diff --git a/maas_lib/trainers/nlp/sequence_classification_trainer.py b/maas_lib/trainers/nlp/sequence_classification_trainer.py
index e88eb95e..f2264c0d 100644
--- a/maas_lib/trainers/nlp/sequence_classification_trainer.py
+++ b/maas_lib/trainers/nlp/sequence_classification_trainer.py
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ class SequenceClassificationTrainer(BaseTrainer):
             collate_fn=pre_dataset.batch_fn)
 
         # generate a model
-        model = SequenceClassification(checkpoint_path)
+        model = SequenceClassification.from_pretrained(checkpoint_path)
 
         # copy from easynlp (start)
         model.eval()