diff --git a/src/transformers/models/seamless_m4t/modeling_seamless_m4t.py b/src/transformers/models/seamless_m4t/modeling_seamless_m4t.py
index 13ebc98ef56d..4d221e3b5469 100755
--- a/src/transformers/models/seamless_m4t/modeling_seamless_m4t.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/seamless_m4t/modeling_seamless_m4t.py
@@ -2006,6 +2006,19 @@ def __init__(
         # Initialize weights and apply final processing
         self.post_init()
 
+    def tie_weights(self, missing_keys: Optional[set[str]] = None, recompute_mapping: bool = True):
+        """We need to overload here to handle the wrong key saved in some main checkpoints."""
+        if self.config.tie_word_embeddings:
+            # Some model checkpoints like "facebook/hf-seamless-m4t-medium"'s embedding weight is in decoder.embed_tokens,
+            # need check here
+            if missing_keys is not None:
+                if "lm_head.weight" in missing_keys and "model.decoder.embed_tokens.weight" not in missing_keys:
+                    self.lm_head.weight = self.decoder.embed_tokens.weight
+                    missing_keys.discard("lm_head.weight")
+
+        # needs to be done after, otherwise it raises an Error because the correct weights are not present
+        super().tie_weights(missing_keys=missing_keys, recompute_mapping=recompute_mapping)
+
     def get_encoder(self):
         return self.model.encoder
 
@@ -3614,6 +3627,19 @@ def __init__(self, config, current_modality="text"):
         # Initialize weights and apply final processing
         self.post_init()
 
+    def tie_weights(self, missing_keys: Optional[set[str]] = None, recompute_mapping: bool = True):
+        """We need to overload here to handle the wrong key saved in some main checkpoints."""
+        if self.config.tie_word_embeddings:
+            # Some model checkpoints like "facebook/hf-seamless-m4t-medium"'s embedding weight is in decoder.embed_tokens,
+            # need check here
+            if missing_keys is not None:
+                if "t2u_model.model.decoder.embed_tokens.weight" in missing_keys and "t2u_model.lm_head.weight" not in missing_keys:
+                    self.t2u_model.model.decoder.embed_tokens.weight = self.t2u_model.lm_head.weight
+                    missing_keys.discard("t2u_model.model.decoder.embed_tokens.weight")
+
+        # needs to be done after, otherwise it raises an Error because the correct weights are not present
+        super().tie_weights(missing_keys=missing_keys, recompute_mapping=recompute_mapping)
+
     def set_modality(self, modality="text"):
         if modality == "text":
             self.main_input_name = "input_ids"