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 NOTE: Many existing checkpoints use the QuickGELU activation from the original OpenAI models. This activation is actually less efficient than native torch.nn.GELU in recent versions of PyTorch. The model defaults are now nn.GELU, so one should use model definitions with `-quickgelu` postfix for the OpenCLIP pretrained weights. All OpenAI pretrained weights will always default to QuickGELU. One can also use the non `-quickgelu` model definitions with pretrained weights using QuickGELU but there will be an accuracy drop, for fine-tune that will likely vanish for longer runs.
 Future trained models will use nn.GELU.
 
+### Loading models
+
+Models can be loaded with `open_clip.create_model_and_transforms`, as shown in the example below. The model name and corresponding `pretrained` keys are compatible with the outputs of `open_clip.list_pretrained()`. 
+
+The `pretrained` argument also accepts local paths, for example `/path/to/my/b32.pt`.
+You can also load checkpoints from huggingface this way. To do so, download the `open_clip_pytorch_model.bin` file (for example, [https://huggingface.co/laion/CLIP-ViT-L-14-DataComp.XL-s13B-b90K/tree/main](https://huggingface.co/laion/CLIP-ViT-L-14-DataComp.XL-s13B-b90K/blob/main/open_clip_pytorch_model.bin)), and use `pretrained=/path/to/open_clip_pytorch_model.bin`.
+
+```python
+# pretrained also accepts local paths
+model, _, preprocess = open_clip.create_model_and_transforms('ViT-B-32', pretrained='laion2b_s34b_b79k') 
+```
+
 ## Fine-tuning on classification tasks
 
 This repository is focused on training CLIP models. To fine-tune a *trained* zero-shot model on a downstream classification task such as ImageNet, please see [our other repository: WiSE-FT](https://github.com/mlfoundations/wise-ft). The [WiSE-FT repository](https://github.com/mlfoundations/wise-ft) contains code for our paper on [Robust Fine-tuning of Zero-shot Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01903), in which we introduce a technique for fine-tuning zero-shot models while preserving robustness under distribution shift.