diff --git a/pytorch_transformers/modeling_transfo_xl.py b/pytorch_transformers/modeling_transfo_xl.py
index 3cfdee38cbe..c4ca0be8789 100644
--- a/pytorch_transformers/modeling_transfo_xl.py
+++ b/pytorch_transformers/modeling_transfo_xl.py
@@ -1142,10 +1142,10 @@ class TransfoXLModel(TransfoXLPreTrainedModel):
             else:
                 mask_shift_len = qlen
             dec_attn_mask = (torch.triu(all_ones, 1+mlen)
-                    + torch.tril(all_ones, -mask_shift_len)).byte()[:, :, None] # -1
+                    + torch.tril(all_ones, -mask_shift_len)).bool()[:, :, None] # -1
         else:
             dec_attn_mask = torch.triu(
-                word_emb.new_ones(qlen, klen), diagonal=1+mlen).byte()[:,:,None]
+                word_emb.new_ones(qlen, klen), diagonal=1+mlen).bool()[:,:,None]
 
         hids = []
         attentions = []