diff --git a/src/transformers/modeling_utils.py b/src/transformers/modeling_utils.py
index 4d59635c90e97b..b37f968ae92625 100755
--- a/src/transformers/modeling_utils.py
+++ b/src/transformers/modeling_utils.py
@@ -2832,7 +2832,7 @@ def from_pretrained(
         revision: str = "main",
         use_safetensors: bool = None,
         **kwargs,
-    ):
+    ) -> "PreTrainedModel":
         r"""
         Instantiate a pretrained pytorch model from a pre-trained model configuration.