from transformers import AutoModelForMaskedLM, AutoTokenizer

def create_distilbert_mlm():
  """
  Initializes model and tokenizer for distilbert checkpoint.
  """
  checkpoint = "distilbert-base-uncased"
  tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(checkpoint)
  model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained(checkpoint)

  return model, tokenizer