diff --git a/examples/flax/language-modeling/run_mlm_flax.py b/examples/flax/language-modeling/run_mlm_flax.py
index 1ae9f05230c..34fb9480004 100755
--- a/examples/flax/language-modeling/run_mlm_flax.py
+++ b/examples/flax/language-modeling/run_mlm_flax.py
@@ -478,7 +478,14 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     rng = jax.random.PRNGKey(training_args.seed)
     dropout_rngs = jax.random.split(rng, jax.local_device_count())
 
-    model = FlaxAutoModelForMaskedLM.from_config(config, seed=training_args.seed, dtype=getattr(jnp, model_args.dtype))
+    if model_args.model_name_or_path:
+        model = FlaxAutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained(
+            model_args.model_name_or_path, config=config, seed=training_args.seed, dtype=getattr(jnp, model_args.dtype)
+        )
+    else:
+        model = FlaxAutoModelForMaskedLM.from_config(
+            config, seed=training_args.seed, dtype=getattr(jnp, model_args.dtype)
+        )
 
     # Store some constant
     num_epochs = int(training_args.num_train_epochs)
diff --git a/examples/flax/language-modeling/run_t5_mlm_flax.py b/examples/flax/language-modeling/run_t5_mlm_flax.py
index 09d6753a48a..c8b6fa3da69 100755
--- a/examples/flax/language-modeling/run_t5_mlm_flax.py
+++ b/examples/flax/language-modeling/run_t5_mlm_flax.py
@@ -588,7 +588,12 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     rng = jax.random.PRNGKey(training_args.seed)
     dropout_rngs = jax.random.split(rng, jax.local_device_count())
 
-    model = FlaxT5ForConditionalGeneration(config, seed=training_args.seed, dtype=getattr(jnp, model_args.dtype))
+    if model_args.model_name_or_path:
+        model = FlaxT5ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(
+            model_args.model_name_or_path, config=config, seed=training_args.seed, dtype=getattr(jnp, model_args.dtype)
+        )
+    else:
+        model = FlaxT5ForConditionalGeneration(config, seed=training_args.seed, dtype=getattr(jnp, model_args.dtype))
 
     # Data collator
     # This one will take care of randomly masking the tokens.
diff --git a/examples/research_projects/jax-projects/dataset-streaming/run_mlm_flax_stream.py b/examples/research_projects/jax-projects/dataset-streaming/run_mlm_flax_stream.py
index 48de9380df3..1e2c29947ee 100755
--- a/examples/research_projects/jax-projects/dataset-streaming/run_mlm_flax_stream.py
+++ b/examples/research_projects/jax-projects/dataset-streaming/run_mlm_flax_stream.py
@@ -427,7 +427,14 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     rng = jax.random.PRNGKey(training_args.seed)
     dropout_rngs = jax.random.split(rng, jax.local_device_count())
 
-    model = FlaxAutoModelForMaskedLM.from_config(config, seed=training_args.seed, dtype=getattr(jnp, model_args.dtype))
+    if model_args.model_name_or_path:
+        model = FlaxAutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained(
+            model_args.model_name_or_path, config=config, seed=training_args.seed, dtype=getattr(jnp, model_args.dtype)
+        )
+    else:
+        model = FlaxAutoModelForMaskedLM.from_config(
+            config, seed=training_args.seed, dtype=getattr(jnp, model_args.dtype)
+        )
 
     # Store some constant
     num_epochs = int(training_args.num_train_epochs)