# OSError: Can't load tokenizer for 'facebook/xmod-base'

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If you were trying to load it from ‘https: / / [huggingface.co](http://huggingface.co) / models’, make sure you don’t have a local directory with the same name. Otherwise, make sure ‘facebook / xmod-base’ is the correct path to a directory containing all relevant files for a XLMRobertaTokenizerFast / BertTokenizerFast / GPT2TokenizerFast / BertJapaneseTokenizer / BloomTokenizerFast / CodeGenTokenizerFast tokenizer

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If you are getting the error while initializing the tokenizer, do this instead:

```auto
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("xlm-roberta-base")

```

As per documentation, the model model reuses the tokenizer of [XLM-R](https://huggingface.co/xlm-roberta-base)