diff --git a/presto/presto.py b/presto/presto.py
index 1edbc7c..6821455 100644
--- a/presto/presto.py
+++ b/presto/presto.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import math
 from copy import deepcopy
 from typing import Optional, Sized, Tuple, Union, cast
+from pathlib import Path
 
 import numpy as np
 import torch
@@ -785,7 +786,7 @@ def construct_finetuning_model(
         return model
 
     @classmethod
-    def load_pretrained(cls):
+    def load_pretrained(cls, modelpath: Union[str, Path] = default_model_path):
         model = cls.construct()
-        model.load_state_dict(torch.load(default_model_path, map_location=device))
+        model.load_state_dict(torch.load(modelpath, map_location=device))
         return model