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+# simple script to convert a fairseq checkpoint into pytorch parameter state dict
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+from collections import OrderedDict
+
+import torch
+
+parser = ArgumentParser()
+parser.add_argument("--src")
+parser.add_argument("--tgt")
+
+args = parser.parse_args()
+src = args.src
+tgt = args.tgt
+
+old_checkpoint = torch.load(src)
+new_checkpoint = OrderedDict()
+new_checkpoint["model"] = old_checkpoint["model"]
+torch.save(new_checkpoint, tgt)