# Load original T5 checkpoints **URL:** \ **Category:** Beginners\ **Created:** [February 17, 2021, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/load-original-t5-checkpoints/3680 "2021-02-17T09:30:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![marton-avrios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@marton-avrios](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/marton-avrios)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 9:30am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/load-original-t5-checkpoints/3680/1 "2021-02-17T09:30:11Z")
I want to load one of the original T5 checkpoints. How can I do that? I found an answer referring to a `convert_t5_original_tf_checkpoint_to_pytorch.py` which does not seem to exist. ---
**Author:** ![marton-avrios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@marton-avrios](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/marton-avrios)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 10:03am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/load-original-t5-checkpoints/3680/2 "2021-02-17T10:03:19Z")
…they are moved to `transformers/src/transformers/models/t5`. But it requires a `config.json` which is not part of the original files (in `gs://t5-data/pretrained_models/small`). ---
**Author:** ![marton-avrios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@marton-avrios](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/marton-avrios)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 10:31am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/load-original-t5-checkpoints/3680/3 "2021-02-17T10:31:47Z")
…and the solution: here you can find all related files (most importantly `config.json` but also already converted model files, model card, etc.): [t5-small · Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/t5-small). And an example workflow: ```auto mkdir t5 gsutil -m cp -r gs://t5-data/pretrained_models/small t5 python ~/transformers/src/transformers/models/t5/convert_t5_original_tf_checkpoint_to_pytorch.py --tf_checkpoint_path t5/small/model.ckpt-1000000 --pytorch_dump_path t5-small-pt --config_file t5/small_config.json ```