):
-        AutoTokenizer.download_to_cache(name=name, revision=revision)
-        AutoCausalLM.download_to_cache(name=name, revision=revision)
+        AutoTokenizer.from_hf_hub_to_cache(name=name, revision=revision)
+        AutoCausalLM.from_hf_hub_to_cache(name=name, revision=revision)
 
     @classmethod
     def from_hf_hub(
diff --git a/curated_transformers/generation/hf_hub.py b/curated_transformers/generation/hf_hub.py
index ba6f3be1..dbb7b363 100644
--- a/curated_transformers/generation/hf_hub.py
+++ b/curated_transformers/generation/hf_hub.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class FromHFHub(ABC):
 
     @classmethod
     @abstractmethod
-    def download_to_cache(
+    def from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         cls: Type[Self],
         *,
         name: str,
diff --git a/curated_transformers/models/auto_model.py b/curated_transformers/models/auto_model.py
index d6e7530e..4ba24234 100644
--- a/curated_transformers/models/auto_model.py
+++ b/curated_transformers/models/auto_model.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ def from_hf_hub(
         raise NotImplementedError
 
     @classmethod
-    def download_to_cache(
+    def from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         cls,
         *,
         name: str,
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ def download_to_cache(
             Model revision.
         """
         module_cls = cls._resolve_model_cls(name, revision)
-        module_cls.download_to_cache(name=name, revision=revision)
+        module_cls.from_hf_hub_to_cache(name=name, revision=revision)
 
 
 class AutoEncoder(AutoModel[EncoderModule]):
diff --git a/curated_transformers/models/hf_hub.py b/curated_transformers/models/hf_hub.py
index 9413b802..b632db78 100644
--- a/curated_transformers/models/hf_hub.py
+++ b/curated_transformers/models/hf_hub.py
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ def from_hf_config(
         raise NotImplementedError
 
     @classmethod
-    def download_to_cache(
+    def from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         cls: Type[Self],
         *,
         name: str,
diff --git a/curated_transformers/tests/models/test_hf_hub.py b/curated_transformers/tests/models/test_hf_hub.py
index 29519761..b5633d93 100644
--- a/curated_transformers/tests/models/test_hf_hub.py
+++ b/curated_transformers/tests/models/test_hf_hub.py
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ def test_sharded_model_checkpoints(torch_device):
     )
 
 
-def test_download_to_cache():
-    BERTEncoder.download_to_cache(
+def test_from_hf_hub_to_cache():
+    BERTEncoder.from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         name="explosion-testing/bert-test-caching",
         revision="96a29a07d0fa4c24fd2675521add643e3c2581fc",
     )
diff --git a/curated_transformers/tests/tokenizers/test_hf_hub.py b/curated_transformers/tests/tokenizers/test_hf_hub.py
index d36fbdb2..e1fcf8c1 100644
--- a/curated_transformers/tests/tokenizers/test_hf_hub.py
+++ b/curated_transformers/tests/tokenizers/test_hf_hub.py
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 from curated_transformers.tokenizers.legacy import BERTTokenizer
 
 
-def test_download_to_cache():
-    Tokenizer.download_to_cache(
+def test_from_hf_hub_to_cache():
+    Tokenizer.from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         name="EleutherAI/gpt-neox-20b",
         revision="9369f145ca7b66ef62760f9351af951b2d53b77f",
     )
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ def test_download_to_cache():
         )
 
 
-def test_download_to_cache_legacy():
-    BERTTokenizer.download_to_cache(
+def test_from_hf_hub_to_cache_legacy():
+    BERTTokenizer.from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         name="bert-base-uncased",
         revision="1dbc166cf8765166998eff31ade2eb64c8a40076",
     )
diff --git a/curated_transformers/tokenizers/auto_tokenizer.py b/curated_transformers/tokenizers/auto_tokenizer.py
index 81a6cc90..e4496055 100644
--- a/curated_transformers/tokenizers/auto_tokenizer.py
+++ b/curated_transformers/tokenizers/auto_tokenizer.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class AutoTokenizer:
     #       requires that the return type is Self.
 
     @classmethod
-    def download_to_cache(
+    def from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         cls,
         *,
         name: str,
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ def download_to_cache(
             Model revision.
         """
         tokenizer_cls = _resolve_tokenizer_class(name, revision)
-        tokenizer_cls.download_to_cache(name=name, revision=revision)
+        tokenizer_cls.from_hf_hub_to_cache(name=name, revision=revision)
 
     @classmethod
     def from_hf_hub(cls, *, name: str, revision: str = "main") -> TokenizerBase:
diff --git a/curated_transformers/tokenizers/hf_hub.py b/curated_transformers/tokenizers/hf_hub.py
index 3547d8d9..a628062b 100644
--- a/curated_transformers/tokenizers/hf_hub.py
+++ b/curated_transformers/tokenizers/hf_hub.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class FromHFHub(ABC):
 
     @classmethod
     @abstractmethod
-    def download_to_cache(
+    def from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         cls: Type[SelfFromHFHub],
         *,
         name: str,
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ def _load_from_vocab_files(
         raise NotImplementedError
 
     @classmethod
-    def download_to_cache(
+    def from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         cls: Type[SelfLegacyFromHFHub],
         *,
         name: str,
diff --git a/curated_transformers/tokenizers/tokenizer.py b/curated_transformers/tokenizers/tokenizer.py
index 064599f2..85dc6395 100644
--- a/curated_transformers/tokenizers/tokenizer.py
+++ b/curated_transformers/tokenizers/tokenizer.py
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ def from_dir(cls: Type[Self], path: Path) -> Self:
         )
 
     @classmethod
-    def download_to_cache(
+    def from_hf_hub_to_cache(
         cls: Type[Self],
         *,
         name: str,